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Master Narratives of Islamist Extremismby Jeffry R. Halverson; Steven R. Corman; Jr. H. L. Goodall
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 85.00Introducing the concept of Islamist extremist "master narratives," this volume offers a method for identifying and analyzing them. Drawing on rhetorical and narrative theories, the chapters examine thirteen master narratives and explain how extremists use them to solidify their base, recruit new members, and motivate actions. The book concludes with an integration of the idea of master narratives, their story forms, and archetypes into existing strategic communication understandings, and suggestions for using this approach to create counter-terrorism strategies. more...
Heavenly Journeys, Earthly Concernsby Brooke Olson Vuckovic
Routledge 2003; US$ 133.00Examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behaviour by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj). more...
Islamic Fundamentalism since 1945by Beverley Milton-Edwards
Routledge 2004; US$ 29.95This book analyses the roots and emergence of the new Islamic movements and the main thinkers that inspired them. The author considers issues like the effects of colonialism on Islam, Islam and violence and secularism and the Islamic reaction. more...
Ara'is Al-Majalis Fi Qisas Al-Anbiya' or "Lives of the Prophets"by W.M. Brinner
BRILL 2002; US$ 256.00These 11th-century tales have been read and studied through the years. This work is a translation of the Arabic text into English, from the story of the creation of the world to the time just before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad and the revelation of Islam. more...
Nature, man and God in medieval Islamby E.E. Calverley; J.W. Pollock
BRILL 2002; US$ 317.00Abd Allah Baydawi's "Tawali'al-Anwar min Matal'al-Anzar" (Rays of Dawnlight Outstreaming from Far Horizons of Logical Reasoning), with Mahmud Isfahani's commentary, is a logical and mental vision of mankind's final completion as a spiritual structure in Islam. This work concerns this topic. more...
God and Humans in Islamic Thoughtby Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 44.95Provides a re-examination of Islamic thought, exploring the relationship between God and humans, as portrayed in Islam. This text attempts to shed light on an important side of medieval rational thought in demonstrating its significance in forming the basis of an understanding of the nature of God and the nature of human beings. more...
Islam & Muslimsby Mark Sedgwick
Intercultural Press 2006; US$ 24.95Appreciate a rich and diverse culture. Understand real people in their everyday lives. The need to understand Islam and Muslims has never been greater, both because of conflicts that dominate the news and because of the increasing presence of Muslims in Western societies. There are hundreds of books that introduce the Western reader to Islam, and dozens of books that explore various Muslim societies (usually Arab ones). Islam & Muslims is the first to bring together both, explaining Islam in theory and in practice across the diverse Muslim world. Readers learn not just what Islam says about everything from the nature of God to marriage to prayer to politics, but also how individual Muslims (traditional or modern, devout or barely observant)... more...
Interpreting al-Tha'labi's Tales of the Prophetsby Marianna Klar
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 140.00Klar gives a compelling examination of the prophets Job, Saul, David, Noah and Solomon as portrayed in Thalabis Arais Al-Majalis and questions its efficacy as a tool for the exploration for the human condition via a close analysis of the tales of the five figures. more...
Rituals of Islamic Monarchyby Andrew Marsham
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 129.99Rituals of Islamic Monarchy provides a history of the ceremony of the oath of allegiance to the caliph from the time of the Prophet Muhammad until the fragmentation of the caliphate in the late ninth and tenth centuries.The study of royal rituals of accession and succession in Christian Rome, Byzantium and the early Medieval West has generated an extensive literature. This has however remained unexplored in scholarship on the Islamic world. This book redresses that by examining the ceremonial of accession to the caliphate in early Islam, covering the following aspects of the subject:*The place of ritual in political practice*Changes and continuities in that practice*The problem of how best to understand accounts of ritual.It also offers a contribution... more...
Islam and Modernityby Muhammad Khalid Masud; Armando Salvatore
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 114.00Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently pre-modern. However Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted upon all societies: massive urbanisation, mass education, dramatically increased communication, the emergence of new types of institutions and associations, some measure of political mobilisation, and major transformations of the economy. These developments are accompanied by a wide range of social movements and by complex and varied religious and ideological debates. This textbook is a pioneering... more...









