What Do Muslims Believe

Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802718914

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What Do Muslims Believe? by Ziauddin Sardar Pdf

A fascinating and concise primer on one of the world's most widespread religions. Islam is one of the great monotheistic religions of the world. Its teachings emphasize unity, humility, forgiveness, and love of God. The Qur'an sings the virtues of knowledge and rationality. The life of Muhammad demonstrates the importance of tolerance, social justice and brotherhood. So why is Islam so often associated with hatred, violence, obstinacy, and bigotry? What Do Muslims Believe? presents readers with an accessible and incisive explanation of the roots and beliefs of Islam, published at a time when more than ever we need an objective view of this often misinterpreted religion. Parsing fact from misstatement in elegant prose, Ziauddin Sardar gives a clear-eyed view of what makes a Muslim; where Muslims come from and who they are today; what, exactly, they believe and how they reflect those beliefs; where Islam is headed; and how you can apply Islam in your life. With a useful chronology of Islamic history from A.D. 632 to the present, a glossary of terms, selections from both the Qur'an and the Hadith, as well as a list of further reading, What Do Muslims Believe? is an ideal primer for anyone who wants to understand what it really means to follow Islam.

Author : John Bowker
Publisher : ONEWorld Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1851681698

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What Muslims Believe by John Bowker Pdf

The interviewees in this book provide through-provoking commentary on a wide range of issues, from the interpretation of the Qur'an and the nature of Islamic law, to the role of women and the concept of holy war.

Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Granta Publications
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781847084972

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What Do Muslims Believe? by Ziauddin Sardar Pdf

“Elucidating . . . describes the basics of Islam, including the Qur’an and hadith, the life of Muhammad and the history of Islam and Muslims.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The world is green and beautiful; and God has appointed you as His trustee over it.”—The Prophet Muhammad Islam is one of the great monotheistic religions of the world. It produced a magnificent civilization, envied for its science and learning, spanning over a thousand years. The teachings of Islam emphasize unity, humility, forgiveness and love of God. The Qur’an sings the virtues of knowledge and rationality. The life of Muhammad demonstrates the importance of tolerance, social justice and brotherhood. In Sufism, Islam presents a mystical system based on love and devotion. So why is Islam associated with hatred, violence, obstinacy and bigotry? Ziauddin Sardar examines the true teachings of Islam and explores the reality of the Muslim world today. Emphasizing the diversity of Islam and its ideals, he assesses the role Islam plays in the lives of ordinary Muslims and how Islamic beliefs and practices help Muslims understand the modern world. “Ziauddin Sardar is arguably one of the best-known Muslim public intellectuals in the world today. He is an iconoclast, often a gadfly and undoubtedly one of the few Muslim intellectuals who span the proverbial Two Cultures.”—Muslim News “Among the many sanguine introductions to Islam, Sardar’s moves immediately to the front rank for its readability.”—Booklist

Author : Ismail Kurban Husein Poonawala
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195684354

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Ibadat by Ismail Kurban Husein Poonawala Pdf

The Pillars of Islam was the culmination of Nu'man's more than thirty years of effort in the field of jurisprudence. Considered to be the greatest authority on Isma'ili law, this work is essential for scholars and students of Islamic law.

Author : Timur R. Yuskaev
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611177954

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Speaking Qur'an by Timur R. Yuskaev Pdf

An exploration of how Muslims in the United States have interpreted the Qur'an in ways that make it speak to their American realities In Speaking Qur'an: An American Scripture, Timur R. Yuskaev examines how Muslim Americans have been participating in their country's cultural, social, religious, and political life. Essential to this process, he shows, is how the Qur'an has become an evermore deeply American text that speaks to central issues in the lives of American Muslims through the spoken-word interpretations of Muslim preachers, scholars,and activists. Yuskaev illustrates this process with four major case studies that highlight dialogues between American Muslim public intellectuals and their audiences. First, through an examination of the work of Fazlur Rahman, he addresses the question of how the premodern Qur'an is translated across time into modern, American settings. Next the author contemplates the application of contemporary concepts of gender to renditions of the Qur'an alongside Amina Wadud's American Muslim discourses on justice.Then he demonstrates how the Qur'an becomes a text of redemption in W. D. Mohammed's oral interpretation of the Qur'an as speaking directly to the African American experience. Finally he shows how, before and after 9/11, Hamza Yusuf invoked the Qur'an as a guide to the political life of American Muslims. Set within the rapidly transforming contexts of the last half century, and central to the volume, are the issues of cultural translation and embodiment of sacred texts that Yuskaev explores by focusing on the Qur'an as a spoken scripture. The process of the Qur'an becoming an American sacred text, he argues, is ongoing. It comes to life when the Qur'an is spoken and embodied by its American faithful.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : OSU:32435023409816

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Annemarie Schimmel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438418988

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Islam by Annemarie Schimmel Pdf

It is a splendid introduction—carefully researched and comprehensive, yet readable. It corrects many popular and erroneous notions about Islam that prevail in non-Muslim societies. For the general reader there are many profound insights of great consequence, for example, the passages on women, marriage, and inheritance, or the section on jihad, nearly always completely misunderstood in the press.

Author : Ed Gibney
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105696602

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Evolutionary Philosophy by Ed Gibney Pdf

Author : Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479894505

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Muslim Cool by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer Pdf

Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.

Author : Luke H. Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520117027

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Islam Religion - Your Guide to the Truth about Muslim Beliefs, Culture, Customs, and Traditions, Understanding the Quran, and the Sunni / Shia Split and Conflict by Luke H. Hardy Pdf

Islam is largely blanketed by mystery and distorted by bias. This book introduces the truth of Islamic beliefs and culture. Islam is an incredibly popular religion, and the second largest in the world. What comes with such a common but elusive belief system? A curiously large amount of customs, and very intriguing, ancient beliefs. There is A LOT of intricacies about Islam.This book will give you an introductory, holistic understanding of the religion. From defining the truth of what Allah means to muslims, explaining the four stages of life, to everyday customs, this book covers it all. Both for muslims and non-muslims, you're garanteed to learn A LOT of valuable information. Here are some of your questions that will be answered! What are the five pillars of Islam?What's the story of Muhammad? Who is he?What does Islam say about Jesus?Muslims believe in Satan? What about Angels?What does Islam say about free will? What is the Ka'ba?What's the Quran and what's written in it?And much, much more...If you're looking to learn more about Islam, look no further. Whether you know nothing about the religion, or you're a muslim yourself and want more, this book will be accessable and useful to everyone.I'm so sure that you'll find it informative, that I'll happily give you a refund if you're not totally satisfied.

Author : Jamie Cawley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784628987

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Beliefs by Jamie Cawley Pdf

An accessible, objective understanding of what the major ‘beliefs’ are about. The major beliefs include: Polytheism, Judaism, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Nationalism, Communism and Environmentalism. All have over 100 million followers and the full structure of faith-determined behavioural guidance.

Author : John Ankerberg,John Weldon
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736934510

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Fast Facts® on Islam by John Ankerberg,John Weldon Pdf

Authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon know just the questions readers are asking about Islam, and they provide brief, incisive answers. Using their unique Q-and-A style, Ankerberg and Weldon reveal who Muhammad was and how Islam got started, what Muslims believe about God, the relationship between Christianity and Islam, where the Qur'an came from, and how Islamic beliefs are related to recent acts of terrorism. Included are discussions of such questions as: In what sense is Islam a religion of peace? Does the Qur'an support the doctrine of jihad--"holy war"? How do Muslims view the U.S. and Israel? What basic problem does the Qur'an present for Muslims? Do Muslims believe in Jesus Christ? How should Christians share the gospel with Muslims? More than just a listing of well-researched facts on Islam and Muslim beliefs, Fast Facts on Islam will provide readers with insight into present events, and will help them comprehend of one of the world's great religious and political powers--in light of the far greater power that lies within them, the power of God through Jesus Christ.

Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1417794771

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What Do Muslims Believe?: The Roots and Realities of Modern Islam by Ziauddin Sardar Pdf

Introduces the tenets, practices, history, and rituals of Islam, describing what Muslims believe, how those beliefs are practiced in everyday life, discussing how these practices came about, and how they are being shaped by the modern world.

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101981030

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What the Qur'an Meant by Garry Wills Pdf

America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur’an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur’an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much about Islam. That is no longer the case. We blundered into the longest war in our history without knowing basic facts about the Islamic civilization with which we were dealing. We are constantly fed false information about Islam—claims that it is essentially a religion of violence, that its sacred book is a handbook for terrorists. There is no way to assess these claims unless we have at least some knowledge of the Qur’an. In this book Wills, as a non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur’an with sympathy but with rigor, trying to discover why other non-Muslims—such as Pope Francis—find it an inspiring book, worthy to guide people down through the centuries. There are many traditions that add to and distort and blunt the actual words of the text. What Wills does resembles the work of art restorers who clean away accumulated layers of dust to find the original meaning. He compares the Qur’an with other sacred books, the Old Testament and the New Testament, to show many parallels between them. There are also parallel difficulties of interpretation, which call for patient exploration—and which offer some thrills of discovery. What the Qur’an Meant is the opening of a conversation on one of the world’s most practiced religions.

Author : Naser Al-Moghamis
Publisher : Darussalam
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9960861422

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Christianity and Islam According to the Bible and the Qur'an by Naser Al-Moghamis Pdf

Since the Bible is the basis for the teachings of Christianity, and the Qur'an is the main source of Islamic Religion and Law, this book compares Islam and Christianity according to a comparative study of the Bible and the Qur'an. This approach ensures that the comparison is based on facts and not on prejudice or misunderstanding.