Islam In Modern Societies

Author : Jamel Khermimoun, Ph.d.
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1973633035

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Jamel Khermimoun considers that Muslims born in France and in the West now build their identity not from an imported model but from a strong sense of belonging to the nation, which they claim at the same time as their Islam. He wants to shed light on his reading of texts guided by the spirit of flexibility and openness advocated by Islam. We must listen carefully to what he has to say to us; one must know how to confront ones own point of view with ones own, and thus enter into a process of dialogue which, as he writes himself, creates real issues and is capable of appeasing the spirits (Jean Baubrot, professor emeritus of the Chair History and Sociology of Secularism [Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris] and author of several books). Through this book, the author has the merit of advocating the creation of a field of mutual acquaintance [. . .], a base of common values that can help Westerners and Muslims to get out of the tunnel of reciprocal prejudices, to protect together the true notion of secularism that calls for respect for individual choices and the defense of the right of expression (Claudia Mansueto, doctor of literature, professor at the University of Trieste). Jamel Khermimoun provides answers to the questions raised by the place of the Muslim religion in modern societies. For the author, Islam is not incompatible with secularism because it shares with it the most important values which make possible cohabitation, or even mutual enrichment. Instead of opposing them, it encourages us to reinvest the republican principles that make up our societies. [. . .] It is for those of us who want to understand the world in which they live. The links of Islam to modernity, to knowledge, to the idea of freedom, to the equality of the sexes, to violence, to fanaticism, to racism, are here dealt with frankness and clarity (Victor Loupan, journalist, author, former international reporter at Figaro Magazine).

Author : Jamel Khermimoun PhD
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973633020

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Islam in Modern Societies by Jamel Khermimoun PhD Pdf

Jamel Khermimoun considers that Muslims born in France and in the West now build their identity not from an imported model but from a strong sense of belonging to the nation, which they claim at the same time as their Islam. He wants to shed light on his reading of texts guided by the spirit of flexibility and openness advocated by Islam. We must listen carefully to what he has to say to us; one must know how to confront ones own point of view with ones own, and thus enter into a process of dialogue which, as he writes himself, creates real issues and is capable of appeasing the spirits (Jean Baubrot, professor emeritus of the Chair History and Sociology of Secularism [Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris] and author of several books). Through this book, the author has the merit of advocating the creation of a field of mutual acquaintance [. . .], a base of common values that can help Westerners and Muslims to get out of the tunnel of reciprocal prejudices, to protect together the true notion of secularism that calls for respect for individual choices and the defense of the right of expression (Claudia Mansueto, doctor of literature, professor at the University of Trieste). Jamel Khermimoun provides answers to the questions raised by the place of the Muslim religion in modern societies. For the author, Islam is not incompatible with secularism because it shares with it the most important values which make possible cohabitation, or even mutual enrichment. Instead of opposing them, it encourages us to reinvest the republican principles that make up our societies. [. . .] It is for those of us who want to understand the world in which they live. The links of Islam to modernity, to knowledge, to the idea of freedom, to the equality of the sexes, to violence, to fanaticism, to racism, are here dealt with frankness and clarity (Victor Loupan, journalist, author, former international reporter at Figaro Magazine).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0761479279

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Modern Muslim Societies by Anonim Pdf

Focuses on subjects such as family life, marriage, law, human rights, and Muslim extremism before turning to 14 regional surveys on manifestations of Islam in every corner of the globe.

Author : Muhamad Ali
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474409216

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Islam and Colonialism by Muhamad Ali Pdf

This book offers a comparative and cross-cultural history of Islamic reform and European colonialism as both dependent and independent factors in shaping the multiple ways of becoming modern in Indonesia and Malaya during the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Asgharali Engineer
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1932705422

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The Qurʼan, Women, and Modern Society by Asgharali Engineer Pdf

Reinterprets divine injunctions from the Quran and traditional practices in Islam in light of the fundamental Islamic values of justice and equality on women's status. This work presents sociopolitical values and medieval social ethos as the origins of repressive practices, discussing controversial issues such as polygamy, and family planning.

Author : Michael Gilsenan
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:49015001244749

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Recognizing Islam by Michael Gilsenan Pdf

The recent crises in the Arab world have flooded the media with sensationalist portraits of Islam as a threatening and irrational presence that moves whole societies to cultural assertiveness, political intransigence, and economic frenzy. In Recognizing Islam, Michael Gilsenan, a historian and anthropologist, offers an original and much-needed understanding of the complex role of religion in the turbulent Middle East--a powerful challenge to the Western view of Islam as monolithic and all-determining, the key to the "Arab mind" and to a whole series of otherwise inexplicable events and institutions. Drawing extensively on twenty years of fieldwork in cities, villages, and tribal communities in the Middle East, Gilsenan explores a variety of social worlds that all claim Islamic affiliation: the feudal aristocracy of northern Lebanon, the working-class Sufi brotherhoods of Egypt, the new bourgeoisie of Algeria and Morocco. In each, he shows how Islam evolves in relation to shifting social, political, economic, and class structures even as it helps to shape them. Gilsenan restores to Islam and Islamic societies the variation and breadth of a living tradition that we grant, as a matter of course, to Christian relgion and Christian society. At once evocative and informative, his work provides the nuanced portrait of Islam that is now more indispensable than ever.

Author : Allen James Fromherz,Nadav Samin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004443341

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Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies by Allen James Fromherz,Nadav Samin Pdf

Senior scholars of Islamic studies and the anthropology of Islam gather in this volume to pay tribute to one of the giants of the field, Dale F. Eickelman.

Author : Sayyid Rami Al Rifai
Publisher : Sunnah Muakada
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How Islam Shaped The Modern World by Sayyid Rami Al Rifai Pdf

When the question is asked what are Islam’s contributions to civilization, often the focus is on scientific development, to the ancient world this is by far the most misleading standard for advancement and development. While Islam was certainly the most advanced civilization of the ancient world it’s social and moral development is what set it apart from the rest of the world. Social and moral development in the ancient world had a far more significant impact on a society than scientific development, although still important in many ways, this is because ideology changes how the entire community behaved and lived their lives. Moral development drives social development because it defines the framework for how that society should live and spend it’s time and energy, scientific development historically was a result of both of these because the backdrop in the ancient world for a society that did not develop socially and morally was either living as hunter gatherers or a nomadic life, they either never advanced as a community or degraded after advancement as the moral fabric of that society disappeared, the pyramids could not be built until the Egyptian religion and society demanded it which then directed mans scientific and engineering efforts. As the world at large moved away from this Islam was instrumental in shaping the development of the entire world as it shared it's scientific discoveries from one end of the empire to the other, it was a trade empire whose borders stretched from west Africa and southern Europe to China, it’s scientific advancements which surpassed the rest of the world where a direct result of changing communities and societies around the world and encouraging them to study nature and the world, this global effort would later spread around the world from Europe to Asia to the Americas. By only the 9th century for example muslim scientist’s had discovered the world was round and in comparison to Europe, the masses embraced the notion and took it for granted, Ibn Hazm said its proof was “that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth”, meaning if you where to follow the sun to where you perceived it to be setting, you would always find it vertical (up in the sky) to that location even though from your original location it may appear to be setting, that notion dawned on Galileo 500 years later. This book looks at what it is in Islam that encouraged this change in so many communities and it discusses the spirituality that shaped so many lives. Some of these societies where among the most primitive people on earth but in a short period of time they would set up large empires spanning multiple continents, this processes was seen numerous times in Islam’s history in different regions of the earth by communities of different backgrounds. From the Arab Ummayids who first invaded Europe, to the African Mali Empire whose most famous ruler was the richest person in History, to the Turkish Ottomans who had one of the largest Empires on earth and one of the longest lasting family dynasties, all had simple beginnings but one thing in common that changed their societies in a short period of time, Islam.

Author : Klaus Ferdinand,Mehdi Mozaffari
Publisher : Routledge/Curzon
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040923075

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Islam by Klaus Ferdinand,Mehdi Mozaffari Pdf

Author : Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi
Publisher : ITBM
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Islamic architecture
ISBN : 9789674303877

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Rethinking the Mosque In the Modern Muslim Society by Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi Pdf

Author : Ira M. Lapidus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Islam
ISBN : 0521295491

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A History of Islamic Societies by Ira M. Lapidus Pdf

A History of Islamic Societies provides an authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the civilisations and patterns of life of Muslims throughout the world. Part I deals with the formative era of Islamic civilisation from the revelation of the Qur'an to the Thirteenth century and examines the transformation of Islam from a complex of doctrines and cultural systems into the organising principles of Middle Eastern Society. Part II traces the creation of similar societies in the Balkans, North Africa, Central Asia, China, India, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Part III considers the transformation of these societies under the forces of technological change, industrial revolution and European imperialism. It describes the emergence of modern economies, national states and secular ideologies in Muslim countries and seeks to assess the role of past Islamic institutions and present Islamic movements in the shaping of contemporary Muslim society.

Author : Ira M. Lapidus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521514309

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A History of Islamic Societies by Ira M. Lapidus Pdf

"This third edition of Ira M. Lapidus's classic A History of Islamic Societies has been substantially revised to incorporate the insights of new scholarship and updated to include historical developments in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Lapidus's history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion to Africa, Spain, Turkey and the Balkans, Central, South and Southeast Asia, and North America, situating Islamic societies within their global, political, and economic contexts. It accounts for the impact of European imperialism on Islamic societies and traces the development of the modern national state system and the simultaneous Islamic revival from the early nineteenth century to the present. This book is essential for readers seeking to understand Muslim peoples."--Publisher information.

Author : Maryam Jameelah
Publisher : Adam Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022836444

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Islam and Western Society by Maryam Jameelah Pdf

Author : Harvard University. Center for the Study of World Religions
Publisher : Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035964696

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Women in Contemporary Muslim Societies by Harvard University. Center for the Study of World Religions Pdf

Author : Dietrich Jung
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : East and West
ISBN : 1845539001

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Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere by Dietrich Jung Pdf

In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as an all-encompassing religious, political and social system. In shifting from differences to similarities, it leaves behind the increasingly circular debate about the "true" nature of Islam in which the Muslim religion has been represented either as intrinsically hostile to or as principally compatible with modern culture. Instead, it associates the evolution of a particularly essentialist image of Islam with a complex process of cross-cutting (self)-interpretations of Muslim and Western societies within an emerging global public sphere. Putting its focus on the life and work of a number of paradigmatic individuals, the book investigates the intellectual encounters and discursive interdependencies among western and Muslim intellectuals. In a historical genealogy it deconstructs the essentialist image of Islam in uncovering its conceptual foundations in the modern transformation of European and Muslim societies from the nineteenth century onwards. Thereby, the changing infrastructure of the global public sphere has facilitated the gradual popularization, trivialization, and dissemination of a previously elitist discourse on Islam and modernity. In this way, the idea of Islam as an all-encompassing system has been turned into accepted knowledge in the Western and Muslim worlds alike.