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Free Download Richard L. Benkin, "What Is Moderate Islam?"
English | ISBN: 1498537413 | 2017 | 252 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Radical Islam is a major affliction of the contemporary world. Each year, radical Islamists carry out terrorist attacks that result in a massive death toll, almost all involving noncombatants and innocents. Estimates of how many Muslims could be considered followers of radical Islam vary widely, and there are few guides to help determine moderates versus radicals. Observers often sit at the extremes, either seeing all Muslims as open or closeted jihadis or recoiling from any attempt to link Islam with international terror. Both positions are overly simplistic, and the lack of rational principles to absolve the innocent and identify the accomplices of terror has led to governments and individuals mistakenly accepting jihadis as moderate. What is Moderate Islam? brings together an array of scholars-Muslims and non-Muslims-to provide this missing insight. This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributors-including both Muslims and non-Muslims-investigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.

Free Download Mohamed El Mansour, "The Power of Islam in Morocco: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0367264153 | 2019 | 174 pages | EPUB, PDF | 809 KB + 9 MB
The study of Muslim societies has been for a long time the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies. This Variorum volume by an eminent North African historian follows the development of Islam in Morocco as a social phenomenon over the last five centuries. During this period the nature of North African societies and political systems was profoundly changed and shaped by the emergence of a new form of Islamic religiosity based on the glorification of Prophet Muhammad and the veneration of popularly acclaimed saints. From being a purely religious phenomenon, the devotion shown to the Prophet and his lineage turned into a major principle of legitimacy, in both the religious and political fields. In fact, as legitimacy tended to center around the prophetic lineage, Moroccan society witnessed an intense rivalry between saints and sultans, or spiritual and temporal leaders, with the latter trying to keep the saints and the sufis within a strictly religious sphere. This rivalry between the two parties is crucial to the understanding of modern Maghribi history, as well as the present Moroccan political system. (CS1082).

Free Download Stefan Mertens, "Representations of Islam in the News: A Cross-Cultural Analysis "
English | ISBN: 1498509878 | 2016 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The representation of Islam is unquestionably a critical test for comparing journalistic reporting across countries and cultures. The Islamic religion has weight in international reporting (defining what we termed "foreign Islam"), but it is also the religion of numerically important minority groups residing in Europe ("national Islam"). The first part of the book is "setting the scene." Three chapters provide insights in dominant patterns of the representation of Islam as detected by various authors and studies involved with Islam representation in Europe. Part two, the core section of the book, contributes to the development of the field of comparative journalism studies by comparing several countries and six media systems in Western Europe: the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium (Flanders), the French-speaking part of Belgium (Wallonia), the Netherlands, France, Germany, and the U.K. Part three of this book presents two reception studies, one qualitative and the other quantitative. Equally important, as the bulk of attention goes to Western Europe, is the extension towards the representation of Muslims and Islam outside Western Europe. Part four of the book is devoted to the representation of Islam in some of the so-called BRICs-countries: Russia, China, and India.

Free Download Julian Spencer Roche, "Marxism, Christianity, and Islam: Taking Roger Garaudy’s Project Seriously"
English | ASIN : B0CJ2HW1FW | 2023 | 278 pages | PDF | 815 KB
Roger Garaudy was for many years at the centre of the French Communist Party but was eventually expelled for his liberal views. In the Seventies, he strove to bring Marxism and Christianity together, to include all humanity in a project to set all people free. What emerges from Garaudy’s project is a very modern Marxism, with its emphasis on the individual, its ecological politics, and in its insistence on religion as central to human emancipation. Although Garaudy himself became frustrated by the failure of Marxism and converted to Islam, eventually resulting in his work being discredited in the West, it is certainly possible that Garaudy’s project represents a good, perhaps even the best, starting point for Marxism in today’s world.

Free Download Ian Richard Netton, "Islam, Christianity and the Mystic Journey: A Comparative Exploration"
English | ISBN: 0748640827 | 2011 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This distinctive comparison of Islamic and Christian mysticism focuses on the mystic journey in the two faith traditions – the journey which every believer must make and which leads to the Divine. The author clears away misconceptions and highlights similarities and differences in the thought and lives of six key mystics: Al-Kalabadhi, Al-Daylami, Al-Qushayri, Julian of Norwich, Thomas á Kempis and Teresa of Avila. He considers the ways of Perfection on the Mystic Path and asks in what ways these authors have embarked on the mystic journey. He looks at the themes they have in common, as well as their differences, and asks how they envisage the concept of ‘union’ with the Deity.Readers will gain a broad understanding of the interdisciplinary and intertextual nature of the subject, as well its the diverse intellectual and historical contexts.

Free Download De Lacy Evans O’Leary, "Islam at the Cross Roads: A Brief Survey of the Present Position and Problems of the World of Islam "
English | ISBN: 1138216011 | 2016 | 222 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This title, first published in 1923, examines the historical development of the Islamic faith from its origins through to its position in the early twentieth century. It also examines the historical reactions of Islam to the West, including the Babist Movement in the nineteenth century. This title will be of interest to students of history and M

Free Download Nidhal Guessoum, "Islam and Science "
English | ISBN: 1009266519 | 2023 | 84 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This first Element in the series Islam and the Sciences is introductory and aims to give readers a general overview of the wide and rich scope of interactions of Islam with the sciences, including past disputes, current challenges, and future outlooks. The Element introduces the main voices and schools of thought, adopting a historical approach to show the evolution of the debates: Khan’s naturalism, al-Jisr’s hermeneutics, Abduh’s modernist Islam, Nasr’s perennialist and sacred science, al-Attas’s Islamic science, Sardar and the Ijmalis’ ethical science, al-Faruqi’s Islamization of knowledge/science, Bucaille’s and El-Naggar’s ‘miraculous scientific content in the Qur’an,’ Abdus Salam’s universal science, Hoodbhoy’s and Edis’s secularism, and the harmonization of the ‘new generation.’ The Element also maps out new and emerging topics that are beginning to reignite the debates, before a concluding section examines how issues of Islam and Science are playing out in the media, in public discourse and in education.

Free Download Rodney Wilson, "Islam and Economic Policy: An Introduction"
English | ISBN: 0748683879 | 2015 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This textbook looks at the impact of Islamic teaching on public economic policy and asks how Islamic economics differs from mainstream micro and macroeconomics.

Free Download Rose Publishing, "Islam and Christianity: Compare Bsic Teachings and Beliefs"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1890947679 | EPUB | pages: 12 | 4.1 mb
Best-selling Christian booklet, Islam and Christianity, compares basic teachings of Christians and Muslims on eight topics and helps Christians understand the differences and explain their faith.

Free Download Hamza Karamali, "Why Islam Is True: Quranic Arguments For God, Muhammad, and The Purpose of Life"
English |ASIN : B0C12D3JB4 | 2023 | 154 pages | PDF | 14 MB
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