(Hardback)

This book, together with its companion volume, Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions (Greenwood Press, forthcoming 1991), examines the topics of the relationship between Western and Islamic religious and cultural traditions on war, peace, and the conduct of statecraft.

(Hardback)

An examination of Western and Islamic approaches to war, peace and statecraft, aiming to bridge the gap of knowledge and understanding between the two traditions. The two major themes stressed by the contributors are the historical and theoretical approaches to war and peace.