Table of Contents
Theory of the state / Majid Khadduri -- Foundations and purposes of political authority / Ibn Khaldun -- The Ottoman Jihad Fatwa of November 11th, 1914 -- Islamic jurisprudence and modern needs: the challenge of renewal / AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman -- Islam as an ethical tradition of international relations / Mohammed Muqtedar Khan -- Islamic ethics in international society / Sohail H. Hashmi -- Conflict resolution approaches: western and Middle Eastern lessons and possibilities / Muhammed Abu Nimer -- An Islamic model for political conflict resolution: Tahkim (arbitration) -- Rituals of reconciliation: Arab-Islamic perspectives / George E. Irani and Nathan C. Funk -- The nonviolent crescent: eight theses on Muslim nonviolent action / Chaiwat Satha-Anand -- Nonviolence, ethics, and character development in Islam / Karim Douglas Crow -- Nonviolence in Islam: the alternative community tradition / Rabia Terri Harris -- Peace in the Sufi tradition: an ecology of the spirit / Abdul Aziz Said and Nathan C. Funk -- The inner Jihad / M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen -- Peace and the feminine in Islam / Meena Sharify-Funk.