Mohammed bin Naif pledges allegiance to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will take over from Prince Mohammed bin Naif.
Updated 22 June 2017
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Mohammed bin Naif pledges allegiance to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

JEDDAH: Prince Mohammed bin Naif, former crown prince, pledged allegiance to the newly-appointed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Al-Safa Palace Wednesday.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has called on the citizens of Saudi Arabia to pledge allegiance to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah after Wednesday night’s Taraweeh prayers.
A royal decree published by the Saudi Press Agency in the early hours of Wednesday morning said Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had been appointed to his new position after being chosen by 31 out of 34 members of the Allegiance Council.


What We Are Reading Today: Origins of the Just War

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What We Are Reading Today: Origins of the Just War

“Origins of the Just War” reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition. 

In this book, Rory Cox traces the earliest ideas concerning the complex relationship between war, ethics and justice. He shows that the history of the just war is considerably more ancient and geographically diffuse than previously assumed.