How Just Is Islam's Just-War Tradition?

Scholars debate the meaning of jihad

By EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN

Last year, John Kelsay went to Oman to talk about war. The first night there, speaking at the Grand Mosque in Muscat, he faced a large audience of students studying religion. Discussing the attacks of September 11, 2001, Kelsay argued that the perpetrators had violated the noble tradition...