Violence in Islamic thought from the Mongols to European imperialism

This book examines how violent acts were assessed by Muslim intellectuals, analysing both changes and continuity within Islamic thought over time

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Weitere Verfasser: Gleave, Robert 1967- (HerausgeberIn), Kristó-Nagy, István T. 1974- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:Legitimate and illegitimate violence in Islamic thought
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Zusammenfassung:This book examines how violent acts were assessed by Muslim intellectuals, analysing both changes and continuity within Islamic thought over time
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1.Introduction - Robert Gleave and Istvánt T. Kristó-Nagy -- - Part I. The Mongols and their aftermath - 2 - Violence and non-violence in the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258) - Michal Biran -- - 3 - The Mongols as the scourge of God in the Islamic world - Timothy May -- - 4 - Yasa and Shari'a: Islamic attitudes towards the Mongol law in the Turco-Mongolian world (from rhe Golden Horde to Timur's time) - István Vásáry -- - 5 - Unacceptable violence as legitimation in Mongol and Timurid Iran - Beatrice Forbes Manz -- - Part II. Violence in religious thought - 6 - Reconciling Ibn Taymiyya's legitimisation of violence with his vision of universal salvation - Jon Hoover -- - 7 - Moral violence in Ahkham Ahl al-Dhimma by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya - Marie Thérèse Urvoy -- - 8 - Al-Karaki, Jihad, the state and legitimate violence in Imami jurisprudence - Robert Gleave -- - Part III. Violence in philosophical thought - 9 - Legitimate and illegitimate violence in Arabic political philosophy: al-Farabi, Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldun - Miklós Maróth -- - 10 - 'Soft' and ' hard' power in Islamic political advice literature - Vasileios Syros -- - Part IV. Representing violence - 11 - Old images in new skies: flaying in the Iranian visual tradition - Iván Szántó -- - 12 - Warrant for genocide? Ottoman propaganda against the Qizilbash - Colin Imber
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ISBN:9781474413015