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I Cannot Write My Life
Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America
Häftad, 2023
290 kr
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Omar ibn Said (1770–1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James Owen, brother of Governor John Owen. In 1831 Omar composed a brief autobiography, the only known narrative written in Arabic by an enslaved person in …
Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop
Häftad, 2005
473 kr
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Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing and reinforcing the others. This volume …
Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination
Häftad, 2005
459 kr
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Malmonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best known for his work in philosophy, ethics, law, …
Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam
Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry
Av Omid Safi
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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Scholars, saints, and the state The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia, ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great portion of that time. In a far-reaching …
Sufis and Saints' Bodies
Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam
Häftad, 2007
572 kr
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Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through …
Jasmine and Stars
Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
Häftad, 2009
349 kr
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In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy. Her fresh perspective on present day Iran provides a rare insight into this rich culture alive …
Isma'ili Modern
Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community
Häftad, 2011
459 kr
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The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of …
Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi'ism
Häftad, 2014
361 kr
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In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localised cultural values shape gender roles. Ruffle focuses on the annual mourning assemblies held on 7 Muharram to …
Walking Qur'an
Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Häftad, 2014
446 kr
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Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur’an schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the …
Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade
150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port
Häftad, 2014
547 kr
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Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs. Approaching Aden's history between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries through the prism of overseas …
Constructing Bangladesh
Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation
Häftad, 2014
461 kr
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Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia M. Uddin examines the complex history of Islamic state formation in Bangladesh, formerly the eastern part of the Indian province of Bengal. Uddin focuses on significant moments in the region's history from medieval to …
Call of Bilal
Islam in the African Diaspora
Häftad, 2014
390 kr
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How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam? While the term "Black Muslim" may conjure images of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, millions of African-descended Muslims around the globe have no connection to the American-based Nation of Islam. The Call of Bilal is a penetrating account of the …
Sufi Narratives of Intimacy
Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality
Häftad, 2014
461 kr
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Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and …
When Sun Meets Moon
Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry
Av Scott Kugle
Häftad, 2016
530 kr
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The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious …
When Sun Meets Moon
Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry
Av Scott Kugle
Inbunden, 2016
1377 kr
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The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious …
What Is Veiling?
Av Sahar Amer
Häftad, 2017
390 kr
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Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Muslim women around the world. What Is Veiling? explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam. Sahar Amer's evenhanded approach is anchored in sharp cultural insight and …
Religion As Critique
Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace
Av Irfan Ahmad
Inbunden, 2017
1198 kr
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Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam - indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates …
Religion As Critique
Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace
Av Irfan Ahmad
Häftad, 2017
390 kr
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Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam - indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates …
Islam Without Europe
Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought
Inbunden, 2018
1283 kr
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Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal's pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being …
Islam Without Europe
Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought
Häftad, 2018
456 kr
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Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal's pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being …
Hashtag Islam
How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority
Av Gary R. Bunt
Inbunden, 2018
1127 kr
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Gary R. Bunt is a twenty-year pioneer in the study of cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs). In this new book, he explores the diverse and surprising ways digital technology is shaping how Muslims across vast territories relate to religious authorities in fulfilling spiritual, mystical, and legalistic …
Hashtag Islam
How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority
Av Gary R. Bunt
Häftad, 2018
333 kr
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Gary R. Bunt is a twenty-year pioneer in the study of cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs). In this new book, he explores the diverse and surprising ways digital technology is shaping how Muslims across vast territories relate to religious authorities in fulfilling spiritual, mystical, and legalistic …
In a Pure Muslim Land
Shi'ism Between Pakistan and the Middle East
Inbunden, 2019
1198 kr
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Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this ""Land of the Pure."" The notion of Pakistan as …
In a Pure Muslim Land
Shi'ism Between Pakistan and the Middle East
Häftad, 2019
461 kr
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Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this ""Land of the Pure."" The notion of Pakistan as …
Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World
Av Babak Rahimi, Peyman Eshaghi
Inbunden, 2019
1198 kr
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Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims, entailing the visitation and veneration of sites associated with the Prophet Muhammad or saintly figures. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional …
Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World
Av Babak Rahimi, Peyman Eshaghi
Häftad, 2019
390 kr
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Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims, entailing the visitation and veneration of sites associated with the Prophet Muhammad or saintly figures. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional …
Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia
Häftad, 2019
518 kr
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This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments. Art historian Iftikhar Dadi here explores the art and writings of major artists, …
Who Is Allah?
Häftad, 2019
490 kr
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This vivid introduction to the heart of Islam offers a unique approach to understanding Allah, the central focus of Muslim religious expression. Drawing on history, culture, theology, politics, and the media, Bruce B. Lawrence identifies key religious practices by which Allah is revered and …
