LITERARY IMPACTS OF DOCTRINES “JUST WAR AND JIHAD” IN THE CIVILIZATION MOVEMENT

Abstract

The movement of civilization over the ages includes several fields of knowledge related to cultural, religious, economic, and scientific aspects. Moreover, every civilization has different interests and targets trying to achieve them. On the other hand, the civilizations can classify to two ones: western and eastern. Then, these classifications have led to a sort of differences and then conflict resulting from the difference of directions of knowledge mentioned. So, the religions and their outputs due to disagreement on the practical lifestyle generated a vast gap among societies, especially after the era of globalization as well.Thus, the research highlights the religious doctrine of fighting others based on Islamic and Christian concepts. The paper starts highlighting the civilization and its main aspects. Then, how the difference of the fighting doctrines for Islam adopting ‘Jihad’ and Christianity adopting ‘Just War’ impacts on the attitudes of leaderships and societies as well.