The Struggle for Jerusalem and the Holy Land Between Judaism and Islam is a new inquiry into the Qur'an and classic Islamic sources on the people of Israel, their Torah, and their links to the Holy ...Land. In recent generations, the Muslim and Arab world has been suffused with publications on the subject of the people of Israel and their affinity to the Land of Israel. Most of these publications are tendentious, written with a hostile attitude toward Jews and Judaism; indeed, some of them are tainted with anti-Semitism. The Qur'an also deals with the question of the status of Eretz Israel, the Land of Israel. Many of its exegetes, following in the tracks of Islam's holy book, have done so as well—and somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, express an approach asserting that this land is promised exclusively to the people of Israel.
Islamic finance is growing at an astonishing rate and is now a 1200 billion industry, with operations in over 100 countries. This book explains the paradox of a system rooted in the medieval era ...thriving in the global economy. Coverage is exhaustively comprehensive, defining Islamic finance in its broadest sense to include banks, mutual funds, securities firms and insurance (or takaful) companies. The author places Islamic finance in the context of the global political and economic system and covers a wide variety of issues such as the underlying principles of Islamic finance, the range of Islamic financial products, and country differences. He also discusses a number of economic, political, regulatory and religious concerns and challenges. This second edition has been completely revised and updated to take into account the great changes and developments in the field in recent times. It includes the impact of the 9/11 and 7/7 terrorist attacks on the industry, the new forms of interaction with Western financial institutions, the emergence of innovative products such as sukuk, attempts by a broad range of financial centres - including Kuala Lumpur, London, Singapore, Bahrain and Dubai - to become global hubs of Islamic finance, and the repercussions of the 2008 global financial meltdown on Islamic institutions.
FEMINISMO ISLÀMICO: UNA HERMENÉUTICA DE LIBERACION Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente
Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Politico = International Journal of Political Thought,
01/2014, Letnik:
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Recenzirano
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Partiendo de una crítica al androcentrismo de las religiones y la descripción de los discursos hegemónicos que existen sobre las mujeres musulmanas, se presentan los aspectos centrales de la ...hermenéutica del Islam con perspectiva de género. Luego, se explican los aspectos básicos del feminismo Islámico como un movimiento reformista que plantea, por un lado, una revisión de las interpretaciones religiosas que legitiman la supremacía masculina y, por otro, una crítica descolonizadora a los constructos narrativos sobre las mujeres musulmanas que son predominantes en los feminismos y discursos occidentales y/o hegemónicos que reproducen subalteridad.
This volume focuses on the portions of Muslim purity jurisprudence that deal with matters libidinal -- mulamasa (the ritual result of contact with the opposite sex) and janaba (ceremonial defilement ...following cohabitation) -- and examines their implications for the Islamic outlook on sexuality.
Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts ...revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been endemic to the mountain population of Iran and occasionally become epidemic with major consequences for the country, most strikingly in the revolts examined here and in the rise of the Safavids who imposed Shi'ism on Iran. This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest.
From Belonging to Beliefpresents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern Kyrgyzstan. Opening with ...the juxtaposition of a statue of Lenin and a mosque in the town square, Julie McBrien proceeds to peel away the multiple layers that have shaped the return of public Islam in the region. She explores belief and nonbelief, varying practices of Islam, discourses of extremism, and the role of the state, to elucidate the everyday experiences of Bazaar-Korgonians. McBrien shows how Islam is explored, lived, and debated in both conventional and novel sites: a Soviet-era cleric who continues to hold great influence; popular television programs; religious instruction at wedding parties; clothing; celebrations; and others. Through ethnographic research, McBrien reveals how moving toward Islam is not a simple step but rather a deliberate and personal journey of experimentation, testing, and knowledge acquisition. Moreover she argues that religion is not always a matter of belief-sometimes it is essentially about belonging.From Belonging to Beliefoffers an important corrective to studies that focus only on the pious turns among Muslims in Central Asia, and instead shows the complex process of evolving religion in a region that has experienced both Soviet atheism and post-Soviet secularism, each of which has profoundly formed the way Muslims interpret and live Islam.
My thesis examines Shelley’s usage of Islamic tropes and Qur’anic symbolism in order to further poeticise his belief that through the revision and combination of mythic patterns poetry could produce ...an ameliorative effect on the evolution of human consciousness. By combining his Eastern-inspired poetics with his ruminations on interanimation, Shelley consolidates the faith within a mythographic schema where concepts are reinterpreted through the meandering lineage of tradition. I argue a deeper understanding of the Islamic tradition on a theological and philosophical level will help contextualise his mythopoetics as an exploration of how communal sign systems can meaningfully revise previous myths without dogmatic overtones. The structure of the thesis is centred on Shelley’s poetic engagement with Islam during the years of 1814-18; part one examines The Assassins from an Ismaili perspective and draws links between Shelley’s melodic strain of poets and the Imamate chain of hierophants whilst also investigating the significance of using Muslim figures as a means of expressing his own enthusiastic world-historical call for reform. Part two explores Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude from a sufistic perspective by offsetting the paradoxical relation between lover and Beloved in Hafez and Rumi’s poetry against the Shelleyan dynamic between poet and muse whilst offering a comparative analysis of Shelley’s allegorical commentary on material idealism with Ibn Tufayl’s natural mysticism. Part three delves into The Revolt of Islam as a revolution of, rather than against, the titular faith by assessing how Shelley reimagines two concepts (the Book of Fate and Holy War): the former transfigures Ash’arite fatalistic atomism where Power and miracles rule into a Lucretian materialistic form of atomism where birth and decay is not governed by transcendent forces but fissures within organic processes; the latter adapts Sunni historiography regarding the conquest of Mecca and rewrites Muhammad’s revolution into Laon and Cythna’s Oriental uprising.
The life of Prophet Muhammad has always drawn people's attention, including the companions and Muslims in later periods up until today. From the early periods onwards, Muslims have endeavored to ...learn and teach the Sīra of Prophet Muhammad, and attempted to write works on it. As a result of these efforts, the first works have emerged. Especially starting from the Abbasid period, the number of written works on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, known as Sīra, has increased, and during the Mamluk period, the number of authored works has significantly multiplied. In addition, with the increase in the number of written works and the expansion of their topics, the volumes of the authored works have also increased. The increase in the number of works and the scholarly debates on the chain of narrators and the subject matter have brought some difficulties for readers. For this and similar reasons, authors have sometimes rewritten their extensive works in a concise and brief manner, and sometimes they have written independent concise works. The number of concise Sīra works focusing on the life of Prophet Muhammad increased during the Mamluk period. One of the scholars who contributed to the Sīra field with his work, Khulāṣat siyar sayyid al-bashar, was Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Ṭabarī. al-Ṭabarī, who wrote works in different fields of knowledge, grew up in a scholarly family in Mecca, received education from important scholars, and also made a name for himself with his students. The author has approached the life of Prophet Muhammad in a concise and comprehensive manner through his work titled Khulāṣat siyar from various aspects. The author has approached the life of Prophet Muhammad in a concise and comprehensive manner through his work titled Khulāṣat siyar from various aspects. The lack of any study on this work of the author, especially in the field of Sîra, has been identified as a deficiency. In addition, it is important to identify and reintroduce the lives and works of individuals who have served people through various important roles and guided society with their works, and to determine their contributions to the field. Therefore, this study aims to introduce al-Ṭabarī, an important scholar of his time, and to reveal his personality, scholarly background, and contributions to the field. The author, who had various works on Prophet Muhammad and his family, wrote an original work within the framework of his own intellectual life in Khulāṣat siyar, without quoting from his other works and including different narrations. In this study, Khulāṣat siyar will be examined in terms of its methodology, content, and sources. Additionally, the author's view of Prophet Muhammad and his contribution to the field of Sīra will be evaluated.
Hui Muslims in China Rong, Gui; Gönül, Hacer Zekiye; Xiaoyan, Zhang
2016, 20160915, 2016-09-15, Letnik:
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eBook
Introduction to Hui ethnic diversity in China. As yet very little academic research has been done into the Hui people, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group in China. With particular attention to the ...Yunnan district community, this collection of contributions skilfully presents a wealth of information on Hui Muslims and introduces readers to the issues of Hui ethnic diversity in China. Reviewing the many aspects of the religious, educational and cultural life of Hui Muslims in China, the authors provide an ethnography in which becomes clear how traditional institutions and everyday life are adapted to local customs with respect to the Islamic identity. At the same time, the relationship between the China Republic and the Hui, an official minority of China, is discussed thoroughly. Contributors Lesley R. Turnbull (New York University), Liang Zhang (Yunnan University), Ross Holder (Trinity College Dublin), Aaron Glasserman (Columbia University), Frauke Drewes (University of Münster), Chuang Ma (Yunnan Open University), Yu Feng (Yunnan University), Suchart Setthamalinee (Puyap University)
