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"The moral authority of Islam derives from its great sacred book, the Qur'an. But what is the nature of its authority, and how does it relate to the daily practices and individual circumstances of Muslims? M.A. Draz analyses, for the first time in English, theoretical theory tha…
In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in headscarves and veals. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the vei…
In recent years Islamic fundamentalism has grabbed the headlines as a new and grave threat to the West. This text analyzes the roots and emergence of the new Islamic movements and the main thinkers that inspired them.
"Prophets, saints, martyrs, sages, and seers - one of the richest repositories of lore about such exemplary religious figures belongs to the world's approximately 1.3 billion Muslims. Illuminating some of the most delightful tales in world religious literature, this engaging boo…
What is veiling?
by Amer, Sahar,, Franse letterkunde
fromIslamic civilization & Muslim networks
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Type: Book
Protest is an activity not associated with the pious and collectively-minded, but more often seen as an activity of the liberal and rebellious. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are commonly understood as paragons of submission and obedience following Abraham's example. Yet, the s…
"For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while…