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Islam: The Key Concepts - Islam: The Key Concepts (Hardcover): Kecia Ali, Oliver Leaman Islam: The Key Concepts - Islam: The Key Concepts (Hardcover)
Kecia Ali, Oliver Leaman
R3,365 Discovery Miles 33 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Islam: The Key Concepts is a clear and concise guide to the religion and culture of Islam. Kecia Ali and Oliver Leaman explore this highly topical subject focusing on key issues including: the Qur'an, faith, theology, gender, fundamentalism, martyrdom, Jihad, Islam in America, Islam in Europe and Islamic Law.

This is the ideal study resource and includes: a comprehensive introduction, an alphabetical list of relevant terms (fully cross-referenced), a short bibliographical guide, bibliography, and index. A glossary of all non-English terms is also provided.

Islam: The Key Concepts - Islam: The Key Concepts (Paperback): Kecia Ali, Oliver Leaman Islam: The Key Concepts - Islam: The Key Concepts (Paperback)
Kecia Ali, Oliver Leaman
R1,013 R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Save R109 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Islam: The Key Concepts is a clear and concise guide to the religion and culture of Islam. Kecia Ali and Oliver Leaman explore this highly topical subject focusing on key issues including: the Qur'an, faith, theology, gender, fundamentalism, martyrdom, Jihad, Islam in America, Islam in Europe and Islamic Law.

This is the ideal study resource and includes: a comprehensive introduction, an alphabetical list of relevant terms (fully cross-referenced), a short bibliographical guide, bibliography, and index. A glossary of all non-English terms is also provided.

Women and Gender in Islam - Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (Paperback): Leila Ahmed Women and Gender in Islam - Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (Paperback)
Leila Ahmed; Foreword by Kecia Ali
R452 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. "Ahmed's book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today."-Edward W. Said "Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories."-Rana Kabbani, The Guardian

The Epistle on Legal Theory - A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah (Paperback): Muhammad ibn Idris Al-Shafi'i The Epistle on Legal Theory - A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah (Paperback)
Muhammad ibn Idris Al-Shafi'i; Foreword by Kecia Ali; Translated by Joseph E. Lowry
R521 R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur'an and prophetic Traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required. The author illustrates his theoretical claims with numerous examples drawn from nearly all areas of Islamic law, including ritual law, commercial law, tort law, and criminal law. The text thus provides an important window into both Islamic law and legal thought in particular and early Islamic intellectual history in general . This new translation by a leading scholar of al-Shafi'i and his thought makes available in lucid, modern English one of the earliest complete works on Islamic law-one that is centrally important for the formation of Islamic legal thought and the Islamic legal tradition. An English-only edition.

The Epistle on Legal Theory - A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah (Hardcover): Muhammad ibn Idris Al-Shafi'i The Epistle on Legal Theory - A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah (Hardcover)
Muhammad ibn Idris Al-Shafi'i; Foreword by Kecia Ali; Translated by Joseph E. Lowry
R1,190 Discovery Miles 11 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204 H/820 AD), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur'an and prophetic Traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required. The author illustrates his theoretical claims with numerous examples drawn from nearly all areas of Islamic law, including ritual law, commercial law, tort law, and criminal law. The text thus provides an important window into both Islamic law and legal thought in particular and early Islamic intellectual history in general . The Arabic text has been established on the basis of the two most important critical editions and includes variants in the notes, while the English text is a new translation by a leading scholar of Shafi'i and his thought. The Epistle on Legal Theory represents one of the earliest complete works on Islamic law, one that is centrally important for the formation of Islamic legal thought and the Islamic legal tradition.

Sexual Ethics and Islam - Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence (Paperback): Kecia Ali Sexual Ethics and Islam - Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence (Paperback)
Kecia Ali 1
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives' sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument. In this updated and expanded edition of her ground-breaking work, feminist Muslim scholar Dr Kecia Ali asks how one can determine what makes sex lawful and ethical in the sight of God. Drawing on both revealed and interpretative Muslim texts, Ali critiques medieval and contemporary commentators alike to produce a balanced and comprehensive study of a subject both sensitive and urgent, making this an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and interested readers.

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (Hardcover): Kecia Ali Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (Hardcover)
Kecia Ali
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What did it mean to be a wife, woman, or slave in a society in which a land-owning woman was forbidden to lay with her male slave but the same slave might be allowed to take concubines? Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. Juggling scripture, precedent, and custom on one hand, and the requirements of logical consistency on the other, legal scholars engaged in vigorous debate. The emerging consensus demonstrated a self-perpetuating analogy between a husband s status as master and a wife s as slave, even as jurists insisted on the dignity of free women and, increasingly, the masculine rights of enslaved husbands.

"Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam" presents the first systematic analysis of how these jurists conceptualized marriage its rights and obligations using the same rhetoric of ownership used to describe slavery. Kecia Ali explores parallels between marriage and concubinage that legitimized sex and legitimated offspring using eighth- through tenth-century legal texts. As the jurists discussed claims spouses could make on each other including dower, sex, obedience, and companionship they returned repeatedly to issues of legal status: wife and concubine, slave and free, male and female.

Complementing the growing body of scholarship on Islamic marital and family law, Ali boldly contributes to the ongoing debates over feminism, sexuality, and reform in Islam.

The Lives of Muhammad (Paperback): Kecia Ali The Lives of Muhammad (Paperback)
Kecia Ali
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recent outbursts sparked by a viral video and controversial cartoons powerfully illustrate the passions and sensitivities that continue to surround the depiction of the seventh-century founder of Islam. The Lives of Muhammad delves into the many ways the Prophet's life story has been told from the earliest days of Islam to the present, by both Muslims and non-Muslims. Emphasizing the major transformations since the nineteenth century, Kecia Ali shows that far from being mutually opposed, these various perspectives have become increasingly interdependent. Since the nineteenth century, two separate streams of writing, one hagiographic and the other polemical, have merged into a single, contentious story about the life of Muhammad. Protestant missionaries, European Orientalists, Indian and Egyptian modernists, and American voices across the spectrum, including preachers, scholars, Islamophobes, journalists, academics, and new-age gurus, debated Muhammad's character and the facts of his life. In the process, texts written symbolically came to be read literally. Muhammad's accomplishments as a religious and political leader, his military encounters with Meccans and Medinan Jews, and-a subject of perennial interest-his relationships with women, including his young wife Aisha, are among the key subjects writers engaged, repurposing early materials for new circumstances. Many of the ideas about Muhammad that Muslims embrace today-Muhammad the social reformer, Muhammad the consummate leader, Muhammad the ideal husband-arose in tandem and in tension with Western depictions. These were in turn shaped by new ideas about religion, sexuality, and human accomplishments.

Women in Latin America and the Caribbean - Restoring Women to History (Paperback): Marysa Navarro, Virginia Sánchez Korrol,... Women in Latin America and the Caribbean - Restoring Women to History (Paperback)
Marysa Navarro, Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Kecia Ali
R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"These four volumes in this major series... provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded.... A basic set for all academic libraries." Library Journal Academic Newswire

Examining the role of women and gender ideology during the pre-contact and colonial periods in Latin America, Navarro looks at early indigenous societies as well as the Spanish and the Portuguese who claimed the "New World." Sanchez Korrol considers the shifts in women's roles between the 1880s and 1930s and accompanying societal transformations."

Imam Shafi'i - Scholar and Saint (Hardcover): Kecia Ali Imam Shafi'i - Scholar and Saint (Hardcover)
Kecia Ali
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (767-820) was one of Islam's foundational legal thinkers. Shafi'i considered law vital to social and cosmic order: the key obligation of each Muslim was to obey God, and it was through knowing and following the law that human beings fulfilled this duty. Drawing on the most recent scholarship on Shafi'i's work as well as her own investigations into his life and writings, Kecia Ali explores Shafi'i's innovative ideas about the nature of revelation and the necessary if subordinate role of human reason in extrapolating legal rules from revealed texts. This study sketches his life in his intellectual and social context, including his engagement with other early figures including Malik and Muhammad al-Shaybani. It explores the development and refinement of his legal method and substantive teachings as well as their transmission by his students. It also shows how he became the posthumous "patron saint" of a legal school, who remains today a figure of popular interest and veneration as well as a powerful symbol of orthodoxy.

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