From its origins Islam has been an expansionist religion, understanding itself as a matter of faith to be in a permanent state of war with the non-Muslim world. After the initial consolidation of the Islamic caliphate, however, it soon became apparent that constant military hostilities could not be sustained and that other forms of relationship with non-Muslim nations would be necessary. To reconcile the imperatives of faith with the limits of military power, Islamic scholars developed elaborate legal doctrines. In the ...
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From its origins Islam has been an expansionist religion, understanding itself as a matter of faith to be in a permanent state of war with the non-Muslim world. After the initial consolidation of the Islamic caliphate, however, it soon became apparent that constant military hostilities could not be sustained and that other forms of relationship with non-Muslim nations would be necessary. To reconcile the imperatives of faith with the limits of military power, Islamic scholars developed elaborate legal doctrines. In the second century of the Muslim era (eighth century C.E.), hundreds of years before the codification of international law in Europe by Grotius and others, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, an eminent jurist of the Hanafite school in present-day Iraq, wrote the first major Islamic treatise on the law of nations, Kitab al-Siyar al-Kabir. Translated with an extensive commentary by Majid Khadduri, Shaybani's Siyar describes in detail conditions for war (jihad) and for peace, principles for the conduct of military action and of diplomacy, and rules for the treatment of non-Muslims in Muslim lands. A foundational text of the leading school of law in Sunni Islam, it provides essential insights into relations between Islamic nations and the larger world from their earliest days up to the present.
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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; Includes Compliments of Francis O. Wilcox slip signed by Majid Khadduri. Hardcover and dust jacket. Small tear to jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Cover differ from stock image. Good binding and cover. Pages unmarked. xviii, 311 p., plates, 22 cm. Francis Orlando Wilcox was a State Department official in the Eisenhower Administration. An expert in international relations, Mr. Wilcox spent his career in education and Government service. Before going to Washington in 1942, he had taught political science at the University of Louisville. He returned to education in 1961, when he resigned as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs to become dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. He was made dean emeritus in 1973. In 1975, he became director general of the Atlantic Council, a group dedicated to promoting closer ties within the NATO alliance. Before going to the State Department, Mr. Wilcox served as the first chief of staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, from 1947 to 1955. He guided the committee's initiatives on the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Marshall Plan. Majid Khadduri, 98, founding faculty member of the Middle East studies program at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. One of the pioneers of Middle East and Islamic studies in the United States, he made a number of contributions to the study of the Arab world, particularly Islamic law and jurisprudence, the politics and history of Iraq, and the role of personalities in the Middle East. He knew many of the political and intellectual leaders he wrote about, and many of his students went on to become prominent diplomats, journalists, scholars and civil servants, both in the United States and in the Arab world.