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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Islam
The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the
outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau
(born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the
edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the
poet raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling
his community on Lamu. The book situates Mahmoud Mau's oeuvre
within transoceanic exchanges of thoughts so characteristic of the
Swahili coast.
Mutual aid or zakat giving is a sacred practice in Islam. In
Palestinian neighborhoods of the West Bank, where the Islamic
tradition shapes public life, a simple gift of money or food to a
person in need can invoke the presence of God. In Divine Money,
Emanuel Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat
donations provide critical support to households in financial
distress. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the ancient city of
Nablus, Divine Money analyzes how zakat institutions work in the
social and political context of contemporary Palestine and explores
how embedding care in Islamic scripture helps community members
negotiate the social tensions that arise around differences in
financial security. In the absence of a reliable public safety net,
many interpret acts of zakat giving as an expression of God's
generosity and evidence of His infinite ability to provide. Such
invocations of the divine in charitable interactions provide both
community support and a means to live a good and ethical Muslim
life, even during times of political repression and economic
stagnation.
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.
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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.
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.
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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