Author: Aptin Khanbaghi
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: muslim, abstracts, civilizations, civilisations, encylcopedias
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0748639705
ISBN-13: 9780748639700
Encylcopedias About Muslim Civilisations is a reference catalogue of two hundred annotated bibliographies and abstracts of encyclopedias published during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Listed materials are available in English, Arabic, and Turkish, and truly represent the diversity of Muslim societies. This volume enables and reinforces communication between scholars and institutions across Muslim contexts, in which a language barrier has often prevented the sharing of knowledge and information.
Author: H. J. Kissling
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Keywords: muslim, iii, world, empires, last, history
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1995-11
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1558761128
ISBN-13: 9781558761124
Contents includes: The Ottoman Empire to 1774 Egypt and the Eastern Arab Countries in the First Three Centuries of the Ottoman Period North West Africa from the 15th-19th Centuries Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, till the 19th Century Iran Under the Safavids and in the 18th Century Central Asia: The Last Three Centuries of Independence India Under the Mughal Empire
Author: Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher: Three Leaves
Keywords: muslim, terror, roots, cold, america, war
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-06-21
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0385515375
ISBN-13: 9780385515375
In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a provocative and important book that will profoundly change our understanding both of Islamist politics and the way America is perceived in the world today.
Authors:H. J. Kissling, N. Barbour, J. S. Trimingham, H. Brau
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: muslim, world, empires, last
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $164.00
ISBN-10: 9004021043
ISBN-13: 9789004021044
Author: Mashhad Al-Allaf
Publisher: IIC Classic Series
Keywords: muslim, covenant, non, peace
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 2004-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0972272240
ISBN-13: 9780972272247
This book discusses one of the most important contemporary issues, i.e., the relationship between Muslims and Muslims. The Book logical analyzes and decisively clarifies major concepts of the Islamic Legal Theory such as: The Territory of Covenant (Dar al-’Ahad) The Territory of Islam and Peace (Dar al-Islam) The territory of War (Dar al-Harb) The book also discusses Ahluth Themma or the Contractual People of Protected Identity. The book also analyzes the concept of Disbelief (Kufr) showing the different meanings of it based on the teaching of the Qur’an.
Author: Barbara Daly Metcalf
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: muslim, comparative, studies, societies, europe, america, space, north, making
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 1996-12-18
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520204042
ISBN-13: 9780520204041
Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political issues that dominate today’s headlines. The authors emphasize the cultural strength and creativity of communities that draw upon Islamic symbols and practices to define "Muslim space" against the background of a non-Muslim environment.The range of perspectives is broad, encompassing middle-class
Author: Roxanne L. Euben
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: muslim, princeton, studies, knowledge, politicsp, travelers, shore, western, journeys, search
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0691138400
ISBN-13: 9780691138404
The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben’s groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical moveme
