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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Islam
Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature is a Festschrift for the
Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer. It includes 17 essays by
established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic
literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods
(12th-18th centuries). Notoriously neglected and maligned by
earlier scholarship, Arabic literature and rhetoric of the
12th-18th centuries is an understudied area of Arabic studies that
Thomas Bauer has over the last two decades succeeded in developing
and promoting. A tribute to his pioneering work on this field, the
contributions highlight the wealth, complexity and importance of
Arabic literature and rhetoric of the said period by offering close
readings of paradigmatic texts or examining specific topics and
trends in larger corpora.
The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in
substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new
scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth
century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. This Part
2021-3 of the Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam will
contain 49 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current
scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.
Divine Covenant explores the Qur'anic concept of divine knowledge
through scientific, theoretical paradigms - in particular natural
law theory - and their relationship with seven Islamic scholarly
disciplines: linguistics, hadith, politics, history, exegesis,
jurisprudence, theology. By comparing scholarship within these
disciplines with current state-of-the-art, the study shows how the
Qur'anic concept of divine Covenant reflects natural law theory,
relates to a range of other legal, political, and linguistic
Qur'anic concepts, informs the canon's entire literary structure,
and has implications for a new, legal theory of 'Islamic origins'.
The book makes the case that the Islamic disciplines share
political economy, institutional framework, and decisive
theoretical topics with the Qur'an. The latter include the natural
law-related issues of human rights, constitutional separation of
powers, and social contract. The book surveys the scholarly
deliberations of these topics within the parameters of each
discipline and in changing contexts. In addition, consequences of
the modern nation-state institutional order for early modern and
contemporary Qur'anic studies are mapped. It is argued that the
early and medieval Islamic disciplines offer scientifically
valuable knowledge because they refer to the same institutional
framework as the Qur'an. The disciplines are also important parts
of European political history, where they have inspired social
contract theory inclusive of diverse religious identities.
The chapter about idol worship in Maqrizi's Universal History
includes excerpts from books that are no longer extant. They make
it harder to argue against the import or even the very existence of
pre-Islamic idol worship.
In Constructing Civility, Richard Park bridges Christian and
Islamic political theologies on the basis of an Aristotelian
ethics. He argues that modern secularism entails ideological
commitments that can work against the promotion of public civility
in pluralistic societies. A corrective outlook on public life and
the public sphere is necessary, an outlook that aligns with and
recovers the notion of the human good. Park develops a framework
for a universally applicable public civility in multifaith and
multicultural contexts by engaging the central concepts of the
"image of God" (imago Dei) and "human nature" (fitra) in Roman
Catholicism and Islam. The study begins with a critique of the
social fragmentation and decline of public life found in modernity.
Park's central contention is that the construction of public
civility within Christian and Islamic political theologies is more
promising and sustainable if it is reframed in terms of the human
good rather than the common good. The book offers an illustration
of the proposed framework of public civility in Mindanao,
Philippines, an area that represents one of the longest-standing
conflicts between Christian and Muslim communities. Park's
sophisticated treatment brings together theology, philosophy,
religious studies, intellectual history, and political theory, and
will appeal to scholars in all of those fields.
The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in
substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new
scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth
century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. This Part
2021-2 of the Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam will
contain 62 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current
scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.
The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in
substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new
scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth
century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. This Part
2021-1 of the Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam will
contain 50 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current
scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.
The Holy Quran presents an irrefutable basis and belief system for
the establishment of a stable and harmonious life in this world,
and a triumphant return to Paradise in the Next. There are
misunderstandings about the very source-springs of human well-being
the belief in the spiritual realities of existence, the infinite
love for the Holy Messenger, and the unity regarding the
implementation of the divinely revealed programme for human
society.Young people all over the world, Muslim as well as
non-Muslim, are brought up and educated in an environment permeated
by scientific materialism. It is modern learning which programmes
their minds and causes them to reject anything they find
incompatible with what they have been taught about man and life on
the earth. This book will clarify the misunderstandings and
confusions about Islamic spirituality on scientific
grounds.Scientific orthodoxy refers to magnetic sensitivity in
human beings, electromagnetic energies that permeate our
atmosphere, the flow of positive and negative ions in the
atmosphere affecting human brain activity, the function of the
pineal gland and many other empirical sources of transcendent
experience that are yet to be investigated. This magnetic energy
basis of spiritual experience, which the scientific camp has been
forced into revealing, has proved to be a welcome development of
modern science from the point of view of Islamic spirituality.The
younger generation of modern times will have their belief
reconfirmed by the study of the scientific facts cited in this
book. The scientific reality of Islamic spirituality is
demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt.
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