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The violent conquest of the eastern part of the lands under Muslim rule by the Mongols marked a new period in the history of Islamic civilisation and in attitudes towards violence. This volume examines the various intellectual and cultural reactions of Muslim thinkers to these events, both within and without the territories subjected to Mongol control. Each chapter examines how violent acts were assessed by Muslim intellectuals, analysing both changes and continuity within Islamic thought over time.
Each chapter is structured around a case study in which violent acts are justified or condemned, revealing the variety of attitudes to violence in the medieval period. They are framed by a detailed introduction, focusing on theoretical perspectives on violence and religion and their application, or otherwise, to medieval Islam.
Contents
Dates and AbbreviationsList of Figures and Tables1. Introduction, Robert Gleave and István T. Kristó-Nagy
PART 1. The Mongols and their Aftermath2. Violence and non-violence in the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258), Michal Biran3. The Mongols as the Scourge of God in the Islamic World, Timothy May 4. Yāsā and sharīʿa Islamic Attitudes toward the Mongol Law in the Turco-Mongolian World (from the Golden Horde to Timur's Time), István Vásáry5. Unacceptable violence as legitimation in Mongol and Timurid Iran, Beatrice Manz
Part 2. Violence in Religious Thought6. Reconciling Ibn Taymiyya's Legitimization of Violence with His Vision of Universal Salvation, Jon Hoover7. Moral Violence in the Aḥkām al-Dhimma of Ibn Qayyim al-JawziyYa, Marie Thérèse Urvoy8. Al-Karakī, Jihād, the State and Legitimate Violence in Imāmī Jurisprudence, Robert Gleave
Part 3. Violence in Philosophical Thought9. Legitimate and illegitimate violence in Arabic political philosophy: al-Fārābī, Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldūn, Miklós Maróth10. Soft and Hard Power in Islamic Advice Literature, Vasileios Syros
Part 4. Representing Violence11. Old Images in New Skins: Flaying in the Iranian Visual Tradition, Iván Szántó12. Warrant for genocide? Ottoman propaganda against the Qizilbash, Colin Imber
BibliographyIndex of Qurʾānic CitationsGeneral Index