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Al-Minhaj Al-Sawi is a milestone work, the first work of its kind
for many centuries. It is a compendium of Prophetic Hadiths,
categorised under a number of headings and compiled with clear
relevance to the lives and situation of Muslims in the modern age.
The work is authenticated by a rigorous and detailed process of
Takhreej - referencing each hadith to its sources - from a study of
over 300 authentic works of hadith. This work will be useful for
academics in many relevant fields, whether researching the basis of
orthodox Sunni belief and practice, or examining the contemporary
Muslim response to religious extremism. It is split into 2 volumes:
Prophetic Virtues and Miracles and Righteous Character and Social
Interactions. The first part Prophetic Virtues and Miracles will
prove invaluable to readers who wish to understand, in the light of
the most authenticated and sourced classical Islamic materials, the
responsibilities of Muslims in modern age, and the rights of
others, and will provide clarity in relation to the Prophet
Muhammad's virtues and life, his methods of worship and spiritual
practice and other aspects of his Sunnah.
This book examines the role of tradition and discursive knowledge
transmission on the formation of the 'ulama', the learned scholarly
class in Islam, and their approach to the articulation of the
Islamic disciplines. This book argues that a useful framework for
evaluating the intellectual contributions of post-classical
scholars such as Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Dardir involves preserving,
upholding, and maintaining the Islamic tradition, including the
intellectual "sub-traditions" that came to define it.
A Boundless Tale of Love. Replenishing the Sea of Galilee is a
sweeping story of love, loss and the power of loyalty in the face
of conflicting ideologies and religious beliefs. The story begins
in 1940s Palestine where twins Rasheed and Rasheeda Dinar work in
their family inns. Educated by a Jesuit priest about the essence of
his own Muslim religion, relative to love and sex, Rasheed follows
closely the teachings of his mentor and includes Rasheeda, so that
she learns those teachings as well. When Rasheed falls in love with
Natalia, a Jewish woman, he is able to apply what he learned from
the priest to his budding relationship. However, it is the 1940s,
and relations between Arabs and Jews are tense. Before long, those
tensions come to a breaking point. Natalia mysteriously disappears,
and Rasheed and Rasheeda are chased out of Palestine to Beirut,
Lebanon. Years pass, and though Rasheed continues to miss his
beloved Natalia, he gets word of a surprising visitor-someone he
didn't even know existed. Rasheed's life is upended, but in the
most wonderful way. As the Dinar family expands and enters the
1970s, their convictions are tested. In a dramatic final scene, the
family reunites and proves once again that the thin line separating
people because of their differences is powerless against the
strength of family, love, and loyalty.
A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the
canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view
of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a
process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different
variants of the myth of "womanhood" through first- and third-person
prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each
other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited
patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not
just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical
theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by
overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist
Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers
ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic
philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas
and feminist experimental writings of the last century.
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