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Islam and the Foundations of Political Power
The translation of an essay first published in Egypt in 1925, which took the contemporaries of its author by storm. At a time when the Muslim world was in great turmoil over the question of the abolition of the caliphate by Mustapha Kamal Ataturk in Turke
Sorrowful Muslim's Guide
Examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon.
Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an
This volume examines the writings of ten Muslim intellectuals, working in the Muslim world and the West, who employ contemporary critical methods to understand the Qur'an. Their work points to a new trend in Muslim interpretation, characterised by a direct engagement with the Word of God while embracing intellectual modernity in a global context. The volume situates and evaluates their work and responses to it among Muslim and non-Muslim audiences.
Secularism in the Arab World
This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh's seminal work Al-'Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992. Both celebrated and criticised for its reflections on Arab secularisation and secularism in the modern history of the Arab World, it is the only study to date to approach its subject as a set of historical changes which affected the regulation of the social, political and cultural order, and which permeated the concrete workings of society, rather than as an ideological discussion framed from the outset by the assumed opposition between Islam and secularism. The author takes a comprehensive analytical perspective to show that an almost imperceptible yet re...
Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World
Consisting of two parts the volume focuses first on "al-Manar", the influential journal published between 1898 and 1935 and which inspired much imagination and arguments among local intelligentsias all over the Islamic world. The second part discusses the formation, transmission and transformation of learning and authority, from the Middle East to Central and Southeast Asia.
Islam and Literalism
An investigatigation of the phenomenon of literal interpretation in Islam, which proposes the literal meaning as the only acceptable one. It focuses on the tradition of Muslim legal writings, and also makes reference to Quranic exegesis (tafsir) and Arabi
Islam
This book could easily be called 'A Guide for the Modern Muslim', for someone to whom the sentiments of his or her ancestors resonate but who cannot accept the canonised formulas of a stultified education. Charfi spells out what, for him, is the essential message of Islam, followed by a history of its unfolding through the person of the Prophet Muhammad, who was a visionary seeking to change the ideals, attitudes and behaviours of the society in which he lived. The message and its history are delineated as two separate things, conflated by tradition. Charfi's reflections cross those horizons where few Muslim scholars have dared until now to tread. He confronts with great lucidity those difficult questions with which Muslims are struggling, attempting to reconsider them from a moral and political perspective that is independent of the frameworks produced by tradition."e;
Governance from the Perspective of Islam
This early twentieth-century treatise by the esteemed Ayatullah Aqa Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Na'ini is translated along with the 1955 Persian commentary on the treatise by the Iranian Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmud Taleqani. It takes into account two types of governance: the first a legitimate guardianship and the second a necessarily corrupted monopoly. Ayatullah Na'ini addresses the foundations of 'truth', the limitation of power during the occultation of the Imam, the function of constitutional governance, the nature of parliament and parliamentary representation, and the forces of despotism and how to overcome them. The treatise is a discussion of Islamic governance and its relationship to the Shia Ithna 'Ashari doctrine of Imammat, based on two basic principles: preservation of the domestic order and infrastructure, and safeguarding from foreign intervention or, in the lexicon of Islamic scholars, 'preserving the essence of Islam'. In addition to clarifying the often complex and at times obscure passages in Na'ini's treatise, Taleqani's commentary offers the view of a key leader of the 'Islamic' revolution of 1978-79 on Islam and governance.
Human Rights and Reformist Islam
Argues for the compatibility human rights and Islam, focusing on six controversial case studies: religious discrimination; gender discrimination; slavery; freedom of religion; punishment of apostasy; and arbitrary or harsh punishments.
