Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice

Theory of the state / Majid Khadduri — Foundations and purposes of political authority / Ibn Khaldun — The Ottoman Jihad Fatwa of November 11th, 1914 — Islamic jurisprudence and modern needs: the challenge of renewal / AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman — Islam as an ethical tradition of international relations / Mohammed Muqtedar Khan — Islamic ethics in international society / Sohail H. Hashmi — Conflict resolution approaches: western and Middle Eastern lessons and possibilities / Muhammed Abu Nimer — An Islamic model for political conflict resolution: Tahkim (arbitration) — Rituals of reconciliation: Arab-Islamic perspectives / George E. Irani and Nathan C. Funk — The nonviolent crescent: eight theses on Muslim nonviolent action / Chaiwat Satha-Anand — Nonviolence, ethics, and character development in Islam / Karim Douglas Crow — Nonviolence in Islam: the alternative community tradition / Rabia Terri Harris — Peace in the Sufi tradition: an ecology of the spirit / Abdul Aziz Said and Nathan C. Funk — The inner Jihad / M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen — Peace and the feminine in Islam / Meena Sharify-Funk.