| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 434 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This title explores the development of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinking on just war, holy war, and jihad over the past 14 centuries. |
| Contents |
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 -- Imagining the enemy: southern Italian perceptions of Islam at the time of the First Crusade / Joshua C. Birk -- Ibn ʻAsakir 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 -- 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 -- 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 ʻAli and Abu al-Aʻla Mawdudi / Omar Khalidi -- Jihad and the Geneva Conventions: the impact of international law on Islamic theory / Sohail H. Hashmi -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
War -- Religious aspects.
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War -- Religious aspects. |
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Just war doctrine.
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Just war doctrine. |
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Jihad.
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Jihad. |
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War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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War -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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War -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. |
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War -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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War -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hashmi, Sohail H., 1962-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Just wars, holy wars, and jihads. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 9780199755035 (DLC) 2012003852 (OCoLC)773671582 |
| ISBN |
9780199986330 (electronic book) |
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0199986339 (electronic book) |
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9780199755035 |
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0199755035 |
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9780199755042 |
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0199755043 |
| Standard No. |
9786613925930 |
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