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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 in the world 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. The work is divided into three parts: War and Its Practice, Peace and Its Practice, and Beyond Peace: The Practice of Forbearance, Mercy, Compassion and Love. War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad aims to reveal the real meaning of jihad and to rectify many of the misunderstandings that surround both it and Islam's relation with the 'Other'.
Foreword by HE the Sultan of Sokoto Introduction by Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali Part I: War and Its Practice Chapter 1 The Qur'an and Combat by HE Grand Imam Mahmoud Shaltut Chapter 2 Warfare in the Qur'an by Professor Joel Hayward Chapter 3 Jihad and the Islamic Law of War by Dr Caner Dagli Chapter 4 The Myth of a Militant Islam by Dr David Dakake Chapter 5 The Spirit of Jihad by Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi Chapter 6 A Fatwa on Jihad by HE Shaykh Ali Gomaa Chapter 7 Body Count: A Comparative Quantitative Study of Mass Killings in History by Dr Naveed Sheikh Part II: Peace and Its Practice Chapter 8 Islam and Peace: A Survey of the Sources of Peace in the Islamic Tradition by Professor Ibrahim Kalin Chapter 9 The Concept of Peace/Security (Salm) in Islam by Dr Karim Douglas Crow Chapter 10 Human Dignity from an Islamic Perspective by Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali Chapter 11 The People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitab) in the Qur'an by Professor Ismail Albayrak Chapter 12 Dhimmi and Musta'min: A Juristic and Historical Perspective by Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali Part III: Beyond Peace: Forbearance, Mercy, Compassion and Love Chapter 13 The Uncommonality of 'A Common Word' by Dr Joseph Lumbard Chapter 14 Divine Mercy and Love in the Qur'an by HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Chapter 15 Love of Others in the Qur'an by HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Chapter 16 Mercy in the Hadith by Shaykh Sayyid Hassan Saqqaf & HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Appendix The Conditions Necessary for Just War in the Holy Qur'an by HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Qur'anic Index General Index
