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241) Constructing Bangladesh: Anti-Catholicism And American Church Designs In The Nineteenth Century
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Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia M. Uddin examines the complex history of Islamic state formation in Bangladesh, formerly the eastern part of the Indian province of Bengal. Uddin focuses on significant moments in the region's history from medieval to modern times, examining the interplay of language, popular and scholarly religious literature, and the colonial experience as they contributed to the creation...
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Teena U. Purohit is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University. She is the author of The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India.
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity
Muslim modernism was a political and intellectual movement that sought to redefine the relationship between Islam and the colonial West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spearheaded by Muslim...
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"Michael Cook, Winner of the 2014 Holberg Prize" Michael Cook is professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought and A Brief History of the Human Race, among other books.
Why Islam is more political and fundamentalist than other religions
Why does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage...
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Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism.
Islam and Anarchism is a highly original and interdisciplinary work, which simultaneously disrupts two commonly held beliefs - that Islam is necessarily authoritarian...
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The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran exposes how the Koran incites hatred and violence and is anti-democratic, anti-freedom, and intolerant of any other ideology. Stripping out the obsolete debate, The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran focuses on the decrees toward Jews and Christians, how they were viewed by Muhammad, what "the infidels" have done wrong and what the Koran has in store for them.
The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran...
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The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy....
248) Sarah's Diary
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Unearth the Power of Fate: From Pakistan to America, a Journey of Resilience and Rediscovery.
Dive deep into the heart and soul of Sarah's Diary, a stirring tale of survival, resilience, and the power of a positive outlook. Sarah Malik, born in Pakistan and raised in Saudi Arabia, confronts life's unpredictable challenges head-on when she suffers a traumatic brain hemorrhage. But the story doesn't end with the pain; it's just the beginning.
As Sarah...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Muhammad QasimZaman is the Robert H. Niehaus '77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University. His books include The Ulamain Contemporary Islam (Princeton) and Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age.
The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South Asia
The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in...
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Juliane Hammer is associate professor and the Kenan Rifai Scholar of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism and Palestinians Born in Exile.
An in-depth look at how Muslim American organizations address domestic violence within their communities
In Peaceful Families, Juliane Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and...
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Hüseyin Yılmaz is associate professor of history and director of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University.
How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority
The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet...
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Anne Norton is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire; 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method; and Republic of Signs.
Why "the Muslim question" is really about the West and its own anxieties-not Islam
In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence...
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"Winner of the 2017 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association" "Winner of the 2017 Award for Excellence in Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion" Noah Salomon is assistant professor of religion at Carleton College.
For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice. For others, it violates the proper domains...
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"One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books on the Middle East (Terrorism & Counterterrorism) 2016" Diego Gambetta is professor of social theory at the European University Institute, Florence, and official fellow of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. His books include The Sicilian Mafia and Codes of the Underworld (Princeton). Steffen Hertog is associate professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Princes,...
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"Winner of the 2016 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies" Ellen McLarney is assistant professor of Arabic literature and culture at Duke University.
The unheralded contribution of women to Egypt's Islamist movement-and how they talk about women's rights in Islamic terms
In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from...
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An English Translation of Nahw Meer for the student of Arabic Grammar by Meer Syed Shareef Abul Hasan Bin Mohammed Al-Jurjani (RA). Ilm un Nahw is that science that teaches us how to join Nouns, Verbs, and Particles to form a complete sentence and what the vowel of the last letter of each word should be. This science started from the time of Omar bin Al-Khattab (RA) when one of the Bedouins read part of the Ayah 3 of Surah At-Tauba with a Kasrah at...
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Elijah Muhammad was one of the most significant and controversial black leaders of the twentieth century. His followers called him the Messenger of Allah, while his critics labeled him a teacher of hate. Southern by birth, Muhammad moved north, eventually serving as the influential head of the Nation of Islam for over forty years. Claude Clegg III not only chronicles Muhammad's life, but also examines the history of American black nationalists and...
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Ismail Fajrie Alatas is assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. Twitter and Instagram @ifalatas
An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of Java
This compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority,...
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An Iranian scholar and political scientist examines the role of religion in Iranian culture and politics through the twentieth century and beyond.
Islamism and Modernism captures the metamorphosis of the Islamic movement in Iran leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, as well as its changing influence in the country today. Its analysis ranges from encounters with Great Britain and the United States in the 1920s to today's struggles between...
260) The Month of Ramadan
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Learn About Ramadan and Change Your Life!Ramadan is one of the most sacred and spiritually intimate months of the Islamic calendar. It is a time of devotion, where one can nurture their relationship with Allah―breaking away from normal daily routine and spent in a constant state of faithful awareness. Curious about Ramadan? Want to understand it better? "The Month of Ramadan" is here to help! This book explains Ramadan in easy words. You'll learn:...
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