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The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations. By Ahmed Al-Dawoody. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 338 pages.

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The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations. By Ahmed Al-Dawoody. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 338 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Nathan Reyes*
Affiliation:
UN Joint Human Rights Office, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Stabilization Mission in Congo
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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 2012

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References

1 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks of the United States, The 9/II Commission Report (New York: W&W Norton and Company, 2002).

2 Al-Dawoody, Ahmed, The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) at 141.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Ibid at 5.

4 Ibid at 12.

5 Reuven Firestone is just one of many authors identified and addressed by Al-Dawoody throughout the first chapter of his book.

6 Al-Dawoody, supra note 2 at 37.

7 Ibid at 39 [emphasis added].

8 Ibid at 28.

9 Ibid at 68.

10 Ibid at 76.

11 Ibid at 81.

12 Ibid at 101.

13 Ibid at 141.

14 Ibid at 116, citing Johnson, James Turner, Morality and Contemporary Warfare (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999) at 272.Google Scholar

15 Al-Dawoody, supra note 2 at 166.

16 Ibid at 190–91.