Islamic life and practice

This book provides a pioneering and original study of the regional effects of political Islam.

In the southern German city of Stuttgart lives a pious Muslim population that has merged with the local population to create a meaningful shared existence.

Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey's governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central part of their political program.

Muslim Women in Contemporary North America is a provocative study of how strongly held and divergent opinions, values, and beliefs, as well as misconceptions, overgeneralizations, and political agendas pertaining to Muslim women in the region, enter the public frame of reference.

Who of us can possibly imagine the excruciating pain of being crucified?

This book provides a pioneering and original study of the regional effects of political Islam.

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

This book presents Islam as a lived religion through observation and discussion of how Muslims from a variety of countries, traditions and views practice their religion.

How do we learn to be religious?

A history of the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth.

This book interrogates the patterns and discursive structures that have generated the seeming urgency of Muslims' integration.

Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centres on gendered concerns, The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject.

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

With the proliferation of transnational Muslim networks over the last two decades, the religious authority of traditionally educated Muslim scholars, the uluma, has come under increasing scrutiny and disruption.

The book examines how religious institutional structures affect Islamist and Catholic political parties in the Middle East and Western Europe.

A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women's khutbahs (sermons) drawing on their social, religious, and spiritual experiences and framed by original reflections on an emerging Muslim feminist ethics Within the Muslim world, there is a dynamic and exciting social change afoot: a number of communities across the globe have embraced more gender-inclusive and representative ideas of religious authority.

This book analyzes Morocco''s unique response to counter-terrorism through the development of a religious bureaucracy to define and disseminate Islam.

This book focuses on social and cultural trends in present-day Hadrami Arab societies in Eastern and Central Indonesia, and the history of the Hadrami Arab people, which demonstrates an early form of globalization.

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

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

Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World studies the immortal saint Khidr/Khizr, a mysterious prophet and popular multi-religious figure and Sufi master venerated across the Muslim world.

Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) has become a growing force over the past three decades, with Pakistan being one of the IBF pioneers by converting to an 'interest-free' banking system in 1985.

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

This book demonstrates why and how it is necessary to redesign Islamic Education curriculum in the K-12 sector globally.

A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy.

Tokio - eine Weltstadt und zugleich das ökonomische und kulturelle Zentrum Japans.

Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centres on gendered concerns, Islam and Gender: Major Issues and Debates is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the key topics, problems and debates in this engaging subject.

How do experiences of national identity and belonging differ for French Muslims and Catholics respectively?

Winner of the Casa de las Amrica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century.

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After 9/11, madrasas have been linked to international terrorism.

Questions over the compatibility of Islam and Human Rights have become a key area of debate in the perceived tensions between 'Islam and the West'.

Raising awareness of what Islam is, as well as deepening understanding about the lived realities of Muslim people, this book explores the contemporary Muslim experience through first-hand interviews with over a hundred Muslims.

Religion and Ecological Crisis delves into the complex relationship between religions and ecology, presenting Christian and Islamic perspectives on ecological issues through the work of John Boswell Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

Reflect and be inspired by this beautiful collection of illustrations, accompanied by prompts and quotes from the Qur'an Life is full of highs and lows, but every journey begins with a single step.

You are There: Restoring Churches, People, and Places is a pastoral conversation about creation care.

Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood.

In 1932, the eminent British scholar of Islam, Sir Hamilton Gibb, wrote: "e;The nobility and broad tolerance of this religion [Islam], which accepted all the real religions of the world as God-inspired, will always be a glorious heritage for mankind.

This book covers the theological, philosophical, mystical, topographical, architectural and ritual aspects of the Muslim belief in paradise and hell.

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

This volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East.

The first volume to explore Muslim piety as a form of economy, this book examines specific forms of production, trade, regulation, consumption, entrepreneurship and science that condition - and are themselves conditioned by - Islamic values, logics and politics.

The complex history of Lebanese Shi'ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces.

This unique window into Muslim identities provides scholars and students with important up-to-date data about real Muslims living in Israel.