Islam And Controversy

Author : Nilüfer Göle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317112549

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Islam and Public Controversy in Europe by Nilüfer Göle Pdf

The public visibility of Islam is becoming increasingly controversial throughout European countries. With case studies drawn from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, this book examines a range of public issues, including mosque construction, ritual slaughter, Sharia councils and burqa bans, addressing the question of ’Islamic difference’ in public life outside the confines of established normative discourses that privilege freedom of religion, minority rights or multiculturalism. Acknowledging the creative role of dissent, it explores the manner in which public controversies unsettle the religious-secular divide and reshape European norms in the domains of aesthetics, individual freedom, animal rights and law. Developing an innovative conceptual framework and elaborating the notion of controversy as a methodological tool, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe draws our attention to the processes of interaction, confrontation and mutual transformation, thereby opening up a new horizon for rethinking difference and pluralism in Europe. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in religion, integration, cultural difference and the public sphere.

Author : A. Mondal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137466082

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Islam and Controversy by A. Mondal Pdf

Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses ? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book examines the moral questions raised by cultural controversies, and how intercultural dialogue might be generated within multicultural societies.

Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134499755

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Controversies in Contemporary Islam by Oliver Leaman Pdf

This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today. Oliver Leaman explores some of the controversies and debates that exist within Islam and between Islam and other religions. He considers how the religion can be defined by looking at the contrast between competing sets of beliefs, and arguments amongst Muslims themselves over the nature of the faith. Areas covered include: Qur’anic interpretation, gender, finance, education, and nationalism. Examples are taken from a range of contexts and illustrate the diversity of approaches to Islam that exists today.

Author : Rosemary R. Corbett
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503600843

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Making Moderate Islam by Rosemary R. Corbett Pdf

Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque," this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to Muslims. Instead, it looks at a century of pressures on religious minorities to conform to dominant American frameworks for race, gender, and political economy. These include the encouraging of community groups to provide social services to the dispossessed in compensation for the government's lack of welfare provisions in an aggressively capitalist environment. Calls for Muslim moderation in particular are also colored by racist and orientalist stereotypes about the inherent pacifism of Sufis with respect to other groups. The first investigation of the assumptions behind moderate Islam in our country, Making Moderate Islam is also the first to look closely at the history, lives, and ambitions of the those involved in Manhattan's contested project for an Islamic community center.

Author : David Hayes,Tony Curzon Price
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847531216

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Europe and Islam. Controversy, Protest and Dialogue by David Hayes,Tony Curzon Price Pdf

Subscribe to openDemocracy's Quarterly. Visit us at http://www.openDemocracy.netopenDemocracy's public intellectuals reflect on the French Hijab law, the London bombings, the Danish Cartoons affair and Pope Benedict's Regensburg address. What is the dialogue of civilisations?

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312270828

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The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Pdf

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.

Author : Mun'im Sirry
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527571341

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Controversies over Islamic Origins by Mun'im Sirry Pdf

What evidence do we have to reconstruct the origins of Islam? On the basis of what sources can the first century of Islam be accessed? Why do historians of early Islam consider the literary sources of Islamic origins to be so problematic? How is the problem of early Islamic history framed? This book addresses these critical questions by discussing various approaches to the problem of reconstructing Islamic origins. In a spirit of welcoming diverse perspectives and encouraging healthy scholarly debate, it explores different, even conflicting modern theories about the emergence of Islam through various case studies, including recent debates on the Qur’an, the biography of the Prophet, and early conquest narratives. A broad spectrum of both traditionalist and revisionist scholarship is critically examined with the purpose of illuminating not only how modern scholars differ, but also what they have in common.

Author : Bello
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004452381

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The medieval Islamic controversy between philosophy and orthodoxy by Bello Pdf

Author : Noorul Hussain K.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Islam
ISBN : 8172318405

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Straight Answers to the Controversial Questions about Islam by Noorul Hussain K. Pdf

Author : Mushegh Asatryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Islamic sects
ISBN : 1350985856

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Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam by Mushegh Asatryan Pdf

"I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Among the various Muslim communities that were articulating their doctrinal positions in the early Islamic centuries, one in particular was known derisively as the Ghulat ('extremists'). This was owing to their specific interpretation of Islam, which included an 'extreme' devotion to the Shi'i Imams and the family of the Prophet, and controversial religious ideas, such as the transmigration of souls into other human or sub-human forms. Widely active in Iraq in the 8th and 9th centuries, the Ghulat developed a complex worldview and produced a rich religious literature. Until now, understanding of this community has mainly relied on sources produced outside of the group, which are inaccurate or polemical in nature. This book looks at newly recovered primary texts in order to study the Ghulat first hand. Mushegh Asatryan examines the development of the Ghulat writings, situating the community within a broader historical context and offering a comprehensive survey of their distinctive cosmology. Through his detailed analysis, the book offers insight into the formation of one of the earliest religious traditions in Islamic history as well as the nature of the community in which texts were produced and circulated."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Morgan Clarke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845459239

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Islam and New Kinship by Morgan Clarke Pdf

Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious authority in the region through a combination of in-depth field research in Lebanon and an exhaustive survey of the Islamic legal literature. Lebanon, home to both Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities, provides a valuable site through which to explore the overall dynamism and diversity of global Islamic debate. As this book shows, Muslim perspectives focus on the moral propriety of such controversial procedures as the use of donor sperm and eggs as well as surrogacy arrangements, which are allowed by some authorities using surprising and innovative legal arguments. These arguments challenge common stereotypes of the rigidity and conservatism of Islamic law and compel us to question conventional contrasts between ‘liberal’ and Islamic notions of moral freedom, as well as the epistemological assumptions of anthropology’s own ‘new kinship studies’. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Islam and the impact of reproductive technology on the global social imaginary.

Author : Musheg Asatryan
Publisher : Shi I Heritage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1784538957

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Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam by Musheg Asatryan Pdf

Among the various Muslim communities that were articulating their doctrinal positions in the early Islamic centuries, one in particular was known derisively as the Ghulat ("extremists"). This was owing to their specific interpretation of Islam, which included an "extreme" devotion to the Shi'i Imams and the family of the Prophet, and controversial religious ideas, such as the transmigration of souls into other human or sub-human forms. Widely active in Iraq in the 8th and 9th centuries, the Ghulat developed a complex worldview and produced a rich religious literature. Until now, understanding of this community has mainly relied on sources produced outside of the group, which are inaccurate or polemical in nature. This book looks at newly recovered primary texts to study the Ghulat first hand. Mushegh Asatryan examines the development of the Ghulat writings, situating the community within a broader historical context and offering a comprehensive survey of their distinctive cosmology. Through his detailed analysis, the book offers insight into the formation of one of the earliest religious traditions in Islamic history as well as the nature of the community in which texts were produced and circulated.

Author : A. Mondal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137466082

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Islam and Controversy by A. Mondal Pdf

Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses ? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book examines the moral questions raised by cultural controversies, and how intercultural dialogue might be generated within multicultural societies.

Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823263882

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Dante and Islam by Jan M. Ziolkowski Pdf

Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur’an and of Islamic philosophy and science in Dante’s day and explores the bases for Dante’s images of Muhammad and Ali. It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

Author : Elwood Morris Wherry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU58955275

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The Muslim Controversy: Being a Review of Christian Literature Written in the Urdu Language for the Propagation of the Christian Religion and the Refutation of Islam by Elwood Morris Wherry Pdf