Ahmad Q?bel and Contemporary Islamic Thought
Author: Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-04-30
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1009322222
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Islamic thought in Southeast Asia: New Interpretations and Movements
Author: Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad
Publisher: The University of Malaya Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9674880194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent years have witnessed a remarkable growth in scholarship on Islam within Southeast Asia. Underlying this scholarship is a desire to resolve pressing social and political problems facing Muslim communities, an awareness of the significance of pluralism and cultural hybridity within Southeast Asian societies, and the rapidly growing interaction between Southeast Asian Muslims and the outside world. The chapters in this book represent some of the exciting new directions young scholars in Southeast Asia universities are taking Islamic Studies. Themes covered include Islam and liberalism, the diverse streams of contemporary Islamic thought, “neo-Sufi” movements, Islam and human rights, the growing influence of Islamic law, Islam and democratic politics, Islamic education, and the relationship between Islam and ethnic identity.
The Caliphate of Man
Author: Andrew F. March
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0674987837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIslamist thinkers used to debate the doctrine of the caliphate of man, which holds that God is sovereign but has appointed the multitude of believers as His vicegerent. Andrew March argues that the doctrine underpins a democratic vision of popular rule over governments and clerics. But is this an ideal regime destined to survive only in theory?
Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues
Author: Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad
Publisher: Islam International
Published: 2021-10-14
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1853728888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the teachings of Islam regarding peace in the world today.
Some Aspects of Contemporary Islamic Thought
Author: Ahmed Mukarram
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 702
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Author: Francis M. Deng
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780815723691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified in racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious terms. The identity question related to how such concepts determine or influence participation and distribution in the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the country. War of Visions aims at shedding light on the anomalies of the identity conflict. The competing models in the Sudan are the Arab-Islamic mold of the North, representing two-thirds of the country in territory and population, and the remaining Southern third, which is indigenously African in race, ethnicity, culture, and religion, with an educated Christianized elite. But although the North is popularly defined as racially Arab, the people are a hybrid of Arab and African elements, with the African physical characteristics predominating in most tribal groups. This configuration is the result of a historical process that stratified races, cultures, and religions, and fostered a "passing" into the Arab-Islamic mold that discriminated against the African race and cultures. The outcome of this process is a polarization that is based more on myth than on the realities of the situation. The identity crisis has been further complicated by the fact that Northerners want to fashion the country on the basis of their Arab- Islamic identity, while the South is decidedly resistant. Francis Deng presents three alternative approaches to the identity crisis. First, he argues that by bringing to the surface the realities of the African elements of identity in the North-- thereby revealing characteristics shared by all Sudanese--a new basis for the creation of a common identity could be established that fosters equitable
Modern Islamic Political Thought
Author: Hamid Enayat
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2005-06-24
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0857721097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe revival and power of religious feelings among Muslims since the Iranian revolution presents a complicated and often perplexing picture of the politics of modern Islam. What are the ideas which have influenced the direction of these trends? Here, Hamis Enayat provides an answer by describing and interpreting some of the major Islamic political ideas, especially those expressed by Iranians and Egyptians, as well as thinkers from Pakistan, India, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. He examines the political differences between the two main schools in Islam - Shi'ism and Sunnism. Also covered in the book is: the concept of the Islamic state; and the Muslim response to the challenge of alien and modern ideologies such as nationalism, democracy and socialism - as well as notions of Shi'i modernism.
Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani: Life and Legacy
Author: Dr Showkat Ahmad Dar
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Published: 2022-07-08
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani: Life and legacy is an academic attempt to highlight the socio-political thoughts of al-Nabhani (1909-1977), an Islamic scholar, ideologue, thinker and one of the influential personalities of recent past who witnessed the major geo-political transformations of the twentieth century. The book is an important contribution in the academia and would be a valuable reference for researchers and academicians of the field. The book not only provides a biographical account of al-Nabhani but also deliberates on his practical orientations of his thought and his efforts to work for the betterment of the humanity as a whole.
Afghanistan Rising
Author: Faiz Ahmed
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-11-06
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0674971949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDebunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and the rule of law as a secular-liberal monopoly, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its own laws, and ratify a constitution after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Afghanistan Rising illustrates how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Kabul--far from being a landlocked wilderness or remote frontier--became a magnet for itinerant scholars and statesmen shuttling between Ottoman and British imperial domains. Tracing the country's longstanding but often ignored scholarly and educational ties to Baghdad, Damascus, and Istanbul as well as greater Delhi and Lahore, Ahmed explains how the court of Kabul attracted thinkers eager to craft a modern state within the interpretive traditions of Islamic law and ethics, or shariʿa, and international norms of legality. From Turkish lawyers and Arab officers to Pashtun clerics and Indian bureaucrats, this rich narrative focuses on encounters between divergent streams of modern Muslim thought and politics, beginning with the Sublime Porte's first mission to Afghanistan in 1877 and concluding with the collapse of Ottoman rule after World War I. By unearthing a lost history behind Afghanistan's founding national charter, Ahmed shows how debates today on Islam, governance, and the rule of law have deep roots in a beleaguered land. Based on archival research in six countries and as many languages, Afghanistan Rising rediscovers a time when Kabul stood proudly as a center of constitutional politics, Muslim cosmopolitanism, and contested visions of reform in the greater Islamicate world.
