Encounters At The Edge Of The Muslim World

Author : Eugene Huskey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538117095

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Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World by Eugene Huskey Pdf

This unique work provides the only sustained political history of independent Kyrgyzstan, explaining events in the context of its society and the broader international order. Drawing on three decades of personal encounters with ordinary citizens and leading public figures, Eugene Huskey takes readers on a journey through the unlikely birth and tumultuous development of Central Asia’s most open society. Starting with the heady, romantic first days of independence and moving through the popular uprisings and inter-ethnic violence of recent years, he chronicles the struggles of a new state to establish a democratic order and to find its place in the international community, while caught between China, the Middle East, and the Russian world. At the center are the very human stories of leaders and citizens trying to navigate the transition from communism, where identities, property, and the rules of the political game were constantly in dispute. With citizens of independent Kyrgyzstan stripped of their Soviet identity, the book illustrates how alternative loyalties based on kinship, geography, statehood, and religion competed for prominence in ways that often complicated the new country’s political, social, and economic development.

Author : Muzaffar Iqbal
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9789675062070

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Definitive Encounters by Muzaffar Iqbal Pdf

Author : Graeme Wood (Journalist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812988758

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The Way of the Strangers by Graeme Wood (Journalist) Pdf

"The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group...Wood speaks with non-Islamic State Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam...Through character study and analysis, Wood provides a clear-eyed look at a movement that has inspired so many people to abandon or uproot their families.

Author : Lawrence Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226726182

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Varieties of Muslim Experience by Lawrence Rosen Pdf

In Varieties of Muslim Experience, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. He ranges over such diverse topics as why Arabs eschew portraiture, why a Muslim scientist might be attracted to fundamentalism, and why the Prophet must be protected from blasphemous cartoons. What connects these seemingly disparate features of Arab social, political, and cultural life? Rosen argues that the common thread is the importance Arabs place on the negotiation of interpersonal relationships—a link that helps to explain actions as seemingly unfathomable as suicide bombing and as elusive as Quranic interpretation. Written with eloquence and a deep knowledge of the entire spectrum of Muslim experience, Rosen’s book will interest not only anthropologists and Islamicists but anyone invested in better understanding the Arab world.

Author : Graeme Wood
Publisher : Penguin Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0141982136

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The Way of the Strangers by Graeme Wood Pdf

Based on Graeme Wood's unprecedented access to supporters, recruiters, and high-ranking members of the most infamous jihadist group in the world, The War of the End of Times is a riveting, fast-paced deep dive into the apocalyptic dogma that informs the group's worldview, from the ideas that motivate it, to the "fatwa factory" that produces its laws, to its very specific plans for the future. By accepting that ISIS truly believes the end is nigh, we can understand its strategy-and predict what it will do next.

Author : Zafar Ishaq Ansari,John L. Esposito
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : East and West
ISBN : UOM:39015056187126

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Muslims and the West by Zafar Ishaq Ansari,John L. Esposito Pdf

Papers presented in a seminar held from Oct. 4-6, 1997 in Islamabad.

Author : Lawrence Rosen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009388993

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Encounters with Islam by Lawrence Rosen Pdf

Exploring political, economic, and social encounters within and with the Muslim world across the eras, Lawrence Rosen develops a vibrant, nuanced portrait of the Islamic world that challenges existing stereotypes. Using a diverse range of illustrative case studies, Rosen draws previously unseen linkages across time, regions, and cultures.

Author : Israrul Haque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Islam
ISBN : UOM:39015069296500

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America's Moment of Truth by Israrul Haque Pdf

Author : Stephen R. Goodwin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441187222

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World Christianity in Muslim Encounter by Stephen R. Goodwin Pdf

Global Christianity in Local Context and Muslim Encounter is a unique collection of essays in honour of David A. Kerr, well-known for his contributions in the areas of Christian-Muslim dialogue, Ecumenical Studies and Missions. With contributions from recognized experts in these fields, the book provides a platform for examining contemporary Christian-Muslim relations and critical issues facing twenty-first century Christianity. Volume 2 is a veritable Who's Who of renowned Christian and Muslim scholars that have shaped the course of Christian-Muslim dialogue over the last half century. Their contributions in this volume address contemporary and pivotal issues facing Christians and Muslims today, such as Islamophobia, Islamism, Religious Freedom, Inter-religious Challenges and Urbanism, Mission and Economic Globalisation, Suffering and Social Responsibility, and others.

Author : Mona Siddiqui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 1138937916

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Muslim-Christian Encounters by Mona Siddiqui Pdf

While the subject of Christian-Muslim or Muslim-Christian interaction is still not a traditional or systematic discipline, interest in the encounter of these two religions has grown considerably over the last decade. Historians, including historians of Islam and Christianity have always been interested in the civilizational meeting of the two religions, in conflict or in times of peace. This includes aspects of post-colonial studies, which incorporate cultural, literary and political writings which consider the intellectual and social ruptures in so much of the Islamic world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Theologians however have only recently begin to appreciate the amount of material which illustrates the extent to which Christians and Muslims wrote about one another's faith and spoke of each other in a variety of contexts in both polemical and eirenic terms. These resources serve to enrich the understanding of one's own faith and the changing historical relationship with the other. Today, Muslim-Christian is often understood as Islam/West where the Christianity and secularism are either conflated or Christianity subsumed within the larger cultural framework of the west. Either way, Islam is a foreign presence and its points of reference not easily assimilated in the narrative of a Judaeo-Christian West. Nevertheless this has created an interesting intellectual and scholarly dynamic in a wide range of disciplines. This includes ethics, politics, gender studies and the emergence of an interfaith' literature which is increasingly used in scholarly as well as grass roots settings. The collection will comprise around sixty pre-published journal articles and some book chapters. Each volume will contain around 15 articles/chapters. The articles will be secondary sources analysing the works of individual Christian and Muslim scholars, so will not be extracts of primary material thought it is hoped that the majority will contain some primary material. Volume One will contain an Introduction to the whole collection. The volumes will provide a unique and rich reflection of Muslim-Christian encounter. This work will introduce the scholar and the student to the variety of approaches people of faith/no faith have taken to thinking about the two religions. The volumes will cover doctrine, interfaith practice as theory and lived realities and philosophical and literary themes and approaches.

Author : Hartford Seminary Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813013593

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Christian-Muslim Encounters by Hartford Seminary Foundation Pdf

The authors of these essays examine the ways in which Muslims and Christians worldwide have encountered one another over 1,400 years as well as the ways in which they are engaged today, enlightening current interpolitical, intersocial, and intereconomic relationships. (World Religions)

Author : Christiane J. Gruber,Frederick S. Colby
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253353610

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The Prophet's Ascension by Christiane J. Gruber,Frederick S. Colby Pdf

The tales of the mi'raj describe the prophet Muhammad's journey through the heavens, his encounters with prophets and angels, and his visit to heaven and hell. The tales are among Islam's most popular, appearing in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature, and in later adaptations throughout the Muslim world. Often serving as narratives designed to promote the worldview of particular Muslim groups, the tales were also a means for communities to construct rules of normative behavior and ritual practices, and were used to assert the superiority of Islam over other religions. The essays in this collection discuss the formation of this narrative, the mi'raj as a missionary text, its various adaptations, its application to esoteric thought, and its use in performance and ritual. -- Book jacket.

Author : Taner Edis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009257459

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Islam's Encounter with Modern Science by Taner Edis Pdf

Within Muslim populations, debates about the compatibility between science and religion tend to be framed by the long-standing competition between modernizing reformers, particularly westernizers, and theological conservatives. Much like their liberal Christian counterparts, reformers propose to embrace technical knowledge and reinterpret traditional beliefs undermined by modern science. Conservatives are more open to challenging the content of science, especially when science appears to support materialist views. Islamists promote an alternative, non-western style of modernity, nurturing a more pious professional class that contrasts with westernized elites. By scientific standards, westernizers appear to have the upper hand, especially as conservative apologetics is drawn toward distortions of science such as creationism, or fruitless attempts to Islamize science. But conservatives can also point to some success in defusing tensions between scientific and religious institutions without adopting the full secularization of science seen in post-Christian countries.

Author : Abdul Fattah Ibn Raji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : International relations and culture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132308110

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Islam and the West by Abdul Fattah Ibn Raji Pdf

Author : Paul Hedges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472588555

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Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters by Paul Hedges Pdf

Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters: Developments, Diversity and Dialogues addresses the key issues in the present day global encounter between Christians and Muslims. Divided into two parts, the first examines theoretical issues and concerns which affect dialogue between the two traditions. The second part highlights case studies from around the world. Chapters come from established scholars including Reuven Firestone, Douglas Pratt and Clinton Bennett, emerging scholars, as well as practitioner perspectives. Highlighting the diversity within the field of "Christian-Muslim" encounter, case studies cover examples from the US and globally, and include dialogue in the US post 9/11, Nigerian Muslims and Christians, and Christian responses to Islamophobia in the UK. Covering unique areas and those not explored in detail elsewhere, Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters: Developments, Diversity and Dialogues will be of interest to advanced students, researchers, and interfaith professionals.