Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
From Anwar al-Sadat’s dramatic gambit in 1977 to the surprising declaration of the Abraham Accords in 2020, making peace with Israel was always a tough sell for Arab regimes. Through an analysis of hundreds of fatwas, sermons, essays, books, interviews, poems, postage stamps and other media, Peace in the Name of Allah examines how Egyptian, Jordanian, and Emirati political and religious authorities introduced Islamic justifications for peace with Israel, and how those opposed countered them. The discussion demonstrates the flexible and ambiguous nature of revelation-based political discourses; Islam is neither ‘for’ nor ‘against’ peace with Israel – people are, as different Muslim political actors take competing or even contradictory positions.
Price: $21.99
Pages: 259
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date:
17 June 2024
ISBN: 9783111540825
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POL011000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, REL037000 RELIGION / Islam / General, REL084000 RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, SOC048000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
Ofir Winter is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, where he specializes in Arab-Israeli relations and contemporary Egypt. He is also a lecturer in Tel Aviv University's Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, where he teaches the course “Peace in Islam.” He earned his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History from the same university in 2015. He has authored several articles for reputable international peer-reviewed journals, including Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Law and Society, and New Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the co-author of the book Zionism in Arab Discourses (MUP, 2016).