War, peace and international relations in Islam
Subtitle: Muslim scholars on peace accords with Israel
By: Yitzhak Reiter
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng; ara
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781845194710; 9781845194802
Subjects: Treaties (Islamic law); Islam and international relations; Arab-Israeli conflict (Islamic law); Fatwas
Work titles: Milḥamah, shalom ṿe-yaḥasim benleʼumiyim ba-Islam ben zemanenu
Description: This text presents and analyses fatwas - rulings of Islamic law - issued by religious sages and clerics on issues of war and peace in regard to the actual or future possibility of conducting a peace agreement between Muslim states and Israel.
Notes: Appendices contain texts of fatwas in Arabic.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: War and peace in classical Islam; title: Bridging between shari'a and modern international relations; title: Debating the Hudaybiyya precedent; title: Egyptian fatwas 1947-1970; title: The mufti of Egypt backs the peace accord between Egypt and Israel (1979); title: The Oslo accords : the debate between al-Qaradawi and Ibn Bāz; title: Hamas and the question of hudna with Israel (2006); title: Saudi Arabia and Hezbollah debate Israel's second Lebanon war (2006); title: A comparative review of the Algerian case : the treaty between the French and Algerian resistance leader 'Abd al-Qadir (1830s).