Jihad, with its many terrifying associations, is a term widely used today, though its meaning is poorly grasped. Few people understand the circumstances requiri

The articles collected in this volume represent the independent and considered thinking of internationally known scholars from a variety of disciplines concerni

Instructs readers about the religious contexts that nurtured ideas regarding statecraft, international law, and the aims and limits of peace and warfare--Introd

Surveying the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day, Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is the first book to investigate i

This work is an analytical study of jihad (just war) which helps to focus the attention of human rights and minority groups to a cause that should have been a f