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1 online resource (vii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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1. Introduction / Robert Gleave and Istvánt T. Kristó-Nagy -- Part I. The Mongols and their aftermath. 2. Violence and non-violence in the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258) / Michal Biran -- 3. The Mongols as the scourge of God in the Islamic world / Timothy May -- 4. Yasa and Shari'a: Islamic attitudes towards the Mongol law in the Turco-Mongolian world (from rhe Golden Horde to Timur's time) / István Vásáry -- 5. Unacceptable violence as legitimation in Mongol and Timurid Iran / Beatrice Forbes Manz -- Part II. Violence in religious thought. 6. Reconciling Ibn Taymiyya's legitimisation of violence with his vision of universal salvation / Jon Hoover -- 7. Moral violence in Ahkham Ahl al-Dhimma by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya / Marie Thérèse Urvoy -- 8. Al-Karaki, Jihad, the state and legitimate violence in Imami jurisprudence / Robert Gleave -- Part III. Violence in philosophical thought. 9. Legitimate and illegitimate violence in Arabic political philosophy: al-Farabi, Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldun / Miklós Maróth -- 10. 'Soft' and ' hard' power in Islamic political advice literature / Vasileios Syros -- Part IV. Representing violence. 11. Old images in new skies: flaying in the Iranian visual tradition / Iván Szántó -- 12. Warrant for genocide? Ottoman propaganda against the Qizilbash / Colin Imber. |
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9781474413015 (webready PDF) |
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1474413013 (webready PDF) |
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9781474413022 (epub) |
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1474413021 (epub) |
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9781474413008 (hardback) |
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