Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice

by Abdul Aziz Said, Nathan C. Funk, Ayse Kadayifci

Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam steps beyond the limitations of the traditional scholarly framework used to evaluate the politics of Islamic societies, and assembles a selection from the best available English-language writings on a matter of central importance in Islamic precepts: peace (salam) and conflict resolution. The writings present diverse Muslim views on the nature of peace and the processes of conflict resolution, giving expression to a range of syntheses or "paradigms" of Islamic precept and practice, including power politics, world order, nonviolence, and transformation of consciousness and character (Sufism). Attention is given to both the diversity and the underlying points of unity among Islamic perspectives on peace, which accentuate, variously, an absence of war, a presence of justice, and ecological harmony.

312 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

This provides a one sided overview of the Muslim perspective to violence, war, peace, and conflict resolution. The problem being that the author cherry picks throughout history to identify leaders that come closest to the Islam ideal described while skipping over those rulers who do not. The author implies that much of the governance issues in Islamic countries derives from European colonialism but I was not convinced. The book does not address the inherent problems when politics and religion ride in the same cart