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

Contributor(s): Hashmi, Sohail H, 1962-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xvi, 434 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199755042 (hardcover); 0199755043 (hardcover); 9780199755035 (pbk.); 0199755035 (pbk.)Other title: Just wars, holy wars, & JihadsSubject(s): War -- Religious aspects | Just war doctrine | Jihad | War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | War -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | War -- Religious aspects -- IslamDDC classification: 201/.7273 LOC classification: BL65.W2 | J87 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Religious services for Byzantine soldiers and the possiblity 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 -- 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 -- Angels 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religious services for Byzantine soldiers and the possiblity 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 -- 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 -- Angels 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 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.

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