Islam

Portrayals of Islamic teachings in mass media, often present Muslim women as victims of patriarchal norms.

Originally published in 1913, this book contains the English translation of Reinhardt's Dozy's notable work, Histoire des Musalman's d'Espagne.

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory.

With the current turmoil in the Middle East, there is a growing interest about Islam the world s second largest religion and one of the fastest growing and its holy book, the Koran (or Qur an).

Paradise on Fire is the story of the struggle for national liberation of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, spearheaded by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.

Gellner's political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought.

The most authoritative anthology of Islamist textsThis anthology of key primary texts provides an unmatched introduction to Islamist political thought from the early twentieth century to the present, and serves as an invaluable guide through the storm of polemic, fear, and confusion that swirls around Islamism today.

This study refutes both the Western dominant paradigm of modernity and the Eurocentric stereotype of traditional Muslim culture, and demonstrates that rural Egyptians have their own paradigm of secular modernism that does not negate religious or sacred orientations.

A comparative analysis of the nation-building projects of Turkey under Ataturk and Erdogan, concentrating on the idea of the ''desired'' citizen.

In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services offers introductions and instructions for all aspects of the synagogue experience.

En nous faisant état de son Nouvel Humanisme, Mohammed Arkoun, part d’une rupture majeure des sociétés musulmanes, avec leur héritage postclassique.

This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b.

This title, first published in 1923, examines the historical development of the Islamic faith from its origins through to its position in the early twentieth century.

This text analyzes the supposed link between Islamist terrorism and the lack of democracy in the Middle East.

Winner of two 2025 CMA Book Awards from the Catholic Media Association: The Future of the Church (First Place), and Pastoral Ministry Catechetical (Third Place).

Abrahamic scriptures serve as cultural pharmakon, prescribing what can act as both poison and remedy.

Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ?

The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West.

This book analyses the emerging trend of Muslim-minority politics in India and illustrates that a fundamental shift has occurred over the last 20 years from an identity-dominated, self-serving and inward-looking approach by Muslim community leaders, Islamic authorities and social activists that seeks to protect Islamic law and culture, towards an inclusive debate centred on socio-economic marginalisation and minority empowerment.

Der Koran, als Text von der Forschung jahrzehntelang marginalisiert, rückt mit dem Bekanntwerden ältester Manuskriptfunde aus San'a wieder ins Interesse der Islamforschung.

This volume gives voice to cultural institutions working with collections of Islamic art and material culture globally, including many from outside Western Europe and North America.

An essential history of Wahhabism from its founding to the Islamic StateIn the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed the political landscape of the Arabian Peninsula and the history of Islamic thought.

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Born from the fields of Islamic art and architectural history, the archaeological study of the Islamic societies is a relatively young discipline.

This book serves as a valuable resource for Islamic entrepreneurship researchers, Halal scholars, Islamic finance professionals, Halal advocates, and Halal business model consultants in the fast-changing global economy.

Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism.

The essays in this volume deal with three fundamental problems in Islamic civilization; the growth among Muslims of a consciousness of belonging to a culture; the unity of Muslim civilization as expressed in literature, political thought, attitude to science and urban structure; and the interaction of Islam with other civilizations.

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

Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India focuses on one particular treasure from surviving Persian manuscripts in India, Nala-yi ?

Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval period - could fall completely under Western hegemony in the modern age?

Drawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women.

This timely book, newly revised for this edition, addresses the question of human rights in the international context, focusing in particular on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies.

This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today.

This book documents the changing role of the Islamic Waqf institution in Cyprus and the conservation of Waqf heritage buildings of Ottoman and Western origins.

This brief introduction to Islam is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition.

This book analyses the problematique of governance and administration of cultural diversity within the modern state of Afghanistan and traces patterns of national integration.

Pitfalls of Scholarship offers an array of reflections on higher education, its entanglements with humanity's pursuit of natural and social knowledge, and the impact national environments have upon it.

From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest.

Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood.

This methods handbook investigates the multiple sources and interdisciplinary methodologies employed by scholars working on Africa.

This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, in particular the issues of political Islam, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms.

The expert essays in this volume deal with critically important topics concerning Islam and politics in both the pre-modern and modern periods, such as the nature of government, the relationship between politics and theology, Shi'i conceptions of statecraft, notions of public duty, and the compatibility of Islam and democratic governance.

The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Universe is an authoritative book and a guideline on practical Sufism ('irfan-i 'amali).

Despite the current negative image of Islam in Europe there has been a steady growth of converts to Islam over the past few decades.