Uriya Shavit: 4 books
Scientific and Political Freedom in Islam
A Critical Reading of the Modernist-Apologetic School
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The modernist-apologetic approach to the relation between revelation and science and politics has been a central part of Arab discourses on the future of Muslim societies for over a century. This approach introduced historical and theological narratives and interpretative mechanisms that contextualize...
Islamism and the West
From "Cultural Attack" to "Missionary Migrant"
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Offering a unique analysis of Islamist ideology, Islamism and the West attempts to explain how- and why-mainstream Islamist leaders have, for the past century, developed and canonized theories which depict theWest as engaged in a sophisticated conspiracy to undermine Muslim identity by cultural means,...
Shari'a and Muslim Minorities
The wasati and salafi approaches to fiqh al-aqalliyyat al-Muslima
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Based on a comparative analysis of several hundred religio-juristic treatises and fatwas (religious decisions), Shari'a and Muslim Minorities: The Wasati and Salafi Approaches to Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat al-Muslima offers the most systematic and comprehensive study to date of fiqh al aqalliyyat al-Muslima...
by Uriya Shavit, Ofir Winter
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Zionism in Arab discourses presents a ground-breaking study of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through analyses of hundreds of texts written by Arab Islamists and liberals from the late-nineteenth century to the 'Arab Spring', the book demonstrates that the Zionist enterprise has played a dual function...