Islam

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.

From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane.

This book explores the protests of Job from the perspectives of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious and philosophical traditions.

Visible Islam in Modern Turkey presents a rich panorama of Islamic practices in today's Turkey.

Based on semi-structured interviews with ordinary citizens in Pakistan, this book analyses the complex relationship between populism, political identity, and historical experiences in Pakistan, highlighting how populist discourse influences and is influenced by varied interpretations of Pakistaniat - the identification with Pakistan.

In the light of current events, particularly the 'post September 11th' debates with much focus on aspects of the 'clash of civilisation' thesis, the issue of Islamic identity is a crucial one.

An extremely timely translation of a seminal text on the role of women in Muslim society by the early twentieth century thinker al Taher al-Haddad.

This comprehensive volume analyses the phenomena of populism and Islamism in Turkey under Justice and Development Party (JDP) rule since 2002, and its impact on the country's foreign policy.

The halal industry is a fast-growing industry due to demographics and industry expansion.

How is God related to the state?

When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list.

There will be pain ahead, and trouble and problems that I won't be able to fix on my own.

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.

An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.

This Handbook captures the salient features of Middle Eastern economies and critically examines the public policy responses required to address the challenges and opportunities across the region.

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

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari?

This book examines the long-term effects of violence on the everyday cultural and religious practices of a younger generation of Ahmadis and Sikhs in Frankfurt, Germany and Toronto, Canada.

Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions.

Exploring the management of 'truth' in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this book aims to investigate the ways in which the official 'truth' is constructed and institutionalised in the country.

This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory representations of Muslims in order to advocate for their colonization through the affirmation of Christian supremacy.

Salafism in Jordan debunks stereotypes and presents the diversity of Salafism on a range of political and ideological issues.

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.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur' n offers an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur' n as a text and as a vital component of Muslim life.

The book delves deeply into the concept of hidden power that exists within each of us but often goes untapped.

This handbook offers an overview of the main issues regarding the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual and artistic history of the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Muslim rule (eighth-fifteenth centuries).

This book is a journey into the heart of an Islamic worldview.

In Queer in Translation, Evren Savci analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP government.

Muslims first appeared in the early seventh century as members of a persecuted religious movement in a sun-baked town in Arabia.

The rise of popular social movements throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America in 2011 challenged two hegemonic discourses of the post-Cold War era: Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History' and Samuel Huntington's 'The Clash of Civilizations.

Ein Begleitbuch mit Reflexionen, Übungen und Gebete für jeden Tag des Ramadan.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the past and present of American Muslim communities.

This book covers the developing and important issue of the role and place of Islam in the increasingly complex dynamics of Russian politics.

Calfano provides an examination of the pressures faced by Muslims, often considered political and social outsiders in western nations, especially in the United States.

In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years.

This book examines the commonalities of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and presents martyr narratives as a resource for resisting political violence.

The rise of a significantly large (and young) Muslim population in the West, possessing no historical tradition of being a minority in a non-Muslim environment, has led to a recurring debate about the integration of Muslims into Western societies and the compatibility of Islam with Western values.

Situated between the Greek, Indian and Persian scientific traditions and modern science, the Islamic scientific tradition received, enriched, transformed and then bequeathed scientific knowledge to Europe.

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-al-Nuwayri's The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition.

The Arab uprisings have put Lebanon under increased strain.

This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life.

This book explores the unfolding of world history in a remote corner of Central Asia: the region of Badakhshan.

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

'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling .

Based on interview material, observations and content analysis, this book captures the everyday life structures of a cohort of Muslim/ex-Islamist female youth in Egypt who have joined or established new networks that share the common interest of doing 'good' to the society based on their religious worldviews, representing a broader societal movement.