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Apostasy --- Islam. --- Apostasy (Islam) --- Kufr (Islam)
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This groundbreaking, born-digital work invites readers to imagine Islam anew. Moving beyond conventional theological, nativist, and orientalist approaches, Shahzad Bashir decenters Islam from a geographical identification with the Middle East, an articulation through men's authority alone, and the assumption that premodern expressions are more authentically Islamic than modern ones. Focusing on time as a human construct, A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures interprets stories and images, paying attention to evidence and methods of interpretation. Islam, in Bashir's telling, is a vast net of interconnected traces that appear to be different depending on the vantage from which they are seen. Complementing narrative with extensive visual evidence, the multimodal digital form enacts the multiplicity of the project's analyses and perspectives, conferring a shape-shifting quality that bridges the gap between sensing Islam and understanding it, between feeling it as a powerful presence and analyzing it through intellectual means. This interactive, open-access edition allows readers to enter Islam through a diverse set of doorways, each leading to different time periods across different parts of the world. Bashir discusses Islam as phenomenon and as discourse-observed in the built environment, material objects, paintings, linguistic traces, narratives, and social situations. He draws on literary genres, including epics, devotional poetry and prayers, and modern novels; art and architecture in varied forms; material culture, from luxury objects to cheap trinkets; and such forms of media as photographs, graffiti, and films. The book's layered digital interface allows for an exploration of and engagement with this rich visual material and multimedia evidence not possible in a printed volume. A collaboration between the MIT Press and the Digital Publications Initiative of Brown University. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MIT Press, and the Digital Publications Initiative of Brown University. The URL for this project will be islamic-pasts-futures.org.
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This volume assembles contributions from different academic perspectives (religious and Islamic studies, literary and theatre studies, theology, sociology and history) on modern manifestations of martyrdom in the diverse Middle Eastern religious traditions, including Islam, Christianity, Judaism and the Baha'i-faith. The latter is considered in more detail since it is often not included in comparative studies on the monotheistic religions. An excursus into the farer East composes the contribution on Mahatma Gandhi. The volume considers central sociological, philosophical and theological problems which lie at the heart of the phenomenon of martyrdom, the significance of martyrdom in different conflicts, the competing martyr figures which develop in the course of these conflicts as well as the accompanying representations in art and ritual.
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An die islamisch-theologischen Studien in Deutschland werden regelmäßig Anfragen gerichtet, die auf den Beitrag der "islamischen Ethik" für die Gegenwart abzielen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, wie zeitgenössische ethische Fragen mit Rücksicht auf die islamisch-theologische Tradition beantwortet werden können. Das vorliegende Buch präsentiert zunächst vier Ethikkonzeptionen von Gelehrten unterschiedlicher theologischer Ausrichtung aus der islamischen Geschichte. Darauf folgt die Besprechung von vier zeitgenössischen Beispielen aus dem Bereich der Sexualethik, in der diese Ansätze für ihre Besprechung fruchtbar gemacht werden. Mit Beiträgen von Fatma Akan Ayyildiz, Bahattin Akyol, Dr. Mehrdad Alipour und Selma Schwarz.
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Les recherches et l'enseignement de Nadine Picaudou (professeur d'histoire des sociétés arabes contemporaines à l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne jusqu'en 2010) offrent un aperçu saisissant des évolutions de l'histoire et du métier des historiens du Proche-Orient contemporain. Les études réunies dans ce volume et écrites à l'occasion de son départ de l'université par des chercheurs de disciplines variées retracent bien plus que le parcours intellectuel d'une historienne du Proche-Orient. Elles mettent en lumière l'apport croissant des sciences sociales, l'influence continue de terrains particuliers et des conflits de la région (Palestine, Liban), l'évolution des thèmes de recherche et celle des questionnements de la société sur l'histoire contemporaine et parfois très actuelle du Proche-Orient (Islam et modernité, place des femmes, formation et rôle de l'armée, printemps arabes). Avec ces études, c'est l'ensemble du Proche-Orient qui est abordé, de la Turquie à l'Arabie Saoudite et du xixe siècle à l'année 2014, dans un souci de dialogue constant entre l'histoire et les sciences sociales et humaines - dialogue qui a caractérisé le travail de Nadine Picaudou.
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Islamic theology had to wait a long time before being granted a place in the European universities. That happened above all in German-speaking areas, and this led to the development of new theological and religious pedagogical approaches. This volume presents one such approach and discusses it from various perspectives. It takes up different theological and religious pedagogical themes and reflects on them anew from the perspective of the contemporary context.The primary focus is on contemporary challenges and possible answers from the perspective of Islamic theology and religious pedagogy. It discusses general themes like the location of Islamic theology and religious pedagogy at secular European universities. The volume also explores concrete challenges, such as the extent to which Islamic religious pedagogy can be conceptualised anew, how it should deal with its own theological tradition in the contemporary context, and how a positive attitude towards worldview and religious plurality can be cultivated.At issue here are foundations of a new interpretation of Islam that takes into account both a reflective approach to the Islamic tradition and the contemporary context. In doing so, it gives Muslims the opportunity to take their own thinking further.
Islam --- Doctrines.
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"The development of Islamic landscapes in Europe, is first and foremost related to Islamic authority. Religious authority relies on persuasiveness and deals with issues of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics with reference to religious matters. This study argues that Islamic authority-making among European Muslims is a social and relational practice that is much broader and versatile than theological proficiency and personal status. It can also be conferred to objects, activities, and events. The book explores various ways in which Islamic authority is being constituted among Muslims in Western Europe with a particular focus on the role of 'ordinary' Muslims".
Authority --- Islam and culture --- Islam
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Winner of The Iranian World Prize for the Book of the Year 2007 in the Philosophy and Mysticism category. This new and original text provides a timely re-examination of Islamic thought, presenting a stark contrast to the more usual conservative view. The explanation of the relationship between God and humans, as portrayed in Islam, is often influenced by the images of God and of human beings which theologians, philosophers and mystics have in mind. The early period of Islam reveals a diversity of interpretations of this relationship. Elkaisy-Friemuth discusses the view of three scholars from the tenth and eleventh century: Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali, which introduce three different approaches of looking at the relationship between God and Humans. God and Humans in Islamic Thought attempts to shed light on an important side of medieval rational thought in demonstrating its significance in forming the basis of an understanding of the nature of God, the nature of human beings and the construction of different bridges between them.
Islam --- Theological anthropology --- Doctrines. --- Islam.
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As a Muslim-majority country that is also a secular democratic state, a member of NATO, a candidate for membership in the European Union, a long-standing U.S. ally, and the host of Incirlik Air Base (a key hub for logistical support missions in Afghanistan and Iraq), Turkey is pivotal to U.S. and Western security interests in a critical area of the world. It also provides an example of the coexistence of Islam with secular democracy, globalization, and modernity. However, having a ruling party with Islamic roots-the Justice and Development Party (AKP)-within a framework of strict secularism ha
Islam and politics --- Islam and state --- Islam --- History.
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To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.
Geschichte. --- Islam. --- HISTORY / General.
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