Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index.
Contents:
12. Colin Imber. Part I. The Mongols and their aftermath. 2. Warrant for genocide? Ottoman propaganda against the Qizilbash / 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.
Summary:
How was violence justified in early Islam? What role did violent actions play in the formation and maintenance of the Muslim political order? How did Muslim thinkers view the origins and acceptability of violence? These questions are addressed by an international range of eminent authors through both general accounts of types of violence and detailed case studies of violent acts drawn from the early Islamic sources. Violence is understood, widely, to include jihad, state repressions and rebellions, and also more personally directed violence against victims (women, animals, children, slaves) and criminals. By understanding the early development of Muslim thinking around violence, our comprehension of subsequent trends in Islamic thought, during the medieval period and up to the modern day, become clearer.
Series:
Legitimate and illegitimate violence in Islamic thought ; volume 2
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