Mullahs on the Mainframe - 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 Mullahs on the Mainframe write by Jonah Blank. This book was released on 2023-11-30. Mullahs on the Mainframe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology. Combining orthodox Muslim prayer, dress, and practice with secular education, relative gender equality, and Internet use, this community serves as a surprising reminder that the central values of "modernity" are hardly limited to the West.
In Whose Image?
In Whose Image? - 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 In Whose Image? write by Abdou Maliqalim Simone. This book was released on 1994-07-13. In Whose Image? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Muslim scholar with extensive experience in Africa, T. Abdou Maliqalim Simone was recruited by the Islamic fundamentalist Shari‘a Movement in Sudan to act as consultant for its project to unite Muslims and non-Muslims in Khartoum's shanty towns. Based on his interviews with hundreds of individuals during this time, plus extensive historical and archival research, In Whose Image? is a penetrating examination of the use of Islam as a tool for political transformation. Drawing a detailed portrait of political fundamentalism during the 1985-89 period of democratic rule in the Sudan, Simone shows how the Shari‘a Movement attempted to shape a viable social order by linking religious integrity and economic development, where religious practice was to dominate all aspects of society and individuals' daily lives. However, because Sudanese society is remarkably diverse ethnically and religiously, this often led to conflict, fragmentation, and violence in the name of Islam. Simone's own Islamic background leads him to deplore the violence and the devastating psychological, economic, and cultural consequences of one form of Islamic radicalism, while holding to hope that a viable form of this inherently political religion can in fact be applied. As a counterpoint, he ends with a discussion of South Africa's Call of Islam, which seeks political unity through a more tolerant interpretation of Islam. As an introduction to religious discourse in Africa, this book will be widely read by students and scholars throughout African Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Political Science.
Arrow of the Blue-skinned God
Arrow of the Blue-skinned God - 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 Arrow of the Blue-skinned God write by Jonah Blank. This book was released on 2000. Arrow of the Blue-skinned God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthropologist and journalist Blank gives a new perspective to the 3,000-year-old Hindu classic, retelling the ancient tale while following the course of Rama's journey through present-day India and Sri Lanka.
Secularizing Islamists?
Secularizing Islamists? - 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 Secularizing Islamists? write by Humeira Iqtidar. This book was released on 2011-02-15. Secularizing Islamists? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama‘at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama‘at-ud-Da‘wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism. This book offers a fine-grained account of the workings of both parties that challenges received ideas about the relationship between the ideology of secularism and the processes of secularization. Iqtidar particularly illuminates the impact of women on Pakistani Islamism, while arguing that these Islamist groups are inadvertently supporting secularization by forcing a critical engagement with the place of religion in public and private life. She highlights the role that competition among Islamists and the focus on the state as the center of their activity plays in assisting secularization. The result is a significant contribution to our understanding of emerging trends in Muslim politics.
Textual Sources for the Study of Islam
Textual Sources for the Study 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 Textual Sources for the Study of Islam write by Andrew Rippin. This book was released on 1990-10-15. Textual Sources for the Study of Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[This collection] is distinguished by its wide range and the care which has clearly gone into the selection of texts for inclusion. . . . Attention has understandably been focused on what might be called the religious aspects of Islam, such as scripture, theology, sects, law, ritual and mysticism, but within those limits the texts chosen are marked by substantially of content, by geographical, chronological and social diversity, and by an intelligent use of less well known authors. . . . An excellent starting point for a systematic and analytical examination of Islam."—G. R. Hawting, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
