Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Islam - Rituals & Practice

Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000.

In the 1970s, often to the consternation of parents and siblings, certain progressive young Arab women voluntarily donned the veil. The movement, which rapidly expanded and continues to gather momentum, has sparked controversy within Islamic culture, as well as reactions ranging from perplexity to outrage from those outside it. Western feminist commentators have been particularly vociferous in decrying the veil, which they glibly interpret as a concrete manifestation of patriarchal oppression.

However, most Western...

Der Sammelband enthalt die Beitrage zahlreicher Wissenschaftlerzum Internationalen Symposium Humor in der arabischen Kultur, veranstaltet vom Herausgeber im Juli 2007 an der Freien Universitat Berlin. Zunachst wird in der kritischen Betrachtung des fruhen religiosen Schrifttums der Muslime - und vor dem Hintergrund entsprechender judischer und christlicher Auerungen - der islamische Diskurs uber Wert und Unwert des Humors naher bestimmt und der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit dabei normative Krafte frei wurden, die dem Humor der Araber definierte Grenzen zu setzen vermochten. Danach...

This is a multi-volume collection by leading authors in Islamic Studies. The volumes were originally published between 1867 and 1987. The collection reprints texts carefully selected on the basis of their influence and prestige, written by pre-eminent scholars of Islamic history, philosophy and religion.

The majority of the volumes reprint the original, first editions, but where appropriate, updated, enlarged editions are sometimes selected.

The subjects of this volume are views and perceptions of the "other" (i.e. strangers, enemies or curiosities) within the Islamic world, as well as in the interplay between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. More than 20 contributions describe conceptions and contingencies of the other from very different perspectives, so arriving - with reference to Islam - at insights into the complex problems of the "other." The studies are dedicated to Professor Gernot Rotter.

When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something softens, breaks, and is subtly reborn. That he wrote the words seven hundred years ago in a medieval Persian world that bears little resemblance to ours makes their uncanny resonance to us today just that much more remarkable. Here is a treasury of daily wisdom from this most beloved of all the Sufi masters--both his prose and his ecstatic poetry--that you can use to...

In this pioneering work, Abdulaziz Sachedina - a scholar with life-long academic training in Islamic law - relates classic Muslim religious values to the new ethical challenges that arise from medical research and practice. He depends on Muslim legal...

Patricia Hertel beleuchtet die Iberische Halbinsel als historische Kontaktzone mit dem Islam, indem sie den Umgang mit der islamischen Vergangenheit im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert analysiert. Anhand von Geschichtsschreibung, Arabistik, Architektur, nationaler Mythologie, Festkultur und Kolonialdiskursen ergrundet sie die vielfaltigen und widerspruchlichen Deutungen des "erinnerten Halbmonds." Sie zeigt auf, warum sich trotz historischer Ahnlichkeiten in Spanien und Portugal hochst unterschiedliche Vorstellungen und Strategien im Umgang mit der islamischen Vergangenheit herausbildeten.