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For years, many have debated the relationship between religion and politics. In Secularism in Afghanistan, author Shukoor Zardushtian directs the discussion to Afghanistan, examining the role of religion in society in general and in Afghanistan in particular and analyzing the conflicts that arise from the mix of government and religion.Gleaned from research and his personal experiences of living in Afghanistan, Secularism in Afghanistan studies the...
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Respected human rights activist Nonie Darwish assesses the potential for freedom to succeed following the recent revolutions in the Middle East.
The recent powerful wave of Middle East uprisings has fueled both hope and trepidation in the region and around the world as the ultimate fate-and fallout-of the Arab Spring continue to hang in the balance. Born and raised as a Muslim in Egypt and now living in the United States, Nonie Darwish brings an informed...
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Fethullah Glen is a Turkish intellectual, scholar, and activist whose influence over a new Islamic intellectual, social, and spiritual revival is revealed in this insightful book. Readers will gain a fuller understanding of where Glen stands on issues of inherent human value and dignity, freedom of thought, education and taking responsibility for creating society and the world. In addition, readers will also see how different perspectives across time,...
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This collection of articles by artists, philosophers, psychologists, and social scientists explores the Sufi tradition and its best-known teacher, Rumi, a 13th-century poet, jurist, and philosopher. Setting aside the standard account of Rumi as a poet of mystic love, these contributors view his writings in a historical context, investigating Sufism's ties to Islam and the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad and tracing Rumi's influence on Persian and...
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Exploring the response and contributions of Muslims and Turkish Muslims to globalization, including areas such as, democratization, scientific revolution, changing gender roles, and religious diversity, this study identifies the common values and visions of peace Muslims share. This study places specific analysis on the Glen movement, a growing approach to the reunification of faith and reason with hopes for a peaceful coexistence between liberal...
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Addressing the sociological, cultural, and religious aspects of the Glen movement, this insider's look also explores the failure experienced by many other Islamic movements that attempted to combine traditional values with the modern world. The influence Fethullah Glen has had on secularist Turkey is also examined.
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Western perceptions of Islam and global terrorism is an analysis of the pathology of extremist behavior that has taken the modern world awry. Although, the word "terrorism" dates back to a couple of centuries, its modern manifestations are most disturbing in that it is paradoxically associated with the pristine tradition of Islam whose etymology as well as goal is none other than the establishment of comprehensive peace - with oneself, with one's...
8) Being Muslim
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Being Muslim presents an up-front and readable explanation of the most complex and emotion-laden issues of our troubled times. The varying branches of Islam are analyzed and their history outlined -- but the focus is on the present. In speaking about and crossing political, cultural and religious divisions, this book offers a unique perspective, forged in Canada, a country where people from everywhere on earth have found a way to live in peace. Terrorism....
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it possesses a rigidly organized, centralized state, whose bureaucrats and civil servants are animated by a code of secular activism. On the other hand, France...
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This book tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently the War on Terror, to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the global rise of militant Islam.
Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state in Pakistan, which tends to privilege events in a narrowly defined 'political' realm, Saadia Toor highlights the significance of cultural politics in Pakistan from its origins...
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Ante el colapso de las grandes ideologías en el siglo XX, y la emergencia de nuevos fundamentalismos religiosos, necesitamos pistas sobre la crisis global de nuestra civilización. Para detectarlas se requiere un repaso de la tradición bíblica en sus tres corrientes, la cristiana, la islámica y la judía, que de paso han incorporado el pensamiento griego clásico y provocado el surgimiento del pensamiento laico.
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"Winner of the 2005 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology" Bill Maurer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands, and the co-editor of Gender Matters: Re-Reading Michelle Z. Rosaldo and Globalization under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity.
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Los Reinos de España y Marruecos tienen intereses comunes. Ambos Estados se convierten en el punto de partida o de llegada del Continente Americano de células terroristas, y no interesa, en absoluto, que estos elementos se valgan de plataformas geográficas para cometer sus atentados, con la mayor impunidad. La cooperación conjunta habrá de basarse en la confianza mutua entre los dos estados, en el intercambio de medios técnicos y delicada información,...
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"Winner of the 2016 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" Shahab Ahmed (1966-2015) was postdoctoral associate in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University.
A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversity
What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such...
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F. E. Peters is Professor of History, Religion, and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University and past chair of those departments. His books include The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and the two-volume The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition (all Princeton).
The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam,...
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Vivid, dramatic portraits of Muslims in America in the years after 9/11, as they define themselves in a religious subculture torn between moderation and extremism
There are as many as six million Muslims in the United States today. Islam (together with Christianity and Judaism) is now an American faith, and the challenges Muslims face as they reconcile their intense and demanding faith with our chaotic and permissive society are recognizable to all...
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Writing boards and blackboards are emblematic of two radically different styles of education in Islam. The essays in this lively volume address various aspects of the expanding and evolving range of educational choices available to Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors from the United States, Europe, and Africa evaluate classical Islamic education in Africa from colonial times to the present, including changes in pedagogical methods--from sitting...
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Author Andrew G. Bostom expands upon his two previous groundbreaking compendia, “The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism”, with this collection of his own recent essays on Sharia-Islamic law. The book elucidates, unapologetically, Sharia's defining Islamic religious principles and the consequences of its application across space and time, focusing upon contemporary illustrations.
A wealth of unambiguous evidence is marshaled,...
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For centuries, the heroine of The Arabian Nights, Scheherazade, defined the Arab woman until Joumana Haddad, an Arab woman herself, had had enough. Haddad angrily challenges prevalent notions of identity and womanhood in the Middle East in this intrepid exploration. While she finds the West's dominant portrayal of Arab women appalling, she finds the image projected by many Middle Eastern women to be infuriating as well. She discusses her intellectual...
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Muhammad's Body introduces questions of embodiment and materiality to the study of the Prophet Muhammad. Analyzing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad's body as they emerge in Sunni hadith and sira from the eighth through the eleventh centuries CE, Michael Muhammad Knight argues that early Muslims' theories and imaginings about Mu&7717;ammad's body contributed in significant ways to the construction of prophetic masculinity and authority.
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