The book presents and analyses fatwas - rulings of Islamic law, issued by religious sages and clerics on issues of war and peace in regard to the actual or future possibility of a peace agreement between Muslim states and Israel. The analysis provides an understanding of a number of phenomena that characterize the Muslim world today: Islamic law's adaptation to changing political realities; the place of Muslim religious law in general and of the legal opinion (fatwa), regarding timely matters, in particular; the split between two major religious currents - one radical and one pragmatic, and...