Repositioning mosques as social, cultural and political spaces, this book provides new insights on key contemporary debates, the religious identity of Britain, secularisation, the far-right and terrorism, and gender equality.Exploring the...Loe edasi...
Christian and Islamic sermons from past and present, and their preachers, are analyzed to reveal the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches.Part I focuses on the explicit contribution of sermons in socio-cultural trans...Loe edasi...
This book examines the salience of neo-traditionalism in Anglo-American Muslim communities, by tracing the scholarship and impact of the key public pedagogues (shaykhs) associated with this phenomenon – Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad, and Umar Far...Loe edasi...
Author demonstrates that in a largely oral society both the royal court and the emerging Shii religious establishment understood that controlling the medium meant controlling the message, and therefore society itself....Loe edasi...
The most extensive sixteenth-century polemic against the Qur’an written in Spanish preserved in a single manuscript and never published before....Loe edasi...
Sari: Edinburgh Studies of the Globalised Muslim World
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399520713)
This book concerns the ways in which the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is embedded in Moroccan society. Approaching pilgrimage from the perspective of lived religion, the book seeks to answer the question: How does Hajj feature in the ever...Loe edasi...
In Hajj travelogues Richard van Leeuwen outlines a neglected field of research. Apart from a description of important travelogues, the texts are situated in their discursive and historical contexts, and analysed as a medium to construct and co...Loe edasi...
Examining manifestations and transformations of multi-sensorial expressions and experiences of Shi i Islam, Beyond Karbala demonstrates how material ‘things’ and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potential of...Loe edasi...
The Takkiyya Muavin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shii Isla...Loe edasi...
The most extensive sixteenth-century polemic against the Qur’an written in Spanish preserved in a single manuscript and never published before....Loe edasi...
This new series publishes high quality philological editions of a selected number of influential works or authors forbidden by the Iberian Inquisition, or challenging the idea of an Imperial Spain/Portugal....Loe edasi...
In this cookbook, readers will find all the recipes they need to make Ramadan meals family-friendly and fuss-free. For Anisa Karolia—who is known for sharing her family’s traditional Indian and Malawi recipes—Ramadan, the month of fasting to celebrat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jan-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399522328)
Contributing to scholarship studying Islam alongside other late antique religions, Traces of the Prophets highlights how early Muslims deployed sacred objects and spaces to inscribe and dispute Islam’s continuities with, and differences fro...Loe edasi...
Explores the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches through an analysis of Christian and Islamic sermons and preachers-- This volume explores the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches through an analysis of Christian an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Dec-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198897279)
This book offers the first historical-critical study of women, households and patronage in the Quran, and thus of the way that Quranic law and theology refashioned existing late antique social structures. It is commonly understood that the...Loe edasi...
With an all-pervading sermon theme of social, national and political unity, Elisabeth Özdalga explores how long-standing religious rituals are utilised and mobilised in the formation of modern political loyalties and national identities....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487554378)
Drawing on five years of field studies in pragmatic- and dogmatic-inclined mosques across Europe, Shariʿa and Life explores how Muslims engage with shariʿa norms in general, and specifically with the challenges they face as Musl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jul-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399502771)
This book examines the salience of neo-traditionalism in Anglo-American Muslim communities, by tracing the scholarship and impact of the key public pedagogues (shaykhs) associated with this phenomenon – Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad, and Umar Far...Loe edasi...
Martyrdom narratives (maqtals) represent a prominent genre of Islamic, particularly Shii, literature. In this genre, the heart-rending aspects of the martyrdom scenes of religiously prominent people are depicted graphically....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-May-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526162601)
Muslims from the region that is now Nigeria have been undertaking the Hajj for hundreds of years. But the process of completing the pilgrimage changed dramatically in the twentieth century as state governments became heavily involved in its organizat...Loe edasi...
Sufism has long constituted one of the most powerful drawcards to people embracing Islam. This book considers a broad range of questions relating to Sufism, including its history, manifestations in various countries and communities, its expression i...Loe edasi...
Just one more sleep before EID! Safa is so excited for Eid-al-Fitr. As her mum takes her on an adventure to gift delicious Eid treatsto all their neighbours, Safa learns an important lesson: whatmakes Eid exciting is sharing special moments with th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198877332)
The Bayan al-saada fi maqamat al-ibada (The Elucidation of Bliss concerning the Spiritual Stations of Worship) is a central work in the modern intellectual and religious history of Iran and Shii Islam. A Quranic commentary (tafsir) by Sultan Ali...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jan-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108425650)
The mirror for princes genre of literature offers advice to a ruler, or ruler-to-be, concerning the exercise of royal power and the wellbeing of the body politic. This anthology presents selections from the mirror literature produced in the Islam...Loe edasi...
This anthology introduces major examples of the medieval Arabic, Persian and Turkish mirror for princes literatures in their historical and intellectual contexts. It provides access to an important body of literature, contains several new translation...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Dec-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111120737)
The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world’s religions – and since then, religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Religious Responses to Modernity, seven leading scholars from Germany and Israel explore specific...Loe edasi...
This book is the first comprehensive synthesis on mosques in sub-Saharan Africa, bringing together sites from more than twenty states from sub-Saharan Africa; and more than 285 monuments, from the IXth to the XIXth centuries....Loe edasi...
The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernization in the 1920s. The Rite of Urban Passage investigates this process by focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram procession...Loe edasi...
This book explores Halal and Islamic tourism and their relevance in the travel industry, along with an analysis of the unique characteristics of Muslim tourists, offering insights into faith-informed journeys. It examines Muslim travellers’ motiva...Loe edasi...
Informs the tourism industry how to better respond to the specific needs and values of this important and growing market.This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Halal and Islamic tourism and their relevance in the...Loe edasi...
Hajj is a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage for many, and as women, we often have unique concerns about purity, mobility, and worship. Dr Haifaa Younis breaks down the rulings in an easy-to-understand Q&A format so you can focus on ibadah with confide...Loe edasi...
Repositioning mosques as social, cultural and political spaces, this book provides new insights on key contemporary debates, the religious identity of Britain, secularisation, the far-right and terrorism, and gender equality.Exploring the...Loe edasi...
Christian and Islamic sermons from past and present, and their preachers, are analyzed to reveal the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches.Part I focuses on the explicit contribution of sermons in socio-cultural trans...Loe edasi...
This book examines the salience of neo-traditionalism in Anglo-American Muslim communities, by tracing the scholarship and impact of the key public pedagogues (shaykhs) associated with this phenomenon – Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad, and Umar Far...Loe edasi...
Author demonstrates that in a largely oral society both the royal court and the emerging Shii religious establishment understood that controlling the medium meant controlling the message, and therefore society itself....Loe edasi...
The most extensive sixteenth-century polemic against the Qur’an written in Spanish preserved in a single manuscript and never published before....Loe edasi...
This book explores shared religious practices among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, focusing primarily on the medieval Mediterranean. This book explores shared religious practices among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, focusing primari...Loe edasi...
Exploring the social, political, cultural, artistic, and religious significance of Muharram rituals for millions of global observers. Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have...Loe edasi...
Sari: Edinburgh Studies of the Globalised Muslim World
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399520713)
This book concerns the ways in which the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is embedded in Moroccan society. Approaching pilgrimage from the perspective of lived religion, the book seeks to answer the question: How does Hajj feature in the ever...Loe edasi...
In Hajj travelogues Richard van Leeuwen outlines a neglected field of research. Apart from a description of important travelogues, the texts are situated in their discursive and historical contexts, and analysed as a medium to construct and co...Loe edasi...
Examining manifestations and transformations of multi-sensorial expressions and experiences of Shi i Islam, Beyond Karbala demonstrates how material ‘things’ and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potential of...Loe edasi...
The Takkiyya Muavin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shii Isla...Loe edasi...
This book explores shared religious practices among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, focusing primarily on the medieval Mediterranean. It examines the meanings members of each community ascribed to the presence of the religious other at their fest...Loe edasi...
