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Moulavi Gerágh Ali A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'…

Among the Arabs the international law of estates in their hostile relations, and the military law and usage of former times, not forgetting to mention the European international law as late as the last century, maintained the broad principle that "in war everything done against an enemy is lawful that he may be destroyed, though unarmed and defenceless; that fraud or even poison may be employed against him; that a most unlimited right is acquired to his person and property." [1] Every sort of fraud except perfidy was allowed to be practised towards an enemy in war.
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