Islam

Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called 'sharia-tribunals', Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question - does accommodating Islam violate women's rights?

Islam, Geld und Wohlstand - das Finanzbuch aus islamischer Sicht: Warum macht das Zinsverbot Sinn?

This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa.

Islam is the complete code of life.

This insightful text challenges popular belief that faith-based Islamic schools isolate Muslim learners, impose dogmatic religious views, and disregard academic excellence.

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John Milton's poetry and prose are central to our understanding of the aesthetic, political and religious upheavals of early modern England.

The global Muslim population includes a large number of lineal descendants and relatives of the Prophet Muhammad.

This book is designed to take people on the first steps in understanding Islam and the way that Muslims think and see the world.

Since the establishment in 1945 of a constitutional democracy, political parties have figured prominently in Turkish politics.

Today, some Christians--as part of their own personal growth--and some churches--as part of their desire to reach the 'spiritual but not religious'--are adapting spiritual practices that have their roots in East Asian religions or in disciplines that emerge from New Age and New Spirituality.

A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations during late antiquity and the early Islamic eraHow did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process?

Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia is a study of moderation of political Islam in Central Asia.

Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs.

Sa’d ad-Din Taftazani is regarded as one of the most influential authors in 14^th century Islamic intellectual history.

A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region's history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era.

The Reformed tradition of worship in England has given the English-speaking world the Westminster Directory for the Public Worship of God, and the hymns of Isaac Watts.

Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy aspires to clarify the tensions and congruences between the revelational and the rational, the text and the context, the limits and the horizons of contextualization in Islam, as these emanate from the Islamic interpretative tradition.

Dans sa lecture de la philosophie arabe classique, al-Jabri privilégie l'approche idéologique qui révélerait mieux sa « dynamique/originalité » ; sinon l'approche cognitive s'avérerait « infructueuse », car se limitant à répéter les théories grecques sans « innovations ».

For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985).

The historiography of early photography has scarcely examined Islamic countries in the Near and Middle East, although the new technique was adopted very quickly there by the 1840s.

This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt.

In recent years, geographies of identities, including those of ethnicity, religion, 'race' and gender, have formed an increasing focus of contemporary human geography.

This book examines the lives of the Malay and Cham Muslims in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and examines how they co-exist and live in societies that are dominated by an alternative consensus and are illiberal and non-democratic in nature.

In the nineteenth century, a number of Zoroastrians emigrated from Iran to India.

The Arab world has long been subjected to super-power rivalry for influence and control.

At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

Islam, as a philosophy, a way of life and of course as a faith, has served like a lighthouse for the whole world.

This book seeks to address the ways in which changing discourses of Britishness and British Values both impact upon young people in their education and are expressed by them growing up in multicultural Britain, a nation battling the consequences of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices.

In The Story of Reason in Islam, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history-a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith.

The radicalization of Muslims and Islamic institutions in the United States, Europe, and across the Islamic world has fostered a new generation of Islamist activists, many of them willing to use violence to achieve their aims.

The War on Terror has established a new global order of political structures, legislation, and technologies designed to spy on the world's Muslims.

This book is the first to provide a complete overview of Islamic extremism in Kuwait.

A comparative study of the politics, religion, and culture of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires between 1300 and 1923.

After World War II, leading western powers focused their attention on fighting the "e;"e;Red Menace,"e;"e; Communism.

This wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpacking the community's ambiguous embrace of European colonial authority in Southeast Asia.

Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey explores the role of religion (Sunni, Hanefi Islam) in the transformation of Turkey under the reign of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP).

Writing together with Timothy Wyllie, the angel Georgia details the events of Earth's ancient history in the 8th millennium BC *; Reveals how Atlantis had copper mines in North America and tin mines in England, which initiated the Bronze Age and made Atlantis outrageously wealthy *; Explains the true purpose of Gobekli Tepe as part of Prince Caligastia's plan to enslave mortal souls *; Interwoven with observations about Wyllie's current and previous lives, such as his involvement with the Process Church and his profound near-death experience After Lucifer's angelic rebellion 203,000 years ago, Earth and 36 other planets were quarantined from the larger Multiverse.

An in-depth study of the militant Islamic Laskar Jihad movement and its links to international Muslim networks and ideological debates.

Public spaces are the renditions of the power symmetry within the social setting it resides in, and is both controlling and confining of power.

Conventionally the word sufi is considered synonymous with the word mystic.

In this fascinating book, Richard Smoley examines the roles God has played for us and reconciles them with what we today know through science and reason.