Understanding Islamic Law (Contemporary Issues in Islam)

Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in C

📁 Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh

✍ Maidul Islam 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book focuses on Islamism as a political ideology by taking up the case study of Jamaat-e-Islami in contemporary India and Bangladesh. The book will address how, in a contemporary globalized world, Islamism constructs an antagonistic frontier and how it mobilizes people behind its political proj

Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in C

📁 Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh

✍ Maidul Islam 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book focuses on Islamism as a political ideology by taking up the case study of Jamaat-e-Islami in contemporary India and Bangladesh. The book will address how, in a contemporary globalized world, Islamism constructs an antagonistic frontier and how it mobilizes people behind its political proj

Contemporary Issues in Islam

📁 Contemporary Issues in Islam

✍ Asma Afsaruddin 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Edinburgh University Press 🌐 English

This book deals with certain "hot-button" contemporary issues in Islam that are often the focus of public scrutiny, including the Sharia, jihad, the caliphate, women’s status, and interfaith relations. Notably, it places the discussion of these topics within a longer historical framework in order to

Contemporary Issues in Islam

📁 Contemporary Issues in Islam

✍ Asma Afsaruddin 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Edinburgh University Press 🌐 English

<h4>Discusses key issues in Islam today, including Shari'a, jihad, politics, gender and interfaith relations</h4> <ul><li><strong><a href="http://newbooksnetwork.com/asma-afsaruddin-contemporary-issues-in-islam-edinburgh-up-2015/%22">Listen to an interview with Asma Afsaruddin on the New Books Netwo

Shari’a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary

📁 Shari’a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Context

✍ Abbas Amanat (editor); Frank Griffel (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Stanford University Press 🌐 English

<p>This volume presents ten leading scholars' writings on contemporary Islamic law and Muslim thought. The essays examine a range of issues, from modern Muslim discourses on justice, natural law, and the common good, to democracy, the social contract, and "the authority of the preeminent jurist." Ch

Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia: S

📁 Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia: Sharia and Legal Pluralism

✍ Arskal Salim 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Edinburgh University Press 🌐 English

<h4>Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations</h4> <h4>The first ethnographic account of legal disputes, practice and institutions in post-tsunami Aceh</h4> <p>Indonesia has probably the fastest changing legal system in the Muslim world. This ethnographic acco