Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
Islam and Christianity
Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In light of the widespread public perception of incompatibility between Islam and Christianity, this book provides a much-needed straightforward comparison of these two great faith traditions from a broad theological perspective. Award-winning scholar John Renard illuminates the similarities as well...
Chosen among Women
Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi`ite Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi`ite Islam combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in Shi`ite Islam....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In spite of Islam’s long history in Europe and the growing number of Muslims resident in Europe, little research exists on Muslim pilgrimage in Europe. This collection of eleven chapters is the first systematic attempt to fill this lacuna in an emerging research field.
Placing the pilgrims’...
by Abdelwahab Meddeb
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Abdelwahab Meddeb makes an urgent case for an Islamic reformation, located squarely in Western Europe, now home to millions of Muslims, where Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with secular humanism and positivist law. He is not advocating “moderate” Islam, which he characterizes as...
by Maryam Rajavi
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Tolerant Islam vs. Extremism
This manuscript is a compilation of an article and excerpts from speeches by the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi, a Muslim woman who has led a relentless struggle for freedom in Iran.
She represents a voice against Islamic fundamentalism...
Pilgrims of Love
The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
"... will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion." —Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis
Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi...
by Homeland Security Committee
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The report addresses the urgent and growing threat of terrorist travel by Americans to Syria and Iraq. Despite the government’s efforts to control this travel, hundreds of Americans have attempted to reach the conflict zones to join the jihadists. Using numerous briefings, interviews, site visits,...
No to Compulsory Veil
No to Compulsory Religion, No to Compulsory Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This is a selection of six speeches by Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran from 2015 to 2017 in various conferences on the topic of Islam, compulsory veil, compulsory religion and compulsory government and why anything that is forced under any pretexts...
Demanding Dignity
Young Voices from the Front Lines of the Arab Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Demanding Dignity: Young Voices from the Arab Revolutions is a collection of essays written by today’s generation of Arab youth who have directly inspired and sparked a revolutionary spirit that toppled governments, unearthing the aftermath of decades of suppression in the Middle East and North...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
One of the greatest dilemmas facing Muslims today is the fact that Muslim culture is often seemingly incompatible with the culture of the modern Western world, and the features associated with it - technological progress, consumerism, and new electronic communication, all of which have the potential...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system. If it succeeds, Turkey’s dramatic shift will be the most important change in the Middle East power balance since the 1979 Iranian...
Jews and Muslims in the Arab World
Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics. Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective...
Islamic Reform and Conservatism
Al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The famed reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo, one of the most influential centres of religious study in Sunni Islam, were enormously influential for twentieth-century Islamic thought. Here Indira Gesink offers a revisionist history of these debates over curricular and administrative...
Islamicate Societies
A Case Study of Egypt and Muslim India Modernization, Colonial Rule, and the Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The basic contention of this study is that the colonial rule had far more serious consequence than it has been realized. It radically transformed the nature of the Islamic societies of Egypt and Muslim India to that of an ‘Islamicate’societies. This affected the religious, cultural, social, and...