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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2025

Tom Woerner-Powell
Tom Woerner-Powell
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University of Manchester
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Pacifism and Non-Violence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy
Mapping the Paths of Peace
 , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. Acknowledgements

  2. Introduction

    1. Peace and Islam: Heterogeneous and Contested

    2. The Study of Islamic Nonviolence: A Quixotic Quest?

    3. Violence and Logocentrism in Islamic Studies

    4. Unspectacular Peace and Escaping Imaginaries

    5. Themes, Harmonies, and Leitmotifs

  3. 1Hierarchy, Community, and Nonviolence in Senegal: Amadou Bamba [1853–1927]

    1. Marginalisation, Racialisation, and Disputation

    2. A Nonviolent Confraternity under Violent Colonialism

    3. Spiritual Jihād and Nonviolent Resistance

    4. Peace as a Pedagogy of Productive Service

    5. Recognising Gaps and Reconciling Contradictions

  4. 2Nation, Nonviolence, and Service in Pakistan: Bacha Khan [1890–1988]

    1. Escaping the Shadow of the Mahatma

    2. Pathan Ways

    3. Service and Disobedience

    4. Against the Scholarly Class

    5. Divergent Paths

  5. 3Peace, Love, and Harmony in Sri Lanka and the United States: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen [d. 1986]

    1. Ecumenism, Syncretism, and Adaptation

    2. The Perfection of Man

    3. Cosmic Nonviolence

    4. Against Violence in the Abstract

  6. 4Nonviolence, History, and Self-Sacrifice in Iran: Ali Shariati [1933–1977]

    1. Changing Contexts and Transforming Ideas

    2. Monotheism as Nonviolence

    3. Class Dialectics without Marx

    4. Quranic Text and the Systems of Cain and Abel

    5. Revolutionary Martyrdom and Altruistic Self-Transcendence

  7. 5Peace, Justice, and Progress in India: Wahiduddin Khan [1925–2021]

    1. Emergence and Emergency in a Major Minority

    2. Interpolating the Scriptures

    3. The Hudaybiyyah Principle and the Virtue of Concession

    4. Cosmic Conciliations

    5. Between Religious Quietism and Liberal Conservatism

  8. 6Nonviolence, Duty, and Compulsion in Syria: Jawdat Said [1931–2022]

    1. Upheaval, Autocritique, and Civil Disobedience

    2. Return to the Scriptures: Power and Dissent

    3. The Absolute Moral Obligation of Witness

    4. Cain and Abel as Moral Exemplars

  9. 7Conversations on Islamic Nonviolence with Thinkers and Activists: Amina Khoulani, Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Haytham Alhamwi, John Muhammad Butt, and Rabia Terri Harris

    1. What Is Peace?

    2. Peace, War, and Justice

    3. Personal and Interpersonal Nonviolence

    4. Nonviolence and the Non-human World

    5. Dynamics and Developments

  10. Conclusion: Islamic Nonviolence as Ethic and Orientation

    1. The Inadequacy of Philological Taxonomies

    2. Islamic Nonviolence as Peace History?

    3. Islamic Nonviolence, Secular Theory, and the Role of Niyyah

    4. Community and Communion as Nonviolent Praxis

  11. Appendix: Jawdat Said’s Letter of Rejection to Shaikh ʿAbdallāh bin Bayyah

  12. Bibliography

  13. Index

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  • Book: Pacifism and Non-Violence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy
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