Although more than half of the world's Muslims live in Asia, most books on contemporary Islam focus on the Middle East, giving short shift to the dynamic and diverse presence of Asian Islam in regional and global politics.
This book presents a new theoretical model for mapping how populist leaders construct “the people”, using simultaneous processes of inclusion and exclusion.
This book presents a new theoretical model for mapping how populist leaders construct “the people”, using simultaneous processes of inclusion and exclusion.
Cette etude, a but ethnographique, s'appuie sur l'experience des musulmans ordinaires a Bamako/Mali pour explorer la question de la foi musulmane, dans et hors des espaces seculiers, aux regards de la theorie de la separation du sacre et du profane.
Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity.
Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity.
In der hier vorliegenden Habilitationsschrift befasst sich die Autorin mit den Konzepten Sexualitat und Geschlecht im Werk des schiitischen Gelehrten Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah.
In der hier vorliegenden Habilitationsschrift befasst sich die Autorin mit den Konzepten Sexualitat und Geschlecht im Werk des schiitischen Gelehrten Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah.
This book explores the integration of narrative therapy within the framework of Islamic psychotherapy, combining modern therapeutic practices with the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of Islam.
In The Formation of the Islamic Understanding of kalala in the Second Century AH (718-816 CE), Pavel Pavlovitch studies traditions (hadith) about the lexical and terminological meaning of the Quranic vocable kalala.
This volume offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake.
The manuscript of the Aqwal Qatada has repeatedly attracted particular interest among modern scholars, as it raises questions concerning the early development of the Ibadi Basran community and the emergence of Islamic jurisprudence in Iraq.
The nexus between monotheism and ethics, especially in the forms professed by the three Abrahamic faiths, is the theme that binds together the studies in this volume.
This book explores the integration of narrative therapy within the framework of Islamic psychotherapy, combining modern therapeutic practices with the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of Islam.
This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations.
This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations.
Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker offers a groundbreaking study of how the qibla-Islam's ritual direction of prayer-served not only as a sacred practice but also as a powerful marker of communal identity in Islam's formative centuries.