War for peace : genealogies of a violent ideal in Western and Islamic thought / Murad Idris
- Author:
- Idris, Murad, 1984-
- Published:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Physical Description:
- xx, 329 pages ; 25 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Assigning Symmetry: Plato's Laws and the Polis's Wars -- 2.Summoning Hostility: Al-Farabi, Aquinas, and Warlike Peace -- Interlude I---Deflections: Friends, Neighbors, Advisers -- 3.Loving Necessity: Erasmus between Christianity and Islam -- 4.Ordering Legality: Gentili, Grotius, and Law for War -- Interlude II---Refractions: Missionaries, Nomads, Pirates -- 5.Colonizing Frontiers: Ibn Khaldun, Hobbes, and Commodious Violence -- 6.Policing Humanity: Immanuel Kant, Sayyid Qutb, and Shades of Empire.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780190658014 hardcover ; acid-free paper
0190658010 hardcover ; acid-free paper - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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