Islam
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Robert R. Reilly [Reilly, Robert R.]

Prospects for Dialogue What is revealed here and in other Catholic-Muslim dialogues, as mentioned before, is the profound problem of the ontological status of reason. Unless reason is embedded in ...
( Category: Religious Studies March 12,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:William C. Chittick [Chittick, William C.]

SUFISM One of Nasr’s subtexts is the relevance of Sufism to the contemporary situation and the catastrophic results that modern-day Muslims suffer by ignoring or rejecting it. For a great ...
( Category: Religious Studies March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]

The Unchanging Qur'an Changes The Qur'an: Muhammad's Book? The Qur'an is Muhammad's foremost legacy and the primary source for knowledge of Islamic doctrine and (to a lesser degree) history. According ...
( Category: Middle East March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]

Chapter Seven THE MODERN MYTH OF ISLAMIC TOLERANCE The Fact of Modern Islamic Intolerance Muslim Spain: the myth MUSLIM SPAIN IS A BEACON of hope in a fractious and frightened ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-29 | Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]

“CAIRO DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN ISLAM” AT THE UN The CDHRI was supposed to “serve as a general guidance for Member States in the field of human rights,” and ...
( Category: Religious Studies March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Marshall G. S. Hodgson [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The completion of the European world conquest Nationalism in the last decades of the century was a growing force in the main Muslim centres, and after 1905 was to dominate ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Marshall G. S. Hodgson [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The lessons Sa’dî taught and the wisdom he preached made no pretence to originality. Indeed, wisdom is seldom original. What Sa’dî aimed to do was to put the old truths ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Marshall G. S. Hodgson [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The two sides in this schism have subsequently been labelled, conventionally, ‘Snnuîs’ and ‘Shî‘îs’. Each side adopted a historical position in justification of its present attitude. The Shî‘îs came to ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Nabil Mouline [Mouline, Nabil]

7 RAISING THE VEIL ON THE CONDITIONS OF ACCESS TO THE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT FROM SELF-MADE MEN TO HEIRS: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE ULAMA The predication of Muhammad ibn Abd ...
( Category: Middle East March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:Mustafa Akyol

CHAPTER SEVEN ISLAMIC CHRISTOLOGY “Islam recognized the particular function of Christ, which … differed from that of other prophets who usually brought a law or reformed a previous one, by ...
( Category: History March 11,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Stephen Schwartz

FIVE CENTURIES PASSED BEFORE the appearance of a figure even more threatening to Sufism than Ibn Taymiyyah. By then the world of Islam was obviously weakened by Western advances. An ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Mustafa Akyol

THE MAKING OF “TURKISH-ISLAMIC EXCEPTIONALISM” The brief history of Said Nursi helps illustrate the “exceptionalism” of Turkish Islam, which, according to Turkish sociologist Şerif Mardin, is too often overlooked by ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-06 | Author:Michael Muhammad Knight

The Sābians of Harrān The historian al-Mas’ūdī (896–956), who considered Idrīs, Enoch, and Hermes to have been the same prophetic personage, credits a community in Harrān with first identifying Idrīs ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

ISLAMIC SOCIETY: THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICE OF THE GOOD LIFE It is essential to distinguish between the ideal society described in the Quran and Hadth and historical Islamic society. ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-11 | Author:Bernard Ellis Lewis,Buntzie Ellis Churchill & Buntzie Ellis Churchill

Honor Killing and Mutilation At a time when European opinion and comment were predominantly hostile to Islam, the great Hungarian Jewish orientalist Ignaz Goldziher devoted much time and effort to ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )