Reclaiming Jihad as a Strategy of Conflict Transformation

S. Sheikh, Naveed

Abstract

The imagery of “jihad” provokes persistent unease within a global society that increasingly subscribes to a liberal conception of order, centered in part on the constriction of violence in (and to) matters political. The Westphalian state system that emerged from the ashes of the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) came to signify not only the end of the presumed stranglehold of religion in statecraft but also the very beginning of modernity itself. No commander could thenceforth bestow sacrality to his swordsmen, nor could God be included in the draft.

Citation

S. Sheikh, N. (2015). Reclaiming Jihad as a Strategy of Conflict Transformation. Peace Review, 27(3), 288-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2015.1063370

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jul 1, 2015
• Publication Date: Aug 25, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jun 7, 2023
• Journal: Peace Review
• Print ISSN: 1040-2659
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-9982
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 288-295
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2015.1063370
• Keywords: Safety Research; General Social Sciences; General Arts and Humanities; Sociology and Political Science
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