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A Companion to Muslim Ethics
I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Socrates famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living. In keeping with this dictum, taking ethics seriously means engaging with the real world where the human sense of right and wrong is daily tested. At their best, all faith traditions are challenged by such testing; and if faith-inspired ethics are thought to goven the whole of life, their guiding values need constantly to be interpreted by the believer to achieve a practical result. In the Muslim tradition, this is what the Qur'an really amounts to: a call to strive for belief with a social conscience. For fourteen centuries Muslim scholars have grappled with th...
Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism
"[Common Ground is] ... an earnest attempt to help Muslims to see Buddhism as a true religion, and Buddhists to see Islam as an authentic Dharma."--Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali (from his Foreword) --Book Jacket.
The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam
In 1932, the eminent British scholar of Islam, Sir Hamilton Gibb, wrote: "The nobility and broad tolerance of this religion [Islam], which accepted all the real religions of the world as God-inspired, will always be a glorious heritage for mankind. No other society has such a record of success in uniting, in an equality of status, of opportunity, and of endeavor, so many and so various races of humanity." (Whither Islam?) Such scholarly objectivity towards the tolerance which has historically characterized the Islamic tradition as a whole is in short supply these days. Through an insidious symbiosis of fanatical Muslims and prejudiced Islamophobes, the very opposite image of Islam has emerge...
Partition
The dark legacies of partition have cast a long shadow on the lives of people of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The borders that were drawn in 1947, and redrawn in 1971, divided not only nations and histories but also families and friends. The essays in this volume explore new ground in Partition research, looking into areas such as art, literature, migration, and notions of ‘foreignness’ and ‘belonging’. It brings focus to hitherto unaddressed areas of partition such as the northeast and Ladakh.
Negotiating Complexities
Articles with reference to India.
Kailash, the Mystic Land of Shiva
On cult of Siva, Hindu deity among the Gaddis (Indic people) of Chamba, India.
Portable Roots
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Islam: od inwazji mongolskich na podbój muzułmanów w Indiach
Najazdy i podboje mongolskie miały miejsce w XIII wieku, tworząc ogromne imperium mongolskie, które do 1300 r. Objęło znaczną część Eurazji. Historycy uważają dewastację Mongołów za jeden z najbardziej śmiercionośnych epizodów w historii. Ponadto ekspedycje mongolskie mogły rozprzestrzeniać dżumę dymieniczną na większą część Azji i Europy, przyczyniając się do wywołania czarnej śmierci w XIV wieku. Imperium Mongolskie rozwinęło się w XIII wieku poprzez serię zwycięskich kampanii w całej Azji, docierając do Europy Wschodniej w latach czterdziestych. W przeciwieństwie do późniejszych "imperiów morskich", takich jak Brytyjczycy, imperium mongolskie był...
Interrogating Reorganisation of States
The volume analyses the complex historical and political context for the processes of state formation in independent India. It provides both a conceptual and empirical framework for an understanding of Indian democracy through the perspective of reorganisation of states. Following the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) in 1956, the territorial boundaries of the states were redrawn. However, within a decade, the geo-linguistic and cultural-ideological criteria could not be considered satisfactory for the future division of states. With the formation of three new states (Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand) and the demand for Telangana statehood not accepted as y...
