Crescent and dove
Subtitle: peace and conflict resolution in Islam
By: Qamar-ul Huda, editor
Contributors: United States Institute of Peace Press
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781601270603
Subjects: Islam and world politics; Peace; Conflict management; Islam
Notes: "This book is the result of an international conference of Muslim scholars and practitioners who came together to address these questions, discussing contemporary Islam, its relation to violence and peacemaking, and the possibilities for reframing and reinterpreting methodologically the problems of violence and peacemaking in Muslim communities"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the peacemaking and conflict resolution field and Islam / Qamar-ul Huda; title: Islam and peace : a survey of the sources of peace in the Islamic tradition / Ibrahim Kalin; title: Recovering the early semantic purview of jihad and martydom : challenging statist-military perspectives / Asma Afsaruddin; title: Revisiting the Qur'anic basis for the use of war language / Waleed El-Ansary; title: An Islamic model of conflict resolution : principles and challenges / Mohammed Abu-Nimer; title: Bediüzzaman Said Nursi's paradigm of Islamic nonviolence / Zeki Saritoprak; title: Economics and the clash of civilizations : reexamining religion and violence / Waleed El-Ansary; title: Human rights and Islamic reform / Reza Eslami-Somea; title: Islamic peace education : changing hearts and minds / Asna Husin; title: Muslim women peacemakers as agents of change / Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana and Meena Sharify-Funk; title: Enhancing skills and capacity building in Islamic peacemaking / Qamar-ul Huda.