The Just War And Jihad

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 : R. Joseph Hoffmann
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615924043
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Just War And Jihad written by R. Joseph Hoffmann and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles collected in this volume represent the independent and considered thinking of internationally known scholars from a variety of disciplines concerning the relationship between religion and violence, with special reference to the theories of "just war" and "jihad," technical terms that arise in connection with the theology of early medieval Christianity and early Islam, respectively. The contributors include Hector Avalos, Charles K. Bellinger, Bahar Davary, Carol Delaney, J. Harold Ellens, Reuven Firestone, R. Joseph Hoffmann, Judith Lichtenberg, Pauletta Otis, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Laura Purdy, Joyce E. Salisbury, Regina M. Schwartz, and Robert B. Tapp. In the present global and political climate, the significant conversation about why religions provoke conflict and whether any religion is truly "harmless" cannot be ignored.

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 : Sohail H. Hashmi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199920826
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( 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 2012-07-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day, Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is the first book to investigate in depth the historical interaction among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas about when the use of force is justified. Grouped under the three labels of just war, holy war, and jihad, these ideas are explored throughout twenty chapters that cover wide-ranging topics from the impact of the early Islamic conquests upon Byzantine, Syriac, and Muslim thinking on justified war to analyzing the impact of international law and terrorism on conceptions of just war and jihad in the modern day. This study serves as a major contribution to the comparative study of the ethics of war and peace.

Author : Ḥilmī Zawātī
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773473041
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is Jihād a Just War? written by Ḥilmī Zawātī and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an analytical study of jihad (just war) which helps to focus the attention of human rights and minority groups to a cause that should have been a focal point of their concern for several decades now. The concept of jihad has sometimes been abused by irresponsible leaders within the Islamic world and used to inflame the passions of those for whom the richness of Islamic law is reduced to slogans and billboards. Similarly, jihad has been invoked by Western analysts who are completely ignorant of the Islamic tradition, to justify assertions of evil intent on the part of millions of the Muslim faithful. Zawati analyzes both Western and Islamic legal concepts and attempts to point a way out of this mess. He draws on primary sources, including books, articles and official documents, and his book should be interesting reading for Muslims who seek to better define their relations with the non-Muslim world, and for anyone wishing to escape the caricature of orientalism and the end-game of clashing civiizations.

Author : J. Daryl Charles
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830874538
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Pacifism and Jihad written by J. Daryl Charles and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacifism. Jihad. Militarism. Are these our only alternatives for dealing with global injustice today? J. Daryl Charles leads us to reconsider a Christian view of the use of force to maintain or reestablish justice. He shows how love for a neighbor can warrant the just use of force. Reviewing and updating the widely recognized but not necessarily well-understood just-war teaching of the church through the ages, Charles shows how it captures many of the concerns of the pacifist position while deliberately avoiding, on the other side, the excesses of jihad and militarism. Aware of our contemporary global situation, Charles addresses the unique challenges of dealing with international terrorism.

Author : Lloyd Steffen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461637392
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy War, Just War written by Lloyd Steffen and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy War, Just War explores the "dark side" in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism by examining how the concept of ultimate value contributes to religious violence. The book states that religion has within its own conceptual tools the resources to understand its own dark side and that religious people must subject their religion to a moral vision of goodness and constrain those parts that make for violence and hatred.

Author : Larry May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107152496
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War written by Larry May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of contemporary debates in Just War Theory, addressing moral, political, and legal issues.

Author : Lloyd H. Steffen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742558489
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy War, Just War written by Lloyd H. Steffen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy War, Just War explores the "dark side" in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism by examining how the concept of ultimate value contributes to religious violence. The book states that religion has within its own conceptual tools the resources to understand its own dark side and that religious people must subject their religion to a moral vision of goodness and constrain those parts that make for violence and hatred.

Author : John D. Carlson
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271661
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Jeremiad to Jihad written by John D. Carlson and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence has been a central feature of America’s history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have found order and meaning in their worlds through religious texts, symbols, rituals, and ideas. Yet too often the religious dimensions of violence, especially in the American context, are ignored or overstated—in either case, poorly understood. From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America corrects these misunderstandings. Charting and interpreting the tendrils of religion and violence, this book reveals how formative moments of their intersection in American history have influenced the ideas, institutions, and identities associated with the United States. Religion and violence provide crucial yet underutilized lenses for seeing America anew—including its outlook on, and relation to, the world.