Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies - 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 Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies write by Sarah Bowen Savant. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These case studies link genealogical knowledge to particular circumstances in which it was created, circulated and promoted. They stress the malleability of kinship and memory, and the interests this malleability serves. From the Prophet's family tree to the present, ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities in Muslim societies. So an understanding of genealogy is vital to our understanding of Muslim societies, particularly with regard to the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge.
Mapping Islamic Studies
Mapping Islamic Studies - 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 Mapping Islamic Studies write by Azim Nanji. This book was released on 2011-09-20. Mapping Islamic Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
The Genealogy of Terror
The Genealogy of Terror - 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 The Genealogy of Terror write by Matthew L. N. Wilkinson. This book was released on 2019-09. The Genealogy of Terror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the events of 9/11, 7/7, the War on Terror and the Caliphate and atrocities of the so-called Islamic State have dominated Western consciousness and wreaked havoc in parts of the Muslim-majority world. In their wake, a spate of books has been written explaining the phenomenon of Islamist radicalisation and Jihadism. Nevertheless, for normal citizens, as well as scholars of religion and legal professionals, the crucial question remains unanswered: how is mainstream Islam different from both Islamism and the Islamist Extremism that is used to justify terrorist violence? In this highly original book, which draws upon the author's experience as an expert witness in Islamic theology in 27 counter-terrorism trials, the author uses the idea of the Worldview, as well as traditional Islamic theology, to answer this question. The book explains not only what Mainstream Islam, Ideological Islamism and Islamist Extremism are in their broad philosophical characteristics and theological particulars, but also explains comprehensively how and why they are both superficially related and yet essentially and fundamentally different. In so doing, the book also illuminates the cast of characters and the development of their ideas that constitute Mainstream Islam, Ideological Islamism and the Non-Violent and Violent Islamist Extremists who constitute the Genealogy of Terror.
Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies
Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies - 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 Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies write by Allen James Fromherz. This book was released on 2021. Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Senior scholars of Islamic studies and the anthropology of Islam gather in this volume to pay tribute to one of the giants of the field, Dale F. Eickelman.
Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere
Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere - 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 Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere write by Dietrich Jung. This book was released on 2011. Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as an all-encompassing religious, political and social system. In shifting from differences to similarities, it leaves behind the increasingly circular debate about the "true" nature of Islam in which the Muslim religion has been represented either as intrinsically hostile to or as principally compatible with modern culture. Instead, it associates the evolution of a particularly essentialist image of Islam with a complex process of cross-cutting (self)-interpretations of Muslim and Western societies within an emerging global public sphere. Putting its focus on the life and work of a number of paradigmatic individuals, the book investigates the intellectual encounters and discursive interdependencies among western and Muslim intellectuals. In a historical genealogy it deconstructs the essentialist image of Islam in uncovering its conceptual foundations in the modern transformation of European and Muslim societies from the nineteenth century onwards. Thereby, the changing infrastructure of the global public sphere has facilitated the gradual popularization, trivialization, and dissemination of a previously elitist discourse on Islam and modernity. In this way, the idea of Islam as an all-encompassing system has been turned into accepted knowledge in the Western and Muslim worlds alike.
