Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Islamic Studies

Diese Festschrift für die Philosophiehistorikerin und Islamwissenschaftlerin Anke von Kügelgen trägt ihrem übergeordneten Forschungsinteresse an "Wissenskulturen muslimischer Gesellschaften" Rechnung und präsentiert originelle Forschungsbeiträge von ihren Kolleg:innen und Schüler:innen. Ausgehend vom Begriff der Wissenskulturen stehen in den einzelnen Beiträgen jeweils islamische oder durch den Islam geprägte Wissensbestände und -praktiken im Zentrum. Diese sind historisch und lokal gewachsen, werden teilweise überzeitlich und transkulturell bedeutsam und sind sowohl innerhalb...

This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture. The authors place the historical origin of women's segregated religious institutions in the Chinese Islamic diaspora's fight for survival, and in their crucial contribution to the cause of ethnic/religious minority identity and solidarity. Against the presentation of complex historical developments of women's own site of worship and...

The Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilization and Religion provides scholarly coverage of the religion, culture and history of the Islamic world, at a time when that world is undergoing considerable change and is a focus of international study and debate.

The non-Muslim world's perceptions of Islam have often tended to be dominated by unrepresentative radical extremist movements and media interpretations of events involving such movements, to the extent that many people are unaware of the depth and variety of Islamic thought. At the same time, many who have had a formal...