About the Author

Robert Gleave was Director of the Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence Project 2010-2013, and is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter. Istvan Kristo Nagy is Lecturer in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.

Reviews

"The book provides a sense of the highly complex and fluid role that violence played in Islamic thought over the course of several centuries, a target that the book undoubtedly strikes." -- Michael Hope, Situations