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Light without Fire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Light without Fire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-07-14
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

The story of America’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College In the fall of 2010, anti-Muslim furor in the United States reached a breaking point, capping a decade in which such sentiment had surged. Loud, angry crowds gathered near New York’s Ground Zero to protest plans to build an Islamic cultural center, while a small-time Florida minister appeared on national television almost nightly promising to celebrate the anniversary of 9/11 with the burning of Korans. At the same time, fifteen devout Muslims quietly gathered in a basement in Berkeley, California, to execute a plan that had been coming together for over a decade: to found Zaytuna College, “Where Islam...

The Rise of Colleges
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

The Rise of Colleges

Makdisi’s important work traces the development and organisational structure of learning institutions in Islam, and reassesses scholarship on the origins and growth of the Madrasa.

Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-26
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  • Publisher: Springer

Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa examines the colonial discriminatory practices against Muslim education through control and dismissal and discusses the education reform movement of the post-colonial experience.

E-Learning and Islamic Studies: Proceedings of the 2014 Conference Organised by The Islamic College and Middlesex University
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

E-Learning and Islamic Studies: Proceedings of the 2014 Conference Organised by The Islamic College and Middlesex University

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-01
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  • Publisher: ICAS Press

'Prophet Muhammad', writes Mehdi Aminrazavi in his introduction to this volume, 'was one of the first students of distance learning. He learned about revelation from God through the medium of Gabriel.' Drawing a symbolic correlation between the Prophet and twenty-first-century students participating in a new age of enlightenment offered by Internet technology, Aminrazavi and the contributors to this book explore the pearls and perils of introducting new technologies into Islamic Studies. Oritinally presented at the International Conference on Islamic Studies and E-Learning organised by The Islamic College and Middlesex University in London in 2014, the essays within E-Learning and Islamic St...

Quranic Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Quranic Sciences

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-01-01
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  • Publisher: ICAS Press

Until now studies of the Qur'anic sciences have either been partial, brief, or sectarian. In the main, such works have more or less inspired the contribution of the great Shi'a scholars to our understanding of the Qur'anic sciences. This book has been written not only to redress this gap but also to present a new and more balanced view of this important topic. The authors have addressed many more issues than are usually found in a book on Qur'anic sciences, some of which have been hitherto unavailable in English. It is hoped that the book will be a useful addition to the material available to undergraduate students who are studying Islam.

Growing Up Muslim
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Growing Up Muslim

"While 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin with that moment. These young people were living, probing, and shifting their Muslim identities long before 9/11.... I've heard it said that the second generation never asks the first about its story, but nearly all the essays in this book include long, intimate portrayals of Muslim family life, often going back generations. These young Muslims are constantly negotiating the differences between families for whom faith and culture were matters of honor and North America's youth culture, with its emphasis on questioning, exploring, and inventing on...

Rise of Colleges
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Rise of Colleges

Makdisi's important work traces the development and organisational structure of learning institutions in Islam, and reassesses scholarship on the origins and growth of the Madrasa.

Islam and Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Islam and Higher Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book explores the different concepts of 'a university' and the way they shape practice in Muslim contexts, with a particular focus on the Islamic republic of Pakistan. Higher education in Muslim contexts is often criticised for being incapable either of contributing to the socio-cultural and civilisational developments of society or of doing research and producing knowledge of a high standard. While the international organisations accuse universities of not helping the societies to become knowledge based and to compete at the global level, some Muslim scholars call for the creation of 'authentic Islamic' educational structures that would, as they think, solve the problems of higher education.

A Textbook on the Methods of Qur'anic Exegesis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

A Textbook on the Methods of Qur'anic Exegesis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-01
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  • Publisher: ICAS Press

The science of tafsir (exegesis of the Qur'an) was one of the earliest academic activities in Islam. Since the Qur'an's revelation, a variety of methods and approaches have been developed to interpret its verses. This introductory textbook deals with the most important methods used in tafsir. Having made the distinction between exegetical 'methods' and 'approaches', the author focsues his analysis on the following exegetical methods: tasfir of the Qur'an by the Qur'an, narrative exegesis, intellectual and reason-based exegesis, scientific exegesis, allusive exegesis, exegesis by personal opinion, and comprehensive exegesis. This is an ideal textbook for beginners to the subject. There are useful summaries at the end of each chapter as well as questions, research tasks, and suggestions for further reading. The text abounds with examples from the works of leading exegetes and is written in a clear and lucid style.

Muslim American Women on Campus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Muslim American Women on Campus

Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity