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Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an - Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender (Paperback): Abla Hasan Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an - Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender (Paperback)
Abla Hasan
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume challenges a long history of normalizing patriarchal approaches to the Qur'an and calls for a questioning of the interpretive credibility of many inherited Qur'anic commentaries. The author presents a fresh reading of the sacred text and Islamic teaching traditions as the rediscovery of a lost humanitarian and gender-egalitarian textual richness that has been poorly and loosely handled for centuries. The book stresses the importance of reviewing the interpretive linguistic choices that jurists and exegetes over the last fourteen centuries have adopted to semantically reshape the Qur'anic text. The vigilant reading the author provides of carefully chosen texts and commentaries suggests that many interpretive approaches to the Qur'an are dominated by sociopolitical factors alien to the intrinsic values of the text itself. More importantly, inconsistencies across putatively sound books of tafsir indicate that the Qur'anic text often suffers from historical and systematic drainage of its humanitarianism, gender-egalitarianism, and religious pluralism.

Sacred Violence - Political Religion in a Secular Age (Hardcover): D. Jones, M. Rainsborough, M. L. R Smith Sacred Violence - Political Religion in a Secular Age (Hardcover)
D. Jones, M. Rainsborough, M. L. R Smith
R3,520 Discovery Miles 35 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world. In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it.

Tafs?r al-?Ayy?sh? - A Fourth/Tenth Century Sh??? Commentary on the Qur?an (Volume 2) (Hardcover): Mu?ammad B Masʿūd... Tafsīr al-ʿAyyāshī - A Fourth/Tenth Century Shīʿī Commentary on the Qurʾan (Volume 2) (Hardcover)
Muḥammad B Mas&#703&#363d Al-ʿayyāshī; Translated by Nazmina Dhanji; Edited by Wahid M Amin
R2,411 R1,945 Discovery Miles 19 450 Save R466 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Muslims' Greatest Challenge - Choosing Between Tradition and Islam (Hardcover): Omar Ramahi Muslims' Greatest Challenge - Choosing Between Tradition and Islam (Hardcover)
Omar Ramahi
R997 R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Save R128 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) Side-by-Side (Hardcover): Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Mohammed Marmaduke... Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) Side-by-Side (Hardcover)
Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, Muhammad Habib Shakir
R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For the first time, in one, book, are the three most popular English translations of the Qur an: the ones by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall, and Muhammad Habib Shakir. Two of them, Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Muhammad Habib Shakir are Arabic scholars

The Rite of Urban Passage - The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation (Paperback): Reza Masoudi The Rite of Urban Passage - The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation (Paperback)
Reza Masoudi
R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernization in the 1920s. The Rite of Urban Passage investigates this process by focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions, a ritual that commemorates the tragic massacre of Hussein and his companions in 680 CE. In doing so, this volume offers not only an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, but also a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

Resistance, Power and Conceptions of Political Order in Islamist Organizations - Comparing Hezbollah and Hamas (Paperback):... Resistance, Power and Conceptions of Political Order in Islamist Organizations - Comparing Hezbollah and Hamas (Paperback)
Maren Koss
R1,351 Discovery Miles 13 510 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Islamist organizations' conceptions of political order based on a comparative case study of the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah and the Sunni Palestinian Hamas. Connecting Islamism research, Critical Constructivist norm research, and resistance studies from the field of International Relations Theory, it demonstrates that resistance constitutes both organizations' core norm and is relevant for their conceptions of political order. Based on primary Arabic data the book illustrates that the core norm of resistance, deeply intertwined with both organizations' interactions towards power preservation and the specific political context they are engaged in, characterizes Hezbollah's and Hamas' respective conceptions of political order and explains the differences between them. In contrast to common perceptions presented in research, politics, and the media, the book shows that in the case of both Hezbollah and Hamas the religious orientation, i.e. Shiite and Sunni Islamist political thought, plays a secondary role only when it comes to explaining Islamist organizations' political orientation. Bringing new insights from cases that lie beyond the Western liberal world order into Critical Constructivist norm research and resistance studies, the book establishes a theoretical framework that enables scholars to comprehensively analyze Islamist organizations' political orientation in different cases without being caught in limited analytical categories. It will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations Theory, Middle East Studies, and Global Governance.

Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy - Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Hardcover): Nader Hashemi Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy - Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Hardcover)
Nader Hashemi
R2,633 Discovery Miles 26 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Islam's relationship to liberal-democratic politics has emerged as one of the most pressing and contentious issues in international affairs. This book analyzes the relationship between religion, secularism, and liberal democracy, both theoretically and in the context of the contemporary Muslim world. This book challenges a widely held belief among social scientists that religious politics and liberal-democratic development are structurally incompatible. While there are certainly tensions between Islam and democracy -- Hashemi draws on Iran as an example -- the two are not irreconcilable. He affirms the need for political secularism in order for liberal democracy to flourish, and examines how Muslim societies can develop the political secularism required for liberal democracy when the main political, cultural and intellectual resources that are available are religious. Hashemi argues that democratization and liberalization do not necessarily require a rejection or privatization of religion but do require a reinterpretation of religious ideas about the moral basis of legitimate political authority and individual rights. In fact, he shows, liberal democracy in the West often developed not in strict opposition to religious politics but in concert with it. Hashemi argues that an indigenous theory of Muslim secularism -- similar to what developed in the Christian West -- is possible and a necessary requirement for the advancement of liberal democracy in Muslim societies.

Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Tahir Zaman Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Tahir Zaman
R1,938 Discovery Miles 19 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book considers positions refugees take relative to the state, humanitarian actors and faith-based organisations in the humanitarian field. Attention is drawn to refugee agency as they negotiate circumstances of considerable constraint demonstrating relational dimensions of religious practice and experience.

Islam, What You Need to Know in the Twenty-First Century - A Primer for Peace (Hardcover): Ronald Lee Cobb Islam, What You Need to Know in the Twenty-First Century - A Primer for Peace (Hardcover)
Ronald Lee Cobb
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Christians and Jews Under Islam - From the Arab Conquests to the Lebanese Civil War (Hardcover): Youssef Courbage, Philippe... Christians and Jews Under Islam - From the Arab Conquests to the Lebanese Civil War (Hardcover)
Youssef Courbage, Philippe Fargues
R3,377 Discovery Miles 33 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work charts the political, sociological and demographic factors that have shaped the position of Christian and Jewish minorities under Islam in the past and today. Focusing on the Arab world and on Turkey, the authors show how Christianity and Judaism survived and, at times, even prospered in the region, thus modifying the view of Islam as an inevitably unbending and radical religion. They also demonstrate that the position of the minorities was badly affected in the wake of confrontations with the Christian West - at the time of the Crusades, after the first victories of the Spanish Reconquista, with the humiliations meted out to the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and North Africa, and once again with the creation of the state of Israel.

Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics (Hardcover): Sophia Vasalou Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics (Hardcover)
Sophia Vasalou
R2,520 Discovery Miles 25 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Icon of modern-day fundamentalist movements, firebrand religious purist, tireless polemicist against the intellectual schools of his timeathe Ibn Taymiyya we know is a thinker we often associate with hard attitudes and dogmatic stances. Yet there is another Ibn Taymiyya that stands out from the pages of his work, the thinker who fashions himself as a master of the via media and as a defender of the harmony between human reason and the religious faith. The aim of this book is to shed fresh light on Ibn Taymiyya's intellectual identity by a close investigation of his ethical thought. Earlier Muslim thinkers debating ethical value had been exercised by a number of core questions. What makes actions right or wrong? How do human beings know it? And what is God's relationship to the evaluative standards discerned by the human mind? An investigation of Ibn Taymiyya's engagement with such questions has much to teach us about his intellectual program and particularly about the role of reason and the linchpin concept of human nature (fitra) within this program. It also has much to teach us about Ibn Taymiyya's relationship to the intellectual landscape of his time, bringing us up against a rich tapestry of ethical discussions unfolding within theology, philosophy and legal theory in the classical period. At the same time, a close reading of Ibn Taymiyya's ethics invites us to confront not only the content of his thought but its form, and more particularly those features of his writing that fracture our efforts to unify his thought.

The Mughals and the Sufis - Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500-1750 (Hardcover): Muzaffar Alam The Mughals and the Sufis - Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500-1750 (Hardcover)
Muzaffar Alam
R1,967 Discovery Miles 19 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Islam, a Challenge to Faith - Studies on the Mohammedan Religion and the Needs and Opportunities of the Mohammedan World From... Islam, a Challenge to Faith - Studies on the Mohammedan Religion and the Needs and Opportunities of the Mohammedan World From the Standpoint of Christian Missions (Hardcover)
Samuel Marinus 1867-1952 Zwemer
R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Islamic Finance and Circular Economy - Connecting Impact and Value Creation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Syed Nazim Ali, Zul... Islamic Finance and Circular Economy - Connecting Impact and Value Creation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Syed Nazim Ali, Zul Hakim Jumat
R4,937 Discovery Miles 49 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is the first of its kind to provide a critical overview and theoretical analysis of the Circular Economy from Shariah and Islamic Finance perspectives. The book is divided into three parts. The contributing authors pay close attention to Islamic Finance in light of sustainability and value creation. It also includes case studies on the Circular Economy application in Islamic Finance industry. The book is of interest to academics, students, and practitioners on Islamic Economics and Finance who have an interest in understanding the Circular Economy under the lens of Islamic Finance principles and applications.

Al-Ghazali's Marvels of the Heart (Paperback): Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al- Ghazali, Iman Abu Hamid al-Ghazali Al-Ghazali's Marvels of the Heart (Paperback)
Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al- Ghazali, Iman Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; Translated by Walter James Skellie
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a classic Sufi manual on the 'science of the heart'. For Sufis, the 'heart' is the seat of the soul and holds the key to the intimate relationship that exists between soul and body. Each heart, according to this traditional wisdom, possesses four qualities: predatory, animal, demonic and divine. The latter represents our true origin and potential, and by use of the intelligence and spiritual practices enabled by God's grace, we may restore equilibrium to our inner core.

Philosophical Hermeneutics and Islamic Thought (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Sylvain Camilleri, Selami Varlik Philosophical Hermeneutics and Islamic Thought (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Sylvain Camilleri, Selami Varlik
R3,621 Discovery Miles 36 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates the methodological issues raised by the encounter between Islamic thought and contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. It features essays that examine why and how current Muslim thinkers refer to Continental philosophy. The contributors put the universality of the hermeneutic order to the test with three different approaches. The first looks at exegetical aspects. It addresses contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged critically or not with main representatives or key concepts of philosophical hermeneutics. The second presents an interpretative analysis. The essays here present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts such as the Qur'an and the Hadith as well as legal, spiritual, and philosophical corpuses from the Islamicate world. The third looks at different political and critical issues. The clear and sound reference to religion of Islamic thought makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. Is it true, as some contend, that philosophical hermeneutics can help interpret Islamic thought anew? This book reveals how the two philosophies are likely to expand each other's horizons and influence each other's conceptual frameworks. It features revised papers from an International Conference.

Becoming Muslim - Western Women's Conversions to Islam (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): A. Mansson McGinty Becoming Muslim - Western Women's Conversions to Islam (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
A. Mansson McGinty
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. "Becoming Muslim" is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. Proceeding from the women's life-stories, the author explores the appeal of Islam to some Western women and the personal meaning assigned to the religion. While conversion is often perceived as entailing a dramatic change in worldview, the women's experiences point to an equally important continuity. Notably, the conversion is triggered by particular personal ideas and quests, and within Islam the women can further explore already salient thoughts. The work appeals to students in the fields of anthropology, religious studies, psychology, and women's studies, interested in identity, conversion, and gender.

Early Islam in Medina - Malik and His Muwatta' (Hardcover): Yasin Dutton Early Islam in Medina - Malik and His Muwatta' (Hardcover)
Yasin Dutton
R3,370 Discovery Miles 33 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book considers the transmission of the Sunna through the lens of the great Madinan legal scholar, Imam Malik ibn Anas (d. 179 AH/795 CE), in his renowned book al-Muwatta', or 'The well-trodden path'. It considers not only the legal judgements preserved in this book, but also the key scholars involved in the transmission of these judgements, namely, Malik's teachers and students. These different transmissions provide very strong evidence for the reliability of Malik's transmission of the Sunna. Overriding these textual considerations is the concept of 'amal, or the Practice of the People of Medina. This is accepted as a prime source by Malik and those following him, but is effectively rejected by the other schools, who prefer hadith (textual reports) as an indication of Sunna. Given the contested nature of 'amal in both ancient and modern times, and the general unawareness of it in contemporary Islamic studies, this source receives extended treatment here. This allows for a deeper understanding of the nature of Islamic law and its development, and, by extension, of Islam itself.

Islam and the Destiny of Man (Paperback, 2nd New edition): Gai Eaton Islam and the Destiny of Man (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
Gai Eaton
R552 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R54 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Gai Eaton's "Islam and the Destiny of Man" is a wide-ranging study of the religion of Islam from a traditional point of view. Covering all aspects that a reader would wish to know about Islam-including the Qur'an, the life of the Prophet, Islamic history, Islamic law, art and mysticism-"Islam and the Destiny of Man" explains what it means to be a Muslim and describes how Islam has shaped the hearts and minds of Muslims down the centuries. However, in "Islam and the Destiny of Man", Gai Eaton is concerned not simply with Islam in isolation, but with the very nature of religious faith, its spiritual and intellectual foundations and the light it casts upon the mysteries and paradoxes of the human condition.

Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe - Representations, Transfers and Exchanges (Hardcover): Frantisek Sistek Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe - Representations, Transfers and Exchanges (Hardcover)
Frantisek Sistek
R3,021 Discovery Miles 30 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic "Other" living just a stone's throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. To a significant degree, the wider representations and perceptions of this population can be traced to the reports of Central European-and especially Habsburg-diplomats, scholars, journalists, tourists, and other observers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims' encounters with the West since the nineteenth century.

Modern Interpretation of the Qur'an - The Contribution of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Hakan Coruh Modern Interpretation of the Qur'an - The Contribution of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Hakan Coruh
R2,260 Discovery Miles 22 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyzes the distinguished modern Muslim scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and the methodology of Qur'anic exegesis in his Risale-i Nur Collection, with special reference to the views of the early Muslim modernist intellectuals such as Muhammad 'Abduh. It seeks to locate Nursi within modern Qur'anic scholarship, exploring the difference between Nursi's reading of the Qur'an and that of his counterparts, and examines how Nursi relates the Qur'anic text to concerns of the modern period.

FinTech in Islamic Financial Institutions - Scope, Challenges, and Implications in Islamic Finance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022):... FinTech in Islamic Financial Institutions - Scope, Challenges, and Implications in Islamic Finance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
M. Kabir Hassan, Mustafa Raza Rabbani, Mamunur Rashid
R4,933 Discovery Miles 49 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores several challenges facing FinTech in Islamic financial institutions. Firstly, large banks and financial institutions in countries with updated and innovative technological channels will earn the technology arbitrage from FinTech. This 'size' puzzle may create a challenge for Islamic financial institutions that are of smaller size and from technologically less-developed countries. Secondly, while access to FinTech is getting broader day by day, usage of FinTech is still limited due to personal and governance-related limitations. Moreover, the level of awareness of the emerging FinTech services (i.e., bitcoin, blockchain, etc.) remains extremely poor even among the residents of technologically-advanced countries. Thirdly, use of FinTech by Islamic financial institutions is limited to Islamic banking, to users from developed countries, among young customers, and for a limited number of traditional banking services such as the deposits and payment services. Also, banks hope to use FinTech to increase the size of a new breed of technology-savvy depositors and loan customers to achieve economies of scale, which may help stabilize the banking sector. Automation in Islamic banks and the participation of Islamic financial institutions in blockchain and bitcoin domains require extensive research from Shariah-compliance as well as market and consumer-related grounds. With all the opportunities and challenges of FinTech-promoting inclusion, easier loan monitoring, and risk of Shariah non-compliance-this book explores the implications for Islamic financial institutions and will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of Islamic finance and financial technology.

Anecdotes from the Life of the Prophet Muhammad (Paperback, USA ed): Mumtaaz Aohmad Faarauqai Anecdotes from the Life of the Prophet Muhammad (Paperback, USA ed)
Mumtaaz Aohmad Faarauqai
R174 Discovery Miles 1 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
American Muslim Women - Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Hardcover): Jamillah Karim American Muslim Women - Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Hardcover)
Jamillah Karim
R3,101 Discovery Miles 31 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

aProvide[s] engaging insights into the lives of contemporary American Muslim women. . . . Drawing occasionally on her own experiences and deftly but lightly invoking the relevant interdisciplinary theoretical literature, [Karim] has produced a book that flows beautifully to its thoughtful conclusion.a
--Karen Isaksen Leonard, author of "Muslims in the United States: The State of Research"

African American Muslims and South Asian Muslim immigrants are two of the largest ethnic Muslim groups in the U.S. Yet there are few sites in which African Americans and South Asian immigrants come together, and South Asians are often held up as a amodel minoritya against African Americans. However, the American ummah, or American Muslim community, stands as a unique site for interethnic solidarity in a time of increased tensions between native-born Americans and immigrants.

This ethnographic study of African American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in Chicago and Atlanta explores how Islamic ideals of racial harmony and equality create hopeful possibilities in an American society that remains challenged by race and class inequalities. The volume focuses on women, who due to gender inequalities, are sometimes more likely to move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaces and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice.

American Muslim Women explores the relationships and sometimes alliances between African Americans and South Asian immigrants, drawing on interviews with a diverse group of women from these two communities. Karim investigates what it means to negotiate religious sisterhood against Americaas race and class hierarchies, and how those in the AmericanMuslim community both construct and cross ethnic boundaries.

American Muslim Women reveals the ways in which multiple forms of identity frame the American Muslim experience, in some moments reinforcing ethnic boundaries, and at other times, resisting them.

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