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STRUGGLING TO BE HEARD SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIM VOICES
₨ 1,498Given the salience of ideologised forms of religion in fanning or justifying conflicts in different parts of the world today, formulating new understandings of religion that can play a positive role in promoting inter community relations and social justice is an urgent necessity. This is as true of the Islamic case as it is of all other religions. This book, a collection of interviews with Indian and Pakistani Muslim activists and ulema, seeks to provide a broad perspective on a socially engaged understanding of Islam that tries to creatively deal with several issues of contemporary concern, particularly those relating to inter faith relations, social justice and peace.
ISBN: 8188869098
Publisher: GLOBAL MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
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Author: YOGINDER SIKAND -
MUSLIMS IN INDIA
₨ 1,515The book discusses several important issues confronting Muslims in India today, like the attacks on some verses of the Holy Qur’an by the Hindu Mahasabha, the supposed high population growth among Indian Muslims, the issue of terrorism and Muslims in the Indian media. The book also discusses the misgivings surrounding Indian madrasas and is certain to enrich one’s understanding of Muslims in the country.
ISBN: 8188869163
Publisher: GLOBAL MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: PERCEPTIONS AND MISPERCEPTIONS
Author: ISHTIYAQUE DANI -
MADRASAS IN INDIA
₨ 1,137The author says that the public mind continues to harbour prejudices regarding madrasas due to the English language media’s continued tirade. Madrasa authorities are unable to challenge this propaganda, mainly because they are not well versed in English. The defence of the madrasa is only offered by the Urdu press which, being Muslim owned, does not carry as much weight with public opinion. This book discusses at length various issues confronting Indian madrasas, their contribution to Indian society, their shortcomings and why they need to improve their syllabus that has not been updated for more than a century. Contributors to this text include Yoginder Sikand, Adil Mehdi, Waris Mazhari, S Ubaidur Rahman and Mohammad Arshad. Akhtarul Wasey is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Languages in Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi and Director of the Zakir Hussain Institute of Islamic Studies in the same University.
ISBN: 8188869104
Publisher: GLOBAL MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: TRYING TO BE RELEVANT
Author: AKHTARUL WASEY -
INTER-RELIGIOUS MARRIAGES AMONG MULIMS
₨ 2,464This book presents interdisciplinary studies of inter-religious marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims (as well as between members of different Muslim communities) in locations in three societies: Bombay, India; Dakar, Thies, and Ziguinchor in Senegal; and Istanbul, Turkey. The country studies are united by a distinct theoretical approach, detailed in the introduction. This approach proposes that the phenomenon of inter-religious marriage is a unique prism through which we can understand the complex processes and dynamics by which religious, cultural, and social identities are negotiated at the level of individuals, families, and communities.
ISBN: 8188869171
Publisher: GLOBAL MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: NEGOTIATING RELLGIOUS AND SOCIALL IDENTITY IN FEMILY AND COMMUNITY
Author: ABDULLAHI A AN- -
UNDERSTANDING THE MUSLIM LEADERSHIP IN INDIA
₨ 664The book is a collection of interviews with leading social, political and religious Muslim leaders in India that throws light on almost all the important issues confronting Muslims in the country. It will help understand Muslims problems, their stand on major issues and their relationship with other communities in the country. The book discusses the issues that confront the 150-million strong Muslim community in the country and provides a picture perfect view as to how Muslim leaders take up issues. It enriches the understanding of where Muslims find themselves in today’s India.
ISBN: 8188869058
Publisher: GLOBAL MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
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Author: S UBAIDUR RAHMA -
ISLAM, MUSLIMS AND THE US
₨ 1,3279/11 marks a tuning point in the public discourses on Islam in the West and in the relationship between Islam and the West. Along with the US wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, sweeping demonizations of Islam in the media and hate crimes against Muslims living in the US, there also emerged an interest on the part not only of non-Muslims, but Muslims as well, in learning about Islam. The author discusses at length the widening schism between Muslims and the West and the way the US has taken advantage of the deadly 9/11 strikes to take its “War on Terror” to Muslim lands. She also discusses the marginalization of Muslim women in Muslim societies around the world and goes on to say that for the patriarchal Muslim society the other is not the Western infidel but the Muslim woman, while for Westerners, the Other has been Islam since early medieval times, much before the advent of any bin Laden.
ISBN: 8188869090
Publisher: GLOBAL MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: ESSAYS ON RELIGION AND POLITICS
Author: ASMA BARLAS
