Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges

by Sohail H. Hashmi (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199755035
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Sohail H. Hashmi is Professor of International Relations and Alumnae Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences at Mount Holyoke College.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction - Sohail H. Hashmi and James Turner Johnson
Part One: The Early Islamic Conquests
Chapter One: Religious Services for Byzantine Soldiers and the Possibility of Martyrdom: c. 400-c. 1000 - Paul Stephenson
Chapter Two: In Defense of All Houses of Worship?: Jihad in the Context of Interfaith Relations - Asma Afsaruddin
Chapter Three: God's War and His Warriors: The First Hundred Years of Syriac Accounts of the Islamic Conquests - Michael Philip Penn
Part Two: The Crusades
Chapter Four: Imagining the Enemy: Southern Italian Perceptions of Islam at the Time of the First Crusade - Joshua C. Birk
Chapter Five: Ibn 'Asakir and the Radicalization of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Crusader-Era Syria - Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay
Chapter Six: Angles of Influence: Jihad and Just War in Early Modern Spain - G. Scott Davis
Chapter Seven: Religious War in the Works of Maimonides: An Idea and Its Transit across the Medieval Mediterranean - George R. Wilkes
Part Three: Gunpowder Empires, Christian and Muslim
Chapter Eight: Martyrdom and Modernity: The Discourse of Holy War in the Works of John Foxe and Francis Bacon - Brinda Charry
Chapter Nine: Ottoman Conceptions of War and Peace in the Classical Period - A. Nuri Yurdusev
Chapter Ten: Islam and Christianity in the Works of Gentili, Grotius, and Pufendorf - John Kelsay
Part Four: European Imperialism
Chapter Eleven: Just War and Jihad in the French Conquest of Algeria - Benjamin Claude Brower
Chapter Twelve: Jihad, Hijra, and Hajj in West Africa - David Robinson
Chapter Thirteen: Jihads and Crusades in Sudan: From 1881 to the Present - Heather J. Sharkey
Chapter Fourteen: The Trained Triumphant Soldiers of the Prophet Muhammad: Holy War and Holy Peace in Modern Ottoman History - Mustafa Aksakal
Chapter Fifteen: Muslim Debates on Jihad in British India: The Writings of Chiragh 'Ali and Abu al-A'la Mawdudi - Omar Khalidi
Part Five: International Law and Outlaws
Chapter Sixteen: Jihad and the Geneva Conventions: The Impact of International Law on Islamic Theory - Sohail H. Hashmi
Chapter Seventeen: The Jewish Law of War: The Turn to International Law and Ethics - Suzanne Last Stone
Chapter Eighteen: Fighting to Create the Just State: Apocalypticism in Radical Muslim Discourse - David B. Cook
Chapter Nineteen: How Has the Global Salafi Terrorist Movement Affected Western Just War Thinking? - Martin L. Cook
Conclusion: A Look Back and a Look Forward - James Turner Johnson
Index

Editorial Reviews

"The best collection of cross-religious scholarship on war yet produced." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is a significant contribution to the study of war and peace in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This is a worthy successor to the groundbreaking work done by James Turner Johnson and John Kelsay on this subject. It is sure to be cited along with their works for years to come. This book balances breadth and depth beautifully with an impressive quality of scholarship. Every serious student of religion and war will be proud to have this in their library." —Mark J. Allman, Faculty Associate at the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College

"...[A] major contribution to the comparative study of the ethics of war and peace." —Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

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