(CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION, ISSN 0196-7053; NO. 28) PAPERS PRESENTED AT FOUR CONFERENCES HELD AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY IN THE WINTER AND SPRING OF 1988-1989.

Papers presented at four conferences held at Rutgers University in the winter and spring of 1988-1989. Arabic collection.

Historical roots and sources of the just war tradition in Western culture /James Turner Johnson -- The sources of Islamic conceptions of war / Fred M. Donner -- The Western moral tradition on war : Christian theology and warfare / John Langan, S.J. -- The religious foundations of war, peace, and statecraft in Islam / Richard C. Martin -- "Holy war" appeals and Western Christianity : a reconsideration of Bainton's approach / David Little -- Holy war (Jihad) in Islamic religion and nation-state ideologies / Bruce Lawrence -- The international law of war as related to the Western just war tradition / William V. O'Brien -- War and peace in the Islamic tradition and international law / Ann Elizabeth Mayer.