Tag: Islamic

Free Download Wellbeing and the Worshipper: Insights Into an Islamic Spiritual Order
by Mohamed Safiullah Munsoor
English | 2021 | ISBN: 303066130X | 368 Pages | True PDF | 8.32 MB

Free Download Zongping Sha, "The Islamic-Confucian Synthesis in China"
English | ISBN: 1666913367 | 2023 | 136 pages | EPUB, PDF | 392 KB + 2 MB
The presence and history of Islam in China is not well-known. Since its arrival into China during the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE), Islam and its traditions have become an inextricable part of the fabric of the Chinese tradition. By the time of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 CE), Chinese Islam had evolved its own indigenous identity and, by the seventeenth century, specifically Chinese formulations of Islamic teachings began to emerge. This edited volume presents the most authoritative contemporary scholarship on the topic of the Islam-Confucian synthesis in China. It introduces to an international audience the hybridization of traditions throughout the millennia of Chinese history. The experience of the Islamic-Confucian synthesis is a historical example of cross-cultural thinking and mutual borrowing. It testifies to the fact that there is no incommensurability between cultures that cannot ultimately be accommodated. In this accommodation is the potential for mutual and creative growth, novelty, cultural renaissance, and the flourishing of the human spirit.

Free Download Reconfiguring Islamic tradition : reform, rationality, and modernity By Muḥammad ʻAbduh; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb; Muḥammad ʻAbduh; Haj, Samira; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb
2009 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0804769753 | EPUB + PDF | 1 MB
Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers-Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab (1703-1787) and Muhammad ‘Abduh (1849-1905)-each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam. Their works are examined primarily through the prism of two conceptual questions: the idea of the modern and the formation of a Muslim subject. Approaching Islam through the works of these two Muslims, she illuminates aspects of Islamic modernity that have been obscured and problematizes assumptions founded on the oppositional dichotomies of modern/traditional, secular/sacred, and liberal/fundamentalist. The book explores the notions of the community-society and the subject’s location within it to demonstrate how Muslims in different historical contexts responded differently to theological and practical questions. This knowledge will help us better understand the conflicts currently unfolding in parts of the Arab world.

Free Download Abdullah Sahin, "New Directions in Islamic Education: Pedagogy and Identity Formation"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1847740332, 1847740588 | PDF | pages: 305 | 2.5 mb
"This ground-breaking book is one of the most significant contributions made in recent years to Islamic education."-John M. Hull, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Free Download Muhammad Baqir As-Sadr, "Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence"
English | 2014 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1851683933, 1851683240 | EPUB | 2,9 mb
This is an English translation of one of the most famous texts by the influential and charismatic Islamic activist, as-Sadr, who was executed by Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 1980. As-Sadr’s books have made him one of the most celebrated Arab Muslim intellectuals of modern times. This text is used throughout the Sunni and Shi’a world by students of Islamic jurisprudence because of its succinctness and intellectual vigour. Mottahedeh’s translation is accompanied by a detailed introduction which explains and places in context as-Sadr’s views. Representing an attempt to relate a large body of Islamic law to scripture, this translation should be of great interest to students of scripture, hermeneutics and law.

Free Download Mohd Ma’Sum Billah, "Islamic Wealth and the SDGs: Global Strategies for Socio-economic Impact"
English | ISBN: 3030653129 | 2021 | 692 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The SDGs, developed by the UN in 2012, focuses on 17 goals for the betterment of humanity and humanitarian causes. Among the core objectives of Shari’ah in Islamic finance is to offer a helping hand, emphasizing the efforts and scope of the SDGs. This book explores how Islamic ethical wealth is structured to contribute to the SDGs and an overall socio-economic impact within the principles of Maqasid al-Shari’ah. Focusing areas such as Islamic micro-finance, wealth inclusion, corporate and agro-Zakat, Awqaf, SRI Sukuk, and green Sukuk, this book will feature contributions from the leading researchers in sustainability and Islamic finance and will be of interest to scholars, researchers, industrialists, NGOs, UNDP and students studying both areas.

Free Download Islamic Finance: New Trends in Law and Regulation
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031487699 | 838 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 39 MB
This volume discusses the new trends in law and regulation in Islamic finance. Islamic finance is a particular component of the global financial system and is very different from secular finance. To understand the development of Islamic finance, it is important to place it in the context of financial globalization. Islamic finance is a new force in the contemporary world financial system and is present in more than a hundred countries. The current generation of Muslim economic power is crowding into the world’s financial currents with trillions in liquidity and is growing at a high rate of 10-15% per year. Islamic finance is coming into focus and is not confined to Islamic countries but is present in every larger Muslim community, which means that it cannot be isolated from the effects of financial globalization. This edited volume discusses the effects of global financial transactions in Islamic finance and how it impacts its law and regulation.

Free Download Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes, Volume 2: Syria, Egypt and North Africa
by Michael Greenhalgh
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004540865 | 429 Pages | True PDF | 22 MB

Free Download James Worrall, "Hezbollah: From Islamic Resistance to Government "
English | ISBN: 1440831343 | 2015 | 224 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This detailed analysis follows the rise and evolution of Hezbollah from an Islamic resistance movement to its role as a governing force in Lebanon, exploring the group’s impact on the security and power dynamics in the Middle East.

Free Download Timur Kuran, "Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East"
English | ISBN: 1009320017 | 2023 | 350 pages | PDF | 6 MB
According to diverse indices of political performance, the Middle East is the world’s least free region. Some believe that it is Islam that hinders liberalization. Others retort that Islam cannot be a factor because the region is no longer governed under Islamic law. This book by Timur Kuran, author of the influential Long Divergence, explores the lasting political effects of the Middle East’s lengthy exposure to Islamic law. It identifies several channels through which Islamic institutions, both defunct and still active, have limited the expansion of basic freedoms under political regimes of all stripes: secular dictatorships, electoral democracies, monarchies legitimated through Islam, and theocracies. Kuran suggests that Islam’s rich history carries within it the seeds of liberalization on many fronts; and that the Middle East has already established certain prerequisites for a liberal order. But there is no quick fix for the region’s prevailing record of human freedoms.