Violence in Islamic thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols / edited by Robert Gleave and István Kristó-Nagy.

Contributor Gleave, R. (Robert)

ImprintEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015].

Imprint2015

Descriptionviii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note:'The Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought Project (www.livitproject.net) funded by the RCUK Global Uncertainties Programme, administerd through the Economic and Social Research Council' (title-page).

Note:Introduction / Istvan T. Kristo-Nagy and Robert Gleave; Part I. Jihaad and Conquest: Attitudes to Violence against the External Enemies of the Muslim Community. The Question of Divine Help in the Jihad / Dominique Urvoy -- Reading the Qur'an on jihad: two early exegetical texts / Andrew Rippin -- Ibn al-Mubarak's Kitab al-Jihad and early renunciant literature / Christopher Melchert -- Shaping Memory of the Conquests: The Case of Tustar / Sarah Bowen Savant -- part II. The Challenged Establishment: Attitudes to Violence against the State and in its Defence within the Muslim Community. Who Instigated Violence: A Rebelling Devil or a Vengeful God? / Istvan T. Kristo-Nagy -- Attitudes to the use of fire in executions in late antiquity and early Islam: the burning of heretics and rebels in late Umayyad Iraq / Andrew Marsham -- 'Abbasid State Violence and the Execution of Ibn 'A'isha / John A. Nawas -- The Sultan and the Defiant Prince in Hunting Competition: Questions of legitimacy in hunting episodes of ?abaristan / Miklos Sarkozy -- part III. Lust and Flesh: Attitudes to Violence against the Defenceless, Intra-Communitarian Violence by Non-State Actors -- Violence against Women in Andalusi Historical Sources (third/ninth-seventh/thirteenth centuries) / Maribel Fierro -- Sexual Violence in Verse: The Case of Ji'thin, al-Farazdaq's sister / Geert Jan van Gelder -- Bandits, Michael Cooperson -- Eating People Is Wrong: Some Eyewitness Accounts of Cannibalism in Arabic Sources / Zoltan Szombathy -- Animals Would Follow Shafi'ismz; Legitimate and illegitimate violence to animals in Medieval Islamic Thought / Sarra Tlili.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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