Just Wars, Holy Wars and Jihads: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges Edited by SOHAIL H. HASHMI

Sohail Hashmi’s ambitious edited volume consists of nineteen original essays along with an introduction and conclusion on topics relating to the understanding of war and peace in the three Abrahamic faiths. Given the potential temporal and geographic scope of the title, the volume presents an impressively wide-ranging discussion on topics that could, at times, be the subject of book-length treatments, but for which the essays present concisely distilled summaries. Given constraints on space, in what follows, I will mainly describe the contents of the work and only address issues of interest from a select few essays. Inevitably, my remarks and focus will reflect my own interests in Islamic studies, and it is worth noting that the multidisciplinary nature of the volume means that there are topics of considerable interest to scholars from a very wide range of fields.