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Title Just wars, holy wars, and jihads : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim encounters and exchanges / edited by Sohail H. Hashmi
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 434 pages)
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 -- 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 ʻAli and Abu al-Aʻla 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
Summary This title explores the development of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinking on just war, holy war, and jihad over the past 14 centuries
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject War -- Religious aspects.
Just war doctrine.
Jihad.
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
War -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
War -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
RELIGION -- Religion, Politics & State.
Religion.
Jihad
Just war doctrine
War -- Religious aspects
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
War -- Religious aspects -- Islam
War -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Islam
Christentum
Judentum
Heiliger Krieg
Gerechter Krieg
Krig -- religiösa aspekter.
Krig -- religiösa aspekter -- kristendom.
Krig -- religiösa aspekter -- judendom.
Krig -- religiösa aspekter -- Islam.
Krig -- etik och moral -- historia.
Jihad (heligt krig) -- historia.
Form Electronic book
Author Hashmi, Sohail H., 1962-
ISBN 9780199986330
0199986339
1283613484
9781283613484
9786613925930
6613925934