Islam In The Middle Eastern Studies

Author : Elias Muhanna
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110376517

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The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies by Elias Muhanna Pdf

Over the past few decades, humanistic inquiry has been problematized and invigorated by the emergence of what is referred to as the digital humanities. Across multiple disciplines, from history to literature, religious studies to philosophy, archaeology to music, scholars are tapping the extraordinary power of digital technologies to preserve, curate, analyze, visualize, and reconstruct their research objects. The study of the Middle East and the broader Islamic world has been no less impacted by this new paradigm. Scholars are making daily use of digital tools and repositories including private and state-sponsored archives of textual sources, digitized manuscript collections, densitometrical imaging, visualization and modeling software, and various forms of data mining and analysis. This collection of essays explores the state of the art in digital scholarship pertaining to Islamic & Middle Eastern studies, addressing areas such as digitization, visualization, text mining, databases, mapping, and e-publication. It is of relevance to any researcher interested in the opportunities and challenges engendered by this changing scholarly ecosystem.

Author : Usaama Al-Azami
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197651117

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Islam and the Arab Revolutions by Usaama Al-Azami Pdf

The Arab revolutions of 2011 were a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to call for 'bread, freedom and dignity'. With the passage of time, results have been decidedly mixed, with tentative success stories like Tunisia contrasting with the emergence of even more repressive dictatorships in places like Egypt, with the backing of several Gulf states. Focusing primarily on Egypt, this book considers a relatively understudied dimension of these revolutions: the role of prominent religious scholars. While pro-revolutionary ulama have justified activism against authoritarian regimes, counter-revolutionary scholars have provided religious backing for repression, and in some cases the mass murder of unarmed protestors. Usaama al-Azami traces the public engagements and religious pronouncements of several prominent ulama in the region, including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ali Gomaa and Abdullah bin Bayyah, to explore their role in either championing the Arab revolutions or supporting their repression. He concludes that while a minority of noted scholars have enthusiastically endorsed the counter-revolutions, their approach is attributable less to premodern theology and more to their distinctly modern commitment to the authoritarian state.

Author : Akira Usuki,Hiroshi Katō
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Islam
ISBN : 4901838024

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Islam in the Middle Eastern Studies by Akira Usuki,Hiroshi Katō Pdf

Author : Donna Lee Bowen,Evelyn A. Early
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0253214904

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Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East by Donna Lee Bowen,Evelyn A. Early Pdf

A revised and updated edition of a popular and widely used text

Author : Margariti Eleni Roxani,Adam Sabra,Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004214736

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Histories of the Middle East by Margariti Eleni Roxani,Adam Sabra,Petra M. Sijpesteijn Pdf

For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieval history, and most saliently for the purposes of this volume, taught several cohorts of students at Princeton University. This volume is therefore dedicated to his intellectual legacy from a uniquely revealing angle: the current work of his former students. The papers in this volume range chronologically from the period preceding the rise of Islam in Arabia to the Mamluk era, geographically from the Western Mediterranean to the Western Indian Ocean and thematically from the political negotiations of Christian and Islamic Mediterranean sovereigns to the historiography of Western Indian Ocean port cities.

Author : Sami Zubaida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857718648

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Beyond Islam by Sami Zubaida Pdf

In this magisterial work, Sami Zubaida draws on a distinguished career's worth of experience trying to understand the region to address the fundamental question in Middle East studies: what is the Middle East? He argues, controversially, that to see it through the prism of Islam, as it is conventionally viewed, is to completely misunderstand it. Many of what we think of as the 'Islamic' characteristics of the region are products of culture and society, not religion.To think of Islam itself as an essential, anti-modern force in the region rather than something shaped by specific historical-economic processes is, Zubaida argues, a mistake. Instead, he offers us an alternative view of the region, its historic cosmpolitanism, its religious and cultural diversity, its rapid adoption of new media cultures, which reveals a multi-faceted and complex region teeming with multiple identities. Wide-ranging, erudite and powerfully argued, Zubaida's work will be essential reading for future generations of students of this fascinating region.

Author : Talmon-Heller Daniella Talmon-Heller
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781474460996

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Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East by Talmon-Heller Daniella Talmon-Heller Pdf

This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced at sacred spaces and in sacred times through two detailed case studies: the shrines in honour of the head of al-Husayn (the martyred grandson of the Prophet), and the holy month of Rajab. The changing expressions of the veneration of the shrine and month are followed from the formative period of Islam until the late Mamluk period, paying attention to historical contexts and power relations. Readers will find interest in the attempt to integrate the two perspectives synchronically and diachronically, in a discussion of the relationship between the sanctification of space and time in individual and communal piety, and in the religious literature of the period.

Author : Donna Lee Bowen,Evelyn A. Early,Becky Schulthies
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253014726

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Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Third Edition by Donna Lee Bowen,Evelyn A. Early,Becky Schulthies Pdf

The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a grassroots appreciation of Middle East life, culture, and society that recognizes the impact of wars and uprisings as well as changes to Islamic practice due to advances in technology. The book also explores the influence of social media on politics and labor relations and the changing status of women, family values, marriage, childrearing, gender, and gay rights. This dynamic and imaginative volume continues to provide a rich resource for understanding contemporary Muslim culture in the Middle East.

Author : Bernard Lewis,Cleveland E Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Bernard Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195144208

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What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis,Cleveland E Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Bernard Lewis Pdf

A leading authority in Near Eastern Studies explores the decline of Islamic power in the Middle East and traces the impact of these events on the modern era.

Author : Nurullah Ardıc̦
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415671668

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Islam and the Politics of Secularism by Nurullah Ardıc̦ Pdf

This book examines the process of secularisation in the Middle East in the late 19th century and early 20th century that transformed the Ottoman Empire and led to the abolition of the Caliphate.

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Jane I. Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791420205

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Muslim Communities in North America by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Jane I. Smith Pdf

This book provides the first in-depth look at Muslim life and institutions forming in North America. It considers the range of Islamic life in North America with its different racial-ethnic and cultural identities, customs, and religious orientations. Issues of acculturation, ethnicity, orthodoxy, and the changing roles of women are brought into focus. The authors provide insight into the lives of recent immigrants who are asking what is Islamically appropriate in a non-Muslim environment. Contrasts are drawn between Sunni and Shi'i groups, and attention is given to the activities of some Sufi organizations. The growing Islamic community among African-American Muslims is examined, including the followers of Warith Deen Muhammed and the sectarians identified with black power, such as the Nation of Islam, Darul Islam, and the Five Percenters. The authors document the challenges and issues that American Muslims face, such as prejudice and racism; pressure from overseas Muslims; dress and education; the influence of Islamic revivalism on the development of the community in this country; and the maintenance of Muslim identity amidst the pressure for assimilation.

Author : Edmund Herzig,Sarah Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786724465

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Early Islamic Iran by Edmund Herzig,Sarah Stewart Pdf

How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series traces that critical moment in Iranian history which followed the transformation of ancient traditions during the country's conversion and initial Islamic period. Distinguished contributors (who include the late Oleg Grabar, Roy Mottahedeh, Alan Williams and Said Amir Arjomand) discuss, from a variety of literary, artistic, religious and cultural perspectives, the years around the end of the first millennium CE, when the political strength of the 'Abbasid Caliphate was on the wane, and when the eastern lands of the Islamic empire began to be take on a fresh 'Persianate' or 'Perso-Islamic' character. One of the paradoxes of this era is that the establishment throughout the eastern Islamic territories of new Turkish dynasties coincided with the genesis and spread, into Central and South Asia, of vibrant new Persian language and literatures. Exploring the nature of this paradox, separate chapters engage with ideas of kingship, authority and identity and their fascinating expression through the written word, architecture and the visual arts.

Author : Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Conversion
ISBN : 0860789888

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Islam in Africa and the Middle East by Nehemia Levtzion Pdf

Emphasises on processes of conversion and Islamization, and covers Islamic perceptions of and presence in Africa. This book focuses on Islamic movements of revival and renewal, Sufism and fundamentalism.

Author : George E. Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315409122

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A Short History of the Middle East by George E. Kirk Pdf

This book, first published in 1948, grew out of a series of lectures delivered since the War at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies to British students who required a solid grounding in Middle East history and politics to assist in fitting them for active careers in the region. These lectures, by a leading specialist on Middle Eastern history, generated such interest that they were adapted and published in book form for a wider reading public. The book forms a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Middle East.

Author : Middle East Studies Association of North America. Research and Training Committee
Publisher : New York : Wiley
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : IND:32000000961609

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The Study of the Middle East by Middle East Studies Association of North America. Research and Training Committee Pdf