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American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS) - Volume 40 Issues 1-2
In this issue, you will find three peer-reviewed articles and two forum essays. Adrien A. P. Chauvet’s “Cosmographical readings of the Qurʾan” is a trained physicist’s probing, multidisciplinary inquiry about a topic of great interest to the recent generations of Muslims about the compatibility of Islam and science, and about the obvious exuberance Muslims feel when some modern discoveries point to the Qurʾanic truth. As a trained physicist, he wonders whether and how we can be sure that the scientific paradigms endorsed today will endure, and therefore, more pertinently, “how can the text stay scientifically relevant across the ages, while science itself is evolving?” It thus ...
Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory
Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory: Decolonizing the Captive Mind offers a variety of historical, religious, and philosophical perspectives into the significance of Syed Hussein Alatas’ life and thought today.
The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Examines Sayyid Ahmad Khan's life and contribution in the nineteenth century and his legacy in our current times.
Terror Propaganda
This study attempts to analyze a major facet of the international struggle against Da’ish: its media war, which the organization wages alongside its efforts to expand and to fight surrounding regional and international powers. The study observes Da’ish’s media phenomena in the context of the integral role of the media in modern international conflicts, with attention to the development of media tools in Jihadist organizations since the seventies. This investigation reveals the remarkable evolution of the terrorist group in its bid to entrench itself as a caliphate state. The study focuses on Da’ish’s media administration structure and its strategy in deploying its various high-grade audiovisual products to attract youth around the globe. The organization has been able to amass numerous volunteers and extensive equipment to serve its media strategy by constructing an organizational structure that combines hierarchal and non-centralized networks.
Islam and International Relations
This edited volume conceives of International Relations (IR) not as a unilateral project, but more as an intellectual platform. Its contributors explore Islamic contributions to this field, addressing the theories and practices of the Islamic civilization and of Muslim societies with regards to international affairs and to the discipline of IR.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
"The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam (OEPSTI) builds upon the celebrated Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World and brings together the rich history of philosophical and scientific disciplines in Islam over the last fourteen centuries."--Preface, v. 1, p. xvii.
Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory
Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory: Religion, Revolution and the Role of the Intellectual is a collection of essays engaged in a future-oriented remembrance of the life and praxis of one of Iran’s most influential revolutionary intellectuals: Ali Shariati.
Islam [4 volumes]
This expansive four-volume encyclopedia presents a broad introduction to Islam that enables learning about the fundamental role of Islam in world history and promotes greater respect for cultural diversity. One of the most popular and widespread religions in the world, Islam has attracted a great deal of attention in recent times, particularly in the Western world. With the ongoing tensions in the Middle East and a pervasive sense of hostility toward Arab Americans, there is ever increasing need to examine and understand Islam as a religion and historical force. Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia provides some 700 entries on Islam written by expert contributors that cover the religion from the ...
O Mocho Cego
«Hedayat é o pai da moderna literatura persa e um dos grandes autores do século XX, ombreando com Kafka, Sartre, Camus ou Hamsun. As suas obras são mergulhos profundos no subconsciente humano, ao mesmo tempo universais e definitivamente exóticas.» The Guardian Um dos grandes autores de culto do século XX, comparado a Kafka ou a Sartre. O Mocho Cego é um texto incategorizável. Uma novela poderosa que acompanha a imersão de um ser humano na loucura. Predominantemente trata-se de uma história de amor que envolve um trio: um rapaz, um homem mais velho e uma bela jovem. Esta história de amor desenrola-se através de visões e pesadelos que se impõem aos olhos do narrador e do leitor....
