War, Peace & International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel

by Yitzhak Reiter

Book Overview

Foreword by Efraim Halevy, former chief of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence service. This book 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. The analysis highlights Islamic law's adaptation to changing political realities to the modern model of international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845194802
• ISBN13: 9781845194802
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 236 Pages