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Author Funk, Nathan C.

Title Islam and peacemaking in the Middle East / Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said
Published Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 305 pages)
Contents Introduction -- The context : transformations in Islamic-Western relations -- The need for a new story -- Religious resources for peacemaking : engaging Islam -- Islamic peace paradigms -- Peace through coercion : the problem of force in Islamic politics -- Peace through equity : Islamic perspectives on a just and cooperative world order -- Peace through conciliation : forms of Islamic conflict resolution -- Peace through nonviolence : a paradigm of peaceful striving -- Peace through universalism : Islamic spirituality and the culture of peace -- Recommendations -- Preparing for peace -- An agenda for Islamic-Western cooperation
Summary Authors explore how and to what degree differences in the interpretation of Islam affect the ways in which peace is sought in the contemporary Middle East. Regional trends and case studies are analyzed. Various Islamic ideas of peace and their bearing on difficult ethnic, nationalist, and civic conflicts are highlighted. Multiple Islamic conceptions of peace and their bearing on ethnic, nationalist, and civil conflicts in the contemporary Middle East are investigated
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index
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Subject Peace -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Islam -- Relations.
RELIGION -- Islam -- Theology.
Interfaith relations
Islam
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Politics and government
Friedensbemühung
Islam
Fredsarbete -- religiösa aspekter -- islam.
SUBJECT Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Middle East
Naher Osten
Mellanöstern -- politik och förvaltning.
Form Electronic book
Author Said, Abdul Aziz.
ISBN 9781588269881
1588269884