War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad

HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Prof Ibrahim Kalin, Prof Mohammad Hashim Kamali (editors)

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9781903682838

Essays by Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Prof Ibrahim Kalin, Prof Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Prof Joel Hayward, Dr Caner Dagli, Shaykh Ali Gomaa, Dr Karim Douglas Crow

No word in English evokes more fear and misunderstanding than ‘jihad’. To date the books that have appeared on the subject in English by Western scholars have been either openly partisan and polemical, or subtly traumatised by so many acts and images of terrorism in the name of jihad, and by the historical memory of nearly one thousand four hundred years of confrontation between Islam and Christianity. War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad aims to change this. Written by a number of Islamic religious authorities and Muslim scholars, this work presents the views and teachings of mainstream Sunni and Shi’i Islam on the subject of jihad. It authoritatively presents jihad as it is understood by the majority of the world’s 1.7 billion Muslims today, and supports this understanding with extensive detail and scholarship. Though jihad is the central concern of War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad, the range of the essays is not confined exclusively to the study of jihad.

Contents:

1. War and Its Practice

2. Peace and Its Practice

3. Beyond Peace: The Practice of Forbearance, Mercy, Compassion and Love.