Contemporary Topics of Islamic Thought
Author: Muhammad Legenhausen
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9789644722301
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Contemporary Topics of Islamic Thought
Author: Muhammad Legenhausen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-05-24
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781546869207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Mustafa Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world. Mustafa Organization is a registered Organization that operates and is sustained through collaborative efforts of volunteers in many countries around the world, and it welcomes your involvement and support. Its objectives are numerous, yet its main goal is to spread the truth about the Islamic faith in general and the Shi`a School of Thought in particular due to the latter being misrepresented, misunderstood and its tenets often assaulted by many ignorant folks, Muslims and non-Muslims. Organization's purpose is to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge through a global medium, the Internet, to locations where such resources are not commonly or easily accessible or are resented, resisted and fought!
Issues in Contemporary Islamic Thought
Author: Taha Jabir Al Alwani
Publisher: IIIT
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 156564414X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of papers presents a reformist project calling upon Muslim intellectuals and scholars everywhere to comprehend the vast breadth and depth of the crisis engulfing Muslim thought today and the necessity of solving this crisis to enable the Ummah to experience a revival and fulfill its role among the nations of the world. The reader will find a variety of articles dealing with this intellectual crises, these include a chapter on ijtihad's role and history, important since our intellectual problems cannot be solved without the scholars' use of independent reasoning and creativity. Another discusses imitation (taqlid) calling upon Muslim scholars and intellectuals to abandon imitation and to stop favoring the past over the present when trying to solve modern problems. Another looks at human rights.
Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World
Author: Carool Kersten
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-17
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1135008922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an intellectual history of today’s Muslim world, surveying contemporary Muslim thinking in its various manifestations, addressing a variety of themes that impact on the lives of present-day Muslims. Focusing on the period from roughly the late 1960s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, the book is global in its approach and offers an overview of different strands of thought and trends in the development of new ideas, distinguishing between traditional, reactionary, and progressive approaches. It presents a variety of themes and issues including: The continuing relevance of the legacy of traditional Islamic learning as well as the use of reason; the centrality of the Qur’an; the spiritual concerns of contemporary Muslims; political thought regarding secularity, statehood, and governance; legal and ethical debates; related current issues like human rights, gender equality, and religious plurality; as well as globalization, ecology and the environment, bioethics, and life sciences. An alternative account of Islam and the Muslim world today, counterbalancing narratives that emphasise politics and confrontations with the West, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars of Islam.
Contemporary Topics of Islamic Thought
Author: Muhammad Legenhausen
Publisher:
Published: 2014-02-24
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781496025074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Ahlulbayt Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world.You may read this book carefully and should you be interested to have further study on such publications you can contact us through www.shia.es Naturally, if we find you to be a keen and energetic reader we shall give you a deserving response in sending you some other publications of this Organization.
The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought
Author: Ibrahim Abu-Rabi'
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 1405178485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thoughtreflects the variety of trends, voices, and opinions in thecontemporary Muslim intellectual scene. Challenges Western misconceptions about the modern Muslim worldin general and the Arab world in particular. Consists of 36 important essays written by contemporary Muslimthinkers and scholars. Covers issues such as Islamic tradition, modernity,globalization, feminism, the West, the USA, reform, andsecularism. Helps readers to situate Islamic intellectual history in thecontext of Western intellectual trends.
Islamic Thought
Author: Abdullah Saeed
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-11-22
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1134225644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIslamic Thought is a fresh and contemporary introduction to the philosophies and doctrines of Islam. Abdullah Saeed, a distinguished Muslim scholar, traces the development of religious knowledge in Islam, from the pre-modern to the modern period. The book focuses on Muslim thought, as well as the development, production and transmission of religious knowledge, and the trends, schools and movements that have contributed to the production of this knowledge. Key topics in Islamic culture are explored, including the development of the Islamic intellectual tradition, the two foundation texts, the Qur’an and Hadith, legal thought, theological thought, mystical thought, Islamic Art, philosophical thought, political thought, and renewal, reform and rethinking today. Through this rich and varied discussion, Saeed presents a fascinating depiction of how Islam was lived in the past and how its adherents practise it in the present. Islamic Thought is essential reading for students beginning the study of Islam but will also interest anyone seeking to learn more about one of the world’s great religions.
Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age
Author: Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-15
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1107096456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores some of the most fiercely debated issues facing the Islamic world today.
Contemporary Issues in Islam
Author: Asma Afsaruddin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-08-31
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0748695753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with certain "e;hot-button"e; contemporary issues in Islam, including the Shari'a, jihad, the caliphate, women's status, and interfaith relations. Notably, it places the discussion of these topics within a longer historical framework in order
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?
