Islam At The Crossroads

Author : Muhammad Asad
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9394770151

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A Critical Assessment of Islam in the Modern World In his seminal work, "Islam at the Crossroads," Muhammad Asad offers a profound and insightful examination of the challenges and opportunities facing Islam in the modern world. Asad, a convert to Islam himself, provides a unique perspective on the religion, drawing from his deep understanding of both Western and Islamic thought. Asad argues that Islam is at a crossroads, facing a choice between embracing its core values of justice, equality, and compassion or succumbing to the allure of materialism and individualism. He contends that the future of Islam depends on its ability to adapt to the changing world without compromising its fundamental principles. Asad's critique of the modern Islamic world is both incisive and respectful. He identifies a number of shortcomings, including the rise of sectarianism, the stifling of intellectual inquiry, and the misinterpretation of Islamic teachings to justify violence and oppression. However, Asad also maintains a deep faith in the potential of Islam to provide a positive and transformative vision for the future. "Islam at the Crossroads" is a challenging and thought-provoking work that is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the future of Islam. Asad's insights are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1934. Asad's work has been praised by scholars and laypeople alike for its honesty, insight, and profound understanding of Islam. "Islam at the Crossroads" is a landmark work that continues to inspire and challenge readers today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8174356088

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Author : Muhammad Asad
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9789839541045

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This book was written as a plea to the Muslims to avoid a blind imitation of Western social forms and values, and to try to preserve instead their Islamic heritage which once upon a time had been responsible for the many-sided historical phenomenon comprised in the term 'Muslim civilisation'. It clarifies something of the tragic confusion nowadays prevailing in the Muslim world.

Author : De Lacy Evans O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000639476

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Islam at the Cross Roads by De Lacy Evans O'Leary Pdf

This title, first published in 1923, examines the historical development of the Islamic faith from its origins through to its position in the early twentieth century. It also examines the historical reactions of Islam to the West, including the Babist Movement in the nineteenth century. This title will be of interest to students of history and M

Author : Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi'
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791457001

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Islam at the Crossroads by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' Pdf

Sheds light on one of the most important religious thinkers in the modern Muslim world.

Author : Paul A. Marshall,Roberta Green,Lela Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110269086

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Islam at the Crossroads by Paul A. Marshall,Roberta Green,Lela Gilbert Pdf

Understand Islam with this accessible and compelling overview of its history, core beliefs, and polarizing divisions.

Author : Yehuda D. Nevo,Judith Koren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN : 1591020832

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Crossroads to Islam by Yehuda D. Nevo,Judith Koren Pdf

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Author : Abdul Basit Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313396984

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The Global Muslim Community at a Crossroads by Abdul Basit Ph.D. Pdf

Tackling a subject that is as timely as it is complex, this expert work examines the turmoil inside Muslim communities, helping outsiders to understand and insiders to examine ways in which Islam can be reinterpreted for a modern world. The Global Muslim Community at a Crossroads: Understanding Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Infighting to End the Conflict is an illuminating work. Written by an eminent psychologist who was raised as a Muslim in India and now resides in the United States, it examines the core reasons for the current state of affairs in Muslim communities, explaining the psychological underpinnings of Muslim religion and practices and the reasons they can fuel violence. Drawing on the editor's exposure to Eastern and Western cultures and his longstanding interest in the study of comparative world religions, this impartial analysis takes a multidimensional approach to explaining the current plight of Muslim countries. It candidly discusses issues such as the influence of Islamic schools, the negative and positive roles of Ulema (religious scholars), a lack of critical inquiry into religious thought, Sharia, and the status of women in Islam. Finally, there are positive suggestions about a road to recovery, explaining how Muslim communities can address the interlocking problems they face while retaining the positive aspects of their beliefs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Islam
ISBN : 0685411354

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Author : Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479894505

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Muslim Cool by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer Pdf

Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.

Author : James A. Millward
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849040679

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Eurasian Crossroads by James A. Millward Pdf

This is the history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Krygyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia. This book explores the role it has played in the social, cultural and political development of Asia and the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:913202452

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Islam on the Crossroads by Anonim Pdf

Author : Georges Tamer,Regina Grundmann,Assaad Elias Kattan,Karl Pinggéra
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110564341

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Exegetical Crossroads by Georges Tamer,Regina Grundmann,Assaad Elias Kattan,Karl Pinggéra Pdf

The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Different ways of interpretation developed within each religion not without considering the others. How were the interactions and how productive were they for the further development of these traditions? Have there been blurred spaces of scholarly activity that transcended sectarian borders? What was the role played by mutual influences in profiling the own tradition against the others? These and other related questions are critically treated in the present volume.

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231540254

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Pakistan at the Crossroads by Christophe Jaffrelot Pdf

In Pakistan at the Crossroads, top international scholars assess Pakistan's politics and economics and the challenges faced by its civil and military leaders domestically and diplomatically. Contributors examine the state's handling of internal threats, tensions between civilians and the military, strategies of political parties, police and law enforcement reform, trends in judicial activism, the rise of border conflicts, economic challenges, financial entanglements with foreign powers, and diplomatic relations with India, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and the United States. In addition to ethnic strife in Baluchistan and Karachi, terrorist violence in Pakistan in response to the American-led military intervention in Afghanistan and in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas by means of drones, as well as to Pakistani army operations in the Pashtun area, has reached an unprecedented level. There is a growing consensus among state leaders that the nation's main security threats may come not from India but from its spiraling internal conflicts, though this realization may not sufficiently dissuade the Pakistani army from targeting the country's largest neighbor. This volume is therefore critical to grasping the sophisticated interplay of internal and external forces complicating the country's recent trajectory.

Author : Muhammad Asad
Publisher : The Book Foundation
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780992798109

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The Road To Mecca by Muhammad Asad Pdf

Part travelogue, part autobiography, "The Road to Mecca" is the compelling story of a Western journalist and adventurer who converted to Islam in the early twentieth century. A spiritual and literary counterpart of Wilfred Thesiger and a contemporary of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Muhammad Asad journeyed around the Middle East, Afghanistan and India. This is an account of Asad's adventures in Arabia, his inner awakening, and his relationships with nomads and royalty alike, set in the wake of the First World War. It can be read on many levels: as a eulogy to a lost world, and as the poignant account of a man's search for meaning. It is also a love story, defying convention and steeped in loss. With its evocative descriptions and profound insights on the Islamic world, "The Road to Mecca" is a work of immense value today.