Islamic peace ethics : legitimate and illegitimate violence in contemporary Islamic thought /

Proceedings of the International Workshop "Islamic Peace Ethics: Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought", organized 15-17 October 2015 by the Institute for Theology and Peace (ithf), Hamburg. More than 20 researchers from different countries including Indonesi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	JSTOR (Organization), Institut für Theologie und Frieden (conference sponsor.)
Other Authors:	Shadi, Heydar, 1975- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baden-Baden : Münster : Nomos ; Aschendorff Verlag, 2017.
Edition:	1. edition.
Series:	Studien zur Friedensethik ; Bd. 57.
Subjects:	Peace > Religious aspects > Islam > Congresses. Peace-building > Religious aspects > Islam > Congresses. Crisis management > Religious aspects > Islam > Congresses. Islam and world politics > Congresses. Political ideologies. Politics and government. Society and social sciences. Islam and world politics. Peace-building > Religious aspects > Islam. Peace > Religious aspects > Islam. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General. Political Science Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
I. Methodology and theory
Some methodological remarks on islamic peace ethics / Heydar Shadi
Is it essentialism to claim that some religions foster violence
and some do not? / Dirk Ansorge
Discussing islamic peace ethics : conceptual considerations of the normative / Sybille Reinke de Buitrago
Peace and violence in Islam : philosophical issues / Oliver Leaman
II. Jus ad bellum
A. Sunni
Violence in contemporary indonesian islamist scholarship : Habib Rizieq Syihab and 'enjoining good and forbidding evil' / Asfa Widiyanto
Citizenship as inclusion and exclusion : arguments against religious violence from contemporary Pakistan / Najia Mukhtar
Blessed boundaries : the limits of Sunnah to legitimize violence / Charles M. Ramsey
Islamic views of peace and conflict among Russia's Muslims / Simona E. Merati
B. Shi'ah
A Qur'anic revision of offensive war with emphasis on the views of the late Ayatollah Khoei / Yahya Sabbaghchi
The rhetoric of power in Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah's al-Islam wa-mantiq al-quwwa / Bianka Speidl
C. Sufi
Jawdat Sa'id and the Muslim philosophy of peace / Abdessamad Belhaj
III. Jus in bello
Lying in war : different ethical justifications / Seyed Hassan Eslami Ardakani
Short biographies of the authors
The institute of theology and peace (ithf).