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Structural Dividers in the Qur'an
This volume showcases a wide range of contemporary approaches to the identification of literary structures within Qur’anic surahs. Recent academic studies of the Qur’an have taken an increasing interest in the concept of the surah as a unity and, with it, the division of complete surahs into consecutive sections or parts. Part One presents a series of case studies focussing on individual Qu…
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- 9781000210545
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- 297 STR s
Politics of Religion/ Religions of Politic
The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers—Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in particular Simon Critchley—have begun to explore a more productive engagement of the religious …
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- 978-94-017-9448-0
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- XIII, 191
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- Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
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- 297.272 WEL p
Ilm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam
This edited volume of chapters resulted from an international conference held at the University of Adelaide in July 2016 under the same title to explore the multifaceted concept of Ê¿ilm in Islam — its agency and manifestations in the connected realms of science, religion, and the arts. The aim is to explore the Islamic civilisational responses to major shifts in the concept of ‘knowledgeâ€â€¦
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- 9781925261769
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- 297.673 ILM i
The Making of Islamic Heritage: Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents
diversity; architecture; culture; vulnerability; conservation
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- 9789811040702
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- 297.432 RIC m
The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon: Ibadat and Adat Among Javanese Muslims
Cirebon; Rituals; Islam; Muslims; Indonesia
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- 9781920942311
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- 297 MUH i
Islamising Indonesian: The Rise of Jemaah Tarbiyah and the Prosperous Justice…
The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is the most interesting phenomenon in contemporary Indonesian politics. Not only is it growing rapidly in membership and electoral support, it is also bringing a new and markedly different approach to Islamic politics, one which has no precedent in Indonesian history. Understanding PKS and analysing its political behaviour presents challenges to scholars and o…
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- 9781921536250
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- 297 MAC i
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey : Islamism, Violence and the State
This book was first published in 2015 in Turkish by İletişim Publishing. It is the first ethnographic study written about the Kurdish Hizbullah. This study constitutes a sociological and historical analysis of the 35 year-long period from Hizbullah’s emergence as an illegal underground organisation in 1979 until the time of writing, when Hizbullah had been legally acti…
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- 978 1 7868 0037 4
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- 297.8 KUR k
Gendered Fortunes Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortune-telling cafes where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals can navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life.
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- 9781478093558
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Fresh Perspectives on the 'War on Terror'
On 20 September 2001, in an address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American people, President George W Bush declared a ‘war on terror’. The concept of the ‘war on terror’ has proven to be both an attractive and a potent rhetorical device. It has been adopted and elaborated upon by political leaders around the world, particularly in the context of military action in Afghanistan a…
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- 9781921313745
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- 320 GAN f
Arab TV-Audiences Negotiating Religion and Identity
Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media or in one of the approximately 135 religious satellite channels that broadcast guidance and enter…
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