Islam The Straight Path

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195112342

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Islam by John L. Esposito Pdf

In Islam, Esposito provides a succinct, up-to-date survey of the Islamic experience, an introduction to the faith, belief, and practice of Islam from its origins to its contemporary resurgence. He traces the emergence and development of this dynamic faith and its impact on world history and politics. He discusses the formation of Islamic belief and practice (law, theology, philosophy, and mysticism), chronicling the struggle of Muslims to define and adhere to their Islamic way of life. Equally important is the essential information Esposito provides on the contemporary world of Islam, from Muslim responses to the challenges of colonialism and modernization to the reassertion of Islam in politics and society. This third edition has been updated throughout and is enhanced by new material that more accurately reflects the true diversity of Muslim cultures.

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035079206

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Islam by John L. Esposito Pdf

Provides a survey of the Islamic experience, introducing the faith, belief, and practice of Islam from its origins to the present day.

Author : Kenneth W. Morgan
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120804031

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Islam: the Straight Path by Kenneth W. Morgan Pdf

Islam--the Straight Path is a concise presentation of the history and spread of Islam and of the beliefs and obligations of Muslims as interpreted by some outstanding Muslim scholars of our time from Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, and China. The essays present a vivid picture of this faith which exerts tremendous influence on its votaries and has found its home from Morocco to Indonesia and China. The work is a portrayal of Islam as it is, with chapters devoted to subjects such as The Origin of Islam, Ideas and Movements in Islamic History, Islamic Beliefs and Code of Laws, The Rational and Mystical Interpretations of Islam, Shi'a, Islamic Culture in Arab and African Countries, Islamic Culture in Turkish Areas, Muslim Culture in Pakistan and India, Islamic Culture in China, Islam in Indonesia, and, Unity in Diversity in Islam. Each chapter epitomizes a subject which could scarcely be covered adequately in a whole book .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1900*
Category : Islam
ISBN : OCLC:957321688

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Islam - the Straight Path by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daan Beekers,David Kloos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337147

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Straying from the Straight Path by Daan Beekers,David Kloos Pdf

If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith – outside the domain of religion ‘proper.’ Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.

Author : Joel Hayward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 1940468531

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Poems from the Straight Path by Joel Hayward Pdf

Poems from the Straight Path reflects, chronicles and tries to make sense of Joel Hayward's conversion to Islam after two decades as a fish-out-of-water Unitarian within trinitarian Christianity. The realization that the God to whom he prayed was one, not three, and that Islam was the way for him to worship the God of Abraham, Noah, Moses and Jesus. His conversion was a life-transforming journey that led Hayward, at almost forty, finally to bow his face to the ground before God for the first time. Despite being religious for twenty years he had never bowed as a man should; as low to the earth as the human spine will allow. The process of learning Islam is more profoundly complex and confusing, yet stimulating and satisfying, than for those who were raised in Islamic families or communities can possibly imagine. Everything needs to be learned. But first everything needs to be unlearned. Hayward's journey of exploration, transformation and illumination forms the beating heart of this moving collection of poetry. Yet his poems deal not only with his own reversion and other spiritual experiences, but, more importantly, also with the everyday challenges and hopes of western Muslims who wrestle to understand their gone-astray society and its encroaching pressures. A timely and important work that reveals the struggle and profound insights of someone bridging cultures and faith traditions.

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199880416

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The Oxford History of Islam by John L. Esposito Pdf

Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L. Esposito, Editor-in-Chief of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, has gathered together sixteen leading scholars, both Muslim and non-Muslim, to examine the origins and historical development of Islam--its faith, community, institutions, sciences, and arts. Beginning in the pre-Islamic Arab world, the chapters range from the story of Muhammad and his Companions, to the development of Islamic religion and culture and the empires that grew from it, to the influence that Islam has on today's world. The book covers a wide array of subjects, casting light on topics such as the historical encounter of Islam and Christianity, the role of Islam in the Mughal and Ottoman empires, the growth of Islam in Southeast Asia, China, and Africa, the political, economic, and religious challenges of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Islamic communities in the modern Western world. In addition, the book offers excellent articles on Islamic religion, art and architecture, and sciences as well as bibliographies. Events in the contemporary world have led to an explosion of interest and scholarly work on Islam. Written for the general reader but also appealing to specialists, The Oxford History of Islam offers the best of that recent scholarship, presented in a readable style and complemented by a rich variety of illustrations.

Author : Professor of Religion and International Affairs Georgetown University John L Esposito
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Islam
ISBN : 019938147X

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Islam by Professor of Religion and International Affairs Georgetown University John L Esposito Pdf

This exceptionally successful survey text introduces the teachings and practice of Islam from its earliest origins up to its contemporary practice. John L. Esposito, an internationally renowned expert on Islam, traces the development of Islam and its impact on world history and politics. Lucidly written and expansive in scope, Islam: The Straight Path, Fifth Edition, provides keen insight into one of the world's least understood religions. It is ideally suited for use in courses on Islam, world religions, comparative religions, and Middle East history and culture. A FREE 6-month subscription to Oxford Islamic Studies Online (www.oxfordislamicstudies.com), edited by John L. Esposito, is included with the purchase of every new copy of this text.

Author : Elyse Semerdjian
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780815651550

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"Off the Straight Path" by Elyse Semerdjian Pdf

The legal treatment of sexual behavior is a subject that receives little scholarly attention in the field of Middle East women’s studies. Important questions about the relationship between sexuality and the law and about the societies enforcing that relationship are rarely addressed in the current literature. Elyse Semerdjian’s “Off the Straight Path” takes a bold step toward filling that gap by offering a fascinating look at the historical progression of the treatment of illicit sex under Islamic law. Semerdjian provides a comprehensive review of the concept of zina, i.e., sexual indiscretion, by exploring the diverse interpretation of zina crime as presented in a variety of sources from the Qur’an and hadith to legal literature. She then delves into the history of legal responses to zina within the specific community of Aleppo, Syria. Drawing on a wealth of shari‘a court records, Semerdjian provides a realistic view of Syrian society during the Ottoman period. With vivid detail, she describes specific women’s lives and experiences as their cases are presented before the court. Semerdjian argues that the actual treatment of zina crimes in the courts differs substantially from sentences prescribed by codified Islamic jurisprudence. In contrast to the violent corporal punishments dictated in the Islamic legal code, the courts often punished crimes of sexual indiscretion with nonviolent sentences, such as removal from the community. Employing exceptional insight, “Off the Straight Path” presents a powerful challenge to the traditional view of Islamic law, enabling a richer understanding of Islamic society.

Author : Jasmin Zine
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442692947

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Canadian Islamic Schools by Jasmin Zine Pdf

Religious schooling in Canada has been a controversial subject since the secularization of the public school system, but there has been little scholarship on Islamic education. In this ethnographic study of four full-time Islamic schools, Jasmin Zine explores the social, pedagogical, and ideological functions of these alternative, and religiously-based educational institutions. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork and interviews with forty-nine participants, Canadian Islamic Schools provides significant insight into the role and function that Islamic schools have in Diasporic, Canadian, educational, and gender-related contexts. Discussing issues of cultural preservation, multiculturalism, secularization, and assimiliation, Zine considers pertinent topics such as the Eurocentricism of Canada's public schools and the social reproduction of Islamic identity. She further examines the politics of piety, veiling, and gender segregation paying particular attention to the ways in which gendered identities are constructed within the practices of Islamic schools and how these narratives shape and inform the negotiation of gender roles among both boys and girls. A fascinating and informative study of religious-based education, Canadian Islamic Schools is essential reading for educators, sociologists, as well as those interested in Immigration and Diaspora Studies.

Author : John L. Esposito,John Obert Voll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019514127X

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Makers of Contemporary Islam by John L. Esposito,John Obert Voll Pdf

This book examines the biographies of nine major activist intellectuals whose work provides the core of what the Islamic resurgence became in the 1990s adn is an important foundation for what it can become in the 21st century. Nine figures are covered: Ismail al-Faruqi, Khurshid Ahmad, Maryam Jameelah, Hasan Hanafi, Anwar Ibrahim, and Abdurrahman Wahid.

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195043995

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Islam by John L. Esposito Pdf

Provides a survey of the Islamic experience, introducing the faith, belief, and practice of Islam from its origins to the present day.

Author : Ron Geaves
Publisher : Darton Longman and Todd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Islam
ISBN : IND:30000101149403

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Aspects of Islam by Ron Geaves Pdf

Introduction to a number of contemporary controversies in the Islamic world.

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0195168860

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Unholy War by John L. Esposito Pdf

Of the intellectual underpinnings of the more radical elements of contemporary Islam.

Author : Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Publisher : Islam International
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781853721939

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The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Pdf

"Originally written for the Conference of Great Religions held at Lahore on December 26-29, 1896, the Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam has since served as an introduction to Islam for seekers after the truth and religious knowledge in different parts of the world. The present issue includes several "lost" pages not included in the essay that was read out at Lahore. It deals with the following five broad themes, set by the moderators of the Conference: 1. The physical, moral and spiritual states of man 2. The state of man after death 3. The object of man's life and the means to its attainment 4. The operation of the practical ordinances of the Law in this life and the next 5. Sources of Divine knowledge."--Publisher's description.