What is the Gulen Movement and why is Turkey's President Erdogan so convinced that the organisation and its charismatic leader were behind the failed military coup of 15th July 2016? The Gulen, or Hizmet, movement in Turkey was until recently the country's most powerful and affluent religious organisation. At its head is the exiled Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, who leads from a gated compound in the Pocono Mountains of the USA.The movement's central tenet is that Muslims should engage positiv...
Commentary on the Aqeedah (creed) of At-Tahawi
by Ali Ibn Ali Ibn Abi Al Izz
Al-Ghazalis Philosophie Im Vergleich Mit Descartes (Islam Und Abendland,, #5)
by Mahmoud Zakzouk and Maohmaud Ohamdai Zaqzauq
Zum ersten Mal wird hier ein systematischer Vergleich zwischen Ghazali und Descartes durchgefuhrt. Er beweist eine grundlegende Ubereinstimmung ihrer philosophischen Methode. Philosophie als Weg zur Wahrheit bei Ghazali und Descartes wird methodisch erklart und durchgefuhrt. Methode ist der radikalste philosophische Zweifel. Die aufgezeigte Stufung der Erkenntnis ermoglicht eine Durchleuchtung philosophischen Verstehens. Einher damit geht eine Weiterfuhrung und Uberhohung der Vernunft im Glauben...
Islam and the Metropole is an exploration of the colonial policies of France regarding Islam and the effects they had on religion in the early days of Algerian independence. Following the colonization of Algeria in 1830, the French authorities adopted a manipulative policy regarding the philosophy and practice of Islam. This was based on nineteenth-century theories of progress elucidated by Saint-Simonian thought and the philosophy of Auguste Comte, which posited religion as a symbolic language...
Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind, including millions from diverse ethnic backgrounds in the US and Europe, is largely seen in the West in terms of fundamentalism, bigotry and violence, a perception reinforced by the terrorist atrocities in New York and Washington in 2001 and subsequent outrages. But the real message of Islam i...
Bausteine Des "fiqh" (Roi - Reihe Fuer Osnabruecker Islamstudien, #10) (Roi - Reihe Fur Osnabrucker Islamstudien, #10)
by Wolfgang Johann Bauer
Fiqh, das Islam(rechts)verstandnis, kann unterschiedlich ausfallen, denn es unterscheidet sich je nach verwendeten Quellen und der Art und Weise, wie diese Quellen verstanden und kombiniert werden. Usul al-Fiqh behandelt die Regeln dieser Konstruktion und ihre Legitimitat. In europaischen Sprachen ist das Angebot fur Lekture zu den Usul al-Fiqh allerdings ausserst rar. Dieses Buch ist daher primar als Fach- und Lehrbuch zu den Kernbereichen der Usul al-Fiqh konzipiert. Es soll verstandlich mache...
My Life with the Taliban is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former senior member of Afghanistan's Taliban and a principal actor in its domestic and foreign affairs. Translated for the first time from the Pashto, Zaeef's words share more than a personal history of an unusual life. They supply a counternarrative to standard accounts of Afghanistan since 1979. Zaeef shares his experiences as a poor youth in rural Kandahar. Both his parents died when he was young, and Russia's invasion in...