THE ISLAMIC DOCTRINE OF PEACE AND WAR

Abstract

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse - Death, Famine, Plague, and War - have traced a bloody cause of sorrow, destruction, and devastation through human history. Technology has now made it frequently possible to overcome two of the dreaded horsemen, Plague and Famine. Encounters with the third horseman, Death, have been postponed by that same technology; in many parts of the world, for example, average life expectancy has substantially risen.