Public Violence In Islamic Societies

Author : Christian Lange
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748637331

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This exploration of the role of violence in the history of Islamic societies considers the subject particularly in the context of its implementation as a political strategy to claim power over the public sphere. Violence, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims, has been the object of research in the past, as in the case of jihad, martyrdom, rebellion or criminal law. This book goes beyond these concerns in addressing, in a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary fashion, how violence has functioned as a basic principle of Islamic social and political organization in a variety of historical and geographical contexts.Contributions trace the use of violence by governments in the history of Islam, shed light on legal views of violence, and discuss artistic and religious responses. Authors lay out a spectrum of attitudes rather than trying to define an Islamic doctrine of violence. Bringing together some of the most substantive and innovative scholarship on this important topic to date, this volume contributes to the growing interest, both scholarly and general, in the question of Muslim attitudes toward violence

Author : Christian Robert Lange,Ma Isabel Fierro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1064161706

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Public Violence in Islamic Societies by Christian Robert Lange,Ma Isabel Fierro Pdf

Author : Zahia Smail Salhi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857722249

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Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies by Zahia Smail Salhi Pdf

As a result of the uprisings that spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011, the issue of state public violence against both men and women dominated the headlines. But gender-based violence, in both its public and private forms, has for the most part remained unnoticed and is often ignored. The forms that this kind of violence can take are influenced by cultural norms and religious beliefs, as well as economic and political circumstances. In 'Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies', violence is perceived not only as physical harm, but includes various forms of violence directed at women because they are women. These include segregation in the workplace and limiting women's access to wealth, gender stereotyping in the media and education, verbal aggression and humiliation, control of women's finances and income, forced veiling, restricted access to education and health. Gender-based violence is thus analysed in its various forms and localities, encompassing both the public and private spheres: within the family, the general community,at work and in various state institutions. Here, Zahia Smail Salhi brings together a wide range of examples of gender-based violence across the Middle East and North Africa, from discrimination in the workplace in Jordan to the physical abuse of underage domestic workers in Morocco, and from psychological and verbal violence against women in Tunisia and Algeria to the practice of female genital mutilation in Egypt. The evidence demonstrates that the violence, far from being of universal character across the region, is instead diverse, in both its intensity and in the processes of addressing such violence.

Author : Miriam Hoexter,Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt,Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0791453677

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The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies by Miriam Hoexter,Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt,Nehemia Levtzion Pdf

Multidisciplinary examination of the public sphere in “traditional” Muslim society.

Author : Beverley Milton-Edwards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230625570

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Islam and Violence in the Modern Era by Beverley Milton-Edwards Pdf

This book examines dimensions of Islam and violence within wider debates about politics, history, faith, power and struggle both within Muslims' realms and outside. It explores the motif of violence in its myriad aspects including debates about sacrifice, private and public violence, responses and reactions, as well as suicide and martyrdom.

Author : Stephen Vertigans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134126385

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Militant Islam by Stephen Vertigans Pdf

Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences. The sociological concepts and theories examined in the book include those associated with social closure, social movements, nationalism, risk, fear and ‘de-civilising’. These are applied within three main themes; characteristics of militant Islam, multi-layered causes and the consequences of militancy, in particular Western reactions within the ‘war on terror’. Interrelationships between religious and secular behaviour, ‘terrorism’ and ‘counter-terrorism’, popular support and opposition are explored. Through the examination of examples from across Muslim societies and communities, the analysis challenges the popular tendency to concentrate upon ‘al-Qa’ida’ and the Middle East. This book will be of interest to students of Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, in particular those taking courses on Islam, religion, terrorism, political violence and related regional studies.

Author : Jamie Bartlett,Jonathan Birdwell,Michael King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Islamic fundamentalism
ISBN : 1906693560

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The Edge of Violence by Jamie Bartlett,Jonathan Birdwell,Michael King Pdf

Author : Zahra Tizro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136623011

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Domestic Violence in Iran by Zahra Tizro Pdf

This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran. Challenging the widespread notion that secularisation and modernisation are the keys to emancipating women, the author instead posits that domestic violence is deeply rooted in society and situated in the fundament of current discourses. Investigating how orthodox jurisprudence as mainstream discourse, together with social, legal and public norms, help to perpetuate the production and reproduction of physical, psychological, sexual and economical violence against women, the author presents and reflects upon narratives, experiences and the social realities accounting for domestic violence against women. Drawing on qualitative empirical research, she theorises that the notion of secularization and modernisation helping to overcome such violence is to some extent represented by Islamic feminism, secular feminism, and religious intellectualism, all of which are methodologically examined in the analysis. Challenging conventional wisdom regarding women’s place in Iran and in wider Islamic society, this book offers a new insight into violence against Muslim women and as such will be an important addition to the existing literature in the areas of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and Iranian studies.

Author : Pauline Jones
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822981961

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Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia by Pauline Jones Pdf

During the 1990s, there was a general consensus that Central Asia was witnessing an Islamic revival after independence, and that this occurrence would follow similar events throughout the Islamic world in the prior two decades, which had negative effects on both social and political development. Twenty years later, we are still struggling to fully understand the transformation of Islam in a region that’s evolved through a complex and dynamic process, involving diversity in belief and practice, religious authority, and political intervention. This volume seeks to shed light on these crucial questions by bringing together an international group of scholars to offer a new perspective on Central Asian states and societies. The chapters provide analysis through four distinct categories: the everyday practice of Islam across local communities; state policies toward Islam, focusing on attempts to regulate public and private practice through cultural, legal, and political institutions and how these differ from Soviet policies; how religious actors influence communities in the practice of Islam, state policies towards the religion, and subsequent communal responses to state regulations; and how knowledge of and interaction with the larger Islamic world is shaping Central Asia’s current Islamic revival and state responses. The contributors, a multidisciplinary and international group of leading scholars, develop fresh insights that both corroborate and contradict findings from previous research, while also highlighting the problem of making any generalizations about Islam in individual states or the region. As such, this volume provides new and impactful analysis for scholars, students, and policy makers concerned with Central Asia.

Author : Nancy Lipton Rosenblum,Nancy L. Rosenblum,Robert C. Post
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691088020

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Civil Society and Government by Nancy Lipton Rosenblum,Nancy L. Rosenblum,Robert C. Post Pdf

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Author : Christian Lange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1107404614

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Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination by Christian Lange Pdf

How was the use of violence against Muslims explained and justified in medieval Islam? What role did state punishment play in delineating the private from the public sphere? What strategies were deployed to cope with the suffering caused by punishment? These questions are explored in Christian Lange's in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment, both divine and human, in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. The book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice, Muslim attitudes to hell and the punishments that were in store in the afterlife, and the legal dimensions of punishment. The cross-disciplinary approach embraced in this study, which is based on a wide variety of Persian and Arabic sources, sheds light on the interplay between theory and practice in Islamic criminal law, and between executive power and the religious imagination of medieval Muslim society at large.

Author : Dale F. Eickelman,Jon W. Anderson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Communication
ISBN : 025334252X

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New Media in the Muslim World by Dale F. Eickelman,Jon W. Anderson Pdf

This second edition of a collection of essays reports on how new media-fax machines, satellite television and the Internet - and the new uses of older media-cassettes, pulp fiction, the cinema, the telephone and the press - shape belief, authority and community in the Muslim world. The chapters in this work, including new chapters dealing specifically with events after September 11, 2001, concern Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula, and Muslim communities in the United States and elsewhere. The book suggests new ways of looking at the social organization of communications and the shifting links among media of various kinds in local and transnational contexts. The extent to which today's new media have transcended local and state frontiers and have reshaped understanding of gender, authority, social justice, identities and politics in Muslim societies emerges from this work.

Author : Christian C. Sahner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691203133

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Christian Martyrs Under Islam by Christian C. Sahner Pdf

A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations during late antiquity and the early Islamic era How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and how small groups of individuals rejected this faith through dramatic acts of resistance, including apostasy and blasphemy. Using previously untapped sources in a range of Middle Eastern languages, Christian Sahner introduces an unknown group of martyrs who were executed at the hands of Muslim officials between the seventh and ninth centuries CE. Found in places as diverse as Syria, Spain, Egypt, and Armenia, they include an alleged descendant of Muhammad who converted to Christianity, high-ranking Christian secretaries of the Muslim state who viciously insulted the Prophet, and the children of mixed marriages between Muslims and Christians. Sahner argues that Christians never experienced systematic persecution under the early caliphs, and indeed, they remained the largest portion of the population in the greater Middle East for centuries after the Arab conquest. Still, episodes of ferocious violence contributed to the spread of Islam within Christian societies, and memories of this bloodshed played a key role in shaping Christian identity in the new Islamic empire. Christian Martyrs under Islam examines how violence against Christians ended the age of porous religious boundaries and laid the foundations for more antagonistic Muslim-Christian relations in the centuries to come.

Author : Atta Muhammad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755647590

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Sufis in Medieval Baghdad by Atta Muhammad Pdf

This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor. The book reveals the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period. It also reveals the role of ordinary, non-elite actors who, by taking part in Sufi-affiliated religious or professional associations, were able take part in public life in late-Abbasid Baghdad.

Author : Robert Gleave
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474403450

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Violence in Islamic Thought from the QurASA?Ae?n to the Mongols by Robert Gleave Pdf

This volume brings together some of the leading researchers on early Islamic history and thought to study the legitimacy of violence.