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Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur?an to the Mongols
Robert Gleave
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Paperback. Editor(s): Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies Robert (University of Exeter UK); Kristo-Nagy, Istvan (University of Exeter). BIC Classification: HRHT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
From its earliest times, Islam has had an ambivalent relationship with violence. For many early Muslim authors, violence was a simple fact of life. In the Qur'an and in the later Muslim tradition, some forms of violence are condemned, while some, including the waging of holy warfare, are extolled as morally good.
What is clear from the early Islamic period is that there is no single Muslim attitude towards violence. Instead, there were many different portrayals and evaluations of violence in theology, law, poetry and prose. In this collection, you will find out how they processed violence as a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474417938
SKU
V9781474417938
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99-10
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