Islamic peace ethics: legitimate and illegitimate violence in contemporary Islamic thought

Introduction -- I. Methodology and theory -- Some methodological remarks on islamic peace ethics / Heydar Shadi -- Is it essentialism to claim that some religions foster violence -- and some do not? / Dirk Ansorge -- Discussing islamic peace ethics : conceptual considerations of the normative / Sybille Reinke de Buitrago -- Peace and violence in Islam : philosophical issues / Oliver Leaman -- II. Jus ad bellum -- A. Sunni -- Violence in contemporary indonesian islamist scholarship : Habib Rizieq Syihab and 'enjoining good and forbidding evil' / Asfa Widiyanto -- Citizenship as inclusion and exclusion : arguments against religious violence from contemporary Pakistan / Najia Mukhtar -- Blessed boundaries : the limits of Sunnah to legitimize violence / Charles M. Ramsey -- Islamic views of peace and conflict among Russia's Muslims / Simona E. Merati -- B. Shi'ah -- A Qur'anic revision of offensive war with emphasis on the views of the late Ayatollah Khoei / Yahya Sabbaghchi -- The rhetoric of power in Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah's al-Islam wa-mantiq al-quwwa / Bianka Speidl -- C. Sufi -- Jawdat Sa'id and the Muslim philosophy of peace / Abdessamad Belhaj -- III. Jus in bello -- Lying in war : different ethical justifications / Seyed Hassan Eslami Ardakani -- Short biographies of the authors -- The institute of theology and peace (ithf)

Proceedings of the International Workshop "Islamic Peace Ethics: Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought", organized 15-17 October 2015 by the Institute for Theology and Peace (ithf), Hamburg. More than 20 researchers from different countries including Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, Germany, UK, USA, and Belgium discussed the peace and war in contemporary Islamic thought from different disciplines such as theology, philosophy, religious studies, cultural studies, and political sciences. Sponsored by the Institut für Theologie und Frieden