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Fiqh, das Islam(rechts)verständnis, kann unterschiedlich ausfallen, denn es unterscheidet sich je nach verwendeten Quellen und der Art und Weise, wie diese Quellen verstanden und kombiniert werden. ´U?ul al-Fiqh behandelt die Regeln dieser Konstruktion und ihre...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-05
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Islam has been part of the increasingly complex American religious scene for well over a century, and was brought into more dramatic focus by the attacks of September 11, 2001. AmericanIslam is practiced by a unique blend of immigrants and American-born Muslims. The...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-11-03
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"Fundamentalism" and "authoritarian secularism" are commonly perceived as the two mutually exclusive paradigms available to Muslim majority countries. Recent political developments, however, have challenged this perception. Formerly associated with a fundamentalist...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-11-03
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Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies from the American Academy of Religion
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1148 - 1210) wrote prolifically in the disciplines of theology, Quranic exegesis, and philosophy. He composed treatises on...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-31
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For centuries, Muslim countries and Europe have engaged one another through theological dialogues, diplomatic missions, political rivalries, and power struggles. In the last thirty years, due in large part to globalization and migration from Islamic countries to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-30
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For centuries, Muslim countries and Europe have engaged one another through theological dialogues, diplomatic missions, political rivalries, and power struggles. In the last thirty years, due in large part to globalization and migration from Islamic countries to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-30
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It is the first study which comprehensively, systematically and critically examines the role and usefulness of the concept of Maqasid al-Shari'a (higher Objectives of Islamic Law) in contemporary Muslim reformist thought in relation to number of specific issues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-04
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In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world.In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "bearing witness" to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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Awais Reza is a shopkeeper in Lahore's Anarkali Bazaar -- the largest open market in South Asia -- whose labyrinthine streets teem with shoppers, rickshaws, and cacophonous music. But Anarkali's exuberant hubbub cannot conceal the fact that Pakistan is a country at the...
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PublicAffairs
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2014-03-11
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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...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-02-28
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How does the Qur'an depict the religious Other? Historically, this question has provoked extensive debate among Islamic scholars about the identity, nature, and status of such religious Others. Today, this debate assumes great importance because of the widening...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-02-21
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Die Konversion zum Islam, vor allem in vorwiegend nichtmuslimischen Gesellschaften, ist ein wachsendes Forschungsphänomen. Diese Studie konzentriert sich auf die akuten Herausforderungen von deutschen wie britischen Konvertiten zum Islam hinsichtlich ihrer kulturellen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-19
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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
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2013-12-12
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Building on recent revisionist scholarship, this book offers a new account of the last two decades of the life of the seminal eleventh-century Islamic thinker Ab
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-27
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'Your soul each moment struggles hard with death -
Think of your faith as though it's your last breath.
Your life is like a purse, and night and day
Are counters of gold coins you've put away'
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-14
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'Your soul each moment struggles hard with death -
Think of your faith as though it's your last breath.
Your life is like a purse, and night and day
Are counters of gold coins you've put away'
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-11-14
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How do we learn to be religious? To make sense of this process should we emphasise the habitual reinforcement of bodily rituals? Or the active role of individuals in making decisions about faith at key moments? Or should we turn to cognitive science to explain the...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-31
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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
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2013-09-26
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Considered in Islam to be the infallible word of God, The Qur'an was revealed to the prophet Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel in a series of divine revelations over many years after his first vision in the cave. In 114 chapters, or surahs, it provides the rules of...
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Penguin
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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
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2013-05-28
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