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Islam Obscured

D. Varisco
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Author : D. Varisco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403973429

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Ethnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. This study analyzes four seminal texts that have been read widely outside anthropology. Two are by distinguished anthropologists on either side of the Atlantic, Islam Observed (by Clifford Geertz in 1968) and Muslim Society (by Ernest Gellner in 1981). Two other texts are by Muslim scholars, Beyond the Veil (Fatima Mernissi in 1975) and Discovering Islam (by Akbar Ahmed in 1988). Varisco argues that each of these four authors approaches Islam as an essentialized organic unity rather than letting 'Islams' found in the field speak to the diversity of practice. The textual truths engendered, and far too often engineered, in these idealized representations of Islam have found their way unscrutinized into an endless stream of scholarly works and textbooks. Varisco's analysis goes beyond the rhetoric over what Islam is to the information from ethnographic research about what Muslims say they do and actually are observed to do. The issues covered include Islam as a cultural phenomenon, representation of 'the other', Muslim gender roles, politics of ethnographic authority, and Orientalist discourse.

The Crescent Obscured

Robert J. Allison
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Author : Robert J. Allison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
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Release : 2014-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226308579

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From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert Allison traces the perceptions and mis-perceptions of Islam in the American mind as the new nation constructed its ideology and system of government. "A powerful ending that explains how the experience with the Barbary states compelled many Americans to look inward . . . with increasing doubts about the institution of slavery." —David W. Lesch, Middle East Journal "Allison's incisive and informative account of the fledgling republic's encounter with the Muslim world is a revelation with a special pertinence to today's international scene." —Richard W. Bulliet, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This book should be widely read. . . . Allison's study provides a context for understanding more recent developments, such as America's tendency to demonize figures like Iran's Khumaini, Libya's Qaddafi, and Iraq's Saddam." —Richard M. Eaton, Eighteenth Century Studies

Islam in Southeast Asia

K S Nathan,Mohammad Hashim Kamali
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Author : K S Nathan,Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9812302832

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Examines the role, relevance and challenges, as well as the political and strategic dimensions of Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.

The Hidden Origins of Islam

Karl-Heinz Ohlig,Gerd-R. Puin
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Author : Karl-Heinz Ohlig,Gerd-R. Puin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39076002859820

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Based on the premise that reliable history can only be written on the basis of sources that are contemporary with the events described, the contributors to this in-depth investigation present research that reveals the obscure origins of Islam in a completely new light.

Islam and America

Anouar Majid
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Author : Anouar Majid
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442214125

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is the enemy of future progress." --Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra University, author of Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation --

Waqf in Zaydī Yemen

Eirik Hovden
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Author : Eirik Hovden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004377844

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Islamic foundations (waqf, pl. awqāf) have been an integral part of Yemeni society both for managing private wealth and as a legal frame for charity and public infrastructure. This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge. It combines textual analysis with ethnography and seeks to understand how Islamic law is approached, used, produced, and validated in selected topics of waqf law where there are tensions between ideals and pragmatic rules. The study analyses central Zaydī fiqh works such as the Sharḥ al-azhār cluster, imamic decrees, fatwās, and waqf documents, mostly from Zaydī, northern Yemen. For the Arabic edition, please see here.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 25:2

Umer O. Thasneem,Muhamad S. Olimat,Mohamed El-Tahir El-Mesawi,Seyed Mahdi Sajjadi,Mahdi Tourage,Birgit Krawietz,Amr G. E. Sabet,Doug Kiel,Anita Mir,Sajjad H. Rizvi,Efrat E. Aviv,Timothy P. Daniels,Minoo Derayeh,Naama Ben-Ami,David Johnston,Syed Asim Ali,Alyson E. Jones,Livnat Holtzman,Altaf Fatima,Junaid S. Ahmad,Qamar-ul Huda
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Author : Umer O. Thasneem,Muhamad S. Olimat,Mohamed El-Tahir El-Mesawi,Seyed Mahdi Sajjadi,Mahdi Tourage,Birgit Krawietz,Amr G. E. Sabet,Doug Kiel,Anita Mir,Sajjad H. Rizvi,Efrat E. Aviv,Timothy P. Daniels,Minoo Derayeh,Naama Ben-Ami,David Johnston,Syed Asim Ali,Alyson E. Jones,Livnat Holtzman,Altaf Fatima,Junaid S. Ahmad,Qamar-ul Huda
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 25:2 by Umer O. Thasneem,Muhamad S. Olimat,Mohamed El-Tahir El-Mesawi,Seyed Mahdi Sajjadi,Mahdi Tourage,Birgit Krawietz,Amr G. E. Sabet,Doug Kiel,Anita Mir,Sajjad H. Rizvi,Efrat E. Aviv,Timothy P. Daniels,Minoo Derayeh,Naama Ben-Ami,David Johnston,Syed Asim Ali,Alyson E. Jones,Livnat Holtzman,Altaf Fatima,Junaid S. Ahmad,Qamar-ul Huda Pdf

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is a double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and meta-physics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.

Islam and State in Sumatra

Amirul Hadi
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Author : Amirul Hadi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789047402046

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This work describes how Islam was adapted by the seventeenth century Acehnese state to serve political and dynastic goals, and how its consequent profile as a champion of Islam raised its profile in regional contests for military and commercial dominance

Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion

J.D.Y. Peel
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Author : J.D.Y. Peel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520285859

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous orisa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. For over 400 years, the Yoruba have straddled two geocultural spheres: one reaching north over the Sahara to the world of Islam, the other linking them to the Euro-American world via the Atlantic. These two external spheres were the source of contrasting cultural influences, notably those emanating from the world religions. However, the Yoruba not only imported Islam and Christianity but also exported their own orisa religion to the New World. Before the voluntary modern diaspora that has brought many Yoruba to Europe and the Americas, tens of thousands were sold as slaves in the New World, bringing with them the worship of the orisa. Peel offers deep insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, the transnational flows of contemporary religion, and the interplay between tradition and the demands of an ever-changing present. In the process, he makes a major theoretical contribution to the anthropology of world religions.

The Hidden Enemy

Michael Youssef
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Author : Michael Youssef
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496431455

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What's going on in our world? Why are suicide bombers attacking our cities? Why are shooters invading our workplaces and malls? Why are students attacking speakers at their colleges? Why are there two versions of the truth on the Internet and in the media? Michael Youssef, popular teacher and Middle Eastern expert, explains in detail what's troubling today's world. Aggressive secularism is stripping our nation of the vestiges of truth, as many Christians are browbeaten into silence. What's ironic is that secularism is actually opening the door to the "might makes right" nature of radical Islam. In a post-truth world, the most powerful voice wins. What can save us and our children from this chilling future? Michael Youssef, in this groundbreaking book, shows how we can win the war against aggressive secularism, beat back the threat of radical Islam, and build a brighter future for both ourselves and the next generation. Be prepared for the times in which we live. Understand what's happening. Stand up for a brighter and hope-filled future for our children.

Agents of the Hidden Imam

Edmund Hayes
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Author : Edmund Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108834391

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Offers fascinating insights into the careers of the first leaders of Twelver Shiʿism: agents who claimed to speak for the 'hidden Imam'.

Lived Islam

A. Kevin Reinhart
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Author : A. Kevin Reinhart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483278

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This book is designed to serve as a text for courses on modern Islam. It challenges misleading questions which foster assumptions of Islam as a monolithic essence to instead argue that Islam, like all religions, is complex and thus best understood through analogy with language.

Java, Indonesia and Islam

Mark Woodward
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Author : Mark Woodward
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789400700567

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Mark R. Woodward’s Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta (1989) was one of the most important work on Indonesian Islam of the era. This new volume, Java, Indonesia, and Islam, builds on the earlier study, but also goes beyond it in important ways. Written on the basis of Woodward’s thirty years of research on Javanese Islam in a Yogyakarta (south-central Java) setting, the book presents a much-needed collection of essays concerning Javanese Islamic texts, ritual, sacred space, situated in Javanese and Indonesian political contexts. With a number of entirely new essays as well as significantly revised versions of essays this book is a valuable contribution to the academic community by an eminent anthropologist and key authority on Islamic religion and culture in Java.

Islamic Spectrum in Java

Timothy Daniels
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Author : Timothy Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317112181

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This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. It engages with complex issues of cultural translation, localization and globalization from various perspectives through analyzing a diverse range of cultural forms, including government or palace-based celebrations, ceremonies and rituals, modern student theatre, and Islamic revival sessions. With its discussion of both old and new Islamic movements, alongside the contested religious interpretations of public cultural events, this book will be of interest not only to anthropologists, but also to scholars of religion, culture and sociology.

What Is Islam?

Shahab Ahmed
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Author : Shahab Ahmed
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691178318

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A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversity What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an analytical term? In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or those that privilege law and scripture. He argues that these modes of thinking obstruct us from understanding Islam, distorting it, diminishing it, and rendering it incoherent. What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for analyzing Islam. It presents a new paradigm of how Muslims have historically understood divine revelation—one that enables us to understand how and why Muslims through history have embraced values such as exploration, ambiguity, aestheticization, polyvalence, and relativism, as well as practices such as figural art, music, and even wine drinking as Islamic. It also puts forward a new understanding of the historical constitution of Islamic law and its relationship to philosophical ethics and political theory. A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, What Is Islam? reveals how Muslims have historically conceived of and lived with Islam as norms and truths that are at once contradictory yet coherent.