A revised and updated guide that explores the tenets of the Koran, history and culture.

Editeur : Dk
Parution : 2011-11-01

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Can non-Muslims be saved? And can those who are damned to Hell ever be redeemed? In Islam and the Fate of Others, Mohammad Hassan Khalil examines the writings of influential medieval and modern Muslim scholars on the controversial and consequential question of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2011-10-15

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Ali Zaidi discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. This disclosure is accomplished by a comparative reading of Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-09

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This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. On a deeper level, however, it deals with the perennial problem of change and continuity in the Islamic legal tradition (or...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-14
Collection : Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
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From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-04-29

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This book explores the correlation between anti-theological thought and the rise of Islamism in the twentieth century by examining Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the leadership of Umar al-Tilmisani (d. 1986).

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-04-26

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John L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. Now, in this brilliant portrait of Islam today--and tomorrow--he draws on a lifetime of thought and research to sweep away the negative stereotypes and provide an accurate, richly nuanced, and revelatory...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-02-04

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Tariq Ramadan has emerged as one of the foremost voices of reformist Islam in the West, notable for urging his fellow Muslims to participate fully in the civil life of the Western societies in which they live. In this new book, Ramadan addresses Muslim societies and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-11-17

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This is the first anthology designed to enhance the reader's understanding of the multiple dimensions of Islamic terrorism by presenting a cross-section of recent articles and selections from cutting-edge books on the subject.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-11-10

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This work explores the earliest extant discussions on the authority of the Hadith in Islam and compares them with contemporary debates. These lively and often polemical debates are mostly popular discussions in which Muslims from different backgrounds and cultures...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-05-12

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