Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies (RLE Politics of Islam) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies (RLE Politics of Islam) write by Aziz Al-Azmeh. This book was released on 2013-07-18. Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies (RLE Politics of Islam) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a study of the structure and composition of the official learning current in medieval Arabic culture. This comprises natural sciences both exoteric and esoteric (medicine, alchemy, astrology and others), traditional and religious sciences (such as theology, exegesis and grammar), philosophical sciences such as metaphysics and ethics, in addition to technical disciplines like political theory and medicine, and other fields of intellectual endeavour. The book identifies and develops a number of conceptual elements common to the various areas of official Arabic scientific discourse, and shows how these elements integrate these disparate sciences into an historical epistemic unity. The specific profile of each of these different sciences is described, in terms of its conceptual content, but especially with reference to its historical circumstances. These are seen to be embodied in a number of institutional supports, both intellectual and social: paradigms, schools of thought, institutions of learning, pedagogic techniques, and a body of professionals, all of which combine to form definite, albeit ever renewed, traditions of learning. Finally, an attempt is made to relate Arabic scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages to patterns of scientific and political authority. First published in 1986.
Islam in Perspective (RLE Politics of Islam)
Islam in Perspective (RLE Politics of Islam) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam in Perspective (RLE Politics of Islam) write by Patrick Bannerman. This book was released on 2013-06-03. Islam in Perspective (RLE Politics of Islam) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There has been a significant upsurge of western interest in the political manifestations and significance of Islam in the last decade, fuelled by the notion of Islamic ‘revival’, the Iranian revolution and by events in countries as diverse as Egypt, Pakistan and Sudan. Oil power and its effect on the international economic order, the relationship of Muslim countries with the superpowers and the continuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict have also served to focus attention on Islamic politics and, in particular, on the notion of Islamic reassertion. As the author of this book argues, one result of this interest has been the development of a view of Islam as monolithic and implacable. He takes a broad view of the intellectual and cultural history of Islam, emphasising the extraordinary diversity of Islamic societies and the ways in which the ideal is often pragmatically adapted to reality. In this wider social and historical context, the nature of Islamic revival is then reassessed. First published in 1988.
Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought
Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought write by Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri. This book was released on 2012-04-30. Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout the Middle East, and in the west as well, there has been much discussion concerning the notion of Islamic rule and the application of shari'ah by the state. Central to these debates are the three key themes that Mohammad Abed al-Jabri looks at in this book: democracy, human rights and law. Jabri, one of the most influential political philosophers in the contemporary Middle East, examines how these three concepts have been applied in the history of the Arab world, and shows that they are determined by political and social context, not by Islamic doctrine. Jabri argues that in order to develop democratic societies in which human rights are respected, the Arab world cannot simply rely on old texts and traditions. Nor can it import democratic models from the West. Instead, he says, a new tradition will have to be forged by today's Arabs themselves, on their own terms. Through analysis of contemporary Arab ideology, its doubts about democracy, whether human rights are universal and the role of women and minorities in Islamic society, he expounds on the most pertinent issues in modern political philosophy. This lively interrogation of the building blocs of western conceptions of a modern state is a classic text and is vital for all students of modern Islamic political thought.
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 write by Albert Hourani. This book was released on 1983-06-23. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the movement of ideas in Egypt and Lebanon. He shows how two streams of thought, the one aiming to restate the social principles of Islam, and the other to justify the separation of religion from politics, flowed into each other to create the Egyptian and Arab nationalisms of the present century. The last chapter of the book surveys the main tendencies of thought in the post-war years. Since its publication in 1962, this book has been regarded as a modern classic of interpretation. It was reissued by the Cambridge University Press in 1983 and has subsequently sold over 8000 copies.
Islam
Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam write by Tamara Sonn. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now available in a fully-revised and updated third edition, Islam: History, Religion and Politics, provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the core teachings, historical development, and contemporary public struggles of Islam. Features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and the ongoing struggles for representative governance throughout the Muslim world Includes up-to-date analysis of the civil wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, including the rise of terrorist groups like Boko Haram and ISIS Spans Islamic history from the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islamic ideals, through Islam’s phenomenal geographical expansion and cultural development, to the creation of modern states and its role in today’s global society Written by a leading scholar of Islamic studies
