Islam In Historical Perspective

Author : Alexander Knysh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317347125

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Islam in Historical Perspective integrates history of Islamic societies with discussion of how Muslim scriptures, laws, moral values and myths have shaped lives and thought of individual Muslims and various Muslim communities from the rise of Islam until today. It provides carefully selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables readers to form a comprehensive balanced vision of Islam's evolution. Author Alexander Knysh shows Muslims have made sense of their life experiences by constantly interpreting and re-interpreting Islam's foundational ideas in accordance with ever-changing social and political conditions. In addition to the combined historical and chronological approach, the author offers in-depth discussions of intellectual dialogues and struggles within Islamic tradition. He shows Islam to be a social and political force, while addressing Muslim devotional practices, artistic creativity and structures of everyday life and provides a wealth of historical anecdotes and quotations from original sources that are designed to illustrate principal points.

Author : Alexander Knysh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1138092037

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Islam in Historical Perspective by Alexander Knysh Pdf

Islam in Historical Perspective provides readers with an introduction to Islam, Islamic history and societies with carefully selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables them to form a comprehensive and balanced vision of Islam's rise and evolution across the centuries and up to the present day. Combining historical and chronological approaches, the book examines intellectual dialogues and socio-political struggles within the extraordinary rich Islamic tradition. Treating Islam as a social and political force, the book also addresses Muslim devotional practices, artistic creativity and the structures of everyday existence. Islam in Historical Perspective is designed to help readers to develop personal empathy for the subject by relating it to their own experiences and burning issues of today. It contains a wealth of historical anecdotes and quotations from original sources that are intended to emphasize its principal points in a memorable way. This new edition features a thoroughly revised and updated text, new illustrations, expanded study questions and chapter summaries.

Author : Alexander D. Knysh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 131563922X

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Islam in Historical Perspective, 2e by Alexander D. Knysh Pdf

Islam in Historical Perspectiveprovides readers with an introduction to Islam, Islamic history and societies with carefully selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables them to form a comprehensive and balanced vision of Islam's rise and evolution across the centuries and up to the present day. Combining historical and chronological approaches, the bookexamines intellectual dialogues and socio-political struggles within the extraordinary rich Islamic tradition. Treating Islam as a social and political force, the book also addresses Muslim devotional practices, artistic creativity and the structures of everyday existence. Islam in Historical Perspectiveis designed to help readers to develop personal empathy for the subject by relating it to their own experiences and burning issues of today. It contains a wealth of historical anecdotes and quotations from original sources that are intended to emphasize its principal points in a memorable way. This new edition features a thoroughly revised and updated text, new illustrations, expanded study questions and chapter summaries.

Author : Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Islam
ISBN : 0860370062

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Islam by Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi Pdf

Author : Iqtidar Husain Siddiqi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Islam
ISBN : UOM:39015014883584

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Islam and Muslims in South Asia by Iqtidar Husain Siddiqi Pdf

Author : Moon Arif Rahman
Publisher : Koros Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1781632375

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Historical Perspective of Islam by Moon Arif Rahman Pdf

Topics covered in this volume include prophetic visions, prophetic dreams in Al-mas'udi's histories of the Abbasids, the issues in question and the tools needed to address them, and the preeminence of precious metals.

Author : Jean-Philippe Platteau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107155442

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Islam Instrumentalized by Jean-Philippe Platteau Pdf

This book challenges the widespread view that Islam is a reactionary religion that defends tradition against modernity and individual freedom. Jean-Philippe Platteau shows how Islam is vulnerable to political manipulation and how the threat of religious extremism is especially high because Islam is not organized as a centralized church.

Author : Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110200942

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Islam by Jacques Waardenburg Pdf

This book presents some twenty essays on different aspects of Islam in history and the present. These essays are grouped into eight larger sections. The first, "The Beginnings", deals with the transition from pre-Islamic understandings and reason, an essential part of the Quranic message. The next two sections deal with Islam specifically as a religion with its particular signs and symbols. The question of rules of interpretation in Islam and its structural features is discussed here. Sections four and five deal with ethics in Islam, including Muslim identity and human rights, and certain social functions of Islam. Section six introduces some 19th and 20th century reform movements, with special attention given to developments in Saudi Arabia and the "puritan" characteristics of present-day Islamic revival movements. The final two sections discuss contemporary issues: Islamization processes and policies, Islamic ideologies, the ideologization of Islam, and the political uses of religion. Throughout the book the author shows the links between the religious and other interpretations and uses made of Islam and the contexts in which they are made. The Introduction signals some important developments in Islamic studies since World War II.

Author : Robert L. Canfield,Robert Leroy Canfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521522919

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Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective by Robert L. Canfield,Robert Leroy Canfield Pdf

The first book-length study to examine Turko-Persian culture as an entity.

Author : Carole Hillenbrand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0500291586

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Introduction to Islam by Carole Hillenbrand Pdf

Carole Hillenbrand, long acknowledged as a preeminent authority on Islam, has now written a superb introduction to this great world religion, a book that promises to be the most lucid, nuanced text of its kind on the market. Beginning with the life of Muhammad, Hillenbrand firmly establishes in historical and global context the beliefs and ideals of Muslims and the branches and movements within the faith. Rather than portraying Islam as a monolithic entity, Hillenbrand emphasizes its diversity and variety. Featured chapters include, but are not limited to: Law, Diversity, Sufism, Jihad, and Women. Finally, a concluding chapter on Islam in the globalized twenty-first century is bound to appeal to instructors and students alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004287833

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Muslims in Interwar Europe by Anonim Pdf

This title will be available online in its entirety in Open Access. In "Muslims in Interwar Europe," various contributors argue that Muslims constituted a group of engaged actors in the European and international space of that time.

Author : Efraim Karsh
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300122633

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Islamic Imperialism by Efraim Karsh Pdf

From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of long-existing indigenous trends, passions, and patterns of behavior, and that foremost among these is Islam's millenarian imperial tradition. The author explores the history of Islam's imperialism and the persistence of the Ottoman imperialist dream that outlasted World War I to haunt Islamic and Middle Eastern politics to the present day. September 11 can be seen as simply the latest expression of this dream, and such attacks have little to do with U.S. international behavior or policy in the Middle East, says Karsh. The House of Islam's war for world mastery is traditional, indeed venerable, and it is a quest that is far from over.

Author : Mujadad Zaman,Nadeem A. Memon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317657644

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Philosophies of Islamic Education by Mujadad Zaman,Nadeem A. Memon Pdf

The study of Islamic education has hitherto remained a tangential inquiry in the broader focus of Islamic Studies. In the wake of this neglect, a renaissance of sorts has occurred in recent years, reconfiguring the importance of Islam’s attitudes to knowledge, learning and education as paramount in the study and appreciation of Islamic civilization. Philosophies of Islamic Education, stands in tandem to this call and takes a pioneering step in establishing the importance of its study for the educationalist, academic and student alike. Broken into four sections, it deals with theological, pedagogic, institutional and contemporary issues reflecting the diverse and often competing notions and practices of Islamic education. As a unique international collaboration bringing into conversation theologians, historians, philosophers, teachers and sociologists of education Philosophies of Islamic Education intends to provide fresh means for conversing with contemporary debates in ethics, secularization theory, child psychology, multiculturalism, interfaith dialogue and moral education. In doing so, it hopes to offer an important and timely contribution to educational studies as well as give new insight for academia in terms of conceiving learning and education.

Author : Leila Ahmed
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300258172

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Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed Pdf

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. “Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said “Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian

Author : G. E. von Grunebaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351528092

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Classical Islam by G. E. von Grunebaum Pdf

In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter, the author opens by reminding us that the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history. Classical Islam also serves as a reminder that in the case of Islam, despite its triumphs on the fields of battle, telling its history is the only way open to us to render that essence accessible and show it from all sides. The work offers a grand narrative of a faith that offers an interpretation of the world, a way of life, and a style of thinking, that goes far beyond institutional or political supports. The relevance of this historical perspective is beyond dispute. The period from 610 A.D. when Muhammad received his call until the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 is known as the classical period of Islam. This was the period of the great expansion of Islam both as a political structure and as a religious and intellectual community. It established the base for the development of the high Islamic civilization of North Africa, the Near East, Persia, and India, as well as further expansion of the Islamic religious and intellectual community throughout the world. This book presents an authoritative history of the period written by one of the world's leading experts on the subject.Classical Islam examines the relationships, both cultural and political, between the Islamic world and the Mediterranean countries and India and elaborates on the economic, social, and intellectual factors and forces that shaped the Muslim world and molded its interactions with infidels. The work is written in a clear and direct narrative form, emphasizing simultaneously the major intellectual trends and the political events and tendencies of the formative period in Islamic history that still resonates today.