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Muslim Identities

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231531923
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Identities written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than focus solely on theological concerns, this well-rounded introduction takes an expansive view of Islamic ideology, culture, and tradition, sourcing a range of historical, sociological, and literary perspectives. Neither overly critical nor apologetic, this book reflects the rich diversity of Muslim identities across the centuries and counters the unflattering, superficial portrayals of Islam that are shaping public discourse today. Aaron W. Hughes uniquely traces the development of Islam in relation to historical, intellectual, and cultural influences, enriching his narrative with the findings, debates, and methodologies of related disciplines, such as archaeology, history, and Near Eastern studies. Hughes's work challenges the dominance of traditional terms and concepts in religious studies, recasting religion as a set of social and cultural facts imagined, manipulated, and contested by various actors and groups over time. Making extensive use of contemporary identity theory, Hughes rethinks the teaching of Islam and religions in general and helps facilitate a more critical approach to Muslim sources. For readers seeking a non-theological, unbiased, and richly human portrait of Islam, as well as a strong grasp of Islamic study's major issues and debates, this textbook is a productive, progressive alternative to more classic surveys.

Conceiving Identities

Author : Kathryn M. Kueny
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 143844785X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Conceiving Identities written by Kathryn M. Kueny and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it. Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a womans reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treatises, legal pronouncements, historiographies, zoologies, and other literary materials, this study considers how medieval Muslim scholars map the female reproductive body according to broader, cosmological schemes to generate a womans role as mother. By close consideration of folk medicine and magic, this book also reveals how medieval women contest the traditional maternal identities imagined for them and thereby reinvent themselves as mothers and Muslims. This innovative examination of the discourse and practices surrounding maternity forges new ground as it takes up the historical and epistemic construction of medieval Muslim womens identities.

Muslim Cool

Author : Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479894508
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Cool written by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.

Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse Societies

Author : Derya Iner
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144388572X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse Societies written by Derya Iner and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centres on the key concept of diversity and relates it to the identity formation of Muslims. Muslim identity differs specifically within certain theological, social, political and regional circumstances and discourses. Considering the diversity of societies and the numerous factors contributing to the shaping of Muslim identity, this book brings together examples from different parts of the world, including Western societies, and each chapter focuses on separate determinants of individual, communal, political, institutional, civic and national Muslim identities, offering a blueprint for identity studies. A particular strength of the book is its detailed investigation of the complexity of identity formation and the heterogeneity of the Muslim experience. In addition to including a variety of themes and cases from different parts of the world, diverse methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative research methods, further enrich the book. The contributors’ academic backgrounds and organic relationships with their communities enable them to develop their arguments with insight. Furthermore, by giving voice to academics from different nationalities, this book reflects neither a predominantly Western nor a distinctly Eastern approach, but instead gives a balanced view from critical academia globally.

Muslim American Youth

Author : Selcuk R. Sirin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814740391
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Muslim American Youth written by Selcuk R. Sirin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-07-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim American Youth offers a critical conceptual framework to aid in understanding Muslim American identity formation processes, a framework which can also be applied to other groups of marginalized and immigrant youth. In addition, through their innovative data and analytic methods the authors provide an antidote to "qualitative vs. quantitative" arguments that have unnecessarily captured much time and energy in psychology and other behavioral sciences. Muslim American Youth provides a much-needed roadmap for those seeking to understand how Muslim youth and other groups of immigrant youth negotiate their identities as Americans.--Book jacket.

Across the Worlds of Islam

Author : Edward E. Curtis IV
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023155852X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Across the Worlds of Islam written by Edward E. Curtis IV and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim people are found all over the world. Most live outside the Middle East, from Asia to the Americas. The vast majority of contemporary Muslims are not fluent in Arabic, and speakers of languages such as Persian, Urdu, and Turkish have made essential contributions to Islamic history and culture. However, typical courses on Islam tend to downplay areas beyond the Middle East, focusing on Arabic texts and elite theological and doctrinal arguments. This book offers an inclusive view of the diversity and complexity of the many worlds of Islam, investigating ethics and aesthetics as much as scriptures and theology. By paying attention to Muslims who are socially, culturally, doctrinally, or politically marginalized, it provides a comprehensive and all-embracing vision of the religion and its many interrelated communities. Contributors from a range of personal and intellectual backgrounds explore the capaciousness of Muslim identities, helping readers achieve a broader understanding of the past, present, and future of the Muslim world. This book includes communities such as the Nation of Islam and Alevi Muslims, and it goes beyond rituals like prayer and fasting to consider a wider array of practices, such as tattooing. Across the Worlds of Islam is at once student-friendly and cutting-edge, written with both introductory courses and general readers in mind. Examining Muslim identity and practice from the perspective of the margins, it offers nuanced portraits of Muslim life across geographic and sectarian divisions.

Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004425578
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an account of the ways in which Islamic traditions have contributed to the construction of modern Muslim selfhoods. They underpin Eisenstadt’s argument that religious traditions can play a pivotal role in the historically different interpretations of modernity.

Muslim Voices in School

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087909578
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Voices in School written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in this book think through and with Deleuzian concepts in the educational field. The resultant encounters between concepts such as multiplicity, becoming, habit and affect and Multiple Literacies Theory exemplify philosophically inspired and productive thinking. "—Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales

Writing Muslim Identity

Author : Geoffrey Nash
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441136665
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Writing Muslim Identity written by Geoffrey Nash and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a wide range of genres, including novels, memoirs, travel writing and journalism, this book explores representations of Muslims and Islam in modern English literature.

Geographies of Muslim Identities

Author : Peter Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131712913X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Muslim Identities written by Peter Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, geographies of identities, including those of ethnicity, religion, 'race' and gender, have formed an increasing focus of contemporary human geography. The events of September 11th, 2001 particularly illustrated the ways in which identities can be transformed across time and space by both global and local events of a social, cultural, political and economic nature. Such transformations have also demonstrated the temporal and spatial construction of hate and fear, and of increasing incidences of 'Islamophobia' through the construction of Muslims as 'the Other'. As the social scientific study of religion continues to be marginalized within mainstream scholarship, there remains an important gap in the literature. This timely book addresses this gap by collecting a range of cutting-edge contributions from the social, cultural, political, historical and economic sub-disciplines of geography, together with writings from gender studies, cultural studies and leisure studies where research has revealed a strong spatial dimension to the construction, representation, contestation and reworking of Muslim identities. The contributors illustrate the ways in which such identities are constructed, represented, negotiated and contested in everyday life in a wide variety of international contexts, focusing upon issues connected with diaspora, gender and belonging.

Muslim Identities and Modernity

Author : Maha Habib
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857728016
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Identities and Modernity written by Maha Habib and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What have the concepts of modernity and secularization meant for Islamic tradition, culture and society? How have the discourses which surround all of these issues influenced Muslim self-perception and individual identity? There have been many attempts to describe and analyse the encounter between Islam and modernity in the Middle East, but few have been able so effectively to explore the impact this has on the idea and reality of religious identity and individual religiosity. Maha F. Habib examines modernity from this angle, offering socio-cultural, philosophical and literary perspectives. She assesses how this is played out in Egypt, analysing cultural changes in the country through its intellectual thought and literature, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Her references to the works of Muhammad Abdu, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad, Naguib Mahfouz, Alaa al-Aswany and Salwa Bakr reveal contemporary issues and concerns which will interest those researching the cultural and social milieu of modern Egypt.

The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin

Author : Synnøve Bendixsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004251316
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin by : Synnøve Bendixsen

Download or read book The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin written by Synnøve Bendixsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their everyday life engagement with Islam. It deals with the reconstruction of selfhood and the collective content of identity formation in an urban and transnational setting.

Muslim Identity in the era of globalization

Author : Carina Zimmermann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668296065
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Identity in the era of globalization written by Carina Zimmermann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Fulda, language: English, abstract: Constructing an identity today is complicated by the nature of our postmodern world we live in but more significant than ever. For most people it is very important to identify oneself with at least one aspect like nationality, ethnicity or religion. Identity could determine the position which one has in society, depending on the country one live in. Finding one’s identity can be very challenging. Many people struggle with the notion of their identity, especially minority groups like Muslims living in the “Secular World” asking themselves “Who am I?” Moreover the globalization led to significant changes in the Islamic world and within an Identity crisis. In this paper I will focus on the following questions: What is the link between Islam and identity? What exactly is a Muslim Identity? As Muslims are coming from different countries, ethnics and different groups (Sunnis, Shiites and so on) can we talk about Muslims as a collective group or is there a Global Muslim Identity? And when how is this type of identity created?

Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World

Author : Daniel Brumberg
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 1601270208
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World written by Daniel Brumberg and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World highlights the challenges that escalating identity conflicts within Muslim-majority states pose for both the Muslim world and for the West, an issue that has received scant attention in policy and academic circles.

Perceptions of Islam in Europe

Author : Hakan Yilmaz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786733692
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Perceptions of Islam in Europe by : Hakan Yilmaz

Download or read book Perceptions of Islam in Europe written by Hakan Yilmaz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the Islamic world has been represented as the 'other' within European identity constructions - an 'other' perceived to be increasingly at odds with European forms of modernity and culture. With the perceived gap between Islam and Europe widening, leading scholars in this work come together to provide genuine and realistic analyses about perceptions of Islam in the West. The book bridges these analyses with in-depth case studies from Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and other parts of the European Union. This study goes beyond the usual dichotomies of 'clashes of civilizations' and 'cultural conflict' to try to understand the numerous, diverse and multifaceted ways - some conflictual, some peaceful - in which cultural exchanges have taken place historically, and which continue to take place, between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension

Author : Melanie Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351590669
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension written by Melanie Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension explores life inside an Islamic Center and school in present-day America. Melanie Brooks’ work draws on in-depth discussions with community and school leaders, teachers, parents and students to present thoughtful and contemporary perspectives on many issues central to American-Muslim identities. Particularly poignant are the children’s voices, as they discuss their developing identities and how they navigate the choice of being American, Muslim, or both. The book covers topics ranging from establishing the community and the considerations involved, the management of diversity within the community, and approaches to modern opinions on and experiences of gender and extremism in the western world. Based on focus groups, interviews and observations collected over a two-year period, this book serves as a fascinating and informative insight into the culture and experiences of modern American Muslims. This is essential reading for students and researchers interested in education, religion, politics, sociology, and most particularly in contemporary Islamic studies.

Muslim Women in America

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195177835
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Women in America written by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims.