Publisher: Oxford University Press
In this text, John L. Esposito clearly and carefully explains the teachings of Islam - the Quran, the example of the Prophet, Islamic law - about jihad or holy war, the use of violence and terrorism. He chronicles the rise of extremist groups and examines their frightening worldview and tactics.
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Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these offensive portrayals serve? This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.
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Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Debate on freedom of religion as a human right takes place not only in the Western world but also in Muslim communities throughout the world. For Muslims concerned for this freedom, one of the major difficulties is the 'punishment for apostasy' - death for those who desert Islam.This book argues that the […]
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Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Said Nursi (1877-1960) was an advocate of a form of Islam strongly committed to non-violence and constructive engagement with the West and Christianity. He has six million followers - the Nursi community - primarily in Turkey. Yet many in the USA and Europe are not familiar with his important work; this book […]
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Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Dr. Esack is a Muslim theologian and an academic, yet he is also an outspoken public figure in the new South Africa. Every day immersed in the hotbed of controversy where faith and modernity meet, Esack is in a unique position to trample unashamedly over the traditional boundaries between the spiritual and the […]
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Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and monolithic religion. This work argues that it is the experience of Muslim women in particular that calls for a more nuanced understanding of Islam. It looks at the history of Islam, and offers an […]
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Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Designed to promote an understanding of Muslim attitudes to major political, legal, religious and social issues in Southeast Asia, this book includes quotations from documents on Islamic law; state and governance; jihad; society, women and the family; and more. It is useful for government officials, academics, security analysts, and journalists.
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Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important of geopolitical issues. This book talks about the phenomenon of political Islam, determined by macro and micro-level changes in the Muslim world, and the socio-economic and political settings.
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Publisher: Prometheus Books
In The Losing Battle with Islam, David Selbourne explores the many facets of the West's inability to understand and meet the challenge of a resurgent Islam. Neither Islamophile nor Islamophobe, Selbourne presents a dispassionate account of the confusions caused in the non-Muslim world by the violence and rhetoric of Islamists, by the growing […]
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Josef van Ess is a scholar of classical kalam, the Muslim theology that was the precursor to, and foundation for, modern Islam. This book makes available, for the first time in English, the fruit of van Ess's thirty-five years of work in the field. A lucid and authoritative introduction to classical Islam, […]
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