Islam

This book investigates the ways in which the war on terror has transformed the postcolonial state in Africa.

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North.

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North.

The book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the framework of secular democracy in the Muslim World.

In the late 1800s, a group of German-speaking Mennonites fled Russia for Muslim Central Asia, to await Christs return.

The Christians that lived around the Arabian Peninsula during Muhammads lifetime are shrouded in mystery.

When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question.

The Arab revolutions of 2011 were a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to call for bread, freedom and dignity.

Al Thaahir: The Evidence, the Outer, the Manifest is a reflection that summarises yet magnifies, that shines a light on what we tend to forget.

The Alchemy of Happiness was an attempt to show ways in which the lives of a Sufi could be based on what is demanded by Islamic law.

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023Nooruddean Choudry was born in 1979 - the year Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose, Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the last Shah of Iran, and Tim Martin opened his first Wetherspoons.

The book traces the conceptual lens of historical-cultural 'survivals' from the late 19th-century theories of E.

The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam.

Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran studies the reception of Farsi Christian television channels by Muslim audiences in Iran: their motivations in viewing the Christian message, their methods of interpretation and negotiation with different media texts and their process of changing or altering their religion.

Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran studies the reception of Farsi Christian television channels by Muslim audiences in Iran: their motivations in viewing the Christian message, their methods of interpretation and negotiation with different media texts and their process of changing or altering their religion.

How do the people most resistant to the transformative power of the gospel come to be its most devoted followers?

At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture-not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform.

The book contains 22 essays on Islam.

An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scriptureThis book provides detailed and multidisciplinary coverage of a wealth of key Qur'anic terms, with incisive entries on crucial expressions ranging from the divine names allah ("e;God"e;) and al-rahman ("e;the Merciful"e;) to the Qur'anic understanding of belief and self-surrender to God.

Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption.

The twenty-first century exploded into the global imagination with unforgettable scenes of death and destruction.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture is an outstanding inter- and transdisciplinary reference source to key topics, problems, and debates in this challenging research field.

Die Dschihadisten-Szene in Deutschland gilt als die dynamischste Europas.

By the early twentieth century, there were close to two hundred American missionaries working in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

By the early twentieth century, there were close to two hundred American missionaries working in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

In recent decades, academic debates on how to conceptualize 'Islam' as an object of study and how to approach it theoretically have been revitalized.

Since the 1980s, Muslim women reformers have made great strides in critiquing and reinterpreting the Islamic tradition.

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Debates about Islam and Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and, later, by the events of 9/11.

The 9/11 attacks in the United States, the subsequent global "e;war on terror,"e; and the proliferation of domestic security policies in Western nations have had a profound impact on the lives of young Muslims, whose identities and experiences have been shaped within and against these conditions.

The 9/11 attacks in the United States, the subsequent global "e;war on terror,"e; and the proliferation of domestic security policies in Western nations have had a profound impact on the lives of young Muslims, whose identities and experiences have been shaped within and against these conditions.

Canada has seen the study of Islamic art and archeology grow steadily over the last five decades, with growth in research and teaching across numerous Canadian universities as well as important collections of Islamic art and archaeological materials, most notably at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Aga Khan Museum.

Focused on Shi'ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walaya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide range of relationships with other theological ideas, chiefly in relation to the notion of authority.

Focused on Shi'ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walaya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide range of relationships with other theological ideas, chiefly in relation to the notion of authority.

Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture.

Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture.

This book focuses on the written heritage of Muslims in the Philippines, the historical constitution of chancelleries within the Islamic sultanates, and the production of official letters to conduct local and international diplomacy.

A collection of articles and studies discussing early Islamic tenets and beliefs based on Islamic traditions and literature.

A collection of articles and studies discussing early Islamic tenets and beliefs based on Islamic traditions and literature.

Comment, en l'espace de quinze ans, la burqa, objet de toutes les condamnations en tant que symbole de l'oppression des femmes, en est venue à représenter le contraire, notamment avec l'essor de la hijabista?

Exploring themes of identity and development in the post-Ottoman Arab world, this book updates the author's earlier Islamic Identity and Development (Routledge, 1990) to analyse the root causes of chaos, civil war, and conflict in the Islamic Core today.

Exploring themes of identity and development in the post-Ottoman Arab world, this book updates the author's earlier Islamic Identity and Development (Routledge, 1990) to analyse the root causes of chaos, civil war, and conflict in the Islamic Core today.

Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change?

Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change?

Justice and Rights is a record of the fifth "e;Building Bridges"e; seminar held in Washington, DC in 2006 (an annual symposium on Muslim-Christian relations cosponsored by Georgetown University and the Church of England).

A unique interreligious dialogue provides needed context for deeper understanding of interfaith relations, from ancient to modern timesFreedom is far from straightforward as a topic of comparative theology.

This volume of the Building Bridges Seminar, Power: Divine and Human, Christian and Muslim Perspectives, comprises pairs of essays by Christians and Muslims which introduce texts for dialogical study, plus the actual text-excerpts themselves.

In this original and provocative book, Nahed Artoul Zehr explores the theological underpinnings of al-Qaeda and related Islamic movements such as ISIS.