Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy
Domestic Weakness and the Dilemma of Dual Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This companion volume to the highly successful Islam in Malaysian Foreign Policy explores the extent to which foreign policy in the world's largest Muslim nation has been influenced by Islamic considerations.
Radical Islam's Rules
The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari'a Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
A major feature of the rise of Islamism in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and parts of the West is the rapid growth of a starkly repressive version of Islamic shari'a law, often fueled by funds and support from Saudi Arabia. The central purpose of Islamists, including terrorists, is to impose such...
Reshaping the Holy
Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Through extensive field research, Elora Shehabuddin explores the profound implications of women's political and social mobilization for reshaping Islam. Specifically, she examines the lives of Muslim women in Bangladesh who have become increasingly mobilized by the activities of predominantly secular...
Islamic Law and Governance in Contemporary Iran
Transcending Islam for Social, Economic, and Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The current rise of Islamism throughout the Muslim world, Islamists’ demand for the establishment of Islamic states, and their destabilizing impact on regional and global orders have raised important questions about the origins of Islamism and the nature of an Islamic state. Beginning with the Iranian...
Muslim Women Online
Faith and Identity in Virtual Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
While issues surrounding Muslim women are common in the international media, the voices of Muslim women themselves are largely absent from media coverage and despite the rapidly increasing presence of Muslim women in online groups and discussions, it is still a relatively unexplored topic.This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing and reinforcing the others. This volume selects...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Like anywhere else, the present-day Islamic world too is grappling with modernity and postmodernity, secularisation and globalisation. Muslims are raising questions about religious representations and authority. This has given rise to the emergence of alternative Islamic discourses which challenge...
The Convenient Terrorist
Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
An insider’s tell-all account of one of the darkest chapters of the War on Terror: “A must-read for anyone trying to understand our post-9/11 world” (J. Malcolm Garcia, author of The Khaarijee).
The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention...
Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an
God's Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the rationale...
The Quran and the Secular Mind
A Philosophy of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Qur'an, and in particular how they can be interrogated and understood through Western analytical philosophy. It also explores how Islam can successfully engage with the challenges posed by secular thinking.
The...
How to Read the Qur'an
A New Guide, with Select Translations
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide for anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an.
Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, Carl Ernst...
Sufism and Jewish-Muslim Relations
The Derekh Avraham Order in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Israel there are Jews and Muslims who practice Sufism together. The Sufi’ activities that they take part in together create pathways of engagement between two faith traditions in a geographical area beset by conflict.
Sufism and Jewish Muslim Relations investigates this practice of Sufism...
Jihad in Islamic History
Doctrines and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today's debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothing less than a struggle over Islam itself. In Jihad in Islamic...