For Humanity Or For The Umma

Author : Marie Juul Petersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849046725

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For Humanity Or For The Umma? by Marie Juul Petersen Pdf

In the wake of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror', transnational Muslim NGOs have too often been perceived as illegitimate fronts for global militant networks such as al-Qaeda or as backers of national political parties and resistance groups in Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet clearly there is more to transnational Muslim NGOs. Most are legitimate providers of aid to the world's poor, although their assistance may sometimes differ substantially from that of secular NGOs in the West. Seeking to broaden our understanding of these organisations, Marie Juul Petersen explores how Muslim NGOs conceptualise their provision of aid and the role Islam plays in this. Her book not only offers insights into a new kind of NGO in the global field of aid provision; it also contributes more broadly to understanding 'public Islam' as something more and other than political Islam. The book is based on empirical case studies of four of the biggest transnational Muslim NGOs, and draws on extensive research in Britain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and Bangladesh, and more than 100 interviews with those involved in such organisations.

Author : Marie Juul Petersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849046732

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For Humanity Or For The Umma? by Marie Juul Petersen Pdf

In the wake of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror', transnational Muslim NGOs have too often been perceived as illegitimate fronts for global militant networks such as al-Qaeda or as backers of national political parties and resistance groups in Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet clearly there is more to transnational Muslim NGOs. Most are legitimate providers of aid to the world's poor, although their assistance may sometimes differ substantially from that of secular NGOs in the West. Seeking to broaden our understanding of these organisations, Marie Juul Petersen explores how Muslim NGOs conceptualise their provision of aid and the role Islam plays in this. Her book not only offers insights into a new kind of NGO in the global field of aid provision; it also contributes more broadly to understanding 'public Islam' as something more and other than political Islam. The book is based on empirical case studies of four of the biggest transnational Muslim NGOs, and draws on extensive research in Britain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and Bangladesh, and more than 100 interviews with those involved in such organisations.

Author : Yeong-sik Hong
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465336

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Umma's Table by Yeong-sik Hong Pdf

The joy of food and tradition brings a family together Translated by Janet Hong Madang is an artist and new father who moves to a quiet home in the countryside with his wife and young baby, excited to build a new life full of hope and joy, complete with a garden and even snow. But soon reality sets in and his attention is divided between his growing happy family and his impoverished parents back in Seoul in a dingy basement apartment. With an ailing mother in and out of the hospital and an alcoholic father, Madang struggles to overcome the exhaustion and frustration of trying to be everything all at once: a good son, devoted father, and loving husband. To cope, he finds himself reminiscing about their family meals together, and particularly his mother's kimchi, a traditional dish that is prepared by the family and requires months of fermentation Memories of his mother's glorious cooking—so good it would prompt a young Madang and his brother into song—soothe the family. With her impending death, Madang races to learn her recipes and bring together the three generations at the family table while it's still possible. A beautiful and thoughtful meditation on how the kitchen and communal cooking—both past, present and future—bind a family together amidst the inevitable. Umma’s Table is translated by Janet Hong, a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the TA First Translation Prize and the 16th LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale, which was a finalist for both the PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award, and longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award. She has translated Ha Seong-nan’s Flowers of Mold, Ancco’s Bad Friends, and Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass.

Author : Iqbal S. Hussain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Islam
ISBN : OCLC:818797708

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A Sad Reflection on the Decline of the Muslim Ummah ... by Iqbal S. Hussain Pdf

Author : Katrin A. Jomaa
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438482064

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Ummah by Katrin A. Jomaa Pdf

How can we live together without alienation, avoidance, and fear? How can we complement one another such that each of us can uniquely contribute to the making of our societies? To address these and other questions, Katrin A. Jomaa examines the moral, political, and spiritual understanding of the Qur'anic term ummah, which is commonly used to refer to the worldwide Muslim community but is employed more broadly in the Qur'an itself. Drawing on theology, history, philosophy, and political science, Jomaa argues that ummah, while often defined as a group of people united by ethnicity or religion, is, in its ideal sense, a community that demands active commitment and a conscious and continuous dedication to the highest moral ideals of that community rather than mere affiliation with a particular set of religious doctrines and practices. Jomaa begins by chronologically and thematically analyzing the word "ummah" in the Qur'an, a comprehensive study currently missing from Islamic scholarship, in order to propose a novel understanding of the term that connects all its different meanings. She then compares this new definition to the Aristotelean polis, which highlights the political features of ummah, thereby situating it within contemporary discourses on liberal politics and community and creating the space for an alternative sociopolitical order to the nation-state, both as a local unit and a global system.

Author : Damon L. Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351347907

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The Global Muslim Brotherhood in Britain by Damon L. Perry Pdf

Since 2011, with the British Government’s counter-radicalisation strategy, Prevent, non-violent Islamist groups have been considered a security risk for spreading a divisive ideology that can lead to radicalisation and violence. More recently, the Government has expressed concerns about their impact on social cohesion, entryism, and women’s rights. The key protagonists of non-violent Islamist ‘extremism’ allegedly include groups and individuals associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Jama’at-i-Islami. They have been described as part of the ‘global Muslim Brotherhood’, but do they constitute a singular phenomenon, a social movement? This book shows that such groups and individuals do indeed comprise a movement in Britain, one dedicated to an Islamic ‘revival’. It shows how they are networked organisationally, bonded through ideological and cultural kinship, and united in a conflict of values with the British society and state. Using original interviews with prominent revivalist leaders, as well as primary sources, the book also shows how the movement is not so much ‘Islamist’ in aspiring for an Islamic state, but concerned with institutionalising an Islamic worldview and moral framework throughout society. The conflict between the Government and the global Muslim Brotherhood is apparent in a number of different fields, including education, governance, law, and counterterrorism. But this does not simply concern the direction of Government policy or the control of state institutions. It most fundamentally concerns the symbolic authority to legitimise a way of seeing, thinking and living. By assessing this multifaceted conflict, the book presents an exhaustive and up-to-date analysis of the political and cultural fault lines between Islamic revivalists and the British authorities. It will be useful for anyone studying Islam in the West, government counter-terrorism and counter-extremism policy, multiculturalism and social cohesion.

Author : James Piscatori,Amin Saikal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481250

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Islam Beyond Borders by James Piscatori,Amin Saikal Pdf

Revealing how the one community of the faith in the Qur'an, the umma, affects competing politics of identity in the Muslim world.

Author : Faisal Devji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197524114

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Terrorist in Search of Humanity by Faisal Devji Pdf

Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality that animates other humanitarian interventions, such as environmentalism and pacifism. To the militant, victimized Muslims are more than just symbols of ethnic and religious persecution-they represent humanity's centuries-long struggle for legitimacy and agency. Acts of terror, therefore, are fueled by the militant's desire to become a historical actor on the global stage. Though they have yet to build concrete political institutions, militant movements have formed a kind of global society, and as Devji makes clear, this society pursues the same humanitarian objectives that drive more benevolent groups.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134057092

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Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. Chan,P. Mandaville
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230286429

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The Zen of International Relations by S. Chan,P. Mandaville Pdf

The new millennium can only be a time of true globalization if different histories and systems of understanding the world are appreciated. The authors unveil significant studies to do with epistemological debates in International Relations, and give detailed middle and far-eastern examples of how different cultures have used story-telling as a means of understanding what is outside and around. Especially provocative is the Chinese idea of the West as an 'Other', as atypical and, indeed, inscrutable, to the extent of not needing scrutiny at all.

Author : Anthony Reid,Michael Gilsenan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134057085

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Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia by Anthony Reid,Michael Gilsenan Pdf

A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. Even in Asia, where such ideas have always been marginal, radical groups are taking the view that scriptural authority requires either Islamic rule (Dar-ul-Islam) or a state of war with the essentially illegitimate authority of non-Muslims or secularists. This book places the debate in a specifically Asian context. It draws attention to Asia (east of Afghanistan), as not only the home of the majority of the world’s Muslims but also Islam’s historic laboratory in dealing with religious pluralism. In Asia, pluralism is not simply a contemporary development of secular democracies, but a long-tested pattern based on both principle and pragmatism. For many centuries, Muslims in Asia have argued about the legitimacy of non-Islamic government over Muslims, and the legitimacy of non-Muslim peoples, polities and rights under Islamic governance. This book analyses such debates and the ways they have been reconciled, in South and Southeast Asia, up to the present. The evidence presented here suggests that Muslims have adapted flexibly and creatively to the pluralism with which they have lived, and are likely to continue to do so.

Author : Beáta Paragi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786725806

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Foreign Aid in the Middle East by Beáta Paragi Pdf

What do we mean by 'gifts' in International Relations? Can foreign aid be conceptualized as a gift? Most foreign aid transactions are unilateral and financially unreciprocated, yet donors expect to benefit from them.Previous research dealing with foreign aid has analyzed the main donor motives and interests in providing financial support. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the invisible political or social 'exchange' taking place between recipient countries and donors when a grant agreement is signed. Focusing on Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel - the main beneficiaries of Western foreign aid – the book uses gift theories and theories of social exchange to show how international social bonds are shaped by foreign aid and in what ways recipient countries are obliged to return the 'gift' they receive. Foreign aid is a means of buying 'stability' or 'democracy' in the region but Beata Paragi is interested here to understand the actual feasibility of Western assistance. Looking at the context of the Arab Spring, the book examines how aid impacts on a recipient country's domestic political events such as war, the quest for self-determination, the struggle against occupation and the fight for dignity. An original contribution to Middle East Studies and International Relations, the research presents an alternative interpretation of foreign aid and show how external funds interact with local developments and realities.

Author : Ramon Harvey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474417198

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Qur'an and the Just Society by Ramon Harvey Pdf

Utilising a pioneering theological and hermeneutic framework adapted from both classical Muslim literature and contemporary academic studies of the Qur'an, Ramon Harvey explores the underlying principles of its system of social justice.

Author : Marta Cartabia,Andrea Simoncini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107090200

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Pope Benedict XVI's Legal Thought by Marta Cartabia,Andrea Simoncini Pdf

This book discusses the speeches in which the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reflected most explicitly on law, justice, democracy, and reason, along with the commentary from a number of distinguished legal scholars. Collectively, these addresses formulate a series of core ideas for a "public teaching" on the topic of justice and law.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Delegated legislation
ISBN : UCR:31210024751842

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Federal Register by Anonim Pdf