Jihad and Genocide »

This book examines the relationship between jihad and genocide, past and present. Richard L. Rubenstein, a respected scholar in the field of genocide studies, 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.

Introduction Why I Have Written This Book 1

1 The Domain of Islam and the Domain of War 11

2 Jihad and Genocide: The Case of the Armenians 43

3 The Nazi-Muslim Connection and Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem 59

4 On Jihad, Oil, and Anti-Semitism 103

5 Iran: Apocalyptic Nuclear Genocide? 119

6 The Fruits of Rage 155

Notes 189

Index 241

About the Author 251