Islam

This proceedings volume presents selected chapters from the 13th Global Islamic Marketing Conference, featuring contributions from renowned experts from around the world.

Islam is the complete code of life.

Based on parts one and two of Ira Lapidus''s history, this book traces the transformation of pre-modern Islamic societies and their transfusion globally.

In spite of Islam's long history in Europe and the growing number of Muslims resident in Europe, little research exists on Muslim pilgrimage in Europe.

Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume.

Lillian Daniel shares how her congregation re-appropriated the practice of testimony one Lenten season, a practice that would eventually revitalize their worship and transform their congregational culture.

Searching Questions about the Hadith from a Christian PerspectiveThe Hadith are Islams most influential texts after the Quran.

Over the years, the belief system around self sacrifice has become key to understanding the Middle East and its political relationships with the West although much of the literature and conversation has been restricted to modern concepts of jihadism.

The early twenty-first century has been defined by a rise in Islamist radicalisation and a concurrent rise in far right extremism.

This book explores the religious, educational, and social practice of a Muslim congregation and the moral world it generated within a mosque in UK.

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Ibadi Islam is a distinct sect of Islam, neither Sunni nor Shi'ite, that emerged in the early Islamic period and remains active today in small pockets of North Africa and as the dominant sect of Oman.

Taking us inside the world of the madrasa - the most common type of school for religious instruction in the Islamic world - Ebrahim Moosa provides an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand orthodox Islam in global affairs.

An inspired evaluation of women leaders in war by a bestselling historian.

First published in 1936, this book surveys the changing place of women across the contemporaneous Muslim world, focusing on several nations where they constitute a demographic majority - Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Turkey, Syria - and one where they do not, namely India.

This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric.

This book analyses and discusses the use of Islamic terms and symbols in the political party Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC).

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been an overwhelming demand for information about Islam, and recent events - the war in Iraq, terrorist attacks both failed and successful, debates throughout Europe over Islamic dress, and many others - have raised new questions in the minds of policymakers and the general public.

Kishwar Rizvi, drawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity.

This Element provides a unique overview of the academic research and political legislation concerning ''Islamic terrorism'' in Europe.

This book investigates the entangled transformations of Russia''s Muslim communities from the late eighteenth century through to the First World War.

This book analyzes how the state constructs and reproduces gender identities in the context and geopolitics of Jordan.

Presents an account of the rise of Erdogan''s AKP, showing how the politicisation of religion has roots in the period of early nation-building in Turkey.

Here, Thierry Zarcone and Angela Hobart offer a vigorous and authoritative exploration of the link between Islam and shamanism in contemporary Muslim culture, examining how the old practice of shamanism was combined with elements of Sufism in order to adapt to wider Islamic society.

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This book is an accessible and comprehensive account of political Islam in the contemporary world.

Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century in both England and France with particular attention to poetry and poetics.

The crisis in the Gulf of 1990-1 affected more than just the regional powers in the area.

This book presents the views of leading scholars, academics, and educators on the renewal of Islamic schools in the Western context.

The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD), entitled "e;al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh"e;, is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world.

The book evaluates on-going ethical conversations to learn how emotional communication is received, teachings are internalized, and a religious world-view is brought to life.

This book demonstrates the spatialized and multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia.

In the critical period when Islamic law first developed, a new breed of jurists developed a genre of legal theory treatises to explore how the fundamental moral teachings of Islam might operate as a legal system.

What is it about the history, geographical position and cultures of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia that has made music such a potent and powerful agent?

Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India looks at how religion provides an arena to make place and challenge the majoritarian, exclusionary, and introverted tendencies of contemporary India.

In Malawi, where Islam arrived before Christianity, a substantial minority of the population are Muslims and, in some areas, they form the majority.

Religious and ethnic diversity have become crucial and pressing concerns in Europe: in particular, the presence of Muslims, their integration, citizenship, and how to deal with the influx of refugees.

Presenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women, this book applies the techniques of narrative analysis to explore their changing worldviews and conversions to political engagement.

Mindfulness Techniques and Practices in Islamic Psychotherapy is a guide for Muslim spiritual care providers, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and others who use spiritual and religious concepts, values, and rituals as novel interventions to offer culturally appropriate mental health services.

Kenneth Cragg (19132012) was one of the West's most gifted interpreters of Islam.

A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalismVinayak Damodar Savarkar (18831966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India's tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule.

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This book is the first extensive research on the role of poetry during the Iranian Revolution (1979) and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).

While there exists no evidence to date that the indigenous inhabitants of Arabia knew of holy war prior to Islam, holy war ideas and behaviors appear already among Muslims during the first generation.

Murawiec examines contemporary jihad using history, anthropology, and theology to understand its political and ideological origins.

During a time of global conflict, the theological question of whether Muslims, Jews, and Christians worship the same God carries political baggage.

Essentially, the study of black religion in America has been mysterious, quarrelsome, and paradoxical.

The past decade has seen a marked policy focus upon Bangladesh, home to nearly 150 million Muslims; it has attracted the attention of the world due to weak governance and the rising tide of Islamist violence.