Just wars, holy wars, and jihads : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim encounters and exchanges / edited by Sohail H. Hashmi. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Religious Services for Byzantine Soldiers and the Possibility of Martyrdom: c. 400-c. 1000 Paul Stephenson -- In Defense of All Houses of Worship?: Jihad in the Context of Interfaith Relations Asma Afsaruddin -- God's War and His Warriors: The First Hundred Years of Syriac Accounts of the Islamic Conquests Michael Philip Penn -- Part Two: The Crusades. -- Imagining the Enemy: Southern Italian Perceptions of Islam at the Time of the First Crusade Joshua C. Birk -- Ibn 'Asakir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Crusader-Era Syria Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay -- Angles of Influence: Jihad and Just War in Early Modern Spain G. Scott Davis -- 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. -- Martyrdom and Modernity: The Discourse of Holy War in the Works of John Foxe and Francis Bacon Brinda Charry -- Ottoman Conceptions of War and Peace in the Classical Period A. Nuri Yurdusev -- Islam and Christianity in the Works of Gentili, Grotius, and Pufendorf John Kelsay -- Part Four: European Imperialism. -- Just War and Jihad in the French Conquest of Algeria Benjamin Claude Brower -- Jihad, Hijra, and Hajj in West Africa David Robinson -- Jihads and Crusades in Sudan: From 1881 to the Present Heather J. Sharkey -- The Trained Triumphant Soldiers of the Prophet Muhammad: Holy War and Holy Peace in Modern Ottoman History Mustafa Aksakal -- 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. -- Jihad and the Geneva Conventions: The Impact of International Law on Islamic Theory Sohail H. Hashmi -- The Jewish Law of War: The Turn to International Law and Ethics Suzanne Last Stone -- Fighting to Create the Just State: Apocalypticism in Radical Muslim Discourse David B. Cook -- 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.

"Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads explores the development of ideas of morally justified or legitimate war in Western and Islamic civilizations. Historically, these ideas have been grouped under three labels: just war, holy war, and jihad. A large body of literature exists exploring the development of just war and holy war concepts in the West and of jihad in Islam. Yet, to date, no book has investigated in depth the historical interaction between Western notions of just or holy war and Muslim definitions of jihad. This book is a major contribution to the comparative study of the ethics of war and peace in the West and Islam. Its twenty chapters explore two broad questions: 1. What historical evidence exists that Christian and Jewish writers on just war and holy war and Muslim writers on jihad knew of the other tradition? ; 2. What is the evidence in treatises, chronicles, speeches, ballads, and other historical records, or in practice, that either tradition influenced the other?. The book surveys the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day. Part One surveys the impact of the early Islamic conquests upon Byzantine, Syriac, and Muslim thinking on justified war. Part Two probes developments during the Crusades. Part Three focuses on the early modern period in Europe and the Ottoman Empire, followed by analysis of the era of European imperialism in Part Four. Part Five brings the discussion into the present period, with chapters analyzing the impact of international law and terrorism on conceptions of just war and jihad."--Publisher's website.

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