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Title Cross, crescent, and sword : the justification and limitation of war in Western and Islamic tradition / edited by James Turner Johnson and John Kelsay
Published New York : Greenwood Press, 1990

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Description xviii, 236 pages ; 25 cm
Series Contributions to the study of religion, 0196-7053 ; no. 27
Contributions to the study to religion ; no. 27
Contributions to the study of religion ; no. 27
Contributions to the study to religion ; no. 27
Contents Justice and resort to war : a sampling of christian ethical thinking / Jeffrey Stout -- The development of Jihad in Islamic Revelation and history / Abdulaziz A. Sachedina -- Approaches to limits on war in western just war discourse / Stephen E. Lammers -- Al-Farabi's statecraft : war and the well-ordered regime / Charles E. Butterworth -- Moral responsibility and irregular war / Courtney S. Campbell -- Irregular warfare and terrorism in Islam : asking the right questions / Tamara Sonn -- Ahkam al-Bughat : irregular warfare and the law of rebellion in Islam / Khaled Abou El Fadl -- Combatancy, noncombatancy, noncombatant immunity in just war tradition / Robert L. Phillips -- Islam and the distinction between combatants and noncombatants / John Kelsay
Analysis Christianity
International law
Islam
Overseas item
Religion
Terrorism
Wars
Notes Papers presented at four conferences held at Rutgers University in the winter and spring of 1988-1989
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-228) and index
Includes index
Subject Terrorism.
War (International law)
War (International law) -- Congresses.
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Congresses.
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
War -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Congresses.
War -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Johnson, James Turner.
Kelsay, John, 1953-
LC no. 9000003159
ISBN 0313273480 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)