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UNDERSTANDING ISLAM
Can we understand a religion without believing and practicing it? Can we have knowledge about faith? Can people understand those different from themselves? Can outsiders ever understand the world of insiders? Examining insider and outsider positions of knowledge Bryan S. Turner explores what understanding Islam entails. He argues that understanding Islam has in recent years been dominated by political events – the Iran Hostage crisis, the fall of the Iranian Shah, 9/11, Afghanistan and the foreign policy of Donald Trump – leading to western intellectuals and public figures, many of whom know nothing about Islam, suddenly becoming experts. Turner asks how they, or how anyone, can have the authority to speak on this subject. He brilliantly elucidates the questions and problems involved in the challenge of understanding religion.
ISBN: 9781474498746
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: POSITIONS OF KNOWLEDGE
Author: BRYAN S. TURNER -
ARABS IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC
ISBN: 9781474436793
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: EMPIRE EXPLORING AL-AZD TRIBAL IDENTITY
Author: BRIAN ULRICH -
REFRAMING THE ALHAMBRA
ISBN: 9781474416504
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: ARCHITECTURE, POETRY, TEXTILES AND COURT CEREMONIAL
Author: OLGA BUSH -
MUSLIMS OF CENTRAL ASIA
ISBN: 9781474416337
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: AN INTRODUCTION
Author: GALINA YEMELIANOVA -
MUSLIMS IN EASTERN EUROPE
Introduces the centuries-old history of Muslim communities in Eastern EuropeThe history and contemporary situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe are explored here from three angles. First, survival, telling of the resilience of these Muslim communities in the face of often restrictive state policies and hostile social environments, especially during the Communist period. Next, their subsequent revival in the aftermath of the Cold War, and last, transformation, looking at the profound changes currently taking place in the demographic composition of the communities and in the forms of Islam practiced by them. The reader is shown a picture of the general trends common to the Muslim communities of Eastern Europe, and the special characteristics of clusters of states, such as the Baltics, the Balkans, the Visegrad states, and the European states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).Key FeaturesPlaces Muslim communities of Eastern Europe within their historical and pan-European context, establishing them as belonging in and to EuropeProvides an overview of the history and current trends in Muslim communities in 21 post-Communist Eastern European countriesAnalyses the situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe on a country-cluster basis (North-Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Moldova; the successor states of Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia; South-Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania; Central Europe: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia)Provides an overview of the emerging trends in conversion to Islam among Eastern Europeans
ISBN: 9781474415798
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: EGDUNAS RACIUS -
ISLAM AND MODERNITY
ISBN: 9780748637933
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: KEY ISSUES AND DEBATES
Author: MUHAMMAD KHALID MASUD -
HEROES AND SARACENSAN INTERPRETATION OF THE CHANSONS DE GESTE
ISBN: 0852244304
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE CHANSONS DE GESTE
Author: NORMAN DANIEL -
HIKAYAT ABI AL-QASIMA
ISBN: 9781474426381
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: A LITERARY BANQUET – EDINBURGH STUDIES IN CLASSICAL ARABIC LITERATURE
Author: EMILY SELOVE -
DISORDERED VIOLENCE
ISBN: 9781474424806
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: HOW GENDER, RACE AND HETERONORMATIVITY STRUCTURE TERRORISM – ADVANCES IN CRITICAL MILITARY STUDIES
Author: CARON GENTRY -
ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY
ISBN: 9780748635405
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: BOOK OF THE YEAR (ISLAMIC STUDIES) IN IRAN
Author: SHEILA S. BLAIR -
ANCIENT TYRANNY
ISBN: 9780748621255
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: SIAN LEWIS -
ISLAMIC FINANCE IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY
In the past decade, Islamic finance has grown at rates exceeding 20% a year. It is now a $200 billion industry, with operations in over 70 countries. This book explains the paradox of a system rooted in the medieval era thriving in the global economy. It traces the evolution of Islamic finance, explores its significance from a historical and comparative perspective, and considers the strategic, marketing, managerial, political, economic, regulatory and cultural challenges faced by Islamic institutions. Based on rigorous academic research as well as considerable empirical work, this authoritative book is set to become an invaluable reference work for all those with an interest in Islamic and Middle Eastern economics, business and finance. Seeking to explain the paradox of a system rooted in the mediaeval era thriving in the global economy, this book traces its evolution, explores its significance from a historical and comparative perspective, and considers the challenges faced by Islamic institutions.
ISBN: 0748612165
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: IBRAHIM WARDE -
THE LESSER EVIL
ISBN: 0748622241
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: POLITICAL ETHICS IN AGE OF TERROR
Author: MICHAEL IGNATIEFF -
JUST WAR THEORY
ISBN: 0748620745
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: A REAPPRAISAL
Author: MARK EVANS -
THE ETHIC OF PEACE AND WAR
ISBN: 0748622454
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: FROM STATE SECURITY TO WORLD COMMUNITY
Author: LAIN ATACK -
MULTICULTURAL POLITICS
Muslims have come to be perceived as the ‘Other’ that is most threatening to British society. This book argues that what began as a narrative of racial exclusion and black-white division has been complicated by cultural racism, Islamophobia and an unexpected challenge to secular modernity. Moreover, the idea of ‘race’ as underclass has had to contend with the creation of middle class formations and high levels of participation in higher education among some non-white groups. These plural divisions are not intractable but require us to rethink simplistic and monistic ideas about racism, secularism, liberalism and what it means to be British. Tariq Modood has developed a unique and influential perspective out of his sense that the concerns of South Asians lie at the heart of ‘race relations’ in Britain. This book gathers together a number of his key sociological, political and theoretical interventions, together with a substantial new Introduction and Conclusion, allowing readers to engage with a distinctive analysis of race and religion.
ISBN: 0748621717
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: RACISM, ETHNICITY AND MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN
Author: TARIQ MODOOD -
ISLAM AND THE PRAYER ECONOMY
At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers another way of looking at Islam. In an innovative combination of anthropology, history, and social theory, Benjamin Soares explores Islam and Muslim practice in an important Islamic religious centre in West Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Drawing on extensive ethnography, archival research, and written sources, he provides a richly detailed discussion of Muslim religious practice—Sufism, Islamic reform, and other contemporary ways of being Muslim in western Mali and more broadly in the country.
This book provides a major contribution to the study of Islam in Africa and will be welcomed by scholars and students in history, religion, and the social sciences, particularly those interested in anthropology, Islam, colonialism and the public sphere.
ISBN: 0748622853
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: BENJAMIN F. SOA -
AN INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY
ISBN: 9780748626083
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: MASSIMO CAMPANINI -
RETHINKING ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
An introduction to Islam, today the faith of more than a billion people, set in the context of world history and of religious studies.
Carl Ernst brings together Islamic religious thought and lived experience to examine traditional spirituality and the contentious issues confronting Muslims today. His approach is balanced – both sympathetic and critical.
Besides providing a guide to the fundamental aspects of Islam – its sacred sources, ethical systems and spiritual practices – the author encourages the reader to reflect on these topics. This compact introduction will appeal to all those who want to understand both the historical aspects of Islam as well as the place of Islam in the contemporary world.
ISBN: 0748619593
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: CARL W. ERNST -
THE KIZILBASH-ALEVIS IN OTTOMAN ANATOLIA
ISBN: 9781474432689
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: SUFISM, POLITICS AND COMMUNITY
Author: AYFER KARAKAYA-STUMP