Islamic Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982493120Author Jason X GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Faithful Life PublishersPublisher Faithful Life PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013289347Author Trinidad RicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Islamic religious teachers (asatizah) and scholars (ulama) play a significant role in providing spiritual leadership for the Singapore Malay/Muslim community. Lately, the group has been cast under the spotlight over a range of issues, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807855775Author Carl W. ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina Press

Contributions by W. Montgomery Watt, Alford T. Welch, William A. Graham, George Makdisi, Michael E. Marmura, Annemarie Schimmel and David Kerr.Book InformationISBN 9780890031353Author R. G. HovannisianFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Undena...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062442161Author Rod NordlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 590g

An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just miles away in occupied territories. Surrounded takes a close look at this controversial group of soldiers,...

This updated reissue of Mark LeVine's acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub- and countercultural music in the Middle East brings this groundbreaking portrait of the region's youth cultures to a new generation. Featuring a new preface by the author in...

This original new work is the fascinating result of sociologist and documentary filmmaker Agnès De Féo’s ten-year exploration of the phenomenon of niqab wearing. It is at once a groundbreaking study and a series of compelling first-person accounts from...

In China there are up to 25 million Muslims living in the country, representing over 1200 years of Chinese-Islamic relations. However, little is known about the historical and contemporary geopolitical relations between China and the Muslim world, or the...

Zakat, being the third pillar of Islam, is an act of worship fulfilled by Muslims. As an obligatory means of alms giving expected of Muslims, it also helps to alleviate poverty in society by assisting such individuals to achieve a state of financial...

The present volume contains the proceedings of a workshop that took place as part of a larger project carried out by the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities (GRSSH). The framework of the overall research perspective was a study of...

Over the last few years, debates concerning the wearing of Islamic dress, the relationship between religious liberty and free speech and the enforcement of religious law have barely been far from the headlines. In the United Kingdom, a number of legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825351830Author Heike SchaferFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 3497g

Contemporary mass media descriptions of Muslims often suggest that Islam and Muslims are fundamentally undemocratic. Policy-makers in the West have weaponized these descriptions in attempts to legitimize anti-Muslim right-wing policy developments across...

Hassan Mahamdallie walks the streets of Detroit - the city America allowed to die, Ziauddin Sardar visits the 'first city' at the crossroads of Asia, Boyd Tonkin is shocked at the new gleaming cultural capitals of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Robert Irwin...

In the inaugural issue of Critical Muslim: Ziauddin Sardar tries to understand the significance of what just happened in the Middle East, Robin Yassin-Kassab spends some quality time in Tahrir Square, Ashur Shamis dodges the bullets of Gaddafi's...

Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders. Chapter by chapter, the book undertakes a close textual analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783084364Author Farzin VahdatFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

This book explores the richness of Pakistan's religious landscape, giving attention to a number of topics: Shia flagellation processions, Urdu-language pulp fiction, streetside rituals involving animals (pariah-kites and fortune-telling parrots), and the...

As 2023 marks the 300th birthday of Adam Smith, 'Father of Capitalism', capital apparently makes the world go round-but, as this issue explores, it is not the only structure we can use to orchestrate interactions, transactions and the business of...

This original new work is the fascinating result of sociologist and documentary filmmaker Agnes De Feo's ten-year exploration of the phenomenon of niqab wearing. It is at once a groundbreaking study and a series of compelling first-person accounts from...

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color For Sylvia Chan-Malik, Muslim womanhood is constructed through...

Embracing a new religion, or leaving one's faith, usually constitutes a significant milestone in a person's life. While a number of scholars have examined the reasons why people convert to Islam, few have investigated why people leave the faith and what...

Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Attentive to historical and literary configurations of language, race, religion, and power, Fieni...

In Muslims in Motion, Nazli Kibria provides a comparative look at Bangladeshi Muslims in different global contexts--including Britain, the U.S., the Middle East, and Malaysia. Kibria examines international migrant flows from Bangladesh, and considers how...

The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite...

Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions...

Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of...

A compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American teenagers and good Muslims This book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the...

Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support--a competition not simply between Islamism and the secular world, but between different and often conflicting...

This book is one of the first comprehensive studies of Islam as locally understood in the Middle East. Specifically, it is concerned with the prevalent North African belief that certain men, called marabouts, have a special relation to God that enables...

How do Muslims who grew up after September 11 balance their love for hip-hop with their devotion to Islam? How do they live the piety and modesty called for by their faith while celebrating an art form defined, in part, by overt sexuality, violence, and...

Within the broad contours of Islamic traditions, Muslims are enjoined to fast during the month of Ramadan, they are invited to a disciplined practice of prayer, and they are offered the Quran as the divine revelation in the most beautiful verbal form...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600215353Author Arno TauschFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 506g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847100683Author Rudiger LohlkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm *...

Concerned with the relationship between Friday mosque and city in the Islamic context. Focusing particularly on the Friday mosque, the book aims at exploring the concept of liminal(ity) in spatial terms and discuss it in terms of the relationship between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899828753Author Professor Robert HillenbrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Pindar PressPublisher Pindar PressWeight(grams) 1647g

An essential contribution to Internet activism and a must read for Indigenous educators, A Digital Bundle frames digital technology as an important tool for self-determination and idea sharing, ultimately contributing to Indigenous resurgence and nation...

New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative...