Jihad and Genocide
By (author) Richard L. Rubenstein
Publication date:
16 January 2010Length of book:
262 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
240x162mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780742562028
This book examines the relationship between jihad and genocide, past and present. Richard L. Rubenstein takes a close look at the violent interpretations of jihad and how they have played out in the past hundred years, from the Armenian genocide through current threats to Israel. Rubenstein's unflinching study of the potential for fundamentalist jihad to initiate targeted violence raises pressing questions in a time when questions of religious co-existence, particularly in the Middle East, are discussed urgently each day.
How appropriate that one of the deepest thinkers about the Holocaust turns his attention to the horrors of Islamic sacred war, known as jihad. Rubinstein’s important and fearless study should wake a largely slumbering world to jihad’s true nature and its irreconcilable menace.