Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism

ISBN-13: 9781474462600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Robert Gleave; Istvan Kristo-Nagy

Opis

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

Spis treści

Dates and Abbreviations; List of Figures and Tables; 1. Introduction, Robert Gleave and István T. Kristó-Nagy; Part 1. 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. Y?s? and Shar??a Islamic Attitudes toward the Mongol Law in the Turco-Mongolian World (From The Golden Horde To Timur's Time), István Vásáry; 5. Unacceptable Violence as Legitimation in Mongol and Timurid Iran, Beatrice Manz; Part 2. Violence in Religious Thought; 6. Reconciling Ibn Taymiyya’s Legitimization of Violence with His Vision of Universal Salvation, Jon Hoover; 7. Moral Violence in the A?k?m Al-Dhimma of Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, Marie Thérèse Urvoy; 8. Al-Karak?, Jih?d, the State and Legitimate Violence in Im?m? Jurisprudence, Robert Gleave; Part 3. Violence in Philosophical Thought; 9. Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Arabic Political Philosophy: Al-F?r?b?, Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khald?n, Miklós Maróth; 10. Soft and Hard Power in Islamic Advice Literature, Vasileios Syros; Part 4. Representing Violence; 11. Old Images in New Skins: Flaying in The Iranian Visual Tradition, Iván Szántó; 12. Warrant for Genocide? Ottoman Propaganda against The Qizilbash, Colin Imber; Bibliography; Index Of Qur??nic Citations; General Index.