Pacifism and Non-Violence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy: Mapping the Paths of Peace

Tom Woerner-Powell

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Pacifism and Non-Violence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy

Mapping the Paths of Peace

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Tom Woerner-Powell, University of Manchester

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: March 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781009573993
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009573993
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Islam, Ethics, Religion, Philosophy

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In Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy, Tom Woerner-Powell combines historical analysis and contemporary interviews with Muslim peace advocates in an effort to develop an empirically grounded survey of Islamic philosophies of nonviolence and a general analysis of the phenomenon. The first monograph on Islamic nonviolence to engage substantively with contemporary debates in the field of moral philosophy, his study is critical and descriptive rather than apologetic and polemical. His approach is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. Drawing on methods from the fields of peace studies, Islamic studies, and moral philosophy, he identifies, critiques, and addresses the shortcomings within the dominant approaches in these fields regarding the question of pacifism and nonviolence in contemporary Islam. Woerner-Powell's book sheds new light not only on Islamic cases of nonviolence but also on the manner in which Islamic thought might play a larger role in secular and inter-religious debates. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy
pp i-ii

Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-23

1 - Hierarchy, Community, and Nonviolence in Senegal
pp 24-53

2 - Nation, Nonviolence, and Service in Pakistan
pp 54-87

3 - Peace, Love, and Harmony in Sri Lanka and the United States
pp 88-105

4 - Nonviolence, History, and Self-Sacrifice in Iran
pp 106-135

5 - Peace, Justice, and Progress in India
pp 136-173

6 - Nonviolence, Duty, and Compulsion in Syria
pp 174-198

7 - Conversations on Islamic Nonviolence with Thinkers and Activists
pp 199-221

Conclusion
pp 222-244

Appendix: Jawdat Said’s Letter of Rejection to Shaikh ʿAbdallāh bin Bayyah
pp 245-248

Bibliography
pp 249-264

Index
pp 265-266

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