Prayer In Islamic Thought And Practice

Author : Marion Holmes Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107354715

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Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice by Marion Holmes Katz Pdf

The five daily prayers (Salāt) that constitute the second pillar of Islam deeply pervade the everyday life of observant Muslims. Until now, however, no general study has analyzed the rules governing Salāt, the historical dimensions of its practice and the rich variety of ways that it has been interpreted within the Islamic tradition. Marion Holmes Katz's richly textured book offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Salāt. This innovative study on the subject examines the different ways in which prayer has been understood in Islamic law, Sufi mysticism and Islamic philosophy. Katz's book also goes beyond the spiritual realm to analyze the political dimensions of prayer, including scholars' concerns about the righteousness and piety of rulers. The last chapter raises significant issues around gender roles, including the question of women's participating in and leading public worship. This book will resonate with students of Islamic history and comparative religion.

Author : Marion Holmes Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521887885

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Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice by Marion Holmes Katz Pdf

Offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Salāt, the five daily prayers of Islam.

Author : Marion Holmes Katz,Marion Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Prayer
ISBN : 1107341345

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Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice by Marion Holmes Katz,Marion Holmes Pdf

Offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Sal t, the five daily prayers of Islam.

Author : Sayyid Ali Al-Hakeem
Publisher : Mainstay Foundation
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194339394X

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Practices by Sayyid Ali Al-Hakeem Pdf

This book, Practices: From Prayer to Pilgrimage, is a compilation of fundamental lessons on rituals and practices in Islam. The book is meant to explain the philosophy and etiquette behind Islam's most important rituals. Along with chapters on prayer, fasting, and pilgrimage, the book looks at a number of other key practices, such as supplication and modesty. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on the commemoration of the tragedy of Imam Hussain (a) as a form of devotion and commitment to God and His message.

Author : Marion Holmes Katz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231556705

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Wives and Work by Marion Holmes Katz Pdf

It is widely held today that classical Islamic law frees wives from any obligation to do housework. Wives’ purported exemption from domestic labor became a talking point among Muslims responding to Orientalist stereotypes of the “oppressed Muslim woman” by the late nineteenth century, and it has been a prominent motif in writings by Muslim feminists in the United States since the 1980s. In Wives and Work, Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives’ domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics. She reconstructs a complex discussion among Sunni legal scholars of the ninth to fourteenth centuries CE and examines its wide-ranging implications. As early as the ninth century, the prevalent doctrine that wives had no legal duty to do housework stood in conflict with what most scholars understood to be morally and religiously right. Scholars’ efforts to resolve this tension ranged widely, from drawing a clear distinction between legal claims and ethical ideals to seeking a synthesis of the two. Katz positions legal discussion within a larger landscape of Islamic normative discourse, emphasizing how legal models diverge from, but can sometimes be informed by, philosophical ethics. Through the lens of wives’ domestic labor, this book sheds new light on notions of family, labor, and gendered personhood as well as the interplay between legal and ethical doctrines in Islamic thought.

Author : Abdullah Saeed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134225651

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Islamic Thought by Abdullah Saeed Pdf

Islamic Thought is a fresh and contemporary introduction to the philosophies and doctrines of Islam. Abdullah Saeed, a distinguished Muslim scholar, traces the development of religious knowledge in Islam, from the pre-modern to the modern period. The book focuses on Muslim thought, as well as the development, production and transmission of religious knowledge, and the trends, schools and movements that have contributed to the production of this knowledge. Key topics in Islamic culture are explored, including the development of the Islamic intellectual tradition, the two foundation texts, the Qur’an and Hadith, legal thought, theological thought, mystical thought, Islamic Art, philosophical thought, political thought, and renewal, reform and rethinking today. Through this rich and varied discussion, Saeed presents a fascinating depiction of how Islam was lived in the past and how its adherents practise it in the present. Islamic Thought is essential reading for students beginning the study of Islam but will also interest anyone seeking to learn more about one of the world’s great religions.

Author : W. Montgomery Watt,Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al- Ghazali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861540433

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The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali by W. Montgomery Watt,Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al- Ghazali Pdf

Al-Ghazali was one of the great Muslim theologians. In this book the author provides a translation of some of his works, including his spiritual autobiography. Al-Ghazali's description of his own emergence from scepticism anticipates the philosophical method of systematic doubt employed by Descartes. Another work translated here sets out Al-Ghazali's ideal of how a religious person should order his life from hour to hour and day to day.

Author : Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske, Aydın Süer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783110788365

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Practices of Islamic Preaching by Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske, Aydın Süer Pdf

Author : Edward E Curtis IV
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479880201

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The Practice of Islam in America by Edward E Curtis IV Pdf

An introduction to the ways in which ordinary Muslim Americans practice their faith. Muslims have always been part of the United States, but very little is known about how Muslim Americans practice their religion. How do they pray? What’s it like to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? What rituals accompany the birth of a child, a wedding, or the death of a loved one? What holidays do Muslims celebrate and what charities do they support? How do they learn about the Qur’an? The Practice of Islam in America introduces readers to the way Islam is lived in the United States, offering vivid portraits of Muslim American life passages, ethical actions, religious holidays, prayer, pilgrimage, and other religious activities. It takes readers into homes, religious congregations, schools, workplaces, cemeteries, restaurants—and all the way to Mecca—to understand the diverse religious practices of Muslim Americans. Going beyond a theoretical discussion of what Muslims are supposed to do, this volume focuses on what they actually do. As the volume reveals, their religious practices are shaped by their racial and ethnic identity, their gender and sexual orientation, and their sectarian identity, among other social factors. Readers gain practical information about Islamic religion while also coming to understand how the day-to-day realities of American life shape Muslim American practice.

Author : Marion Holmes Katz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231537872

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Women in the Mosque by Marion Holmes Katz Pdf

Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior. Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Katz connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to changing constructions of gender. Over time, assumptions about women's changing behavior through the lifecycle gave way to a global preoccupation with sexual temptation, which then became the central rationale for limits on women's mosque access. At the same time, travel narratives, biographical dictionaries, and religious polemics suggest that women's usage of mosque space often diverged in both timing and content from the ritual models constructed by scholars. Katz demonstrates both the concrete social and political implications of Islamic legal discourse and the autonomy of women's mosque-based activities. She also examines women's mosque access as a trope in Western travelers' narratives and the evolving significance of women's mosque attendance among different Islamic currents in the twentieth century.

Author : Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351880008

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Theodicy and Justice in Modern Islamic Thought by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi Pdf

This book explores the theology and philosophy of the distinguished modern Muslim scholar and theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi [d.1960]. Nursi wrote in both Ottoman Turkish and Arabic and his life and thought reflected the transition of modern Turkey from an empire to a secular republic. The contributors to this volume shed new light on two major dimensions of Nursi's thought: theodicy and justice. Classical Muslim theologians debated these two important issues; however, we must consider the modern debate of these issues in the context of the radical political and social transformations of modern Turkey. Nursi explored these matters as they related to the development of state and society and the crisis of Islam in the modern secular nation-state. Nursi is the founder of a 'faith movement' in contemporary Turkey with millions of followers worldwide. In this book, distinguished scholars in Islamic, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies explore Nursi's thought on theodicy and justice in comparison with a number of western philosophers, theologians, and men of letters, such as Dante, Merton, Kant, and Moltman. This book presents an invaluable resource for studies in comparative religion, philosophy, and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.

Author : John Corrigan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108988643

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Emotions and Monotheism by John Corrigan Pdf

The emotional turn in scholarship has changed the way in which historians of religion think about monotheistic traditions. New histories of religion have adapted and incorporated the totalizing sensibilities of twentieth century annalistes, the granular view of social historians, groundbreaking philosophical investigations, and the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration between historical analysis, anthropology, and psychology. Religion as a principal bearer of culture has shaped emotional life profoundly, just as human emotion has constituted religious life. Taking a qualified constructivist approach to emotion enables understanding of the dynamism, fluidity, and ambiguity in emotional experience, alongside continuities, and facilitates analysis of how that feeling has animated religious life in monotheistic traditions. It equally sharpens insight into how monotheistic religion itself has made emotion. Affect, emotion, and mixed emotions are three categories of feelings evidenced in monotheistic religions. Each is illustrated with respect to the similarities and differences among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Author : Kōjirō Nakamura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Islam
ISBN : IND:30000081169702

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Ghazali and Prayer by Kōjirō Nakamura Pdf

Author : Sa'd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : God
ISBN : 9780300203691

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Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice by Sa'd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi Pdf

Surprisingly modern essays on the unity of all monotheistic regimens by a medieval philosopher Written in the mid-thirteenth century for the newly appointed governor of Isfahan, this compact treatise and philosophical guidebook includes a wide-ranging and accessible set of essays on ethics, psychology, political philosophy, and the unity of God. Ibn Kammūna, a Jewish scholar writing in Baghdad during a time of Mongol occupation, was a controversial figure whose writings sometimes incited riots. He argued, among other things, the commonality of all monotheisms, both prophetic and philosophical. Here, for the first time in English, is a surprisingly modern work on the unity of all monotheistic regimes from a key medieval philosopher.

Author : Kari Vogt,Lena Larsen,Christian Moe
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106019835831

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New Directions in Islamic Thought by Kari Vogt,Lena Larsen,Christian Moe Pdf

Credits p. vii A note on transliteration p. viii Introduction Kari Vogt and Lena Larsen and Christian Moe p. 1 Part 1 The Changeable and the Unchangeable p. 7 1 The changeable and the unchangeable Abdolkarim Soroush p. 9 2 "Hold(ing) fast by the best in the precepts"--The Qur'an and method Asma Barlas p. 17 3 Law and ethics in Islam - The role of the maqasid Mohammad Hashim Kamali p. 23 4 Human rights and intellectual Islam Mohsen Kadivar p. 47 Part 2 The Challenge of Equality p. 75 5 Classical fiqh, contemporary ethics and gender justice Ziba Mir-Hosseini p. 77 6 Timeless texts and modern morals - Challenges in Islamic sexual ethics Kecia Ali p. 89 7 Gender equality and Islamic law - The case of Morocco Aicha El Hajjami p. 101 8 Historical and political dynamics of the "women and Islam" issue - The Turkish case Nazife Sisman p. 113 Part 3 Authority and Islamic Normativity p. 127 9 Islamic authority Khaled Abou El Fadl p. 129 10 A theory of Islam, state and society Abdullahi A. An-Na'im p. 145 11 A call for a moratorium on corporal punishment - The debate in review Tariq Ramadan p. 163 12 Negotiating gender rights under religious law in Malaysia Zainah Anwar p. 175 13 The changing concepts of caliphate - Social construction of Shari'a and the question of ethics Muhammad Khalid Masud p. 187 Part 4 Dialogue on New Directions p. 207 14 Can the State enforce Shari'a? - A discussion in Yogyakarta Kari Vogt and Lena Larsen and Christian Moe p. 209 Contributors p. 221 Notes p. 227 Index p. 257.