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TORAH AND ECOLOGY
Ecology and environmental protection are very important in celestial religions. In Judaism, the universe created by God is sacred. There are many verses about the holiness of the universe and ecological sensitivity. Jews have been given many advices on the protection of the universe and ecology. The First Chapter of the Preacher" in Torah begins with the striking words of the son of David, the king of Jerusalem. The preaching fathers begin by talking about the insignificance of world life and explain that the natural order will continue whether or not it is humanity: "Null for nothing, preacher says Null for nothing, everything is empty. What is all the gain he has withdrawn from the sun? One generation goes and one generation comes; but the world stands forever. The sun rises and the sun goes down, and runs to its place of birth. Yel goes to cenuba and returns to pampering. All rivers flow into the sea and the sea does not fill."
The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey
A new history of modern Turkey, focusing on its fifty-year retreat from Kemalist secularism.
Populism, Authoritarianism and Necropolitics
This book examines how Turkey’s ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan produces and employs necropolitical narratives in order to perpetuate its authoritarian rule. In doing so, the book argues that as the party transitioned from socially conservative Muslim democratic values to authoritarian Islamism, it embraced a necropolitical narrative based on the promotion of martyrdom, and of killing and dying for the Turkish nation and Islam, as part of their authoritarian legitimation. This narrative, the book shows, is used by the party to legitimise its actions and deflect its failures through the framing of the deaths of Turkish soldiers and civilians, which have occurred due to the AKP’s political errors, as martyrdom events in which loyal servants of the Turkish Republic and God gave their lives in order to protect the nation in a time of great crisis. This book also describes how, throughout its second decade in power, the AKP has used Turkey’s education system, its Directorate of Religious Affairs, and television programs in order to propagate its necropolitical martyrdom narrative.
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East demonstrates the impact on the Arab world of Nazi ideology and propaganda in the 1930s and beyond. In 1937, with the brochure “Islam and Judaism,” a new form of Jew-hatred came into the world: Islamic antisemitism. The Nazis did everything they could to anchor this new message of hate through their Arabic-language radio propaganda. The book sheds light on this hitherto unknown chapter of Germany’s past. It presents new archive findings that show how the image of Jews in Islam changed between 1937 and 1948 under the influence of this propaganda and other Nazi activities. This fresh look at Middle East history allows for a more precise asse...
Viral Loads
Drawing upon the empirical scholarship and research expertise of contributors from all settled continents and from diverse life settings and economies, Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people’s lived realities in countries around the world. A crosscutting theme pertains to how social unevenness and gross economic disparities are shaping global and local responses to the pandemic, and illustrate the effects of both the virus and efforts to contain it in ways that amplify these inequalities. At the same time, the contributions highlight the nature of contemporary social life, including virtual communication, the nature of communit...
Authoritarianism, Informal Law, and Legal Hybridity
This book investigates Turkey’s departure from a ‘flawed democracy’ under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoğanism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity. In doing so, it examines the attempts of Turkey’s ruling party (AKP) at social engineering and gradual Islamisation of the Turkish state and society, by using informal Islamist laws. To that end, the book argues that the AKP has paved the way for Islamist legal hybridity where society, state, and law, are being gradually Islamised on an ad hoc basis. Informal law and legal pluralism in Turkey have had a non-state characteristic which have permitted Muslims to solve disputes by seeking the opinions of religio-legal scholars. Yet under the AKP rule, this informal legal system has become increasingly dominated by conservatives, sometimes radical Islamists, which the governing party has taken advantage of by either formalizing some parts of the informal Islamist law, or using it informally to mobilize its supporters against the opposition.
Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion
This book explores state–religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey. In doing so, it investigates how the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) instrumentalizes state-controlled religion to further, defend, legitimatize and propagate its authoritarian populist political agenda in a constitutionally secular nation-state. To exemplify this, the authors examine the Friday sermons delivered weekly in every mosque in Turkey by the Turkish State’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). By analyzing all sermons delivered between 2010-2021, the book shows how the Diyanet has enthusiastically adopted AKP’s increasingly Islamist, authoritarian, civilisationist, militarist and pro-violence populism since 2010, and how it has tried to socially engineer beliefs in line with this ideology.
Afrin 59 Days
In the fall of 2014, as the world looked on in horror, the unbeaten ISIS terror army stormed towards the outnumbered men and women of Kurdish volunteers defending their hometown of Kobani in northern Syria. Many expected a brutal conquest of their pre-women's rights, democratic, pro-Christian minority enclave known as Rojava. But against all odds, the determined Kurdish fighters fought of wave after wave of ISIS fanatics and for the first time defeated the seemingly invincible ISIS battle juggernaut. In his riveting account, Kurdish writer Niyaz H. Braim takes readers on a harrowing journey into his people's history of attacks by Islamist Turkey, repression by the Syrian regime, and brave stand against the misogynist terrorists who fought to destroy their fragile multi-ethnic democracy. Braim's work is a powerful and groundbreaking story of a proud people whose will to be free cannot be broken. Brian Glyn Williams Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, author of Counter Jihad. The American Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
January 2023 Young Muslim Digest
Among the major publications of IQRA Publications is the popular Islamic monthly in English, the Young Muslim Digest, arguably among the foremost in this type of publishing in India. This magazine is being brought out regularly by IQRA Publications since the past 36 years. The magazine carries authentic Islamic material for the Western-educated and/or West-influenced youth, presented in a creative manner, while yet highlighting the beliefs of the earliest predecessors and an understanding of the Qur’an and Sunnah on the pattern of the great majority of Islamic scholars of the past, and of those prominent down to the present age. In view of the authentic nature of its contents, the magazine has been awarded license for distribution in Saudi Arabia. Besides the regular, monthly, production of the Young Muslim Digest, IQRA Publications has quite a few other Islamic titles to its credit. Each one of these books offer authentic material and cover topics that are not normally covered by other publishers. It is, perhaps, for this reason that they are popular even outside the country. Malaysia, for instance, imports many of IQRA’s titles regularly.
