Islamic life and practice

Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the 'South Asian Muslim' have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of September 11, 2001.

The theological and philosophical bases of the beliefs are clearly presented with their history, development, expression and everyday practice.

The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world.

Avoiding the traps of sensational political exposes and specialized scholarly Orientalism, Carl Ernst introduces readers to the profound spiritual resources of Islam while clarifying diversity and debate within the tradition.

Within the broad contours of Islamic traditions, Muslims are enjoined to fast during the month of Ramadan, they are invited to a disciplined practice of prayer, and they are offered the Quran as the divine revelation in the most beautiful verbal form.

The Republic of Indonesia is a rising great power in the Asia-Pacific, set to become the eighth largest economy in the world in the coming decades.

Ritual and practice are one of the most distinctive features of religion, and they are linked with its central beliefs.

Avoiding the traps of sensational political exposes and specialized scholarly Orientalism, Carl Ernst introduces readers to the profound spiritual resources of Islam while clarifying diversity and debate within the tradition.

The issue of Muslim women's rights never seems outdated and has become trendy in the post-9/11 environment.

An exploration of the diversity and complexity of ''everyday'' lived religion among Muslims in a zongo community in Ghana.

Islam in Russia is a rare scholarly attempt to understand the tolerant nature of Islam in the modern Russian Federation since the state's official acceptance of Islam.

This comprehensive introduction explores the landscape of contemporary Islam.

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This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Muslim women around the world.

A history of the Western Islamic lands from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries.

For many in the West, Islam has become a byword for terrorism.

Islamic finance has witnessed a meteoric ascent in recent decades, cementing its status as a prominent player within the global financial sphere.

Challenging the prevalent view, this book illustrates the importance of animals in the Islamic tradition, in which they are viewed as equal beings to humans.

The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction.

This monograph explores the original literary produce of Muslim mystics during the eighth-tenth centuries, with special attention to ninth-century mystics, such as al-Tustari, al-Muhasibi, al-Kharraz, al-Junayd and, in particular, al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi.

Exploring complex relations between Muslim visions and critical stances, this textbook is a compact introduction to Islam, dealing with the origins of its forms, from early developments to contemporary issues, including religious principles, beliefs and practices.

This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial, national and transregional contexts.

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This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi community.

A western Islamic scholar demystifies and explains one of the worlds great religious traditions!

Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations.

There are few ideals of character as distinctive and divisive as the ancient virtue of 'greatness of soul'.

This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Urumchi, China.

A rapidly expanding Islamic revival movement shows that Islamic rationalism and not jihadism is to define twenty-first century Islam.

This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion are modes of power which inform hierarchies of social locations and people's sense of belonging within these spaces and temporalities.

Die Angst vor Terroranschlägen greift um sich und beginnt das Leben vieler Menschen zu dominieren.

This book sets out how contemporary Iranian scholars have approached the Qur?

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Muslim Women, Domestic Violence, and Psychotherapy reconciles newly emerging Islamic practical theology with the findings and theories of contemporary social sciences.

Providing an ethnographic account of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and its Youth Wing (Dewan Pemuda PAS), this book analyses the genesis and role of Islamic movements in terms of their engagement in mainstream politics.

In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan's most important site of Sufi pilgrimage.

This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism.

Investigating the appeal of the group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), the study expands on why non-violent radical forms of Islam still attract segments of Muslim communities in the West.

As an Iranian Muslim woman and a granddaughter of a well-known ayatollah, Shahla Haeri was accepted into the communities where she conducted her fieldwork on mut'a, temporary marriage.

Islam is more than a system of rigid doctrines and normative principles.

This collection focuses on the controversial relationship between religion and the state within the Arab Spring context and the evolving debates on democratic transition.

This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra.

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey.