| Weight | 0.26 kg |
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| ISBN | 9781848852990 |
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| Publication Date | 2010 |
| Pages | 166 |
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BRITAIN’S FIRST MUSLIMS
₨ 4,933
ISBN: 9781848852990
Publisher: I. B. TAURIS
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₨ 4,933
ISBN: 9781848852990
Publisher: I. B. TAURIS
In stock
| Weight | 0.26 kg |
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| ISBN | 9781848852990 |
| Format | |
| Publication Date | 2010 |
| Pages | 166 |
| Author | |
| Author Description | |
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ISBN: Z4541 – Hardback
Publisher: THE OCTAGON PRESS
ISBN: Z4541
Publisher: THE OCTAGON PRESS
Islam is one of the world’s oldest and most intriguing religions, and with so much recent attention focused on Muslim groups, the importance of understanding Islam today is self-evident. How does this classic religion deal with contemporary challenges in ethics and morality in a consistent and rational way? How in the 21st century do its complex moral and legal philosophies continue to provide an alternative to secularism?
Professor M.B. Hooker looks at how modern Indonesian Islamic thinking has responded to changes in social and cultural practices in this timely book. In particular he examines how authorities have ruled on such basic issues as purity and representation of doctrine, religious obligations, status and capacity of women, Islam and medical science, and offences against religion.
Hooker’s research has been drawn from around 2000 fatawa – formal opinion on points of law or dogma – collected from Indonesia between 1920 and 1990. The authority of the fatwa is independent of the state and is uncontaminated by European intellectual imperialism. It thus gives us a pure response to difficult issues from within Islamic thought, and is essential to how we understand Islam at this particular place and time.
ISBN: 1741140862
Publisher: VIVA BOOKS
ISBN: 0415059143 – Paperback
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
ISBN: 0415059143
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
ISBN: 071030076X – Hardback
Publisher: KEGAN PAUL
ISBN: 071030076X
Publisher: KEGAN PAUL
ISBN: 0852245637 – Hardback
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN: 0391034634
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE CURZON
‘Jihad’ is a highly charged word. Often mistranslated as ‘Holy War’, it has become synonymous with terrorism. Current political events have entirely failed to take account of the subtlety and complexity of jihad. Like many concepts with a long history, different cultural ideas have influenced the religious aspects of jihad. As a result its original meaning has been adapted, modified and destabilized – never more than at the present time. How does jihad manifest itself in Muslims’ everyday lives? What impact has 9/11 and its backlash had on jihad? By observing the current crisis of identity among ordinary Muslims, this timely book explores why, and in what circumstances Muslims speak of jihad. In the end, jihad is what Muslims say it is. Marranci offers us a nuanced and sophisticated anthropological understanding of Muslims’ lives far beyond the predictable clichés.
ISBN: 1845201582
Publisher: BERG
ISBN: 0880590076 – Paperback
Publisher: KEGAN PAUL
ISBN: 0880590076
Publisher: KEGAN PAUL
