Pathways to Contemporary Islam
Author : Mohamed Osman
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-09
ISBN 10 : 9789048539291
Pages : 293 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (48 users)
Download or read book Pathways to Contemporary Islam PDF or another Format written by Mohamed Osman and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity. The emphasis on pathways indicates that critical engagement and contestation have always been intrinsic to the history of Islam. The aim of the book is to elaborate the contemporary pathways and analyse the trends that contest the Islamic intellectual tradition, the relationship between religion and politics, and the individual and collective practice of religion. The collection of essays analyses the current efforts of critical re-engagement with the Islamic intellectual tradition and underlines the historical diversity of Islamic orthodoxies that led to the establishment of various pathways in the practice and role of religion in Muslim societies.
The Contemporary Islamic Governed State
Author : Joseph J. Kaminski
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-21
ISBN 10 : 9783319570129
Pages : 331 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (319 users)
Download or read book The Contemporary Islamic Governed State PDF or another Format written by Joseph J. Kaminski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a normative reconceptualization of a modern Islamic governed state. First, Joseph Kaminski surveys the historical context of the trajectory of Islamic thought, and offers a unique discursive framework for reconceptualizing an Islamic governed state that rejects secular Enlightenment liberalism and instead is heavily grounded in Ancient Greek ideals of politics and political leadership. Despite heavily borrowing from Greek thought, the model offered remains firmly rooted in a Shari’ah-based, discursive ontological framework. The volume explores topics of bureaucracy, law, democracy, women in politics, and economic justice. Further, this volume presents case studies from Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, and Malaysia, and utilizes the presented theoretical framework as a lens for analysis.
Pathways to Peacebuilding
Author : Uchenna D. Anyanwu
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2022-11-30
ISBN 10 : 9781666798340
Pages : 315 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (666 users)
Download or read book Pathways to Peacebuilding PDF or another Format written by Uchenna D. Anyanwu and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the consistent challenge of Islamist acute violence, particularly in Nigeria, this monograph attempts to respond to the question: How can Jesus's followers pattern response to violence after Jesus's model demonstrated in his triumph over death, evil, sin, and violence through staurocentric pathways? And how can Jesus's followers in Nigeria adopt the same staurocentric model in order to not only overcome acute violence within the country but also to extend hands, heads, hearts, and homes of staurocentric forgiveness, hospitality, and other practices toward Muslims? In this study, I posit that peacebuilding contextual theology be grounded on the mystery of the cross (σταυρός-stauros)--a theologico-theoretical framework that the church in Nigeria should espouse in order to position herself to extend hands, heads, hearts, and homes of staurocentric practices, whose appropriation must be undertaken through constructive and critical integration of the God-given African peacebuilding concepts autochthonous to Africa's mosaic cultural contexts. The pivotal thesis is that the staurocentric model remains the triune God's instrument for triumphing over violence, and thus should be espoused by Jesus's followers in every era and context for peacebuilding in contexts of violence through a triadic constructive and critical integration of indigenous peacebuilding concepts.
Islamic Schooling in the West
Author : Mohamad Abdalla
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-30
ISBN 10 : 9783319736129
Pages : 327 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (319 users)
Download or read book Islamic Schooling in the West PDF or another Format written by Mohamad Abdalla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the views of leading scholars, academics, and educators on the renewal of Islamic schools in the Western context. The book argues that as Islamic schools in Western contexts have negotiated the establishment phase they must next embrace a period of renewal. Renewal relates to a purposeful synthesis of the tradition with contemporary educational practice and greater emphasis on empirical research substantiating best practices in Islamic schools. This renewal must reflect teaching and learning practices consistent with an Islamic worldview and pedagogy. It should also inform, among other aspects, classroom management models, and relevant and contextual Islamic and Arabic studies. This book acquaints the reader with contemporary challenges and opportunities in Islamic schools in the Western context with a focus on Australia.
Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage
Author : Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-11-03
ISBN 10 : 9780861544486
Pages : 471 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (861 users)
Download or read book Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage PDF or another Format written by Ziba Mir-Hosseini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The model of marriage constructed in classical Islamic jurisprudence rests on patriarchal ethics that privilege men. This worldview persists in gender norms and family laws in many Muslim contexts, despite reforms introduced over the past few decades. In this volume, a diverse group of scholars explore how egalitarian marital relations can be supported from within Islamic tradition. Brought together by the Musawah movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family, they examine ethics and laws related to marriage and gender relations from the perspective of the Qur’an, Sunna, Muslim legal tradition, historical practices and contemporary law reform processes. Collectively they conceptualize how Muslim marriages can be grounded in equality, mutual well-being and the core Qur’anic principles of ‘adl (justice) and ihsan (goodness and beauty).
The Shi'i World
Author : Farhad Daftary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-25
ISBN 10 : 9780857729675
Pages : 408 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (857 users)
Download or read book The Shi'i World PDF or another Format written by Farhad Daftary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The world's 200 million Shi'i Muslims express their faith in a multiplicity of ways, united by reverence for the ahl al-bayt, the family of the Prophet. In embracing a pluralistic ethic, fourteen centuries of Shi'i Islam have given rise to diverse traditions and practices across varied geographic and cultural landscapes. The Shi'i World is a comprehensive work authored by leading scholars from assorted disciplines, to provide a better understanding of how Shi'i communities view themselves and articulate their teachings. The topics range from Shi'i Islam's historical and conceptual foundations, formative figures and intellectual, legal and moral traditions, to its devotional practices, art and architecture, literature, music and cinema, as well as expressions and experiences of modernity. The book thus provides a panoramic perspective of the richly textured narratives that have shaped the social and moral universe of Shi'i Muslims around the globe.This fourth volume in the Muslim Heritage Series will appeal to specialists and general readers alike, as a timely resource on the prevailing complexities not only of the 'Muslim world', but also of the dynamic Shi'i diasporas of Europe and North America.
Islam and Good Governance
Author : M. A. Muqtedar Khan
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-08
ISBN 10 : 9781137548320
Pages : 278 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (137 users)
Download or read book Islam and Good Governance PDF or another Format written by M. A. Muqtedar Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things. The author moves beyond the dominant model of Islamic governance advanced by modern day Islamists. The political philosophy of Ihsan privileges process over structure, deeds over identity, love over law and mercy and forgiveness over retribution. The work invites Muslims to move away from thinking about the form of Islamic government and to strive to create a self-critical society that defends national virtue and generates institutions and practices that provide good governance.
Islamic Legal Revival
Author : Leonard Gustauvus Harrison Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
ISBN 10 : 9780198786016
Pages : 344 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (198 users)
Download or read book Islamic Legal Revival PDF or another Format written by Leonard Gustauvus Harrison Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this meticulously researched volume, Leonard Wood presents his ground breaking history of Islamic revivalist thought in Islamic law. Islamic Legal Revival: Reception of European Law and Transformations in Islamic Legal Thought in Egypt, 1879-1952 brings to life the tumultuous history of colonial interventions in Islamic legal consciousness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells the story of the rapid displacement of local Egyptian and Islamic law by transplanted European codes and details the evolution of resultant movements to revive Islamic law. Islamic legal revivalist movements strove to develop a modern version of Islamic law that could be codified and would replace newly imposed European laws. Wood explains in unparalleled depth and with nuance how cutting-edge trends in European legal scholarship inspired influential revivalists and informed their methods in legal thought. Timely and provocative, Islamic Legal Revival tells of the rich achievements of legal experts in Egypt who disrupted tradition in Islamic jurisprudence and created new approaches to Islamic law that were distinctively responsive to demands of the contemporary world. The story told bears important implications for understandings of Egyptian history, Islamic legal history, comparative law, and deeply contested and highly transformative interactions between European and Islamic thought.
Women and Peace in the Islamic World
Author : Yasmin Saikia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-20
ISBN 10 : 9781786739841
Pages : 440 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (786 users)
Download or read book Women and Peace in the Islamic World PDF or another Format written by Yasmin Saikia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis today, but its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of the Muslim world, reducing it into a system of states and select actors. This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. In particular, it focuses on the women in Islamic societies, from Aceh to Bosnia, Morocco to Bangladesh, initiating a dialogue on the role of these women in peacemaking. This concentration upon the complex issues of the everyday both enables a detailed exploration of how people conceptualise peace and opens up new frameworks for conflict resolution. The discussions that emerge lead to a critical questioning of assumptions about peace as a state policy and cessation of violence. Drawing upon original research from different parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, including Iran, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt and Sudan, the contributors offer a refreshing new look at Muslim women as peacemakers, challenging any assumptions of Islam as an inherently violent religion. Such a timely work provides new and important analyses on the role of Muslim women in forging new pathways of peace in the contemporary world.
Interpretations
Author : Jude P. Dougherty
Publisher : CUA Press
Release Date : 2018-02-23
ISBN 10 : 9780813229898
Pages : 169 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (813 users)
Download or read book Interpretations PDF or another Format written by Jude P. Dougherty and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretations is a collection of essays produced by the distinguished philosopher Jude Dougherty over the past decade, written to inform or to provide commentary on contemporary issues. In probing the past to interpret the present they draw upon a perspective that one may call classical, the perspective of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and their followers across the ages, notably Thomas Aquinas, and his modern disciples, such as Etienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain. The first part of Interpretations is an attempt to understand modernity’s break with the past, the repudiation of Scholasticism and the classical tradition. Dougherty does this by referencing the dominant preoccupations of the Middle Ages, of the Renaissance, of the Reformation, of eighteenth-century British empiricism, and of nineteenth-century German philosophy, drawing upon the readings of Remi Brague, Pierre Manent, and others. What unifies these reflections is the role of religion (both in Christianity and Islam) in society and its impact on the culture, as well as looking at what is called “modernity” where this role becomes reduced or absent. The second part of the volume examines selected addresses by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI from a philosophical point of view. Benedict, like others through the course of history, has recognized the role of religion in producing cultural unity. These essays are an appreciation primarily of the subtlety of the former pontiff’s thought. The third part of Interpretations collects essays and addresses on the practice and nature of philosophy that Dean Dougherty has given throughout his career at The Catholic University of America, and reflects the trajectory of his career and the development of his thought.
Hashtag Islam
Author : Gary R. Bunt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2018-09-25
ISBN 10 : 9781469643175
Pages : 233 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (469 users)
Download or read book Hashtag Islam PDF or another Format written by Gary R. Bunt and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary R. Bunt is a twenty-year pioneer in the study of cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs). In his new book, Bunt explores the diverse and surprising ways digital technology is shaping how Muslims across vast territories relate to religious authorities in fulfilling spiritual, mystical, and legalistic agendas. From social networks to websites, essential elements of religious practices and authority now have representation online. Muslims, embracing the immediacy and general accessibility of the internet, are increasingly turning to cyberspace for advice and answers to important religious questions. Online environments often challenge traditional models of authority, however. One result is the rise of digitally literate religious scholars and authorities whose influence and impact go beyond traditional boundaries of imams, mullahs, and shaikhs. Bunt shows how online rhetoric and social media are being used to articulate religious faith by many different kinds of Muslim organizations and individuals, from Muslim comedians and women's rights advocates to jihad-oriented groups, such as the "Islamic State" and al-Qaeda, which now clearly rely on strategic digital media policies to augment and justify their authority and draw recruits. This book makes clear that understanding CIEs is crucial for the holistic interpretation of authority in contemporary Islam.
Women, Leadership, and Mosques
Author : Masooda Bano
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2011-11-25
ISBN 10 : 9789004209367
Pages : 600 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (4 users)
Download or read book Women, Leadership, and Mosques PDF or another Format written by Masooda Bano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to bring together analysis of contemporary female religious leadership in ideologically-diverse Muslim communities in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, with chapters discussing the emergence, consolidation, and impact of female Islamic authority.
Pathways Out of Terrorism and Insurgency
Author : Luigi Sergio Germani
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 1932705503
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (75 users)
Download or read book Pathways Out of Terrorism and Insurgency PDF or another Format written by Luigi Sergio Germani and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the social, political, economic, and psychological roots of terrorism. This work offers an examination that explores the dynamics of contemporary terrorism as well as the possibilities and limitations of peace processes undertaken by governments that try to end terrorist violence, tracing the rise and growth of various terrorist groups.
Human Rights and Islam
Author : Abdullah Saeed
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-27
ISBN 10 : 9781784716585
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (784 users)
Download or read book Human Rights and Islam PDF or another Format written by Abdullah Saeed and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a basis for human rights in Islam? Beginning with an exploration of what rights are and how the human rights discourse developed, Abdullah Saeed explores the resources that exist within Islamic tradition. He looks at those that are compatible with international human rights law and can be garnered to promote and protect human rights in Muslim-majority states. A number of rights are given specific focus, including the rights of women and children, freedom of expression and religion, as well as jihad and the laws of war. Human Rights and Islam emphasises the need for Muslims to rethink problematic areas of Islamic thought that are difficult to reconcile with contemporary conceptions of human rights.
The Politics of Islamic Law
Author : Iza R. Hussin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-03-31
ISBN 10 : 9780226323480
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (226 users)
Download or read book The Politics of Islamic Law PDF or another Format written by Iza R. Hussin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of ‘Islamic law.’ She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law not the shari’ah, its present institutional forms, substantive content, symbolic vocabulary, and relationship to state and society—in short, its politics—are built upon foundations laid during the colonial encounter. Drawing on extensive archival work in English, Arabic, and Malay—from court records to colonial and local papers to private letters and visual material—Hussin offers a view of politics in the colonial period as an iterative series of negotiations between local and colonial powers in multiple locations. She shows how this resulted in a paradox, centralizing Islamic law at the same time that it limited its reach to family and ritual matters, and produced a transformation in the Muslim state, providing the frame within which Islam is articulated today, setting the agenda for ongoing legislation and policy, and defining the limits of change. Combining a genealogy of law with a political analysis of its institutional dynamics, this book offers an up-close look at the ways in which global transformations are realized at the local level.
Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics
Author : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-29
ISBN 10 : 9780253022608
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (253 users)
Download or read book Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics PDF or another Format written by Robert W. Hefner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of shari`a law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law, this book examines the varied meanings and uses of Islamic law, so as to assess the prospects for democratic, plural, and gender-equitable Islamic ethics today. These essays show that, contrary to the claims of some radicals, Muslim understandings of Islamic law and ethics have always been varied and emerge, not from unchanging texts but from real and active engagement with Islamic traditions and everyday life. The ethical debates that rage in contemporary Muslim societies reveal much about the prospects for democratic societies and a pluralist Islamic ethics in the future. They also suggest that despite the tragic violence wrought in recent years by Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq, we may yet see an age of ethical renewal across the Muslim world.
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin
Author : Synnøve Bendixsen
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2013-04-17
ISBN 10 : 9789004251311
Pages : 341 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (4 users)
Download or read book The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin PDF or another Format written by Synnøve Bendixsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their everyday life engagement with Islam. It deals with the reconstruction of selfhood and the collective content of identity formation in an urban and transnational setting.
