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Part of the series Muslim minorities volume 18;Muslim minorities v. 18.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-395) and index.
• Volume 1 — White American Muslims before 1975.

Subjects:

• Muslim converts — United States.
• Islam — United States — History.
• Muslims — United States.

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Part of the series Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization;Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• This book explores how medieval and modern Muslim religious scholars (‘ulamā’) interpret gender roles in Qur’ā nic verses on legal testimony, marriage, and human creation. Citing these verses, medieval scholars developed increasingly complex laws and interpretations upholding a male-dominated gender hierarchy aspects of their interpretations influence religious norms and state laws in Muslim-majority countries today, yet other aspects have been discarded entirely. Karen Bauer traces the evolution of their interpretations, showing how they have been adopted, adapted, rejected, or replaced over time, by comparing the Qur’ān with a wide range of Qur’ānic commentaries and interviews with prominent religious scholars from Iran and Syria. At times, tradition is modified in unexpected ways: learned women argue against gender equality, or Grand Ayatollahs reject sayings of the Prophet, citing science instead. This innovative and engaging study highlights the effects of social and intellectual contexts on the formation of tradition, and on modern responses to it — Provided by publisher.
• Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1. Women’s testimony and the gender hierarchy 2. Modern readings of women’s testimony 3. From a single soul: women and men in creation 4. Contemporary reinterpretations of the creation narrative 5. Who does the housework? The ethics and etiquette of marriage 6. The marital hierarchy today Conclusion.

Subjects:

• Sex role — Religious aspects — Islam.
• Qurʼan — Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Qurʼan — Criticism, interpretation, etc. — History.
• Qurʼan. fast (OCoLC)fst01842877
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index.
• Breeding the Brother — Building the Brotherhood — Forging the ideology — The slow rise and rapid fall from power — Islamism in Egypt and beyond.
• This is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and its own members. Drawing on years of participant observation, extensive interviews, previously inaccessible organizational documents, and dozens of memoirs and writings, the book provides an intimate portrayal of the recruitment and socialization of Brothers, the evolution of their intricate social networks, and the construction of the peculiar ideology that shapes their everyday practices. Kandil shows why attempts to compare the Brotherhood to secular social movements or typical forms of religious activism obscure its unique nature, and he seeks instead to unlock the organization’s unique logic. Building on his original research, Kandil reinterprets the Brotherhood’s slow rise and rapid downfall from power in Egypt, and compares it to the Islamist subsidiaries it created and the varieties it inspired around the world.

Subjects:

• Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt)
• Islamic fundamentalism — Egypt.
• Islamic fundamentalism.

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Part of the series Facets;Facets (Fortress Press)
Notes:

• Islam is a diverse and complex faith — Islam is a religion of orthopraxy — Muslims respect Judaism and Christianity — There is no institutional hierarchy in Islam — There is no clear separation between religion and politics in Islam — Jihād does not mean holy war.
• Recent events have focused attention on Islam, the often-misunderstood faith of one billion people. Westerners are showing a new openness to learning about Islam and other religions, in part perhaps because religion is arguably the single most important and volatile factor in geopolitics today. Islam needs to be understood on its own terms, John Kaltner argues. This little Facet offers the most basic information about Islam in an accessible and sympathetic presentation. Kaltner portrays Islam as first and foremost a religion of prescribed practices – the five pillars of Islam. Showing the deep humanism of Islam and its most cherished commitments, Kaltner presents Islam through assertions that counter frequent misconceptions of the faith. –BOOK JACKET.

Subjects:

• Islam.
• Islam. fast (OCoLC)fst00979776
• Islam. gtt

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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-150) and index.
• Introduction: Orientalism, Islamic activism and rational thought? — The rudiments of an Islamic just society : the contributions of Abu-Ishaq al-Shatibi — Yusuf al-Qaradawi : modernization is key — Rachid al-Ghannouchi : minorities and equality — Abdessalam Yassine : the just ruler — Conclusion: Reason and faith : the Islamists versus the stillborn God.

Subjects:

• Islam and civil society.
• Islam and politics.
• Islam — 21st century.
• Political activists — Islamic countries.
• Islamic countries. fast (OCoLC)fst01244130
• 2000 – 2099 fast

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-350) and index.
• What is Islamophobia? — The historical foundations of Islamophobia — Colonialism, orientalism, and the clash of civilizations — 9/11, the war on terror, and the rise of political Islamophobia — The Islamic threat in modern Europe — Professional Islamophobia — Muslims in the media and at the movies — Islamophobia and its casualties — Combating Islamophobia — Appendix: Interviewee profiles.
• American and European societies, particularly in the long wake of the events of 9/11 and the bombings in Madrid and London, have struggled with the recurrent problem of Islamophobia, which continues to surface in waves of controversial legislative proposals, public anger over the construction of religious edifices, and outbreaks of violence. The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine contributes fuel to the aggressive debate in Western societies and creates the need for measured discussion about religion, fear, prejudice, otherness, and residual colonialist attitudes. The Fear of Islam speaks into this context, offering an introduction to the historical roots and contemporary forms of religious anxiety regarding Islam within the Western world. Tracing the medieval legacy of religious polemics and violence, Green weaves together a narrative that orients the reader to the complex history and issues that originate from this legacy, continuing through to the early and late modern colonial enterprises, the theories of Orientalism, and the production of religious discourses of alterity and the clash of civilizations that proliferated in the era of 9/11 and the war on terror. The book contains analysis of interviews from figures such as Keith Ellison, John Esposito, Ingrid Mattson, Eboo Patel, Tariq Ramadan, and others.

Subjects:

• Islamophobia.
• Muslims — Non-Islamic countries.
• Islam — Public opinion.
• Non-Islamic countries. fast (OCoLC)fst01920641

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Part of the series Cloverleaf books. Holidays and special days;Cloverleaf books. Holidays and special days.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 24) and index.
• Explains the history of the holiday, discussing the customs and the celebration Eid al-Fitr.
• Where’s the moon? — Thinking about Allah — Thinking about other people — A big celebration — Make a moon can — Glossary — To learn more.

Subjects:

• Ramadan — Juvenile literature.
• ʻĪd al-Fiṭr — Juvenile literature.
• Fasts and feasts — Islam — Juvenile literature.
• Ramadan.
• Id al-Fitr.
• Juvenile works. fast (OCoLC)fst01411637

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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-392) and index.
• Prologue : the promise of a meaningful image — Representation, resemblance and religion — The icon and the idol — Iconoclasm, iconophobia and Islam — Idols, icons and images in Islam — Beauty, goodness, and wonder — Alchemy, appearance and essence — Dreams, visions and the imagination — Sufism and the metaphysics of resemblance — Words, pictures and signs — Legibility, iconicity and monumental writing.

Subjects:

• Islam and art.
• Islamic art.
• Figurative art — Islamic countries.
• Idols and images in art.

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• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• The origin of love. The theological context — The story of love — Spiritual psychology — The life of love. The search — The path — The states of the travelers — The goal of love. The reality of love — The suffering of love — The realization of tawḥīd.

Subjects:

• Sufism.
• Sufi literature — History and criticism.

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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index.
• State, faith, nation, and the Ottoman Empire — The premodern Islamic state and military modernization — The breaking of the pre-modern Islamic state — The reconstructed Muslim state — End of empire — The post-Ottoman Balkans — Post-Ottoman Turkey — The post-Ottoman Arab lands — The contemporary Balkans — Contemporary Turkey — Contemporary Arab countries — Conclusion: State, faith, and nation.
• Current standard narratives of Ottoman, Balkan, and Middle East history overemphasize the role of nationalism in the transformation of the region. Challenging these accounts, this book argues that religious affiliation was in fact the most influential shaper of communal identity in the Ottoman era, that religion moulded the relationship between state and society, and that it continues to do so today in lands once occupied by the Ottomans. The book examines the major transformations of the past 250 years to illustrate this argument, traversing the nineteenth century, the early decades of post-Ottoman independence, and the recent past. In this way, the book affords unusual insights not only into the historical patterns of political development but also into the forces shaping contemporary crises, from the dissolution of Yugoslavia to the rise of political Islam — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Islam and state — Turkey — History.
• Islam and state — Balkan Peninsula — History.
• Islam and state — Middle East — History.
• Nationalism — Turkey — Religious aspects — History.
• Nationalism — Balkan Peninsula — Religious aspects — History.
• Nationalism — Middle East — Religious aspects — History.
• Turkey — History — Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

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