With the departure of European Muslims to the “Islamic State” and a wave of terrorist attacks in Europe in recent years, the questions of why and how individuals radicalize to Jihadi extremism attra……続きを見る
著者:Marie Vannetzel
出版社: The American University in Cairo Press
発売日: 2020年12月22日
A groundbreaking ethnography of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
The Islamists’ political rise in Arab countries has often been explained by their capacity to provide social services, representing a ……続きを見る
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: 75%, Middlesex University in London (School of Oriental and African Studies), course: Islamic Law, 18 Literat……続きを見る
During the two decades that preceded the 2011 revolutions in Egypt and Syria, animated debates took place in Cairo and Damascus on political and social goals for the future. Egyptian and Syrian inte……続きを見る
During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrinesーnationalist, Marxist, and religiousーand radical criti……続きを見る
Die Journalistin Susanne Kaiser hat Geschichten von Konvertiten eingefangen und stellt Fragen, die weitgehend tabuisiert sind. Wer sind die jungen, zum Islam konvertierten Frauen und Männer? Was bew……続きを見る
Across the ancient and medieval literature of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, one finds references to the antediluvian sage Enoch. Both the Book of the Watchers and the Astronomical Book were long……続きを見る
The relationship between Islam and feminism is complex. There are many Muslim scholars who fervently promote women's equality. At the same time, there is ambivalence regarding the general norms, ter……続きを見る
著者:Annemarie Schimmel
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never been understood by the Western world. Using original ……続きを見る
著者:Lamin Sanneh
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年08月19日
Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual ans……続きを見る
Die wandernden und tanzenden Derwische sind die augenfälligsten Vertreter des Sufismus, der sich im 8. Jahrhundert aus islamischen Wurzeln entwickelte und bis heute in zum Teil international organis……続きを見る
This book (previously published as I Am Wind, You Are Fire) celebrates the extraordinary career of Persia's great mystical poet, Rumi (1207–1273), through the story of his life, along with an enligh……続きを見る
Passed into law over a decade before the Revolution, the Family Protection Law quickly drew the ire of the conservative clergy and the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. In fact, it was one of the first la……続きを見る
According to many Islamic jurists, the world is divided between dar al-Islam (the abode of Islam) and dar al-harb (the abode of war). This dual division of the world has led to a great amount of jur……続きを見る
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture, particularly comics and related artifacts, betwee……続きを見る
Sufism in America sheds light on spiritual, mystical Islam in America. The Sufi path focuses on developing a personal relationship with God, doing what is beautiful in the sight of God, and struggli……続きを見る