Religious peacebuilding draws on scripture. Islamic peacebuilding draws on the texts themselves — Qur’an and Sunnah. Muslim peacebuilding draws on the embodied, lived example of communities who have practiced nonviolence. This primer holds the three together.
The distinctions are not pedantry; they are a map. “Islamic” names what the sources teach — the verses that command reconciliation, the Prophet’s ﷺ covenants and restraint. “Muslim” names what the community has lived — the movements, orders, and neighbors who turned those teachings into practice under pressure. Between text and life runs the current that this primer traces.
Peace Primer Two builds on its predecessor with new case studies, a fuller treatment of the jurisprudence of restraint, and study questions for reading groups — because primers are meant to be read together, argued over, and put to work.