This is an updated and expanded 2015 edition of a classic text on Muslim thinking about war and peace. The new edition includes a new introduction and translations of selected revelatory excerpts from ISIS texts about the treatment of POWs, guidelines on the ""management of barbarity"", fatwas in opposition to ISIS, and other key topics.

Preface to the Third Edition, 2015Part I. Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam1. JIHAD, AN INTRODUCTION2. THE PROPHET’S LESSONS ON CONDUCT IN WAR: Ḥadiths on Jihad from the Ṣaḥiḥ of Muslim ibn Ḥajjåj3. EXHORTATIONS TO JIHAD: Passages on Jihad and Martyrdom from Målik’s al-Muwaṭṭa’4. THE LEGAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD: The Chapter on Jihad from Averroes’ Legal Handbook al-Bidåya5. THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD: Ibn Taymiyya on Jihad6. JIHAD AND WAR PROPAGANDA: The Ottoman Jihad Fatwa of November 11th, 19147. A MODERNIST INTERPRETATION OF JIHAD: Ma˙m¥d Shalt¥t’s Treatise Koran and Fighting8. THE DOCTRINE OF JIHAD IN MODERN ISLAM9. THE RELEVANCE OF THE JIHAD DOCTRINE IN SADAT’S EGYPT10. JIHAD IN 21st CENTURY EgyptPart II. Jihad After 9/1111. THE PRESENT GEOGRAPHY OF JIHADa. Short survey of Jihadi Movements and States after 2005; Shabab, Boko Haram, Mali, Taliban; Impact of Arab Spring (Libya, Syria) b. Importance of Religionc. Why focus on IS12. AL-QA`IDA AND ISa. Zawahiri and Zarqawi (Zawahiri’s Letter to Zarqawi) b. Idarat al-tawahhush by Najic. Conflict Between al-Qa`ida and ISIS Regarding Rules of Jihad13. THE RISE OF ISa. Factors of Success in Iraq and Syria; Foreign Mujahids; Publicity; Videos, Social Mediab. Caliphate (Selections from the Address of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), hijra; Building an Islamic State, hisba (Contrast with al-Qaìda) Eschatology, Apocalyps, Violence, Brutality14. IS THEORY AND PRACTICE OF JIHADa. Enemy; Takfir; Treason (Fatwas) b. Non-Muslims; dhimmi; (document ISIS dhimma contract) c. Defensive or Offensive Jihadd. Warfare: Civilians; Slavery (Document) e. (Document) 15. ANTI-IS POSITIONSAnti-Isis FatwasNotesBibliographyAcknowledgements