Islam, war: the complex relationship between these two elements has a long past and an infinite series of historically determined forms. This book investigates some traces of it, captured in places and times very distant from each other, but united by the same point of view: how war and its representations have been translated at the level of institutions and political legitimacy. Hence, various investigations follow: how the Caliphate of Muslim Spain used the practice of war to reconstruct its political memory; how the idea of a "just war" was able to circulate for centuries in the Mediterranean, passing from Greek and Latin writings to Arabic texts and Hebrew translations; or how the recent Republic of the Maldives has been able to reconstruct its Islamic identity thanks to the fabulous story of an ancient Arab traveller.
University of Bologna, Italy
Book Title
Il mondo musulmano e i volti della guerra
Book Subtitle
Conflitti, politica e comunicazione nella storia dell'islam
Authors
Alessandro Vanoli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
172
Publication Year
2005
Copyright Information
© 2005 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/88-8453-259-0
ISBN Print
88-8453-260-4
eISBN (pdf)
88-8453-259-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-800-5
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919