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Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terrorist networks since the events of 9/11. In Pakistan, the 2007 siege by government forces of Islamabad's Red Mosque and its madrasa complex, whose imam and students staged an armed resistance against the state for its support of the "war on terror," reinforced concerns about madrasas' role in regional and global jihad. By...
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Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.D. The magical appeal of Prophet Muhammad on behalf of the Almighty Allah made the world spell bound and Islamic wave spread everywhere within a very short time. The uniqueness of Islam, its monolithic base, it easy for the people to accept. Our attempt in bringing out this Encyclopedic Survey of Islamic culture under various themes viz, society, economy, institutions, law, religion,...
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There is perhaps no place in the world today where the stakes of partying and having sex are higher than in present-day Iran. Drinking and dancing can lead to arrest by the morality police and a punishment of up to 70 lashes. Consequences for sex outside of marriage can be even more severe-up to 84 lashes, or even public execution.
But even under the threat of such harsh punishment, a sexual revolution is taking place. Iranian youth continually...
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En conclusión, diremos con convencimiento que Wolfgang Vogt y Celina Vázquez, en este libro, operan mediante presentación, explicación, argumentación y análisis valorativo, una especie de actualización a nivel altamente investigativo-científico, de la evolución de los temas de islam, las culturas islámicas (consideradas en Occidente como periféricas), la relación bilateral entre Occidente europeo y Oriente islámico, la mujer en el islam,...
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Western perceptions of Islam and global terrorism is an analysis of the pathology of extremist behavior that has taken the modern world awry. Although, the word "terrorism" dates back to a couple of centuries, its modern manifestations are most disturbing in that it is paradoxically associated with the pristine tradition of Islam whose etymology as well as goal is none other than the establishment of comprehensive peace - with oneself, with one's...
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Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the region; this timely and prophetic book sheds light on...
27) Being Muslim
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Being Muslim presents an up-front and readable explanation of the most complex and emotion-laden issues of our troubled times. The varying branches of Islam are analyzed and their history outlined -- but the focus is on the present. In speaking about and crossing political, cultural and religious divisions, this book offers a unique perspective, forged in Canada, a country where people from everywhere on earth have found a way to live in peace. Terrorism....
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Exploring the response and contributions of Muslims and Turkish Muslims to globalization, including areas such as, democratization, scientific revolution, changing gender roles, and religious diversity, this study identifies the common values and visions of peace Muslims share. This study places specific analysis on the Glen movement, a growing approach to the reunification of faith and reason with hopes for a peaceful coexistence between liberal...
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For years, many have debated the relationship between religion and politics. In Secularism in Afghanistan, author Shukoor Zardushtian directs the discussion to Afghanistan, examining the role of religion in society in general and in Afghanistan in particular and analyzing the conflicts that arise from the mix of government and religion.Gleaned from research and his personal experiences of living in Afghanistan, Secularism in Afghanistan studies the...
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This collection of articles by artists, philosophers, psychologists, and social scientists explores the Sufi tradition and its best-known teacher, Rumi, a 13th-century poet, jurist, and philosopher. Setting aside the standard account of Rumi as a poet of mystic love, these contributors view his writings in a historical context, investigating Sufism's ties to Islam and the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad and tracing Rumi's influence on Persian and...
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Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.D. The magical appeal of Prophet Muhammad on behalf of the Almighty Allah made the world spell bound and Islamic wave spread everywhere within a very short time. The uniqueness of Islam, its monolithic base, it easy for the people to accept. Our attempt in bringing out this Encycopeadic Survey of Islamic culture under various themes viz, society, economy, institutions, law, religion,...
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Addressing the sociological, cultural, and religious aspects of the Glen movement, this insider's look also explores the failure experienced by many other Islamic movements that attempted to combine traditional values with the modern world. The influence Fethullah Glen has had on secularist Turkey is also examined.
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Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.D. The magical appeal of Prophet Muhammad on behalf of the Almighty Allah made the world spell bound and Islamic wave spread everywhere within a very short time. The uniqueness of Islam, its monolithic base, it easy for the people to accept. Our attempt in bringing out this Encyclopedic Survey of Islamic culture under various themes viz, society, economy, institutions, law, religion,...
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Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.D. The magical appeal of Prophet Muhammad on behalf of the Almighty Allah made the world spell bound and Islamic wave spread everywhere within a very short time. The uniqueness of Islam, its monolithic base, it easy for the people to accept. Our attempt in bringing out this Encycopeadic Survey of Islamic culture under various themes viz, society, economy, institutions, law, religion,...
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This book tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently the War on Terror, to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the global rise of militant Islam.
Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state in Pakistan, which tends to privilege events in a narrowly defined 'political' realm, Saadia Toor highlights the significance of cultural politics in Pakistan from its origins...
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Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.D. The magical appeal of Prophet Muhammad on behalf of the Almighty Allah made the world spell bound and Islamic wave spread everywhere within a very short time. The uniqueness of Islam, its monolithic base, it easy for the people to accept. Our attempt in bringing out this Encyclopedic Survey of Islamic culture under various themes viz, society, economy, institutions, law, religion,...
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Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.D. The magical appeal of Prophet Muhammad on behalf of the Almighty Allah made the world spell bound and Islamic wave spread everywhere within a very short time. The uniqueness of Islam, its monolithic base, it easy for the people to accept. Our attempt in bringing out this Encycopeadic Survey of Islamic culture under various themes viz, society, economy, institutions, law, religion,...
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it possesses a rigidly organized, centralized state, whose bureaucrats and civil servants are animated by a code of secular activism. On the other hand, France...
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Islam a religion a way and a message of peace, had its origin in 610 A.D. The magical appeal of Prophet Muhammad on behalf of the Almighty Allah made the world spell bound and Islamic wave spread everywhere within a very short time. The uniqueness of Islam, its monolithic base, it easy for the people to accept. Our attempt in bringing out this Encycopeadic Survey of Islamic culture under various themes viz, society, economy, institutions, law, religion,...
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"Winner of the 2005 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology" Bill Maurer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands, and the co-editor of Gender Matters: Re-Reading Michelle Z. Rosaldo and Globalization under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity.
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