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Abstract

There is an increase interest on Islam in the field of international relations. The paper seeks to offer an overview to the basis of inter state relations between a Muslim polity and other Muslim or non-Muslim polity. It presents three possible options that will be the basis of international relations for an Islamic polity; war, peace and neutrality. It then argues that peace is the original basis and rejects the idea of perpetual war between Islamic and non-Islamic polity as espoused by jihadist groups.

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War, Peace, neutrality, Islamic polity, inter-state relations

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Hassan, M. H. (2012). WAR, PEACE OR NEUTRALITY: AN OVERVIEW OF ISLAMIC POLITY’S BASIS OF INTER-STATE RELATIONS. Journal of Al-Tamaddun, 7(1), 115–134. Retrieved from http://jice.um.edu.my/index.php/JAT/article/view/8559