Islam, Politics, Anthropology

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The Quest for the Historical Muhammad: How the Third Quest Era of Historical Jesus Research Can Help Us Understand Muhammad's Islam

A NEW MASSIVE study on the Eras of the Quest for the Historical Jesus and how we can apply the Third Quest (Post-Quest) Era methodologies to the Quest for the Historical Muhammad. This study additionally surveys the differences between Traditionalist and Revisionist (Historical-Critical) scholarship in Islamic Studies, and the various approaches of scholars in these schools of thought. Sections include the following:Methodologies and Sources The Traditional Jesus The Traditional Mu?ammad Can the Quest for the Historical Jesus Help Us Understand the Historical Mu?ammad What Can We Know? The Traditionalist School Classical and Apologetic Approaches Traditionalism and Orientalism Revisionist Methodologies Ignaz Goldziher and the Inauguration of the Modern Analysis of the ?ad?th Literature The Origins of ?ad?th Preeminence over the Qur'?n in Practice John Wansbrough Jewish Origins? Conclusion..

MYSTICS AND SAINTS OF ISLAM [DIGITALLY ENHANCED]

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Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stretched from India to the Philippines.   In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci uses the Book of One Thousand Questions—from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries—as a means to consider connections that linked Muslims across divides of distance and culture. Examining the circulation of this Islamic text and its varied literary forms, Ricci explores how processes of literary translation and religious conversion were historically interconnected forms of globalization, mutually dependent, and creatively reformulated within societies making the transition to Islam. Islam Translated will contribute to our kn..

The Islamic Drama

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Epistemological Bias in the Physical & Social Sciences

The question of bias in methodology and terminology is a problem that faces researchers east, west, north and south; however, it faces Third World intellectuals with special keenness. For although they write in a cultural environment that has its own specific conceptual and cultural paradigms, they nevertheless encounter a foreign paradigm which attempts to impose itself upon their society and upon their very imagination and thoughts. When the term “developmental psychology” for instance is used in the West Arab scholars also say “developmental psychology”, when “applied psychology” is mentioned they hurry to use the same term etc. Why not establish a new science with its own mechanisms, methodologies and points of reference to deal with epistemological biases and open up the gate of ijtihad with respect to them?This collection of papers aims to discover some of the biases latent in our terminology, methodologies, research tools, and conceptual principles, and to propose al..

MOHAMMED: A popular essay on the life of the prophet of Islam.

I. EARLY LIFE.II. THE "CALL" TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE.III. BIRTH OF THE ISLAMIC SOCIETY.IV. GROWTH AND PROGRESS.V. WORLD CONQUEST.VI. MOHAMMED AND WOMEN.So-called Moslem missionaries are spreading through the Press such idealistic and false views of the religion and character of Mohammed, that we need to be on our guard against them.Unbiased historians have stated that there is much that is deplorable in the life of the prophet of Islam. And it is certain that his teaching has increased the degradation of the nations that have come under its influence.Much of the literature that is being circulated in England by the "Moslem missionaries," claims that Moslem women are better off, so far as property rights go, than their Christian sisters. However true this may be, it does not lift them out of the degradation of polygamy and concubinage, with a capricious system of divorce, which makes them the victims of the selfish baseness of their husbands and masters, which Mohammed himself sanctione..

Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568--1614

In early modern Spain the monarchy's universal policy to convert all of its subjects to Christianity did not end distinctions among ethnic religious groups, but rather made relations between them more contentious. Old Christians, those whose families had always been Christian, defined themselves in opposition to forcibly baptized Muslims ( moriscos) and Jews ( conversos). Here historian Benjamin Ehlers studies the relations between Christians and moriscos in Valencia by analyzing the ideas and policies of archbishop Juan de Ribera. Juan de Ribera, a young reformer appointed to the diocese of Valencia in 1568, arrived at his new post to find a congregation deeply divided between Christians and moriscos. He gradually overcame the distrust of his Christian parishioners by intertwining Tridentine themes such as the Eucharist with local devotions and holy figures. Over time Ribera came to identify closely with the interests of his Christian flock, and his hagiographers subsequently celebrat..

Comprendre le halal (French Edition)

Cet ouvrage a été conçu pour apporter les réponses aux personnes quise posent des questions sur le halal.Il propose un état des lieux d’un business moderne mondialisé, avec son historique religieux, ses implications financières et ses différentes certifications, car le halal, ce n’est pas que la viande. C’est aussi toute la nourriture, les cosmétiques, les produits pharmaceutiques, les compléments alimentaires et même une façon de vivre.Ce livre convivial et didactique va vous permettre de mieux cerner ce concept religieux, de mieux comprendre comment on produit du halal, où va l’argent du halal, quelles sont les nouvelles certifications et quelle est l’implication quotidienne de sa consommation.Ce guide devrait se trouver dans toutes les bibliothèques de quartier, les entreprises, les sections politiques, syndicales, les cantines, restaurants, hôtels, associations, les bureaux de ressources humaines, les universités, les écoles…Pour vivre en harmonie en co..

Jihad, According to Abraham and the Prophets (NA)

This is a study of the concept of Holy War as found in many religions of the world, but primarily in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Most, Jews, Christians and Muslims do not understand Holy War the same way Abraham and the prophets understood it. (Hardback 244 pages)..

Biographies of Early Muslim Women

This work contains the biographies of over 600 women Companions of the Prophet including her name, her mother's name, the name of her children, the name of her husband (s) and where information is available from the earliest sources of Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Sad, her biography...

The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788

The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides a new perspective on the previously ignored history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the 19th century, based primarily on unpublished Ottoman Turkish documents. From these, he examines how local Shiites were well integrated in the Ottoman system of rule, and that Lebanon as an autonomous entity only developed in the course of the 18th century through the marginalization and then violent elimination of the indigenous Shiite leaderships by an increasingly powerful Druze-Maronite emirate. As such the book recovers the Ottoman-era history of a group which has always been neglected in chronicle-based works, and in doing so, fundamentally calls into question the historic place within 'Lebanon' of what has today become the country's largest and most activist sectarian community...

A Ninth Century Treatise on the Law of Trusts

This a translation of a ninth century work on the Islamic law of waqf by Al-Khassaf...

The Sabaeans, Magians and Zandiqin As They Pertain To Islamic Origins

Arab writers after around 832 CE typically identify a group of star and planet worshipping polytheists as Sabaeans. This late view is undoubtedly the source of Maimonides’ confusion on the matter as well. The Qur’ānic Sabaeans, however, are a group which is never associated with polytheism or shirk, and never even critiqued. As we will see, Muḥammad himself is described by his “polytheistic” adversaries as Sabaean, indicating that whatever their religion was, it was certainly more similar - if not identical - to the minhāj of Muḥammad than the planet and star worshipping cults which later authors describe. We will therefore restrict our inquiry to the earliest reports after Muḥammad, heavily favoring those reports before him. We will find that the Sabaeans were in fact a designation that pre-dated Muḥammad, and related to the Ossaean sect from which Elchasitism emerged and Manichaeanism splintered off. Related to this, we will accordingly find that early Muslim schola..

One Candle at a Time

How the Bible looks at the way our government is being run...

A CRITICAL EXPOSITION OF THE POPULAR JIHÁD.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. Page.Introduction i-civNote cvGenealogical Table of the Arabs cvi-cvii I. The persecutions suffered by the early Moslems 1-11II. The Meccans or the Koreish 11-16III. The defensive character of the wars of Mohammad 16-34IV. The Jews 34-40V. The Christians or Romans 40-41VI. The intolerance 42-51VII. The ninth chapter of Sura Barát 51-55VIII. The alleged interception of the Koreish caravans by the Moslems 55-60IX. The alleged assassinations by the command or connivance of Mohammad 60-76X. The alleged cruelty in executing the prisoners of war 76-91XI. Some miscellaneous objections refuted 91-114XII. The popular Jihád or Crusade 114-161 Appendix A. The word Jihad in the Koran does not mean warfare 163-192 Appendix B. Slavery and concubinage not allowed by the Koran 193-223 Appendix C. Koranic references 225-227 Index 229-249 [Pg viii]TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION—Paras. Page.1. Object of the book i2. Early wrongs of the Moslem; justification in taki..

His Throne Was on Water

The book is a fascinating synthesis of the Qur'an and science. The author in trying to unravel the meaning of almost 300 Qur'anic verses using the discoveries of modern science, addresses mysteries of space-time, the nature of man and the expanding universe among others. ..