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Jihad and Justice: Pluralism and Western Values
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Jihad And Justice: Contrasting Views
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Islamic theology and political theory makes use of a distinction comparable to Augustine’s city of God and city of man. In Islam, this is the distinction between dar al-islam and dar al-harb. These two terms mean the house (or territory) […]
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Jihad and Justice: Augustine's Citizens
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Jihad and Justice: The Two Cities
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Jihad and Justice: Islamic Just War Theory, Part 2
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Due to the importance of unity among the believers in Islam, legitimate authorization of war is imperative. The Islamic conception of the ideal government has one ruler (the deputy, or khalifa) at its head. This was modeled most perfectly in […]
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Jihad and Justice: The Islamic Context
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Jihad and Justice: The Islamic Conception
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Earlier this week I introduced two major contributors to Christian just war theory—Augustine and Aquinas. Both of these men agree that a war can be just only when: it is prosecuted by a legitimate authority, is embarked upon for the […]
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There are three specific similarities between Christian and Islamic conceptions of just war: legitimate authorization, just cause, and right intentions. This week we’ll begin our comparison of these two religious points of view by examining the Christian conception of just […]
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Look for articles in this series every Monday and Friday…. The invasion of Iraq set off a volley of questions about the justifiability of war that continue to be asked as America, and the world, evaluates the continued presence and […]