"This book is the result of an international conference of Muslim scholars and practitioners who came together to address these questions, discussing contemporary Islam, its relation to violence and peacemaking, and the possibilities for reframing and reinterpreting methodologically the problems of violence and peacemaking in Muslim communities"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the peacemaking and conflict resolution field and Islam / Qamar-ul Huda -- Islam and peace: a survey of the sources of peace in the Islamic tradition / Ibrahim Kalin -- Recovering the early semantic purview of jihad and martydom: challenging statist-military perspectives / Asma Afsaruddin -- Revisiting the Qur'anic basis for the use of war language / Waleed El-Ansary -- An Islamic model of conflict resolution: principles and challenges / Mohammed Abu-Nimer -- Bediüzzaman Said Nursi's paradigm of Islamic nonviolence / Zeki Saritoprak -- Economics and the clash of civilizations: reexamining religion and violence / Waleed El-Ansary -- Human rights and Islamic reform / Reza Eslami-Somea -- Islamic peace education: changing hearts and minds / Asna Husin -- Muslim women peacemakers as agents of change / Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana and Meena Sharify-Funk -- Enhancing skills and capacity building in Islamic peacemaking / Qamar-ul Huda.