The Modern Muslim World – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien The Modern Muslim World. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
10 produkter
Bethlehem's Syriac Christians
Self, nation and church in dialogue and practice
Av Mark Calder
Inbunden, 2017
2224 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An anthropological study of Syriac Orthodox Christian identity in a time of displacement, upheaval, and conflict. For some Syriac Orthodox Christians in Bethlehem, their self-articulation - the means by which they connect themselves to others, things, places and symbols - is decisively influenced …
Jelena Dimitrijević
Letters from Salonika
Inbunden, 2018
1864 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An English translation of the Letters from Salonika by Jelena Dimitrijević, accompanied by a substantial critical introduction and a commentary. The book comprises author’s impressions from Salonika in the summer of 1908, in the midst of the Young Turk Revolution. The narrative focuses on the …
Rewriting Islamic Law
The Opinions of the 'Ulamā' Towards Codification of Personal Status Law in Egypt
Inbunden, 2019
1809 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the process, effects, and results of codification of Egyptian personal status laws as seen through the eyes of the ‘ulamā’. The codification process began in the mid-1800s and continued until the abolishment of the Sharī‘a courts in 1955 with the absorption of personal status …
Chinese Heirs to Muhammad
Writing Islamic History in Early Modern China
Av Lilu Chen
Inbunden, 2021
1809 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book tells the story of history as imagined by Hui Muslims in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China. Chen argues that this was an especially productive period for historical thought, bookended by the establishment of a robust Sino-Islamic knowledge base by Liu Zhi on one end and …
Victor-Marie de Launay et al. Usul-i Mi’mari-i ‘Osmani
(The Fundamentals of Ottoman Architecture)/ L’architecture ottomane/ Die ottomanische Baukunst, Istanbul: Imprimerie et lithographie centrales, 1873
Av Mary Roberts, Samuel Williams m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Ottoman Architecture is the first modern history of Ottoman architecture written by Ottomans themselves, yet it is little known outside the field of late Ottoman studies. This magnificently-illustrated volume codifies the empire’s architectural history into a series of preliminary stages …
Many Faces of Iranian Modernity
Sufism and Subjectivity in the Safavid and Qajar Periods
Av Robert Ames
Inbunden, 2021
1396 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study into both reformism and mysticism demonstrates both that mystical rhetoric appeared regularly in supposedly anti-mystical modernist writing and that nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sufis actually addressed questions of intellectual and political reform in their writing, despite the …
Intellectual Currents and the Practice of Engagement
Ottoman and Algerian Writers in a Francophone Milieu, 1890-1914
Inbunden, 2021
1661 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a great increase in the use of the printed word and the press by non-European actors to express and disseminate ideas and to participate in the intellectual life of both their home societies and a wider international context. This book examines …
Living the Quran with Joy and Purpose
Selections on Tawhid from Said Nursi's Epistles of Light
Av Yamina Bouguenaya, Isra Yazicioglu
Inbunden, 2021
620 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The current volume is an annotated translation of selections from a noteworthy Muslim theologian Said Nursi (1876-1960) on the Quranic theme of oneness of God (tawhid). Given the scarcity of theological themes in Islamic literature in English as well as the lack of studies on Said Nursi, who wrote …
Bethlehem's Syriac Christians
Self, nation and church in dialogue and practice
Av Mark Calder
Häftad, 2021
846 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An anthropological study of Syriac Orthodox Christian identity in a time of displacement, upheaval, and conflict. For some Syriac Orthodox Christians in Bethlehem, their self-articulation - the means by which they connect themselves to others, things, places and symbols - is decisively influenced …
Two-Edged Sea
Heterotopias of Contemporary Mediterranean Migrant Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1647 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The boat journey is central to the narrative of Mediterranean migration of the undocumented. The boat itself is flimsy, fragile, unstable, and easily breakable. It is trifling and insubstantial. But it has captured the attention of the world - after all, the boat and its aftermath have produced …
