Islam on the Street - 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 on the Street write by Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī. This book was released on 2009. Islam on the Street available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and manuals written by Sufi shaykhs and Islamist thinkers from among the more militant groups in Islam, but also in writings by other, more secular thinkers who have also influenced public opinion. A scholar of Arabic literature, Muhsin al-Musawi explains the growing rift that has occurred between the secular intellectual--the forerunner of Arab and Islamic modernity since the late nineteenth century--and the upsurge of Islamic fervor in the street, at the grassroots level, and what these secular intellectuals can do to reconnect with the masses. Using some of the most important Arabic and Islamic poetry, prose, and fiction to come out of the twentieth century, Al-Musawi provides context for the complex images of Arab and Islamic culture given by the various social, religious, and political groups, providing the motivations. Readers interested in the influence of religion and secularism within modern Islamic Arabic literature will find that the author addresses the presence of Islam and Sufism in ways that secular commentators have been incapable of doing.
Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty
Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty - 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 without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty write by Mustafa Akyol. This book was released on 2011-07-18. Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A delightfully original take on…the prospects for liberal democracy in the broader Islamic Middle East.”—Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street Journal As the Arab Spring threatens to give way to authoritarianism in Egypt and reports from Afghanistan detail widespread violence against U.S. troops and women, news from the Muslim world raises the question: Is Islam incompatible with freedom? In Islam without Extremes, Turkish columnist Mustafa Akyol answers this question by revealing the little-understood roots of political Islam, which originally included both rationalist, flexible strains and more dogmatic, rigid ones. Though the rigid traditionalists won out, Akyol points to a flourishing of liberalism in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the unique “Islamo-liberal synthesis” in present-day Turkey. As he powerfully asserts, only by accepting a secular state can Islamic societies thrive. Islam without Extremes offers a desperately needed intellectual basis for the reconcilability of Islam and liberty.
Taking Islam to the Street
Taking Islam to the Street - 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 Taking Islam to the Street write by Yusuf Abdun Nur. This book was released on 2006. Taking Islam to the Street available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
If Olaya Street Could Talk
If Olaya Street Could Talk - 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 If Olaya Street Could Talk write by John Paul Jones. This book was released on 2007. If Olaya Street Could Talk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is in parts a travelogue, a sociological examination, a historical documentary, a love story, health care development and political commentary. The author is one of few Americans to have lived in the country during this period of time who had access to Saudis at all levels of society and freely traveled throughout a large portion of the country. No other book, in English or Arabic, covers this period of Saudi Arabia's transformation to a modern nation, the period from 1978 to 2003. The motivation for writing the book was to render a realistic image of the people of Saudi Arabia, as well as to examine some of the basis for the American misperceptions of this country and region, in the hope that it will inspire others to take steps towards ending the current policy of war without end.
The Prophet of Zongo Street
The Prophet of Zongo Street - 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 Prophet of Zongo Street write by Mohammed Naseehu Ali. This book was released on 2005-07-26. The Prophet of Zongo Street available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Prophet of Zongo Street is a dazzling collection of stories that calls to mind Ben Okri and Chinua Achebe. Mohammed Naseehu Ali, the tradition's acclaimed new practitioner, offers up ten powerful and beautifully rendered tales. Set primarily on the fictitious Zongo Street -- a close-knit community of wonderfully quirky characters who hold tight to superstition, religion, and family -- these stories are anchored by the uproarious, the embarrassing, the poignant, and the rawest moments of life.
