Contents

pp v-vi

Dates and Abbreviations

pp vii-vii

List of Figures

pp viii-viii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-12

PART I - THE MONGOLS AND THEIR AFTERMATH

pp 13-14

2 - Violence and Non-Violence in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad (1258)

pp 15-31

3 - The Mongols as the Scourge of God in The Islamic World

pp 32-57

4 - Yāsā and Sharī‘a Islamic Attitudes Towards The Mongol Law in the Turco-Mongolian World (From the Golden Horde To Timur’s Time)

pp 58-78

5 - Unacceptable Violence As Legitimation In Mongol and Timurid Iran

pp 79-104

PART II - VIOLENCE IN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

pp 105-106

6 - Reconciling Ibn Taymiyya’s Legitimisation of Violence With His Vision of Universal Salvation

pp 107-116

7 - Moral Violence in Aḥkām Ahl Al-Dhimma By Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

pp 117-124

8 - Al-Karakī, Jihād, the State and Legitimate Violence in Imāmī Jurisprudence

pp 125-146

PART III - VIOLENCE IN PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT

pp 147-148

9 - Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Arabic Political Philosophy: Al-Fārābī, Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldūn

pp 149-164

10 - ‘Soft’ and ‘Hard’ Power in Islamic Political Advice Literature

pp 165-190

PART IV - REPRESENTING VIOLENCE

pp 191-192

11 - Old Images in New Skins: Flaying in the Iranian Visual Tradition

pp 193-203

12 - Warrant For Genocide? Ottoman Propaganda Against the Qizilbash

pp 204-214

Bibliography

pp 215-234

Index

pp 235-240