Islamic life and practice

This book analyses the emerging trend of Muslim-minority politics in India and illustrates that a fundamental shift has occurred over the last 20 years from an identity-dominated, self-serving and inward-looking approach by Muslim community leaders, Islamic authorities and social activists that seeks to protect Islamic law and culture, towards an inclusive debate centred on socio-economic marginalisation and minority empowerment.

In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in religion and religious issues.

This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today.

This brief introduction to Islam is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition.

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.

This book presents a collection of original research about every day, innovative, interactive, and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka.

This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India.

The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction.

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.

Originally published in 1951, this book provides a thorough explanation of the essential elements of Islam: Muhammad and the Quran, Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, Pilgrimage, Holy War, Hadith, and Sunna, Creed, Prophets, Philosophy, Law, Sects, Mysticism, Social Life and Modern Movements.

Islamic Finance has experienced rapid growth in recent years, showing significant innovation and sophistication, and producing a broad range of investment products which are not limited to the complete replication of conventional fixed-income instruments, derivatives and fund structures.

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

This book is the first study to qualitatively explore the concepts of higher education in Muslim contexts.

This book presents a collection of original research about every day, innovative, interactive, and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka.

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 book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India.

This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies.

Written by a Muslim convert and mother of three, Welcome to Islamcaptures the occasionally poignant but often humorous reality of beinga Muslim in the current climate: as a convert, a working woman, amother, and as an active member of the local community.

Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas.

This book sets out a rationale for the compatibility of Islam and Feminism and shows that Islamic Feminism is a diverse and valuable lens through which to analyse religion and gender.

Responsible Management in Theory and Practice in Muslim Societies delineates principles of responsible management from an Islamic perspective, exploring the concept of responsibility in Islamic religious texts, and how the understanding of responsibility evolved in Islamic jurisprudence.

This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of ifta' to better understand the process of issuing fatwas in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between context and contemporaneity, on one hand, and the adaptable perception of Islamic law, on the other.

We are caught up in the cycle of so-called "e;holy wars.

An analysis of a variety of early Islamic texts to understand processes of identity formation and communityIn Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities, Adam Gaiser explores the origins and early development of Islamic notions of martyrdom and of martyrdom literature.

Finalist for the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Book Award 2020In Qur'anic Matters, Natalia Suit explores the materiality of books, focusing on the mushaf.

On Salafism offers a compelling new understanding of this phenomenon, both its development and contemporary manifestations.

Will Islam be able to adapt to France's secularity and its strict separation of public and private spheres?

Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain.

In this rousing sequel to his classic Can Do!

Keep up with management issues in the rapidly changing Islamic business world!

A panoramic vision of Islamic cultures and societies from the origins of Islam to 1800.

In a world of increasingly mixed identities, what does it mean to belong?

This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies.

Die Journalistin Susanne Kaiser hat Geschichten von Konvertiten eingefangen und stellt Fragen, die weitgehend tabuisiert sind.

Keramat, holy graves and shrines, represent physical markers of Singapore's history as a multi ethnic maritime trading center.

Hearing Islam introduces the global religious tradition of Islam through its rich history of sounds and music.

Written by an Egyptian human rights lawyer, it is the first English-language account of the development of tensions between violent and non-violent factions in radical Islamist movements, from the perspective of an insider.

Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would join and live with the Republican Brotherhood, the Sufi Muslim group led by the visionary Mahmoud Mohamed Taha.

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'.

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.

This book compares the conflicting and consequential interpretations of jihad offered by mainstream Muslim scholars, violent Muslim radicals, and New Atheists.

Learn about the history and traditions of the Islamic faith in The Islam Book.

In the recent past, Islamic finance has made an impressive case on the banking scene by becoming an alternative to the popular conventional financial systems, spurring a lively academic debate on how the Islamic finance industry can expand its services to cover the poor.