1st Edition
Islam and Warfare Context and Compatibility with International Law
1. Main Sources of Islamic Law 2. Islamic Tradition on Warfare 3. Shades of Jihad: Moderate and Radical Interpretations 4. Jihad in the United Nations Era 5. Conclusion
Biography
Onder Bakircioglu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Leicester.
"With admirable scholarly mastery, Onder Bakircioglu, explores the nature of jihad in Islamic thought about war and peace, demonstrating conclusively that there is no authoritative doctrine available to resolve interpretative controversies so central to current debates about Islamic extremism. An indispensable study for legal specialist, and indeed, for anyone concerned with a deep understanding of the bearing of Islam on the regulation of warfare."Professor Richard Falk (Professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University)
"This is a scholarly, rigorous, thoroughly documented and intellectually honest account of the ambiguity and complexity of the Islamic doctrine of jihad. By persuasively demonstrating that war and peace are always outcomes of human agency, this book is an eloquent call to moral choice and political action, beyond stale polemics of absolute text or abstract doctrine."
Professor Abdullahi A. An-Na’im (the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law)
"Bakircioglu’s Islam and Warfare is a laudable contribution to a complex subject and students of the Islamic tradition of war and of just war theory in general will find it a useful research tool."
Ahmed Al-Dawoody, Al-Azhar University, Cairo
