Éthique musulmane et développement: Territoire et pouvoir by Christine Godefroy

By Christine Godefroy

Au Sénégal, république démocratique et laïque, l'islam est marqué par l. a. Tijâniyya, confrérie majoritaire organisée autour de familles maraboutiques. Leur ancrage territorial est examiné selon une approche organisationnelle, d'enjeux de pouvoir et d'éthique, qui montre leurs activities pour le développement du Sénégal et sa position dans l. a. Ummah. L'ouvrage examine l. a. place des marabouts porteurs de l'éthique musulmane par rapport aux droits de l'Homme, los angeles démocratie et l. a. laïcité, ainsi que leur souci d'autonomie financière.

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Ibn Al-Arabi's Fusus Al-Hikam: An Annotated Translation of by Binyamin Abrahamov

By Binyamin Abrahamov

Ibn al-Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam is a translation of 1 of an important works written on Islamic Mysticism.


Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) is deemed the best mystic of Islam and his mystical philosophy has attracted the eye of either Muslims and non-Muslims from his time to the current day. Believing that the realm is the self- manifestation of God, he claimed that each one religions are equivalent and that the appropriate individual is he who understands the entire spiritual phenomena on the planet. Fusus al-hikam examines the singular features of twenty seven prophets of Islam and constitutes the simplest precis of Ibn al-Arabi's inspiration. the interpretation of those twenty seven chapters is preceded via an advent that explains the most principles of Ibn al-Arabi and is followed by means of explanatory notes to the text.


Providing an simply obtainable translation of 1 of the best mystics of Islam, Ibn al Arabi’ Fusus al-Hikam is crucial analyzing for college students, students and researchers of Islamic Philosophy, Mysticism and Islamic Mysticism in particular.

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Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Islam (French Edition) by Malek CHEBEL

By Malek CHEBEL

Dans un langage uncomplicated et efficace, le Dictionnaire amoureux de l'islam est un ouvrage qui s'impose aux érudits et aux curieux comme los angeles clé pour comprendre le vécu musulman et l. a. sensibilité orientale.

Depuis ce jour noir du eleven septembre 2001, l'islam a été mis à l'index planétairement et les musulmans tenus de justifier de leur bonne foi. En Occident, l'islam motivate, suspicion et souvent incompréhension, en particulier dans un will pay comme l. a. France où il est los angeles deuxième faith du will pay. Malek Chebel aborde avec l. a. plus grande liberté l'ensemble des questions, même difficiles, qui ont trait à l'islam, comme le réformisme musulman, l. a. répudiation des femmes, le voile ou l. a. sexualité. Mais cet authentique vagabondage amoureux est aussi un livre d'histoires et, par sa building alphabétique, un recueil de plaisirs dont les entrées sont autant d'invitations au voyage : désert, harem, littérature, peinture, Alhambra... Lettre après lettre, il décline les mille et un raffinements qui nous fascinent tant dans los angeles tradition orientale.

Né à Skikda (Algérie), Malek Chebel, anthropologue et psychanalyste, est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur los angeles société musulmane qui sont des références, notamment : L'Encyclopédie de l'amour en Islam (Payot) et Dictionnaire des symboles musulmans (Albin Michel).

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Islam: The Key Concepts: Islam: The Key Concepts (Routledge by Kecia Ali,Oliver Leaman

By Kecia Ali,Oliver Leaman

Islam: the foremost Concepts is a transparent and concise consultant to the faith and tradition of Islam. Kecia Ali and Oliver Leaman discover this hugely topical topic concentrating on key issues together with: the Qur’an, religion, theology, gender, fundamentalism, martyrdom, Jihad, Islam in the USA, Islam in Europe and Islamic Law.


This is the appropriate research source and comprises: a finished creation, an alphabetical record of appropriate phrases (fully cross-referenced), a brief bibliographical advisor, bibliography, and index. A thesaurus of all non-English phrases can also be supplied.

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Muslims and the Making of America by Amir Hussain

By Amir Hussain

“There hasn't ever been an the United States with no Muslims”—so starts Amir Hussain, some of the most vital scholars and teachers of Islam in the USA. Hussain, who's himself an American Muslim, contends that Muslims performed an important position within the creation and cultivation of the United States.
 
Memories of 9-11 and the rise of global terrorism fuel matters approximately American Muslims. the phobia of yank Muslims partly stems from the stereotype that each one fans of Islam are violent extremists who are looking to overturn the yank lifestyle. Inherent to this stereotype is the preferred false impression that Islam is a brand new faith to America.
 
In Muslims and the Making of America Hussain at once addresses either one of those stereotypes. faraway from undermining the US, Islam and American Muslims have been, and remain, very important threads within the textile of yank lifestyles. Hussain chronicles the background of Islam in the United States to underscore the precious cultural impression of Muslims on American existence. He then rivets cognizance on tune, activities, and tradition as key components during which Muslims have formed and remodeled American identification. the USA, Hussain concludes, wouldn't exist because it does this present day with out the fundamental contributions made by means of its Muslim citizens.

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Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera by Julie Taylor

By Julie Taylor

Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera is the background of a Muslim colony within the southern Italian urban of Lucera through the center a long time. writer Julie Taylor attracts on an enormous array of fundamental resources, unpublished manuscripts, and archeological information to supply an in depth account of the lives of Muslims opposed to the backdrop of the social and political complexities of medieval Lucera. Taylor's paintings illuminates the criminal and social prestige of Muslims in Christendom and the contributions made by means of Muslims to the economic system and security of the dominion of Sicily, and it additionally yields noteworthy insights into Muslim-Christian kin. Muslims in Medieval Italy is a completely researched and soaking up account.

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3 minutes pour comprendre les 50 notions-clés de l'Islam : by Malek Chebel

By Malek Chebel

Depuis qu'il a fait irruption dans l'espace public occidental, l'islam n'a plus quitté les tribunes de journaux et les plateaux de télévision où il est questionné, scruté et jugé par une armée d'experts. Mais l'a-t-on pour autant bien compris ? Cet ouvrage de vulgarisation intelligente suggest un déroulé historique et thématique de los angeles civilisation musulmane : l'avènement de l'islam le Coran, le Prophète les différentes branches de l'islam sunnisme, chiisme, soufisme, wahhabisme... los angeles technological know-how et les arts, le symbolisme, and so on. Aucun point du monde musulman n'est mis de côté, vehicle l'auteur a considéré que le tabou ou l. a. censure sont contreproductifs. Sont donc traités avec los angeles même rigueur et le même souci de précision l'art ou los angeles technology et certains sujets dérangeants, comme los angeles violence religieuse...

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The Modern Qur'an: Lessons for today by Ahmed Affi

By Ahmed Affi

The proposed name of the booklet is: ‘The glossy Qur’an: classes for today’. This publication has been written to handle the confusion and the misapprehension which are so usually a function of debate concerning the Qur'an. it is going to support those that search the reality to appreciate the Qur'an (and therefore, Islam) greater via exploring its foundation, improvement, composition and philosophy. This e-book examines the entire vital components of Qur’anic experiences, and in addition addresses, head on, a number of the contentious matters dealing with Islam at the present time, corresponding to the idea that of Jihad. This publication unifies in one textual content, the entire significant matters mentioned within the box of Qur’anic studies.

This booklet is acceptable for all audiences, together with undergraduate/postgraduate scholars, and the reader calls for no pre-requisite wisdom e of Qur’anic experiences or of Arabic. The publication is written in transparent and concise English, heading off jargon and technical terminology so far as attainable. The e-book features a word list to help the reader with sure Qur’anic phrases mentioned in the publication, and in addition features a bibliography and extra readings.

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Islam and the Veil: Theoretical and Regional Contexts by Theodore Gabriel,Rabiha Hannan

By Theodore Gabriel,Rabiha Hannan

This quantity is concentrated round the subject of veiling in Islam and offers multifarious features of the dialogue concerning veiling of Muslim girls, specifically within the West. the difficulty of veiling has been intensively debated in Western society and has implications for spiritual liberty, inter-communal relationships and cultural interplay. Islam and the Veil seeks to generate open and goal dialogue of this hugely vital, even though arguable, topic, with contributions from individual students and teachers, together with girl practitioners of Islam.
This topic has infected passions and generated heated debate within the media lately, fairly within the West. This booklet goals to examine the old heritage, theological and social components underlying the veiling of ladies in Islam. Such dialogue will give you the reader with a well-balanced and impartial research of this significant element of Islamic practice.

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Islam and the Challenge of Civilization by Abdelwahab Meddeb,Jane Kuntz

By Abdelwahab Meddeb,Jane Kuntz

Abdelwahab Meddeb makes an pressing case for an Islamic reformation, positioned squarely in Western Europe, now domestic to thousands of Muslims, the place Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with secular humanism and positivist legislations. he isn't advocating “moderate” Islam, which he characterizes as thinly disguised Wahabism, yet quite an Islam encouraged by way of the good Sufi thinkers, whose perform of faith used to be now not sure via doctrine.

To accomplish this, Meddeb returns to the doctrinal query of the textual content as transcription of the uncreated notice of God and calls upon Muslims to tell apart among Islam’s religious message and the temporal, fabric, and traditionally grounded origins of its founding scriptures. He contrasts sessions of Islamic history—when philosophers and theologians engaged in full of life discussion with different faiths and civilizations and contributed to transmitting the Hellenistic culture to early sleek Europe—with glossy Islam’s collective amnesia of this previous. Meddeb wages a battle of interpretations during this booklet, in his try and show that Muslims can't sign up for the live performance of countries until they put aside superseded notions reminiscent of jihad and detect that feuding one of the monotheisms needs to crumple to the extra vital factor of what it capacity to be a citizen in today’s postreligious international setting.

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