Islam

Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranormal with technology, media, and history.

Combining manuscript analysis with digital tools to show how people and books worked together to build a religious tradition in North Africa.

This book, first published in 1969, presents a comprehensive survey and analysis of the political behaviour of the Arabs in Israel, covering the period from the founding of the State to the Six-Day War in 1967.

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards?

Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics.

In this eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the lives of nineteenth-century Indian women in their transition from girlhood to maturity.

This volume focuses on Islamic philosophy of religion with a range of contributions from analytic perspectives.

Islam came on the scene, with a message, philosophy and code of conduct, perfect by all means, with its advent, the new faith revolutionised the contemporary world in a very short span of time.

Originally published in 1938, A History of Europe 911-1198 is a comprehensive and scholarly history of Europe from the revival of the Empire under the German kings to the great religious and political conflicts of the late twelfth century.

In light of the growing phenomenon of Islamic schools in the United States and Europe, this compelling study outlines whether these schools share similar traits with other religious schools, while posing new challenges to education policy.

This book argues that multiculturalism remains a relevant and vital framework through which to understand and construct inclusive forms of citizenship.

Shi 'ism caught the attention of the world as Iran experienced her revolution in 1979 and was subsequently cast in the mold of a monolithic discourse of radical political Islam.

In a convincing reinterpretation of early Islamic history, Wilferd Madelung examines the conflict which developed after the death of Muhammad for control of the Muslim community.

Christian-Muslim interaction is a reality today in all corners of the globe, but while many celebrate the commonality of these traditions, significant differences remain.

Though he lived in the thirteenth century, Meister Eckhart's deeply ecumenical teachings were in many ways modern.

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.

Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint focuses on the presence and contemporaneity of Shirdi Sai Baba (d.

Passionate, powerful and thought-provoking, in The Hidden Face of Eve, leading feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi provides a shocking account of the oppression of women in the Arab world.

This study looks at how the seventeenth-century philosopher Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi, known as Mulla Sadra, attempted to reconcile the three major forms of knowledge in Islamic philosophical discourses: revelation (Qur'an), demonstration (burhan), and gnosis or intuitive knowledge ('irfan).

The Element introduces the concept of God in Islamic thought and explores conceptions of truth, morality, and virtue.

Täglich in den Medien verbreitete Begriffe wie "Fundamentalisten", "Extremisten" oder "Terroristen" assoziieren den Islam mit irrationalen Formen von Gewalt- und Herrschaftsausübung.

This book explores the methodological foundation of Islamic thought premised on the cardinal principle of Tawhid, meaning the Oneness of God as the universal law.

The Mediterranean and its hinterlands were the scene of intensive and transformative contact between cultures in the Middle Ages.

This unique book discovers a new dimension in the study of strategic and performance management in Islamic Business studies.

Scholars have come to recognize the importance of classical Islamic philosophy both in its own right and in its preservation of and engagement with Greek philosophical ideas.

This work, first published in 1972, is an objective introduction to the social, political, and cultural changes that took place in the Middle East in the years after the Second World War.

This volume presents a comparison of seven major religious reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: For Islam, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad 'Abduh and Muhammad Rashid Rida; for Hinduism, Dayananda Sarasvati and Swami Shraddhananda; for Confucianism, K'ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao.

This book, first published in 1969, surveys Soviet policies and Middle Eastern responses during the turbulent 1960s.

This is a comprehensive survey of minorities in the Middle East with a special focus on the post Arab Spring era.

The Muslim charity sector is stronger than ever, attracting thousands of volunteers and millions of pounds in donations.

Torn by civil war, its major city in shambles, and occupied by foreign peacekeeping forces as well as foreign armies, the Republic of Lebanon in the 1980s was struggling to regroup, rebuild and resolve its problems under new leadership.

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Angels are a basic tenet of belief in Islam, appearing in various types and genres of text, from eschatology to law and theology to devotional material.

The early Abbasid Caliphate was an important period for Islam.

Die Festschrift für Anas Schakfeh, ehemaliger Präsident der Islamischen Glaubensgemeinschaft, würdigt ihn als Menschen und Denker.

This book investigates the manner in which the Qur'an and sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature.

Pilgrimages can be analysed as acts of conflict - such as the Crusades - or also as platforms for relationship building and rapprochement between religions.

Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an.

This edition shows that not only have the jihadists split ranks, but those who previously supported al Qaeda are condemning its tactics.

Sufism is generally perceived as being spiritually focused and about the development of the self.

Islamic law (the Shari'a) and its application is a central issue in contemporary Islamic politics and culture.

In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles.

The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization.

This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of literary, visual, and digital media.

This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran.

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

Shows that the shari''a and Islamic law are compatible with contemporary international human rights laws and norms, and appropriate for use in Muslim societies.