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Author : Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176257329
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Challenges to Religions and Islam written by Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2007 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Scott
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804769052
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Challenge of Political Islam written by Rachel Scott and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Islamist writings, political tracts, and interviews with Islamists, this book examines Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt from the perspective of Islamic conceptions of citizenship, and provides non-Muslim responses to those views.
Author : David Pawson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1473616883
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The Challenge of Islam to Christians written by David Pawson and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge of Islam to Christians is David Pawson's most important - and most controversial - prophetic message to date. Moral decline and erosion of a sense of ultimate truth has created a spiritual vacuum in the United Kingdom. David Pawson believes Islam is far better equipped than the Church to move into that gap and it will not be long before it becomes the country's dominant religion. Based on the audio and video recordings on which he first announced his message, this book unpacks and explains the background behind Pawson's claims, and - crucially - sets out a positive blueprint for the Church's response. Christians must rediscover and demonstrate to society the three qualities that make Christianity unique: Reality, Relationship and Righteousness.
Author : Christine Douglass-Williams
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 164177021X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)
Download or read book The Challenge of Modernizing Islam written by Christine Douglass-Williams and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire foreign policy and much of the domestic policy of the United States and other Western governments is based on the proposition that the vast majority of Muslims are moderate and peaceful, including those who are emigrating in large numbers to Europe and North America. But as Islamist groups and many mosques radicalize peaceful Muslims and appeal to the teachings of the Koran, Hadith, and Sunnah, it is imperative for moderates and reformists to articulate a vision of Islam and an exegesis of Islamic texts that can withstand the challenge of Islamists and the ulema who have declared the sanctity and immutability of the text. Instead, they must reestablish a firm foundation of Islam that is modernized, genuinely peaceful, tolerant, pluralistic, and compatible with secular governance, the freedom of speech, human rights, and equality. The Challenge of Modernizing Islam is the first major effort to provide that foundation. Veteran journalist Christine Douglass-Williams interviews foremost moderate and reformist Muslims in the Western world. She asks them tough questions about how they deal with problematic Koran passages, how they intend to get their message across to the Muslim world, and more. Their answers are revelatory, even in the ways in which they disagree with one another. Douglass-Williams has captured the Islamic Reformist movement in its full intellectual ferment, laying bare the tensions and triumphs of the Reformers. In the book's second half, she adds a crucial series of searingly honest and illuminating reflections on the challenges the reformers face, the chances they have of succeeding, and the implications of their struggle for the future of the Western world and of all free people. Illuminating, engaging, and thought-provoking, The Challenge of Modernizing Islam is an essential text for understanding the future of the United States and the West, and the implications of Muslim moderates' struggle for the free world.
Author : Khaled Abou El Fadl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691119384
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Islam and the Challenge of Democracy written by Khaled Abou El Fadl and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism have provoked widespread discussion about the possibility of democracy in the Islamic world. Such topics as the meaning of jihad, the role of clerics as authoritative interpreters, and the place of human rights and toleration in Islam have become subjects of urgent public debate around the world. With few exceptions, however, this debate has proceeded in isolation from the vibrant traditions of argument within Islamic theology, philosophy, and law. Islam and the Challenge of Democracy aims to correct this deficiency. The book engages the reader in a rich discourse on the challenges of democracy in contemporary Islam. The collection begins with a lead essay by Khaled Abou El Fadl, who argues that democracy, especially a constitutional democracy that protects basic individual rights, is the form of government best suited to promoting a set of social and political values central to Islam. Because Islam is about submission to God and about each individual's responsibility to serve as His agent on Earth, Abou El Fadl argues, there is no place for the subjugation to human authority demanded by authoritarian regimes. The lead essay is followed by eleven others from internationally respected specialists in democracy and religion. They address, challenge, and engage Abou El Fadl's work. The contributors include John Esposito, Muhammad Fadel, Noah Feldman, Nader Hashemi, Bernard Haykel, Muqtedar Khan, Saba Mahmood, David Novak, William Quandt, Kevin Reinhart, and Jeremy Waldron.
Author : Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Challenges to Religions and Islam written by Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Günter Lüling
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120819528
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book A Challenge to Islam for Reformation written by Günter Lüling and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2003 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Protestant theologian and diciple of renowned critics of Christianity, Albert Schweitzer and Martin Werner, the Author wanted since long to contribute to the breakthrough of their resolute nontrinitarian position which has throughout the twentieth century by all and every Western Christian university theology been silenced by pretending tacitly and tenaciously the non-existence of their strong argument.
Author : Bassam Tibi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520929756
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Challenge of Fundamentalism written by Bassam Tibi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Islamic fundamentalism was exerting a significant influence in nearly every corner of the world. Bassam Tibi, a widely recognized expert on Islam and Arab culture, offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics. A Muslim and descendant of a famous Damascene Islamic scholar family, Tibi sees Islamic fundamentalism as the result of Islam's confrontation with modernity and not only--as it is widely believed--economic adversity. The movement is unprecedented in Islamic history and parallels the inability of Islamic nation-states to integrate into the new world secular order. For this updated edition, Tibi has written a new preface and lengthy introduction addressing Islamic fundamentalism in light of and since September 11.
Author : Tariq Ramadan
Publisher : Kube Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0860374394
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity written by Tariq Ramadan and published by Kube Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tariq Ramadan attempts to demonstrate, using sources which draw upon Islamic thought and civilization, that Muslims can respond to contemporary challenges of modernity without betraying their identity. The book argues that Muslims, nurished by their own points of reference, can approach the modern epoch by adopting a specific social, political, and economic model that is linked to ethical values, a sense of finalities and spirituality. Rather than a modernism that tends to impose Westernization, it is a modernity that admits to the pluralism of civilizations, religions, and cultures. Table of Contents: Foreword Introduction History of a Concept The Lessons of History Part 1: At the shores of Transcendence: between God and Man Part 2: The Horizons of Islam: Between Man and the Community Part 3: Values and Finalities: The Cultural Dimension of the Civilizational Face to Face Conclusion Appendix Index Tariq Ramadan is a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor in Identity and Citizenship at Erasmus University. He was named by TIME Magazine as one of the one hundred innovators of the twenty-first century
Author : Ghulam Ahmad Parwez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Islam: a challenge to religion written by Ghulam Ahmad Parwez and published by . This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harvey J. Sindima
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761870172
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Major Issues in Islam written by Harvey J. Sindima and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores matters that have negatively affected the public image and led to distorted depictions of Islam from the late nineteenth century to the present. The areas of uneasiness and debate among Muslims and non-Muslims alike include Islamic values and identity in the post-caliphate era, after colonialism, and now under Western hegemony. There is anxiety about the place of Shari’a in the light of Western law and the state, secularism, democracy, human rights, the equality of women, and the place of Islamic education in transmitting Islamic values as secular education dominates societies. There are apprehensions over the relation between religion and politics as in the rise of Muslim Brotherhoods, Wahhabism, Islamism, al-Qaeda, and Islamic State. In non-Muslim countries concerns are about the status of Muslim marriage, polygamy, divorce, and interest (in business). Every topic is examined through the Noble Qur’an and the Hadith, classical writings, and linguistic analysis.
Author : Jonathan Laurence
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815751524
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Integrating Islam written by Jonathan Laurence and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa. While France has successfully integrated waves of immigrants in the past, this new influx poses a new variety of challenges—much as it does in neighboring European countries. Alarmists view the growing role of Muslims in French society as a form of "reverse colonization"; they believe Muslim political and religious networks seek to undermine European rule of law or that fundamentalists are creating a society entirely separate from the mainstream. Integrating Islam portrays the more complex reality of integration's successes and failures in French politics and society. From intermarriage rates to economic indicators, the authors paint a comprehensive portrait of Muslims in France. Using original research, they devote special attention to the policies developed by successive French governments to encourage integration and discourage extremism. Because of the size of its Muslim population and its universalistic definition of citizenship, France is an especially good test case for the encounter of Islam and the West. Despite serious and sometimes spectacular problems, the authors see a "French Islam" slowly replacing "Islam in France"–in other words, the emergence of a religion and a culture that feels at home in, and is largely at peace with, its host society. Integrating Islam provides readers with a comprehensive view of the state of Muslim integration into French society that cannot be found anywhere else. It is essential reading for students of French politics and those studying the interaction of Islam and the West, as well as the general public.
Author : Ahmad Akil Bin Muda
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482855119
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Islam and Its Challenges in the Globalised World written by Ahmad Akil Bin Muda and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - continuation of the volume 1 - is about the failure of the OIC, the need of Muslim countries in the Southeast Asia to form a new association vis--vis ASEAN, jihad, the attributes of disbelievers vis-a-vis believers, the ungrateful people, the wrath of Allah, the victory of the Muslims in the end and finally on current scenario facing the Muslims, including the emergence of the ISIS extremist that soils the good image of Islam.
Author : Altaf Gauhar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Challenge of Islam written by Altaf Gauhar and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759106710
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity written by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Europeans first colonized Arab lands in the 19th century, they have been pressing to have the area's indigenous laws and legal systems accord with Western models. Although most Arab states now have national codes of law that reflect Western influence, fierce internal struggles continue over how to interpret Islamic law, particularly in the areas of gender and family. From different geographical and ideological points across the contemporary Arab world, Haddad and Stowasser demonstrate the range of views on just what Islam's legal heritage in the region should be. For either law or religion classes, Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity provides the broad historical overview and particular cases needed to understand this contentious issue. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author : Azyumardi Azra
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812309403
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Varieties of Religious Authority written by Azyumardi Azra and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2010 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century was a fascinating period of profound political, social and economic changes in Indonesia. These changes contributed to the diversification of the religious landscape and as a result, religious authority was redistributed over an increasing number of actors. Although many Muslims in Indonesia continued to regard the ulama, the traditional religious scholars, as the principle source of religious guidance, religious authority has become more diffused and differentiated over time. The present book consists of contributions which all deal with the multi-facetted and multidimensional topic of religious authority and aim to complement each other. Most papers deal with Indonesia, but two dealing with other countries have been included in order to add a comparative dimension. Amongst the topics dealt with are the different and changing roles of the ulama, the rise and role of Muslim organizations, developments within Islamic education, like the madrasa, and the spread of Salafi ideas in contemporary Indonesia.
Author : Ahmad Dallal
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300159145
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History written by Ahmad Dallal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this wide-ranging and masterly work, Ahmad Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies. He traces the ways the realms of scientific knowledge and religious authority were delineated historically. For example, the emergence of new mathematical methods revealed that many mosques built in the early period of Islamic expansion were misaligned relative to the Ka'ba in Mecca; this misalignment was critical because Muslims must face Mecca during their five daily prayers. The realization of a discrepancy between tradition and science often led to demolition and rebuilding and, most important, to questioning whether scientific knowledge should take precedence over religious authority in a matter where their realms clearly overlapped"--Page 2 of cover.
