Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam Precept and Practice

by Said, Abdul Aziz; Funk, Nathan C.; Kadayifci, Ayse

• ISBN13: 9780761820062
• ISBN10: 076182006X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-12
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam steps beyond the limitations of the traditional scholarly framework used to evaluate the politics of Islamic societies, and assembles a selection from the best available English-language writings on a matter of central importance in Islamic precepts: peace (salam) and conflict resolution. The writings present diverse Muslim views on the nature of peace and the processes of conflict resolution, giving expression to a range of syntheses or "paradigms" of Islamic precept and practice, including power politics, world order, nonviolence, and transformation of consciousness and character (Sufism). Attention is given to both the diversity and the underlying points of unity among Islamic perspectives on peace, which accentuate, variously, an absence of war, a presence of justice, and ecological harmony.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Islamic Approaches to Peace and Conflict Resolution	1	(26)
Section 1: Power Politics in Islam: Peace through Coercive Power (Siyasat al-Quwwah)	27	(30)
Theory of the State	29	(12)
Majid Khadduri
Foundations and Purposes of Political Authority	41	(12)
Ibn Khaldun
The Ottoman Jihad Fatwa of November 11th, 1914	53	(4)
Section 2: World Order in Islam: Peace through the Power of Law and Institutions (Islah and Tajdid)	57	(64)
Islamic Jurisprudence and Modern Needs: The Challenge of Renewal	59	(14)
AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman
Islam as an Ethical Tradition of International Relations	73	(22)
Mohammed Muqtedar Khan
Islamic Ethics in International Society	95	(26)
Sohail H. Hashmi
Section 3: Conflict Resolution in Islam: Peace through the Power of Communication (Sulh)	121	(72)
Conflict Resolution Approaches: Western and Middle Eastern Lessons and Possibilities	123	(20)
Muhammed Abu-Nimer
An Islamic Model for Political Conflict Resolution: Tahkim (Arbitration)	143	(26)
Ahmed Moussalli
Rituals of Reconciliation: Arab-Islamic Perspectives	169	(24)
George E. Irani
Nathan C. Funk
Section 4: Nonviolence in Islam: Peace through the Power of the Human Spirit (La 'unf)	193	(52)
The Nonviolent Crescent: Eight Theses on Muslim Nonviolent Action	195	(18)
Chaiwat Satha-Anand
Nonviolence, Ethics, and Character Development in Islam	213	(14)
Karim Douglas Crow
Nonviolence in Islam: The Alternative Community Tradition	227	(18)
Rabia Terri Harris
Section 5: Transformation in Islam: Peace through the Power of Love (Tasawwuf)	245	(2)
Peace in the Sufi Tradition: An Ecology of the Spirit	247	(16)
Abdul Aziz Said
Nathan C. Funk
The Inner Jihad	263	(14)
M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Peace and the Feminine in Islam	277
Meena Sharify-Funk