Ramadan in Java

Ramadan in Java

Author: André Möller

Publisher: Almqvist & Wiksell International

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13:

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The dissertation aims at reducing this gap in the literature on Islamic cultures, and provides its readers with ways of approaching and understanding Ramadan - and various different Islamic phenomena - in Indonesia and in other parts of the Muslim world. It is argued that we preferably may approach Islam from three different angles, that is, to discuss it from the normative, the written, and the lived perspectives respectively. In this study, thorough attention is thus directed not only to the classical and normative Islamic texts and the lived reality in Java, but also to the popular and contemporary Indonesian literature on Ramadan.


Islam on the move

Islam on the move

Author: Farish A. Noor

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 904851682X

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SHORTLISTED for the ICAS Book Prize 2013 Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jamat, arguably the worlds largest Islamic missionary movement, locates it in the larger perspective of global Islam and developments in the Muslim societies. Combining an overview of the history and current socio-political perception of the Tablighi Jama'at with a more analytical and philosophical approach to fundamental questions of identity, subject-positioning and representation, the author creates a comprehensive resource of interest to all scholars and students of Islam. Drawing on exhaustive research and records of conversion narratives of the new members of Tablighi Jamaat, cited here at length, the author creates a unique perspective on this complex phenomenon from both an internal and external viewpoints. Ahmad-Noor locates the spiritual framework of the movement in the context of its perception in the eyes of the political and religious authorities of the countries where it has a following, as well as the Western `securocrat approach.


Inside the Tablighi Jamaat

Inside the Tablighi Jamaat

Author: Ziya Us Salam

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2020-07-20

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9353579287

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Not much is known about what is arguably the world's, and certainly India's, largest Islamic organization -- the Tablighi Jamaat. From poverty-stricken peasants of Bihar to dairy farmers of Mewat, its members attend three-day retreats in local mosques, and at times, the Markaz in Delhi. They come of their own free will, at their own expense. The Tabligh tells its members to look within, that life is about internal cleansing with regular prayer that paves the path to spiritual uplift. Unlike other Islamic organizations that balance the here and the hereafter, the Tabligh is concerned only about 'matters beyond the sky and under the earth'. Its steadfast refusal to take a political stand has stood it in good stead. It is the 'ideal Muslim organization' for some -- focused solely on introspection in isolation. Now, for the first time, author Ziya Us Salam provides an inside view of the organization that unwittingly became a 'hotspot' during the novel coronavirus pandemic in 2020.


Ashoka in Ancient India

Ashoka in Ancient India

Author: Nayanjot Lahiri

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0674915259

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In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of Ashoka’s lifetime and dominion. At the center of Lahiri’s account is the complex personality of the Maurya dynasty’s third emperor—a strikingly contemplative monarch, at once ambitious and humane, who introduced a unique style of benevolent governance. Ashoka’s edicts, carved into rock faces and stone pillars, reveal an eloquent ruler who, unusually for the time, wished to communicate directly with his people. The voice he projected was personal, speaking candidly about the watershed events in his life and expressing his regrets as well as his wishes to his subjects. Ashoka’s humanity is conveyed most powerfully in his tale of the Battle of Kalinga. Against all conventions of statecraft, he depicts his victory as a tragedy rather than a triumph—a shattering experience that led him to embrace the Buddha’s teachings. Ashoka in Ancient India breathes new life into a towering figure of the ancient world, one who, in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, “was greater than any king or emperor.”


New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal

New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal

Author: M. Diouf

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-01-05

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0230618502

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This book brings together scholars for their fresh perspectives on religious conversion, transnational migration, economic globalization, and the politics of education, power, and femininity in African Islam in Senegal.


Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles

Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles

Author: A. T. Mahan

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-21

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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The author of this treatise was a United States Navy Flag Officer who was convinced that sea power and influence were of the utmost importance for countries with a coastline. He was also an educator and his teachings and views convinced many governments and led to the build-up of naval powers before WWI. This book ranges over several topics. In his introduction, Maham states that he wished to bring some knowledge and understanding of warfare to the ordinary man. He also adds that the chapters in his book are not related except in that they have some connection to the war in Spain.