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  • Rethinking Islam

    Common Questions, Uncommon Answers

    by Mohammed Arkoun, Robert D. Lee ...
    A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, Sunni and Shi'a, popular mystics and erudite scholars, ancient heroes and modern critics. A product of Islamic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    Tariq Ramadan attempts to demonstrate, using sources which draw upon Islamic thought and civilization, that Muslims can respond to contemporary challenges of modernity without betraying their identity. The book argues that Muslims, nurished by their own points of reference, can approach the modern epoch by adopting a specific social, political, and economic model that is linked to ethical values, ... Read more

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  • What Is Islam?

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  • Following Muhammad

    Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World

    by Carl W. Ernst ...
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  • Nietzsche and Islam

    by Roy Jackson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    In the light of current events, particularly the ‘post September 11th’ debates with much focus on aspects of the ‘clash of civilisation’ thesis, the issue of Islamic identity is a crucial one. Whilst Friedrich Nietzsche was addressing an audience of a different culture and age, his own originality, creativity, psychological, philological and historical insights allows for a fresh and enlightening ... Read more

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  • On Suicide Bombing

    by Talal Asad ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"-a conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from ... Read more

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  • Islam

    To Reform or to Subvert?

    by Mohammad Arkoun ...
    Series Book 7 - Saqi Essentials S.
    At a time when Islam is the focus of attention, vilified by some and a source of inspiration for others, Arkoun's is one of few voices that seek to go against the stream. His radical review of mainstream historiography of Islam draws on interdisciplinary analysis - historical, social, psychological and anthropological. As one of the foremost thinkers of the Muslim world, Arkoun is in a position to ... Read more

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  • Secularism Confronts Islam

    by Olivier Roy ...
    Translated by George Holoch ...
    The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French-and, consequently, secular and liberal-society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible ... Read more

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  • Formations of the Secular

    Christianity, Islam, Modernity

    by Talal Asad ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the ... Read more

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  • Believing Women in Islam

    Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an

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    Does Islam call for the oppression of women? The subjugation of women in many Muslim countries is often used as evidence of this, while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression and inequality. In this paradigm-shifting book, Asma Barlas argues that, far from supporting male privilege, the Qur'an actually affirms the complete equality of the sexes. Offering a ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

    by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world?Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim majority ... Read more

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