Just War and Jihad ― Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions

"This collection of papers on the roots of just or `holy' war in Western (Christian) and Islamic cultures, along with its companion volume, Cross, Crescent, and Sword: The Justification and Limitation of War in Western and Islamic Tradition (Greenwood, 1990), emanated from conferences held at Rutgers University. . . . Scholars in the fields of Western thought and the just war tradition as well as scholars from the area of Islamic studies were brought together to develop theoretical issues and further cross-discipline understanding. The chapters emphasize the historical and comparative approach to the study of the foundations, justifications, conduct, and aims of war in the two traditions. Intended for the scholarly or well-informed audience, this is recommended for research libraries." Library Journal

JOHN KELSAY is Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Florida State University, Tallahassee. He was coauthor ofHuman Rights and the Conflict of Culture and coeditor with James Turner Johnson ofCross, Crescent, and Sword (Greenwood, 1990). His articles, Religion, Morality, and the Governance of War andDivine Commands and Social Order are forthcoming. He is currently writing several essays on ethics in Islam.

JAMES TURNER JOHNSON is Professor of Religion, University Director of International Programs, and a member of the graduate faculty in political science at Rutgers University. A former Goggenheim Fellow and Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow, his previous books include Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War, Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War,Can Modern War Be Just? and The Quest for Peace: Three Moral Traditions in Western Cultural History. Johnson has also published over forty articles in various American and European scholarly journals.