- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
-
Part one The Early Islamic Conquests -
1 Religious Services for Byzantine Soldiers and the Possibility of Martyrdom, c. 400–c. 1000 -
2 In Defense of All Houses of Worship? -
3 God’s War and His Warriors -
Part Two The Crusades -
4 Imagining the Enemy -
5 Ibn ‘Asakir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Crusader-Era Syria -
6 Angles of Influence -
7 Religious War in the Works of Maimonides -
Part Three Gunpowder Empires, Christian and Muslim -
8 Martyrdom and Modernity -
9 Ottoman Conceptions of War and Peace in the Classical Period -
10 Islam and Christianity in the Works of Gentili, Grotius, and Pufendorf -
Part Four European Imperialism -
11 Just War and Jihad in the French Conquest of Algeria -
12 Jihad, Hijra, and Hajj in West Africa -
13 Jihads and Crusades in Sudan from 1881 to the Present -
14 The Trained Triumphant Soldiers of the Prophet Muhammad -
15 Muslim Debates on Jihad in British India -
Part Five International Law and Outlaws -
16 Jihad and the Geneva Conventions -
17 The Jewish Law of War -
18 Fighting to Create the Just State -
19 How Has the Global Salafi Terrorist Movement Affected Western Just War Thinking? - Conclusion
- Index
God’s War and His Warriors
God’s War and His Warriors
The First Hundred Years of Syriac Accounts of the Islamic Conquests
- Chapter:
- (p.69) 3 God’s War and His Warriors
- Source:
- Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads
- Author(s):
Michael Philip Penn
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
As the first Christians to encounter Islam, Syriac authors preserve the earliest Christian depictions of Muslims, Islam, and the conquests. Syriac writers also present the unusual circumstance of a group interpreting not their victory, but their defeat as the outcome of a holy war. This chapter examines how Syriac Christian responses to these questions developed over time and across literary genres. It investigates how early Christian communities interpreted and reinterpreted the Islamic conquests and how their writings constructed images, rhetorical strategies, and stereotypes that later Christian writers would further elaborate.
Keywords: Syriac writers, Syriac Christians, Islamic conquests, holy war
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
-
Part one The Early Islamic Conquests -
1 Religious Services for Byzantine Soldiers and the Possibility of Martyrdom, c. 400–c. 1000 -
2 In Defense of All Houses of Worship? -
3 God’s War and His Warriors -
Part Two The Crusades -
4 Imagining the Enemy -
5 Ibn ‘Asakir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Crusader-Era Syria -
6 Angles of Influence -
7 Religious War in the Works of Maimonides -
Part Three Gunpowder Empires, Christian and Muslim -
8 Martyrdom and Modernity -
9 Ottoman Conceptions of War and Peace in the Classical Period -
10 Islam and Christianity in the Works of Gentili, Grotius, and Pufendorf -
Part Four European Imperialism -
11 Just War and Jihad in the French Conquest of Algeria -
12 Jihad, Hijra, and Hajj in West Africa -
13 Jihads and Crusades in Sudan from 1881 to the Present -
14 The Trained Triumphant Soldiers of the Prophet Muhammad -
15 Muslim Debates on Jihad in British India -
Part Five International Law and Outlaws -
16 Jihad and the Geneva Conventions -
17 The Jewish Law of War -
18 Fighting to Create the Just State -
19 How Has the Global Salafi Terrorist Movement Affected Western Just War Thinking? - Conclusion
- Index
