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Takfīr im militanten Salafismus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Takfīr im militanten Salafismus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-06
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In this work, Justyna Nedza presents the first comprehensive analysis of the theologically charged legal practice of takfir in Egyptian and Saudi militant Salafist thought, with a focus on how this practice is employed to justify militant opposition to the state. Justyna Nedza präsentiert hier die erste umfassende Analyse der theologisch aufgeladenen Rechtspraxis des takfīr im militanten Salafismus, insbesondere in Ägypten und Saudi Arabien. Dabei liegt das Hauptaugenmerk darauf, wie takfīr zur Rechtfertigung eines gewaltsamen Vorgehens gegen den Staat eingesetzt wird.

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 459

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-07-11
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World scrutinizes and analyzes Islam in context. It posits Muslims not as independent and autonomous, but as relational and interactive agents of change and continuity who interplay with Islamic(ate) sources of self and society as well as with resources from other traditions. Representing multiple disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume discuss a broad range of issues, such as secularization, colonialism, globalization, radicalism, human rights, migration, hermeneutics, mysticism, religious normativity and pluralism, while paying special attention to three geographical settings of South Asia, the Middle East and Euro-America.

Accusations of Unbelief in Islam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Accusations of Unbelief in Islam

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The present volume offers nineteen studies of takfīr: accusations of unbelief, covering different periods and parts of the Muslim world. Takfīr was and is an effective instrument to delegitimize one's opponents, who may face social exclusion or even persecution.

Salafism in Jordan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Salafism in Jordan

Salafism in Jordan debunks stereotypes and presents the diversity of Salafism on a range of political and ideological issues.

Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 627

Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This Festschrift for Reinhard Schulze focusses on a life-long concern of his, namely the relationship between Islam and modernity. The contributors reflect upon the academic study of Islam, Islamic cultures of knowledge, media and literature, and current societal processes. Diese Festschrift für Reinhard Schulze widmet sich einem Lebensthema des Jubilars, nämlich der Beziehung von Islam und Moderne. Die Beiträge reflektieren akademische Forschung zu Islam, islamische Wissenskulturen, Medien und Literatur, sowie gegenwärtige Prozesse in nahöstlichen Gesellschaften.

Pacted Democracy in the Middle East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Pacted Democracy in the Middle East

This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world. It shows that one pathway to democratization lays not in resolving important, but often irreconcilable, debates about the role of religion in politics. Rather, it requires that Islamists and their secular opponents focus on the concerns of pragmatic survival—that is, compromise through pacting, rather than battling through difficult philosophical issues about faith. This is the only book-length treatment of this topic, and one that aims to redefine the boundaries of an urgent problem that continues to haunt struggles for democracy in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.

Culture and Dialogue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 181

Culture and Dialogue

  • Categories: Art

Vol.3, No.1 of Culture and Dialogue is a Special Issue in many ways. This issue marks the takeover by a new publisher. Because of contractual constraints and practical reasons the decision was made to continue our journey with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, whose great enthusiasm foreshadows a bright future for the journal. Our words of thanks, however, must also go to Airiti Press without which the journal would not have seen the light of day. We are indebted to Airiti Press for having invested into the launch of a new journal, with all the risks entailed, and for their dedicated hard work. We are most grateful for this. The Journal was officially launched in March 2011 and has since produc...

Court Cultures in the Muslim World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

Court Cultures in the Muslim World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents an extensive collection of images of courtly life and architecture within the Muslim realm. The thematic methodology employed by the contributors underlines their interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to issues of politics and patronage from across the Islamic world stretching from Cordoba to India. Themes range from the r...

Einführung in die Islamwissenschaft
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 222

Einführung in die Islamwissenschaft

Das Buch bietet einen Überblick über Geschichte und Entwicklung des Islam von den Anfängen zur Weltreligion. Behandelt werden Themen wie Koranauslegungen und Glaubenstraditionen, Rechte und Pflichten der Gläubigen, die Verbreitung des Islam im Abendland, Politik und Religion: Einheit oder Widerspruch? Toleranz oder Terrorismus? Daneben werden Kunst und Architektur untersucht und Aspekte von Kulturtransfer und politischem Austausch beleuchtet.

Martyriumsvorstellungen in Antike und Mittelalter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Martyriumsvorstellungen in Antike und Mittelalter

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Concepts of voluntary death and martyrdom versus the ideal of preserving human life are an essential component of the Ethics of the Abrahamite religions throughout their history. The studies collected in this volume focus on concepts of voluntary death and martyrdom in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Period Judaism, Early Christianity and its pagan environment, Rabbinic Judaism as well as in Islam. The contributions of scholars of different background present a broad panorama of the varied perspectives of the Abrahamite religions on this phenomenon. The established concepts of martyrdom are challenged as too schematic. Betrachtungen über das Ideal eines freiwilligen Todes für den eigenen G...