Holy War Idea In Western And Islamic Traditions

Author : James Turner Johnson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271042145
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions written by James Turner Johnson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the attitudes of Western Christianity and Islam toward war for religion, explaining the differences in the two cultural traditions that result in fundamentally different perceptions of the nature of religious wars.

Author : John Kelsay
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just War and Jihad written by John Kelsay and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-05-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructs readers about the religious contexts that nurtured ideas regarding statecraft, international law, and the aims and limits of peace and warfare--Introduction.

Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 9781447219415
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Holy War written by Jonathan Raban and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does America's 'war on terror' and new era of religious and patriotic intensity look like to an Englishman living in Seattle?

Author : Reuven Firestone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019535219X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jihad written by Reuven Firestone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there exists no evidence to date that the indigenous inhabitants of Arabia knew of holy war prior to Islam, holy war ideas and behaviors appear already among Muslims during the first generation. This book focuses on why and how such a seemingly radical development took place. Basing his hypothesis on evidence from the Qur'an and early Islamic literary sources, Firestone locates the origin of Islamic holy war and traces its evolution as a response to the changes affecting the new community of Muslims in its transition from ancient Arabian culture to the religious civilization of Islam.

Author : Peter Partner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691002354
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God of Battles written by Peter Partner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Partner shows how the ideal of the crusade, "God's War", came to permeate medieval Christendom, and how it influenced later Western societies. Above all, this book examines the fear that Islamic fundamentalism excites in the west and warns against allowing crusading war propaganda to affect our judgment today. 24 illustrations. Maps.

Author : Gene Keith
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781797427720
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam: Islam's "holy War" Against Christians, Jews, and Western Culture written by Gene Keith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I believe that we are living in one of the most critical times in American history. Some have predicted, "If present trends continue, the USA is on track to become a Muslim nation between 2021 and 2035, perhaps sooner." Consider what the terrorist leaders said about their plans to turn America into an Islamic state. - "Thanks to your democratic laws we will invade you!" - "Thanks to your religious laws we will dominate you!" - "America will have a Muslim president by the year 2020!" - On August 13, 2015, ISIS boasted that they planned to behead the Statue of Liberty. We believe that Islam is one of the most critical issues in this generation. Yet, most people have no idea what Muslims believe or what their agenda is for Christians, Jews, and our beloved America. This book was written to help our readers be able to give intelligent answers to questions like the following. 1. Who was Muhammad? Was Muhammad Black? 2. Who is Allah? Are Jehovah and Allah merely different names for the same God? 3. What is the Kabba? Where is the Kabba located? Why aren't Christians allowed there? 4. What is a caliphate? What is a caliph? 5. Can you define jihad? Can you explain "stealth" jihad. 6. Did the angel Gabriel really appear to Muhammad? What did Gabriel tell him to do?7. Is Islam a religion of peace? Are we at war with Islam?8. Why won't the media use the words Islam and terrorism in the same sentence?9. Can you explain the Islamic agenda for America, Christians and Jews?10. Why did the FBI purge 700 pages from its training manuals?11. Can you name one government agency that has not been infiltrated by Islamist?12. Why have so many colleges installed basins for Muslim students to wash their feet before praying on college campuses?13. Do you believe a devout Muslim can become good citizen?14. Do you believe America is mentioned in Bible prophecy?15. Do you believe Islam mentioned in prophecy?16. Does America actually have any defense against Islam?17. Do you believe God would actually allow Islamic terrorists to conquer America and destroy our churches?18. Do you believe in the Rapture of the Church and the Great Tribulation?19. Do you believe that Islam could be the world religion of the New World Order?20. Are you ready regardless of what happens?With these questions in mind, let's go back to the beginning and take an honest look at Mohammed, Allah, Islam, and see what the future holds for Christians, Jews, America, and Western culture.

Author : Sohail H. Hashmi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199755043
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads written by Sohail H. Hashmi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads explores the development of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinking on just war, holy war, and jihad over the past fourteen centuries.

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195168860
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unholy War written by John L. Esposito and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the intellectual underpinnings of the more radical elements of contemporary Islam.

Author : John Kelsay
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067403354X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arguing the Just War in Islam written by John Kelsay and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jihad, with its many terrifying associations, is a term widely used today, though its meaning is poorly grasped. Few people understand the circumstances requiring a jihad, or "holy" war, or how Islamic militants justify their violent actions within the framework of the religious tradition of Islam. How Islam, with more than one billion followers, interprets jihad and establishes its precepts has become a critical issue for both the Muslim and the non-Muslim world. John Kelsay's timely and important work focuses on jihad of the sword in Islamic thought, history, and culture. Making use of original sources, Kelsay delves into the tradition of shari'a--Islamic jurisprudence and reasoning--and shows how it defines jihad as the Islamic analogue of the Western "just" war. He traces the arguments of thinkers over the centuries who have debated the legitimacy of war through appeals to shari'a reasoning. He brings us up to the present and demonstrates how contemporary Muslims across the political spectrum continue this quest for a realistic ethics of war within the Islamic tradition. Arguing the Just War in Islam provides a systematic account of how Islam's central texts interpret jihad, guiding us through the historical precedents and Qur'anic sources upon which today's claims to doctrinal truth and legitimate authority are made. In illuminating the broad spectrum of Islam's moral considerations of the just war, Kelsay helps Muslims and non-Muslims alike make sense of the possibilities for future war and peace.

Author : Jonathan Lyons
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231158955
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam Through Western Eyes written by Jonathan Lyons and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East–West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the newsrooms of Fox News and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their religion, trapping the West in a dangerous, dead-end politics that it cannot afford. In Islam Through Western Eyes, Jonathan Lyons unpacks Western habits of thinking and writing about Islam, conducting a careful analysis of the West's grand totalizing narrative across one thousand years of history. He observes the discourse’s corrosive effects on the social sciences, including sociology, politics, philosophy, theology, international relations, security studies, and human rights scholarship. He follows its influence on research, speeches, political strategy, and government policy, preventing the West from responding effectively to its most significant twenty-first-century challenges: the rise of Islamic power, the emergence of religious violence, and the growing tension between established social values and multicultural rights among Muslim immigrant populations. Through the intellectual "archaeology" of Michel Foucault, Lyons reveals the workings of this discourse and its underlying impact on our social, intellectual, and political lives. He then addresses issues of deep concern to Western readers—Islam and modernity, Islam and violence, and Islam and women—and proposes new ways of thinking about the Western relationship to the Islamic world.