The Muslim Elite
Author: Ali Ashraf
Publisher: New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 124
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Author: Ali Ashraf
Publisher: New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy based on interviews with the Muslim elite in Bihar.
Author: Lai Ah Eng
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 781
ISBN-13: 9812307540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious and ethno-religious issues are inherent in many multiethnic and multi-religious societies. Singapore society is no exception. It has long been multiethnic, multicultural and multi-religious, being at the crossroads of many major and minor civilizations, cultures and traditions, and its religious diversity continues to develop in the current contexts of growing religiosity, religious change and conflict often in the name of religion. Despite this background, there is lack of in-depth knowledge, nuanced understanding and regular dialogue about religions and the meanings of living in a multi-religious world. This volume covering major themes of Singapore's religious landscape, religion in schools and among the young, religion in the media, religious involvement in social services, and interfaith issues and interaction fills important gaps in the knowledge and understanding of Singapore's religious diversity and complexity. A collective effort of researchers and practitioners, it is a timely and useful reference for scholars, decision-makers, leaders and practitioners as well as for concerned citizens and followers.
Author: Asad Q. Ahmed
Publisher: Occasional Publications UPR
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1900934132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. B. Shah
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Zia A. Pathan
Publisher:
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9788183872690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy conducted in Belgaum District of Karnataka, India.
Author: Fatima Mernissi
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1992-12-21
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780201632217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConvinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community.
Author: Iza R. Hussin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 022632348X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of ‘Islamic law.’ She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law not the shari’ah, its present institutional forms, substantive content, symbolic vocabulary, and relationship to state and society—in short, its politics—are built upon foundations laid during the colonial encounter. Drawing on extensive archival work in English, Arabic, and Malay—from court records to colonial and local papers to private letters and visual material—Hussin offers a view of politics in the colonial period as an iterative series of negotiations between local and colonial powers in multiple locations. She shows how this resulted in a paradox, centralizing Islamic law at the same time that it limited its reach to family and ritual matters, and produced a transformation in the Muslim state, providing the frame within which Islam is articulated today, setting the agenda for ongoing legislation and policy, and defining the limits of change. Combining a genealogy of law with a political analysis of its institutional dynamics, this book offers an up-close look at the ways in which global transformations are realized at the local level.
Author: Tobias P. Graf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0192509047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire. As few contemporaries failed to remark, converts were disproportionately represented among those who governed, administered, and fought for the sultan. Unsurprisingly, therefore, renegades have attracted considerable attention from historians of Europe as well as students of European literature. Until very recently, however, Ottomanists have been surprisingly silent on the presence of Christian-European converts in the Ottoman military-administrative elite. The Sultan's Renegades inserts these 'foreign' converts into the context of Ottoman elite life to reorient the discussion of these individuals away from the present focus on their exceptionality, towards a qualified appreciation of their place in the Ottoman imperial enterprise and the Empire's relations with its neighbours in Christian Europe. Drawing heavily on Central European sources, this study highlights the deep political, religious, and cultural entanglements between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe beyond the Mediterranean Basin as the 'shared world' par excellence. The existence of such trans-imperial subjects is not only symptomatic of the Empire's ability to attract and integrate people of a great diversity of backgrounds, it also illustrates the extent to which the Ottomans participated in processes of religious polarization usually considered typical of Christian Europe in this period. Nevertheless, Christian Europeans remained ambivalent about those they dismissed as apostates and traitors, frequently relying on them for support in the pursuit of familial and political interests.
Author: Michael T. Rock
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-01
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1003813348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing an elite consensus/conflict analytical frame, this book examines why some majority Muslim countries perform so much better at democracy and/or development than others, questioning received wisdoms that Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment go together. Identifying four distinct democracy and development outcomes in the Muslim world, four case studies are interrogated to show that there is more variability in democracy and development outcomes in Muslim majority countries than macro-historical studies and aggregate data have shown. By demonstrating that democracy and development outcomes in Muslim countries are the consequence of elite conflict and elite consensus, rather than the precepts or institutions of Islam, the book places the competition for power among contending elites, rather than Islam, at the center of the story of democracy and development in the Muslim world. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political development/development studies, democratization and autocratization studies, democracy promotion, and more broadly comparative politics.
Author: Jared Rubin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 110703681X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.