Cross, Crescent, and Sword
The Justification and Limitation of War in Western and Islamic Tradition
Series: Contributions to the Study of Religion
Edited by James Turner Johnson and John Kelsay
0-313-27348-0/978-0-313-27348-3
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The rapid and energetic resurgence of the Islamic religion and the expanded international role played by Islamic nations and political movements provided the impetus for a collaborative examination by scholars of religion and culture intent on bridging the gap of knowledge and understanding between the study of the West and the study of Islam. This book, together with its companion volume,
Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions
(Greenwood Press, forthcoming 1991), 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 difficulties 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.
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