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Free Download Nasr M. Arif, "Southeast Asian Islam "
English | ISBN: 1032699256 | 2024 | 318 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book explores Muslim communities in Southeast Asia and the integration of Islamic culture with the diverse ethnic cultures of the region, offering a look at the practice of cultural and religious coexistence in various realms.

Free Download Southeast Asian Islam: Integration and Indigenisation
by Nasr M. Arif and Abbas Panakkal
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032699256 | 318 Pages | True PDF | 13.5 MB

Free Download Jörg Haustein, "Islam in German East Africa, 1885-1918: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion "
English | ISBN: 3031274229 | 2023 | 451 pages | PDF | 10 MB
In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion.

Free Download Islam as Political Religion: The Future of an Imperial Faith By Shabbir Akhtar
2010 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0415781469 | PDF | 2 MB
This comprehensive survey of contemporary Islam provides a philosophical and theological approach to the issues faced by Muslims and the question of global secularisation. Engaging with critics of modern Islam, Shabbir Akhtar sets out an agenda of what his religion is and could be as a political entity. Exploring the views and arguments of philosophical, religious and political thinkers, the author covers a raft of issues faced by Muslims in an increasingly secular society. Chapters are devoted to the Qur’an and Islamic literature; the history of Islam; Sharia law; political Islam; Islamic ethics; and political Islam’s evolving relationship with the West. Recommending changes which enable Muslims to move from their imperial past to a modest role in the power structures of today’s society, Akhtar offers a detailed assessment of the limitations and possibilities of Islam in the modern world. Providing a vision for an empowered yet rational Islam that distances itself from both Islamist factions and Western secularism, this book is an essential read for students and scholars of Islamic studies, religion, philosophy and politics.

Free Download Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, "Islam And Politics: A translation of Islam awr Siyasi Nazariyat"
English | ISBN: 1906949484 | 2017 | 220 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
What does an authentic Islamic government look like and how does it operate? In this concise but wide-ranging book the renowned scholar Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani provides an authoritative survey of the guidance given by the canonical Islamic sources in matters of politics. In six chapters he examines: the role and conduct of politics and political activity in Islam in the light of the Qur’an and the Prophetic Sunnah; the Islamic concept of government; guidelines for the process of forming a government; rules and procedures for running a government; the Islamic injunctions concerning defence and foreign policy; and the circumstances in which it may become permissible to remove a ruler or government from office. The book is rounded off with two articles by the same author, on political affairs with specific reference to Pakistan. Islam and Politics is essential reading for those seeking a readable and reliable account of the basic teachings of Islam concerning politics and government. Appendices The Constitution What is meant by an Islamic constitution? The Islamic clauses of the constitution. Basic principles of an Islamic state. Establishing a fair economic system. Glossary

Free Download John P. Turner, "Inquisition in Early Islam: The Competition for Political and Religious Authority in the Abbasid Empire "
English | ISBN: 1780761643 | 2013 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In 833 CE, the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma’mun began a period of inquisition (mihna), one which continued until his successor al-Mutawakkil decreed its end, fifteen years later. During this period, the Caliphs in power strove to promote ‘correct belief’ in the ‘createdness’ of the Qur’an, thus ordering the interrogation of religious scholars on the subject and disqualifying, beating or even executing those who answered incorrectly. Here, John P. Turner examines and analyses this major episode, viewing it as the pivotal point for the era in question and ultimately for the state of relations between the temporal authorities and religious law. Inquisition in Early Islam focuses on the shifting control over matters of belief and orthodoxy, from the Caliph to the religious scholars, and explores the relationships between heresy, power and the articulation and definition of law and doctrine. Turner does so by exploring the mihna within its context, asking questions such as, why was it so pivotal? Why was it begun? Why did it end? When did the meaning of the Caliph’s position in society shift?

Free Download Monika Arnez, "Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia "
English | ISBN: 9819956587 | 2024 | 236 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This Open Access book explores the complex interplay between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world’s largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh look at the tensions between the local and the global through a wide range of cultural expressions and productions, including fashion, Islamic dating, popular literature, and videos on YouTube. The book is grouped around three core themes: sexuality and violence, halal lifestyle, and shame and self-determination. The first section unpacks how activists and progressive religious scholars have argued for the need for the Sexual Violence Bill and it examines the ambivalence between criminalisation and care towards LGBTQ+ people. In the second, the authors bring new insights into how local expressions of Islam, gender and sexuality are negotiated in an increasingly globalised world. The contributions on the third theme tackle gender roles and mobility in culturally diverse regions such as Hong Kong,Taiwan, Singapore, the US, and Indonesia.

Free Download Prince Ghazi Bin Muhammad, "A Thinking Persons Guide to Islam: The Essence of Islam in Twelve Verses from the Quran"
English | ISBN: 1933764155 | 2017 | 226 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
The world is at a crossroads today. A tiny minority of Muslims seems to be bent on hijacking the religion of Islam and bringing it into perpetual conflict with the rest of the world. Because of their actions, very few non-Muslims understand the real difference between Islam as it has always been, and the distorted perversions of Islam today. This book is an attempt to positively say what Islam actually is – and always was – as well as what it is not.

Free Download Fitna: Guerre Au Coeur De L’Islam By Gilles Kepel
2004 | 380 Pages | ISBN: 2070712974 | PDF | 8 MB
Con los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001, Bin Laden y sus seguidores buscaban dar un giro al declive que había experimentado la yihad en los años noventa, tanto en Egipto como en Bosnia, en Arabia o en Argelia. Mediante este golpe al "enemigo lejano" estadounidense, esperaban unir de nuevo a sus partidarios y provocar el triunfo del islamismo radical en todo el mundo, en un momento en el que la segunda intifada sumía en el caos a israelíes y palestinos. Mientras tanto, en Washington, el influyente lobby neoconservador se replanteaba los intereses estratégicos tradicionales de Estados Unidos en Oriente Medio: la seguridad simultánea del Estado de Israel y de los pozos petrolíferos. Una mezcla de excusas democráticas y reafirmaciones hegemónicas, la "guerra contra el terror" abrió definitivamente la caja de Pandora en el Irak ocupado. Los malos tratos a los prisioneros iraquíes, así como las ejecuciones de rehenes occidentales por parte de los yihadistas, ilustran el callejón sin salida en el que se han precipitado tanto la política americana como el mundo musulmán. En Oriente Medio, amenazados los lugares sagrados y desgarrado el tejido social, el odio secular se está traduciendo en la fitna, es decir, la guerra en el corazón del Islam.

Free Download The Historian of Islam at Work: Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy
by Letizia Osti and Maaike Van Berkel
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004525238 | 694 Pages | True PDF | 8.2 MB