Peace Movements in Islam

Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, USA. He is the translator of Broken Wings and The Vision by Khalil Gibran.

• Introduction 1. Between Compassion and Justice: Locating an Islamic Definition of Peace, A. Rashied Omar2. The Qur’an on doing Good to Enemies, Juan Cole 3. A Different Kind of Striving: Jihad as Peacemaking, Asma Afsaruddin 4. Internal Peace versus Being in Society: Sufi Dilemmas, Alexander D. Knysh5. Principled Pacifism in Islamic West Africa, Rudolph Ware6. Rashid Rida and the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Elizabeth F. Thompson7. Paradise Bound: Righteous Others in the Writings of Rashid Rida, Mohammad Hassan Khalil 8. Abdul Ghaffar Khan: An Islamic Ghandi, James L. Rowell9. Islam and Peace: A Muslim Fundamentalist Perspective, Sherman A. Jackson10. Women, Religion, and Peace Leadership in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zilka Spahic Šiljak11. Muslim American Activism in the Age of Trump, Grace YukichContributorsIndex

A bold yet singular addition to the discourse on pacifist streams in Islam where there are resources galore on militant Islam.