Cross, Crescent and Sword

This book, together with its companion volume, "Just War and Jihad - Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions", examines the topics of the relationship between Western and Islamic religious and cultural traditions on war, peace, and the conduct of statecraft. The ten essays contained here provide scholarly analyses and interpretations of Islamic traditions and of areas of relationship and commonality between these traditions and those of the West. The diffilculties inherent in such analysis are compounded by the lack of correspondence between the two religious and cultural traditions, particularly those concerned with defining when war is justified and what limits ought to be observed in justified warfare. The first four essays assess justifications for war and retraints on its conduct, including a discussion of the concept of "Jihad". Two additional groups of essays address specific questions that are especially pressing in the current historical context. The nine chapters range braodly over the historical development of the two traditions, seeking individually and collectively to open up the unfamiliar and to bring elements of the two traditions to bear on contemporary moral problems of armed violence and war.

ISBN 0313273480   Pages 400 ISBN13 9780313273483 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher ABC-CLIO   Weight (grammes) 487 Imprint Greenwood Press   Published in Westport Format Hardback   Series ISSN 0196-705 Publication date 20 Nov 1990   Series title Contributions to the Study of Religion Writer of foreword Henry Warner Bowden   Height (mm) 230 Writer of introduction James Turner Johnson   Width (mm) 163 Library of Congress JX4511.C76   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 291.56242   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC20

Part 1 When is war justified? What are its limits?; justice and resort to war - a sampling of Christian ethical thinking, Jeffrey Stout; the development of Jihad in Islamic revelation and theory, 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. Part 2 Irregular warfare and terrorism: moral responsibility and irregular war, Courtney S.Campbell; irregular warfare and terrorism in Islam - asking the right questions, Tamara Sonn; Akham al-Baghat - irregular warfare and the law of rebellion in Islam, Khaled Abou El Fadl. Part 3 Combatancy, non-combatancy, and non-combatant immunity in just war tradition, Robert L.Phillips; Islam and the distinction between combatants and non-combatants, John Kelsay.

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