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(Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam
This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention from mainstream social scientists working on Southeast Asian societies. The volume helps remedy that deficit by detailing the ways in which religion, gen…
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- 978-981-19-6059-8
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- Asia in Transition
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- XXXI, 346
Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice
This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews with Gülen and Hizmet participants and a literature review, this Open Access book locates the clear origins of Gülen’s teaching…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-97363-6
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- XXI, 250
Hizmet in Transitions
In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, Hizmet has been active in Europe (and other continents) for several decades. It has always been subject to some degree of contestation, which has inten…
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- XXI, 253
Islam, women's sexuality and patriarchy in Indonesia ; silent desire
Buku ini mengeksplorasi hubungan intim perkawinan perempuan Muslim Indonesia yang telah menikah. Selain menggambarkan dan menganalisis hubungan seksual mereka, buku ini juga menyelidiki bagaimana Islam memengaruhi wacana seksualitas di Indonesia, dan khususnya bagaimana ajaran Islam memengaruhi persepsi dan perilaku perempuan Muslim yang telah menikah dalam hubungan seksual mereka dengan suami …
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- 9781003042723
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- 1 online resource (252 pages)
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- 297.4 RIY i
Blaming Islam
Why fears about Muslim integration into Western society--propagated opportunistically by some on the right--misread history and misunderstand multiculturalism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301855
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- 1 online resource (xi, 121 pages).
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Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations…
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- 9780262282888
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- 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) :illustrations.
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The limits of culture :Islam and foreign policy
"The Limits of Culture explores the effect of culture on foreign policy, focusing on countries in the geopolitically important Caspian region and paying particular attention to those states that have identified themselves as Islamic republics: Iran, Taliban Afghanistan, and Pakistan."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283441
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- 1 online resource (ix, 350 pages) :illustrations.
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On the Way to the (Un)Known?: The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
Twenty-two authors from various countries analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The volume discusses questions of perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and explores possibilities and limits of digital analysis.
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783110698046, 9783110697605
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- 420
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- Studies on Modern Orient, 36
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- 297 ONT o
Doubts on Avicenna: A Study and Edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s C…
In Doubts on Avicenna, Ayman Shihadeh offers an extended study and critical edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk, a key and hitherto unstudied source for twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. This text inaugurates the long commentarial tradition on Avicenna’s Ishārāt. Readership: All interested in the history of medieval Arabic philosophy and rational theolog…
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- 9789004302532
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Metaphors of Death and Resurrection in the Qur’an: An Intertextual Approach…
Through extensive textual analysis, this open access book reveals how various passages of the Qur’an define death and resurrection spiritually or metaphorically. While the Day of Resurrection is a major theme of the Qur’an, resurrection has largely been interpreted as physical, which is defined as bones leaving their graves. However, this book shows that the Qur’an sometimes alludes to de…
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- 9781350244542
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- 272 pages
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