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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Islam
Why does religion inspire hatred? Why do people in one religion
sometimes hate people of another religion, and also why do some
religions inspire hatred from others? This book shows how scholarly
studies of prejudice, identity formation, and genocide studies can
shed light on global examples of religious hatred. The book is
divided into four parts, focusing respectively on: theories of
prejudice and violence; historical developments of antisemitism,
Islamophobia, and race; contemporary Western antisemitism and
Islamophobia; and, prejudices beyond the West in the Islamic,
Buddhist, and Hindu traditions. Each part ends with a special focus
section. Key features include: - A compelling synthesis of theories
of prejudice, identity, and hatred to explain Islamophobia and
antisemitism. - An innovative theory of human violence and genocide
which explains the link to prejudice. - Case studies of both
Western antisemitism and Islamophobia in history and today,
alongside global studies of Islamic antisemitism and Hindu and
Buddhist Islamophobia - Integrates discussion of race and
racialisation as aspects of Islamophobic and antisemitic prejudice
in relation to their framing in religious discourses. - Accessible
for general readers and students, it can be employed as a textbook
for students or read with benefit by scholars for its novel
synthesis and theories. The book focuses on antisemitism and
Islamophobia, both in the West and beyond, including examples of
prejudices and hatred in the Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist
traditions. Drawing on examples from Europe, North America, MENA,
South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, Paul Hedges points to common
patterns, while identifying the specifics of local context.
Religious Hatred is an essential guide for understanding the
historical origins of religious hatred, the manifestations of this
hatred across diverse religious and cultural contexts, and the
strategies employed by activists and peacemakers to overcome this
hatred.
Moses Mendelssohn (1725-1786) is considered the foremost
representative of Jewish Enlightenment. In No Religion without
Idolatry, Gideon Freudenthal offers a novel interpretation of
Mendelssohn's general philosophy and discusses for the first time
Mendelssohn's semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his Jerusalem
and in his Hebrew biblical commentary. Mendelssohn emerges from
this study as an original philosopher, not a shallow popularizer of
rationalist metaphysics, as he is sometimes portrayed. Of special
and lasting value is his semiotic theory of idolatry. From a
semiotic perspective, both idolatry and enlightenment are necessary
constituents of religion. Idolatry ascribes to religious symbols an
intrinsic value: enlightenment maintains that symbols are
conventional and merely signify religious content but do not share
its properties and value. Without enlightenment, religion
degenerates to fetishism; without idolatry it turns into philosophy
and frustrates religious experience. Freudenthal demonstrates that
in Mendelssohn's view, Judaism is the optimal religious synthesis.
It consists of transient ceremonies of a "living script." Its
ceremonies are symbols, but they are not permanent objects that
could be venerated. Jewish ceremonies thus provide a religious
experience but frustrate fetishism. Throughout the book,
Freudenthal fruitfully contrasts Mendelssohn's views on religion
and philosophy with those of his contemporary critic and opponent,
Salomon Maimon. No Religion without Idolatry breaks new ground in
Mendelssohn studies. It will interest students and scholars in
philosophy of religion, Judaism, and semiotics.
Abu Hafs 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145-1234) is the author of a classic
work of Muslim piety, a key figure in the rise of institutional
Sufism in the form of "orders" called "tariqas," and the
influential eponym of one of these famous orders. This book
presents studies, editions, and English translations of his shorter
treatises that were originally penned in Arabic and Persian.
Relying on global archival research, the book discovers materials
that shed new light on his teachings and networks, as it traces the
context, sources, and reception of his works. Carefully identifying
the authentic works of 'Umar al-Suhrawardi, the book presents
significant new information on a key moment in the history of
Muslim piety and mysticism.
The Holy Qur,an was the revealation given to Prophet Muhammad
(P.B.U.H.) from Allah (God)by way of the Angel Gabriel (S.R.A.)
approx. 1400 A.D.
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History19 (CMR 19),
covering Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in the
period 1800-1914, is a further volume in a general history of
relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early
20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and the
main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving
or lost, that have been recorded. They provide biographical details
of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works
themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions,
translations and studies. The result of collaboration between
numerous new and leading scholars, CMR 19, along with the other
volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in
Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Ines Asceric-Todd,
Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabe Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele
Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton,
Stanislaw Grodz, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina,
Diego Melo Carrasco, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton,
Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar
Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina
Wenzel
From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is
a six volume collection of Daiber's scattered writings, journal
articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic
translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science,
Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies.
It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are
catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and
films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the
preceding volumes.
This second collective volume of the series The Presence of the
Prophet explores the growing importance of the figure of the
Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in early
modern and modern times. The authors provide a rich collection of
case studies on how Muhammad's material, spiritual, and
genealogical heritage has been claimed for the foundation of Muslim
empires, revolutionary movements, the formation of modern nation
states and ideologies, as well as for communal mobilization and
social reform. This novel comparative, and diachronic study, which
is unique for its wide coverage of regional cases and perspectives,
reveals diverse political representations of the Prophet in an
increasingly globalised struggle over the control of his image
between secularization and sacralization. Contributors Gianfranco
Bria, Rachida Chih, Christoph Gunther, Gottfried Hagen, Jan-Peter
Hartung, David Jordan, Soraya Khodamoradi, Jamal Malik, Catherine
Mayeur-Jaouen, Alix Philippon, Martin Riexinger, Stefan Reichmuth,
Dilek Sarmis, Renaud Soler, Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami, Florian
Zemmin.
In Reflecting Mirrors, East and West Enrico Boccaccini sheds new
light on Mirrors for Princes, the pre-modern genre of advice
literature for rulers. A popular genre in the societies that
emerged from the Late Antique oecumene, Mirrors for Princes are
considered here, for the first time, as a transcultural phenomenon
that challenges the dichotomy of the Orient and the Occident.
Traditionally, the historiographic tradition has viewed 'European'
and 'Middle Eastern' Mirrors as distinct and incommensurable.
Analyzing the contents and discourses in four Mirrors, ostensibly
separated by space, time and language, Enrico Boccaccini
convincingly draws out the surprising continuities between these
texts, while also showing how they are embedded in their own
historical, literary and political context.
Contemporary psychology is highly influenced by positivism and
scientific naturalism. Psychological studies make efforts to
control the variables and provide operational definitions of
subjective constructs in order to reach the most concrete
conclusions. Such efforts are admirable in natural sciences since
they have led to a better life. But, this worldview has deprived
contemporary psychology of more qualitative sources of knowledge
like wahy (revelation). The present book introduces Islamic
psychology as a paradigm, which can apply wahy knowledge and
consider religious/spiritual dimensions of humans in scientific
exploration. The first part discusses the possibility, foundations,
and characteristics of Islamic psychology. The second part
introduces research methodology in Islamic psychology. The third
part reviews the Quranic theory of personality and highlights the
concept of shakeleh. Finally, the fourth part presents the theories
and methods of religious psychotherapy in the Islamic tradition.
Each part provides introductory content for readers interested in
Islamic psychology.
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