Concept of War and Peace under Islamic Law

The present work attempts to explore the principles of war and peace under the ambit of Islamic Law for further and better understanding of the contemporary laws of war and peace. Any study on Islamic International Law must essentially entail the two opposing concepts of war and peace, hence the legal principles of war and peace under Islamic law will attract prominent attention in this work. The need for this study is further underscored by the varieties of the rules of warfare as prescribed by International Treaties and Conventions which have been discovered to be grossly inadequate and subject to manipulative skills of the big powers in favour of their interests inspite of the fact that the rule is placing emphasis on the material of the “highest persuasive character”. In the final analysis, the study of this area of Islamic law is informed by the limited knowledge as it presently exists and this has fundamentally put in place the difficulty to maintain the integrity of the doctrine of international law in this field of study, this need not be so.