Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism

Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is Violence in Islamic Thought from European Imperialism to the Post-Colonial Era (EUP, 2021), co-authored with Mustafa Baig. István Kristó-Nagy is a Lecturer in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of La pensée d’Ibn al-Muqaffaʽ (2013).

• Dates and AbbreviationsList of Figures and Tables1. Introduction, Robert Gleave and István T. Kristó-NagyPART 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 ManzPart 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 GleavePart 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 SyrosPart 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 ImberBibliographyIndex of Qurʾānic CitationsGeneral Index

[A] valuable contribution to the history of ideas in the late medieval and early modern period, and the editors and the contributing authors are to be commended for this achievement.