The Sage Handbook Of Islamic Studies

Author : Akbar S Ahmed,Tamara Sonn
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781473971684

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The SAGE Handbook of Islamic Studies by Akbar S Ahmed,Tamara Sonn Pdf

... a welcome addition to the already available introductory works on Islam. The chapters of the book combine depth of analysis and erudition on a wide range of subjects. Thus in a single volume one finds several superbly written papers not only on the foundations of Islam and the manifestations of Islamic culture but also on issues which are at the centre of contemporary debates among Muslims such as multiculturalism, social justice, democracy and diversity. As a sourcebook this work is equally useful for students, academicians and general readers′ - Zafar Ishaq Ansari, Director, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University Islamic Studies is at a critical moment in its history. It seeks both to maintain its rich history and to engage with other - sometimes dominant - cultural and political studies. This tension is producing complex changes in both the theory and the practice of Islamic Studies. This timely and stimulating Handbook, edited by world-class experts in the field, provides a comprehensive guide to Islamic Studies today. It examines the main issues in the field and explores the key debates. It provides readers with an indispensable, balanced guide to the roots of Islam and the challenges it faces in the twenty-first century. The Handbook includes discussions of: - Islam as a community of discourse and a global system - Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism - The Qu′ran today - Islam as a moral and judicial system - Islam and politics - Islam and culture - Diversities and Islam Concise, level-headed and penetrating, this collection will be of interest to anyone who studies contemporary Islam. It brings together an unparalleled collection of international scholars who illuminate some of the most urgent and complex issues in the world today.

Author : Akbar S Ahmed,Tamara Sonn
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781446264522

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The SAGE Handbook of Islamic Studies by Akbar S Ahmed,Tamara Sonn Pdf

... a welcome addition to the already available introductory works on Islam. The chapters of the book combine depth of analysis and erudition on a wide range of subjects. Thus in a single volume one finds several superbly written papers not only on the foundations of Islam and the manifestations of Islamic culture but also on issues which are at the centre of contemporary debates among Muslims such as multiculturalism, social justice, democracy and diversity. As a sourcebook this work is equally useful for students, academicians and general readers′ - Zafar Ishaq Ansari, Director, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University Islamic Studies is at a critical moment in its history. It seeks both to maintain its rich history and to engage with other - sometimes dominant - cultural and political studies. This tension is producing complex changes in both the theory and the practice of Islamic Studies. This timely and stimulating Handbook, edited by world-class experts in the field, provides a comprehensive guide to Islamic Studies today. It examines the main issues in the field and explores the key debates. It provides readers with an indispensable, balanced guide to the roots of Islam and the challenges it faces in the twenty-first century. The Handbook includes discussions of: - Islam as a community of discourse and a global system - Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism - The Qu′ran today - Islam as a moral and judicial system - Islam and politics - Islam and culture - Diversities and Islam Concise, level-headed and penetrating, this collection will be of interest to anyone who studies contemporary Islam. It brings together an unparalleled collection of international scholars who illuminate some of the most urgent and complex issues in the world today.

Author : Hastings Donnan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761954228

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Interpreting Islam by Hastings Donnan Pdf

Islam is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the West. Myths and stereotypes surround it. This clear and penetrating volume helps readers to make sense of Islam. It offers a penetrating guide to the diversity and richness of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society. Throughout, the emphasis is upon the value of pluralistic approaches to Islam, rather than condensing complexity with unifying concepts such as `Orientalism'. Interdisciplinary in scope and organization, the book cuts through the bewildering and seemingly anarchic diversity of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society. The methodological difficulties and advantages of Western researchers focusing on Islam are fully documented. The book demonstrates how gender, age, status and `insider' / `outsider' status impacts upon research and inflects research findings.

Author : Mary Hayden,Jack Levy,Jeff Thompson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473943513

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The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education by Mary Hayden,Jack Levy,Jeff Thompson Pdf

The landscape of international education has changed significantly in the last ten years and our understanding of concepts such as ‘international’, ′global′ and ‘multicultural’ are being re-evaluated. Fully updated and revised, and now including new contributions from research in South East Asia, the Middle East, China, Japan, Australasia, and North America, the new edition of this handbook analyses the origins, interpretations and contributions of international education and explores key contemporary developments, including: internationalism in the context of teaching and learning leadership, standards and quality in institutions and systems of education the promotion of internationalism in national systems This important collection of research is an essential resource for anyone involved in the practice and academic study of international education, including researchers and teachers in universities, governmental and private curriculum development agencies, examination authorities, administrators and teachers in schools.

Author : David Courpasson,Steven Vallas
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473959187

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The SAGE Handbook of Resistance by David Courpasson,Steven Vallas Pdf

A global and multidisciplinary exploration of contemporary resistance. Leading researchers from around the world link theory to the realities of Occupy, Indignados, The Tea Party, The Arab Spring, Anonymous and more.

Author : Clinton Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472586896

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies by Clinton Bennett Pdf

The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies is a comprehensive one volume reference guide to Islam and study in this area. A team of leading international scholars - Muslim and non-Muslim - cover important aspects of study in the field, providing readers with a complete and accessible source of information to the wide range of methodologies and theoretical principles involved. Presenting Islam as a variegated tradition, key essays from the contributors demonstrate how it is subject to different interpretations, with no single version privileged. In this volume, Islam is treated as a lived experience, not only as theoretical ideal or textual tradition. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including a substantial A-Z of key terms and concepts, chronology and a detailed list of resources, this is the essential reference guide for anyone working in Islamic Studies.

Author : Hastings Donnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8178290766

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Interpreting Islam by Hastings Donnan Pdf

Interpreting Islam documents the diversity and richness of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society. To help readers make sense of Islam, the contributors examine the range of disciplinary approaches involved in its study. They focus not only on what these approaches have emphasised, but also on what they have left out, and on their varied responses to the challenge of representing other s cultures.

Author : Richard Fardon,Oliva Harris,Trevor H J Marchand,Cris Shore,Veronica Strang,Richard Wilson,Mark Nuttall
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446266014

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The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology by Richard Fardon,Oliva Harris,Trevor H J Marchand,Cris Shore,Veronica Strang,Richard Wilson,Mark Nuttall Pdf

In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology. With 80 authors, contributing more than 60 chapters, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date statement of research in Social Anthropology available and the essential point of departure for future projects. The Handbook is divided into four sections: -Part I: Interfaces examines Social Anthropology′s disciplinary connections, from Art and Literature to Politics and Economics, from Linguistics to Biomedicine, from History to Media Studies. -Part II: Places examines place, region, culture, and history, from regional, area studies to a globalized world -Part III: Methods examines issues of method; from archives to war zones, from development projects to art objects, and from ethics to comparison -Part IV: Futures anticipates anthropologies to come: in the Brain Sciences; in post-Development; in the Body and Health; and in new Technologies and Materialities Edited by the leading figures in social anthropology, the Handbook includes a substantive introduction by Richard Fardon, a think piece by Jean and John Comaroff, and a concluding last word on futures by Marilyn Strathern. The authors - each at the leading edge of the discipline - contribute in-depth chapters on both the foundational ideas and the latest research. Comprehensive and detailed, this magisterial Handbook overviews the last 25 years of the social anthropological imagination. It will speak to scholars in Social Anthropology and its many related disciplines.

Author : Carl W. Ernst
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9352800087

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It’s Not Just Academic! by Carl W. Ernst Pdf

This collection of articles by Carl W Ernst summarizes over 30 years of research, recovering and illuminating remarkable examples of Islamic culture that have been largely overlooked, if not forgotten. It opens with reflections on teaching Islam, focusing on major themes such as Sufism, the Qur’an, the Prophet Muhammad, and Arabic literature. The importance of public scholarship and the questionable opposition between Islam and the West are also addressed. The articles that follow explore multiple facets of Sufism, the ethical and spiritual tradition that has flourished in Muslim societies for over a thousand years. The cumulative effect is to move away from static Orientalist depictions of Sufism and Islam through a series of vivid and creative case studies.

Author : Mary Evans,Clare Hemmings,Marsha Henry,Hazel Johnstone,Sumi Madhok,Ania Plomien,Sadie Wearing
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473907348

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The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory by Mary Evans,Clare Hemmings,Marsha Henry,Hazel Johnstone,Sumi Madhok,Ania Plomien,Sadie Wearing Pdf

At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory. The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, covering: Epistemology and marginality Literary, visual and cultural representations Sexuality Macro and microeconomics of gender Conflict and peace. The most important consensus in this volume is that a central organizing tenet of feminism is its willingness to examine the ways in which gender and relations between women and men have been (and are) organized. The authors bring a shared commitment to the critical appraisal of gender relations, as well as a recognition that to think ‘theoretically’ is not to detach concerns from lived experience but to extend the possibilities of understanding. With this focus on theory and theorizing about the world in which we live, this Handbook asks us, across all disciplines and situations, to abandon our taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and interrogate both the origin and the implications of our ideas about gender relations and feminism. It is an essential reference work for advanced students and academics not only of feminist theory, but of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004536630

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New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies by Anonim Pdf

This volume draws attention to and moves beyond the traditional methodological frames that have governed knowledge production in the academic study of Islam. Departing from Orientalist and largely textual studies, the chapters collected herein revolve around three main themes: gender, the political, and what has come to be known as "lived Islam." The first involves ascertaining how to read gender and gender issues into traditional sources. The second encourages an attunement to the often delicate intersection between the spheres of religion and politics. The final provides a corrective to our traditional over-emphasis on the interpretation of texts and a preoccupation with studying (mainly male) elites. Taken as a whole, this volume encourages a multi-methodological approach to the study of Islam. Contributors include Abbas Aghdassi, Aaron W. Hughes, Eva Kepplinger, Taira Amin, Betül Avcı, Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat, Meral Durmuş and Bahattin Akşit, Walid Ghali, Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti, Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair, and Niels Valdemar Vinding, Magdalena Pycińska, Zahraa McDonald, Emin Poljarevic, Abdessamad Belhaj.

Author : Norman K. Denzin,Yvonna S. Lincoln,Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412918039

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Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies by Norman K. Denzin,Yvonna S. Lincoln,Linda Tuhiwai Smith Pdf

" ... The Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies extends beyond the investigation of qualitative inquiry itself to explorer the indigenous and nonindigenous voices that inform research, policy, politics, and social justice". -- BACKCOVER.

Author : Charles L. Geddes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013004430

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Guide to Reference Books for Islamic Studies by Charles L. Geddes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1642242306

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Handbook on Islamic and Muslim Studies by Anonim Pdf

Intercultural attitudes and, specifically, attitudes towards Muslims societies have attracted considerable attention in recent years. There is widespread interest in understanding what the underlying factors of both real and perceived tensions are and how they can be dealt with. Islamic studies originated in the tradition of Orientalist scholarship and Christian theology, with its strong textual emphasis, but it has gradually expanded to overlap with Middle East area studies as well as a number of humanistic and social science disciplines, especially religious studies. Over the past several decades, and especially since 9/11, scholarly interest in Islamic studies has thrived. This interest is visible in the number of doctoral dissertations produced on Islam and Muslims over the past half-century. Handbook on Islamic and Muslim Studies is intended to contain the study of all aspects of Islam and of the Islamic world, dealing with history, geography, political science, economics, anthropology, sociology, law, literature, religion, philosophy, international relations, environmental and developmental issues, as well as ethical questions related to scientific research. This book aims to offer an overview of some of the important issues in the study of Islam that scholars discuss at present. The study of Islam is part of a tradition that started in Western academia on a professional scale about two centuries ago, and has always been linked to social concerns. This book brings together scholars studying Islam and Muslim societies share an understanding of Islam as a historical and socio-cultural phenomenon.

Author : Roberto Tottoli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429560850

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Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West by Roberto Tottoli Pdf

With new topics and contributions, this updated second edition discusses the history and contemporary presence of Islam in Europe and America. The book debates the relevance and multi-faceted participation of Muslims in the dynamics of Western societies, challenging the changing perception on both sides. Collating over thirty chapters, written by experts from around the world, the volume presents a wide range of perspectives. Case studies from the Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula between the Middle Ages and the modern age are setting off the Handbook, along with an outline of Muslims in America up to the twentieth century. The second part covers concepts around new conditions in terms of consolidating identities, the emergence of new Muslim actors, the appearance of institutions and institutional attitudes, the effects of Islamic presence on the arts and landscapes of the West, and, the relational dynamics like ethics and gender. Exploring the influence of Islam, particularly its impact on society, culture and politics, this interdisciplinary volume is a key resource for policymakers, academics and students interested in the history of Islam, religion and the contemporary relationship between Islam and the West.