Peace movements in Islam : history, religion, and politics
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Peace movements in Islam : history, religion, and politics
I.B. Tauris, 2022, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Contrary to the distorted and in many places all-too prevalent view of Islam as somehow inherently or uniquely violent, there is a dazzling array of Muslim organizations and individuals that have worked for harmony and conciliation through history. The Qur'an itself, the Muslim scripture, is full of peace verses urging returning good for evil and wishing peace upon harassers, alongside the verses on just, defensive war that have so often been misinterpreted.
This groundbreaking volume fills a gaping hole in the literature on global peace movements, bringing to the fore the many peace movements and peacemakers of the Muslim world. From Senegalese Sufi orders to Bosnian women's organizations to Indian Muslim freedom fighters who were allies of Mahatma Gandhi against British colonialism, it shows that history is replete with colorful personalities from the Muslim world who made a stand for peaceful methods.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Between Compassion and Justice: Locating an Islamic Definition of Peace, A. Rashied Omar
2. The Qur'an on doing Good to Enemies, Juan Cole
3. A Different Kind of Striving: Jihad as Peacemaking, Asma Afsaruddin
4. Internal Peace versus Being in Society: Sufi Dilemmas, Alexander D. Knysh
5. Principled Pacifism in Islamic West Africa, Rudolph Ware
6. Rashid Rida and the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Elizabeth F. Thompson
7. Paradise Bound: Righteous Others in the Writings of Rashid Rida, Mohammad Hassan Khalil
8. Abdul Ghaffar Khan: An Islamic Ghandi, James L. Rowell
9. Islam and Peace: A Muslim Fundamentalist Perspective, Sherman A. Jackson
10. Women, Religion, and Peace Leadership in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zilka Spahic Siljak
11. Muslim American Activism in the Age of Trump, Grace Yukich
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