Negotiating Autonomy and Authority in Muslim Contexts (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, v.46)
The present volume contains the proceedings of a workshop that took place as part of a larger project carried out by the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities (GRSSH). The framework of the overall research perspective was a study of 'the autonomy of culture and its components'. In November 2006, colleagues from various departments at the University of Groningen who work in the field of Islamic studies jointly organised a workshop on the subject of 'autonomy and Islam'. For an...
Melanges de l'Institut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales (Melanges de l'Institut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales Du Cai, #35)
Philosophie in Der Islamischen Welt / 8. - 10. Jahrhundert (Grundriss Der Geschichte Der Philosophie, #1)
The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitab Al-Sifa
by Amos Bertolacci
The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver (University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies, #15)
by Ib McCabe
This book explains why the Iraq War took place, and the war's impacts on Iraq, the United States, the Middle East, and other nations around the world. It explores conflict's potential consequences for future rationales for war, foreign policy, the United Nations, and international law and justice.
The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures (Library of Middle East History)
In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This book explores the concept of the beloved in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary manner, revealing how shared ideas on the subject supersede geographical and temporal boundaries, and ideas of nationhood. The book considers the beloved in its classical, modern and postmodern manifestations, taking into account the different sexual orientations an...
Morocco (Global Realities) (Globalizing Regions)
by Shana Cohen and Larabi Jaidi
Cohen and Jaidi trace the development of contemporary Morocco in the Islamic world of North Africa, which is currently at the forefront of the clash between Western-style development and the politicized Islam that now pervades the Arab world. By applying globalization theory to detailed accounts of everyday life in an Arab society, the book is uniquely suited to students. Morocco in particular is a good place to look at this extremely important confrontation. It is among the most liberalized Is...
Perceptions of Islam in Europe
For centuries, the Islamic world has been represented as the 'other' within European identity constructions - an 'other' perceived to be increasingly at odds with European forms of modernity and culture. With the perceived gap between Islam and Europe widening, leading scholars in this work come together to provide genuine and realistic analyses about perceptions of Islam in the West. The book bridges these analyses with in-depth case studies from Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Net...
Revolutionary Bodies (Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought)
by K. S. Batmanghelichi
Gender and sexuality in modern Iran is frequently examined through the prism of nationalist symbols and religious discourse from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi takes a different approach, by interrogating how normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo. Through a diverse blend of sources -a popular cultural women's journal,...
Tradition and Future of Islamic Education (Religious Diversity and Education in Europe, #10)
by Wilna A.J. Meijer
Ethnographies of Islam in China
In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the broader Muslim world - from influential theoretical and political contestations over Muslim women's status, the popularization of mass media and the appearance of new patterns of cons...
Muslims in British Local Government (Muslim Minorities, #16)
by Eren Tatari
This book investigates whether the presence of Muslim representatives in city councils improves substantive representation of Muslim interests across 32 London boroughs. It theorizes that descriptive representation of minorities leads to improved responsiveness to minority interests contingent on the percentage of minority representatives, the proportion of minorities in the district, level of party fragmentation among minority representatives, their political incorporation, and the electoral co...
Six Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of His Time
by Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Allah
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 6 (Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, #6)
Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway (Muslim Minorities)
by C Jacobsen
Encyclopaedia of Islamic Jurisprudence (Fundamentals of Islamic Jurisprudence)
by Muhammad Razi