Ethics of war and peace in Iran and Shiʻi Islam /

"Nearly four decades after a revolution, experiencing one of the longest wars in contemporary history, facing political and ideological threats by regional radicals such as ISIS and the Taliban, and having succeeded in negotiations with six world powers over her nuclear program, Iran appears as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mahallati, Mohammad Jafar Amir, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Temas:
Peace > Moral and ethical aspects > Iran.
War > Moral and ethical aspects > Iran.
War > Religious aspects > Islam.
Peace > Religious aspects > Islam.
Shīʻah > Iran.
Shiites > Iran.
Jihad.
Paix > Aspect moral > Iran.
Guerre > Aspect moral > Iran.
Guerre > Aspect religieux > Islam.
Chiisme > Iran.
Chiites > Iran.
Jihād.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
RELIGION > Religion, Politics & State.
War > Religious aspects > Islam
War > Moral and ethical aspects
Jihad
Peace > Moral and ethical aspects
Peace > Religious aspects > Islam
Shīʻah
Shiites
Iran
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  • Preface and acknowledgments. Introduction. Part 1 The ethics of war and peace in Iran: epic literature, philosophy, theology, and chivalry : The ethics of war and peace in epic Persian literature: Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
  • Iranian classical thinkers on war and peace: a select view
  • War and chivalry in the annals of Iranian history and ethical imagination
  • Modern Iranian intellectuals on the ethics of enmity and nonviolence. Part 2 The Jihad jurisprudence: its developments and critics in Iran : War and peace in Shiʻi primary narratives and sources
  • Traditional Shiʻi ethics of war and peace untested: Jihad, ideology, revolution, and war
  • Postwar revision and the reconstruction of modern Iranian Shiʻi ethics of war and peace
  • Terrorism and Shiʻi theologies of martyrdom, nonviolence, and forgiveness
  • Diplomacy in between nuclear technology and antibomb theology. Conclusion: beyond a minority mentality: the emerging Shiʻi-Iranian cosmopolitanism. Appendix 1: "Jihad:" a historical overview of the concept and its politics (English translation of an article published in the "Great Islamic Encyclopedia," first edition, Iran)
  • Appendix 2: "Jang" (war; Persian): laws in war according to Twelver-Shiʻi jurisprudence (English translation of an article published in the "Great Islamic Encyclopedia," first edition, Iran)
  • Appendix 3: Iran's official position on war crimes by Daesh
  • Appendix 4: advice and guiding to the fighters on the battlefields: a Shiʻi manual.

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