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Islam and English Law
Rights, Responsibilities and the Place of Shari'a
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams triggered a storm of protest when he suggested that some accommodation between British law and Islam's shari'a law was 'inevitable'. His foundational lecture introduced a series of public discussions on Islam and English Law at the Royal Courts of Justice...
Women, Islam and Everyday Life
Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
This book examines Islam and women’s everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy. It discusses the competing interpretations of the Qur’anic verses that are at the heart of Muslim controversies over polygamy, with some groups believing that Islam enshrines...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The Cambridge Companion to American Islam offers a scholarly overview of the state of research on American Muslims and American Islam. The book presents the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the debates, challenges and opportunities that American Muslims have faced through centuries of American...
Finding Mecca in America
How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually...
Understanding Islam and the West
Critical Skills for Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
As the world’s second-largest faith and by some accounts the most fast-growing, Islam is often at the forefront of intense public conversation in debates about politics, international relations, globalization, modern society and culture.
From the rise of ISIS and revolutions in North Africa...
The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an
Scriptural Sources of Islam Between History and Fervor
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Two major events occurred in the early centuries of Islam that determined its historical and spiritual development in the centuries that followed: the formation of the sacred scriptures, namely the Qur'an and the Hadith, and the chronic violence that surrounded the succession of the Prophet, manifesting...
Islam and Christianity
Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
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. Award-winning scholar John Renard illuminates the similarities as well...
Chosen among Women
Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi`ite Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi`ite Islam combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in Shi`ite Islam....
by Murat Kaya
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
The book was prepared for those newly acquainted with Islam; it serves as a handbook to learn Islam from the most authentic sources, in the quickest way. For its concise recap of the basics of Islam, the work is ideal for those seeking introductory information on the religion.
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Rewiring the House of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Exploring the increasing impact of the Internet on Muslims around the world, this book sheds new light on the nature of contemporary Islamic discourse, identity, and community.
The Internet has profoundly shaped how both Muslims and non-Muslims perceive Islam and how Islamic societies and networks...
by Anab Whitehouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
‘Mountains of Ignorance' is a critical exploration of the published dialogue between Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz entitled: 'Islam and the Future of Tolerance'. Dr. Harris claims that he is interested in peace, harmony, co-operation, and tolerance. Yet, when it comes to Islam and Muslims, he does...
by Didymus D Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Intrusive Islam has turned the writer Edward Bulyer-Lyttons 1839 metonymic adage on its head. No longer do we find the pen is mightier than the sword. Today, ideological Islam malevolently believes that the sword is mightier than the pen. Muslims resoundingly reject the edict that civilized communication...
by Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
“Fasting in Islam” is a comprehensive treatment of an essential practice of ritual worship in Islam. Starting from an overview of fasting in other religious traditions, Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri takes us through the health benefits of fasting, the Qur’anic injunctions to fast, Prophetic hadith,...
Islamic Reform and Conservatism
Al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The famed reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo, one of the most influential centres of religious study in Sunni Islam, were enormously influential for twentieth-century Islamic thought. Here Indira Gesink offers a revisionist history of these debates over curricular and administrative...