Spätestens mit den Debatten zu einer zunehmenden Polarisierung der deutschen und anderer europäischer Gesellschaften rückt die Frage nach Prozessen der Radikalisierung in den Blick.
In this original and provocative book, Nahed Artoul Zehr explores the theological underpinnings of al-Qaeda and related Islamic movements such as ISIS.
Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complicate it, weaken it, or perhaps even abandon it altogether by speaking of the Trinity.
Spätestens mit den Debatten zu einer zunehmenden Polarisierung der deutschen und anderer europäischer Gesellschaften rückt die Frage nach Prozessen der Radikalisierung in den Blick.
Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.
Comprised of primary sources assembled from a broad chronological and geographic spectrum, Islamic Theological Themes is a comprehensive anthology of primary Islamic sacred texts in translation.
In light of the widespread public perception of incompatibility between Islam and Christianity, this book provides a much-needed straightforward comparison of these two great faith traditions from a broad theological perspective.
The Prophet Muhammad initiated one of the most significant religious and cultural developments in human history, bringing the religion of Islam to the world.
Understanding Muslim Discourse provides a well-illustrated account of the major ideas currently in use within the Muslim discourse, and also examines the mechanics whereby Bin Laden's message has become popular, legitimate, and one of the most dominant voices in this discourse.
Tariq Ramadan attempts to demonstrate, using sources which draw upon Islamic thought and civilization, that Muslims can respond to contemporary challenges of modernity without betraying their identity.
The rise of political Islam has provoked considerable debate about the compatibility of democracy, tolerance, and pluralism with the Islamist position.
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society.
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.
Sufi Meditation and Contemplationoffers fresh translations of three classic Sufi texts from Mughal India: The Alms Bowl of Shaykh Kalimullah Shajehanabadi,The Compass of Truth by Dara Shikoh, and Treatise on the Human Body attributed to Mu'in al-Din Chishti.
This chronicle of observant Muslim women's daily challenges in secular settings is "e;a welcome contribution [that] can be useful in many disciplines"e; (Journal of Church and State).
Founded in the sixteenth century, the Demirdashiya Sufi order in Cairo has played an influential role in Egypt's public life, and through a line of family sheikhs has channeled the impulses of its Sufi origins into different types of reform.
Etudier les Maranao dans leurs relations belliqueuses ou pacifiques avec leurs voisins, musulmans ou non, et avec les Espagnol, permet de mieux les identifier, de mieux situer leur place dans l'histoire universelle.
Les 27 textes de ce recueil traitent de sujets qui peuvent être regroupés dans les rubriques suivantes : islam et science avec des textes qui abordent les relations entre astronomie et charia, et notamment le défi de l'élaboration d'un calendrier musulman perpétuel, ainsi que le sujet d'une esthétique de la « nature » selon le Coran; islam et société avec des textes sur des problèmes de bonne gouvernance et de citoyenneté et enfin, des sujets religieux qui sont de temps à autre traités selon une analyse comparatiste.
L'islamologie appliquée est un champ d'étude interdisciplinaire qui vise à relier les acquis de la recherche fondamentale sur l'islam avec les résultats des enquêtes sur le terrain réel et virtuel.
Avec cette publication, fruit de plusieurs années de recherche, Dr Ousmane DIA donne les clés pour une meilleure compréhension de la manière dont la confrérie de tidjaniya a été présentée et étudiée dans la littérature sénégalaise d'expression arabe.
Ce livre constitue la traduction des deux premières parties des Jawâhirul Mâ'ânî, une compilation des exégèses, fatwas, correspondances, réponses à des questions, dires et vertus de Chaykh Ahmad At-Tijâni.
Cet ouvrage analyse dans une perspective anthropologique et juridique un fait méconnu au Mali : la pratique extrême de la sorcellerie dans certaines écoles coraniques.
Traduit de l'arabe, cet ouvrage en 3 volumes passe en revue tout ce qui compose la Tarîqa Tidjâniyya : sa définition, l'origine du wird tidjâne, les pratiques quotidiennes comme hebdomadaires, la courbe de vie de Cheikh Ahmad Tidjâne Chérif, les arcanes et litanies, les invocations de haute portée spirituelle, l'identité véritable du Saint Messager de Dieu, l'identité des hommes de Dieu.
Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals.
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another.
Through a dual engagement with the unconscious in psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, Stefania Pandolfo's unsettling and innovative book reflects on the maladies of the soul at a time of tremendous global upheaval.
The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only.
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.
