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This book offers the first in-depth study of the 1980 restoration of al-Jami? al-Anwar—also known as the Mosque of al-?akim bi Amr Allah—by the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community. Long portrayed by experts as having breached international conservation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-12
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The last ten years of Muhammad's life are vitally important not only to the study of Islam's prophet, but to the development of the religion itself. Prior to that last decade, Muhammad and his followers were tribally weak, and were persecuted by the Arabian elites of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-18
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Contemplating Sufism: Dialogue and Tradition across Southeast Asia "Exploring Sufi sites and seminaries, Professor Aljunied vividly describes how a dialogic tradition facilitated the formation of a Sufi habitus and life form across Muslim-majority Southeast Asia. The...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-02-03
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Dieser Band setzt sich in einem interdisziplinären Kontext mit mannigfaltigen Aspekten der Begegnungen zwischen Islam und Christentum in der christlichen und islamischen Geschichte auseinander. Die Spuren dieser Begegnungen reichen weit zurück und lassen sich in...
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Springer VS
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2024-01-30
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Wiener Beiträge zur Islamforschung
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The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia. It presents selected historic mosques that demonstrate local interpretations and sociocultural assimilation, as well as a geographical syncretism, of...
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Springer
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2023-07-23
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Islam is the fastest growing of the world's major religions. Yet the pervasive hostility toIslam in the West makes understanding its expanding global reach virtually impossible.Islam is all too often seen through a lens that focuses on the small minority of violent...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-07-22
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Dieses Buch vereint soziologische Theoriebildung mit Studien zum Nahen Osten und zum Islam. Die Vielfalt von Modernitäten, die in unsere Welt beobachtet werden kann, wird dabei mit dem Anspruch verbunden, gleichzeitig in einer globalen Moderne, in einer Weltgesellschaft...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-18
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With the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, a major turning point in all former Soviet republics, Central Asian and Caucasian countries began to reflect on their history and identities. As a consequence of their opening up to the global exchange of ideas, various strains...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-15
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Dahlan offers an alternative vision of Islamic governance through the history and promise of the Hijaz, the first state of Islam. The Hijaz, in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia, was the first Islamic state in Mecca and Medina. This new interpretative history offers...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-08-01
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For many American Muslims, the 9/11 attacks and subsequent War on Terror marked a rise in intense scrutiny of their religious lives and political loyalties. In Suburban Islam, Justine Howe explores the rise of "third spaces," social surroundings that are neither home...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-02
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Forged in the age of empire, the relationship between Islam and liberalism has taken on a sense of urgency today, when global conflicts are seen as pitting one against the other. More than describing a civilizational fault-line between the Muslim world and the West,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-01
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After formally announcing his conversion to Islam in the late 1880s, the Liverpool lawyer William Henry Abdullah Quilliam publicly propagated his new faith and established the first community of Muslim converts in Victorian Britain. Despite decades of relative obscurity...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-01
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The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many western...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-15
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The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many western...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-14
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Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary tradition is...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-01
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David Tittensor offers a groundbreaking new perspective on the Gülen movement, a Turkish Muslim educational activist network that emerged in the 1960s and has grown into a global empire with an estimated worth of $25 billion. Named after its leader Fethullah Gülen, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-28
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This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra. Located in the north of today's Afghanistan, along the silk road, Balkh was holy to many. The Prophet Zoroaster is rumoured to have died here, and during late antiquity, Balkh was the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-12
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We live in a world polarized by the ongoing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but - in an extraordinary narrative spanning fourteen centuries - Zachary Karabell argues that the relationship between Islam and the West has never been simply one of animosity...
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John Murray
Parution :
2013-09-26
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At least since the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran, political Islam or Islamism has been the focus of attention among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. Much has been said about Islamism as a political and moral/ethical trend, but scant attention is paid...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-05-28
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A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2013-02-12
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