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Author: Benedikt Pontzen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1108901506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on empirical and archival research, this ethnography is an exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in Ghana's Asante region, demonstrating the interconnectedness of Islam with people's lives in a zongo community.
Author: Benedikt Pontzen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1108830242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in a zongo community in Ghana.
Author: Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2005-07-26
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0060523549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Prophet of Zongo Street is a dazzling collection of stories that calls to mind Ben Okri and Chinua Achebe. Mohammed Naseehu Ali, the tradition's acclaimed new practitioner, offers up ten powerful and beautifully rendered tales. Set primarily on the fictitious Zongo Street -- a close-knit community of wonderfully quirky characters who hold tight to superstition, religion, and family -- these stories are anchored by the uproarious, the embarrassing, the poignant, and the rawest moments of life.
Author: Benedikt Pontzen
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Published: 2014
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gudrun Krämer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 900414949X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. This work contains papers which highlight the scope and variety of religious authorities in Muslim societies.
Author: Paul Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-14
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1107310792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit or subtle? This book uses a detailed analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles on Muslims and Islam, combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis methods to produce an objective picture of media attitudes. The authors analyse representations around frequently cited topics such as Muslim women who wear the veil and 'hate preachers'. The analysis is self-reflexive and multidisciplinary, incorporating research on journalistic practices, readership patterns and attitude surveys to answer questions which include: what do journalists mean when they use phrases like 'devout Muslim' and how did the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks affect press reporting? This is a stimulating and unique book for those working in fields of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, while clear explanations of linguistic terminology make it valuable to those in the fields of politics, media studies, journalism and Islamic studies.
Author: Léon Buskens
Publisher:
Published: 2017-01-15
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789048528189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for guidance. This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam in Europe and Africa, and new topics, such as the role of gender. This collection surveys these transformations and others, taking stock of the field and showing new paths forward.
Author: Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-11-25
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521650236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the early Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri s book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.
Author: A. Kevin Reinhart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1108618642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes Islam make people violent? Does Islam make people peaceful? In this book, A. Kevin Reinhart demonstrates that such questions are misleading, because they assume that Islam is a monolithic essence and that Muslims are made the way they are by this monolith. He argues that Islam, like all religions, is complex and thus best understood through analogy with language: Islam has dialects, a set of features shared with other versions of Islam. It also has cosmopolitan elites who prescribe how Islam ought to be, even though these experts, depending on where they practice the religion, unconsciously reflect their own local dialects. Reinhart defines the distinctive features of Islam and investigates how modernity has created new conditions for the religion. Analyzing the similarities and differences between modern and pre-modern Islam, he clarifies the new and old in the religion as it is lived in the contemporary world.
Author: Masooda Bano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1108485316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rapidly expanding Islamic revival movement shows that Islamic rationalism and not jihadism is to define twenty-first century Islam.
