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  • Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet

    by Kimberly Hall, Doaa Baumi, Manuela Ceballos, Richard C. Martin, Benjamin Geer, Mouez Khalfaoui, Alfons H. Teipen, William Maynard Hutchins, Laila Hussein Moustafa, Nathan S. French, Todd Green, Sabahat F. Adil, Kecia Ali, Phil Dorroll, Lyndall Herman, Shehnaz Haqqani ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "A much-needed volume and a must read" for educators addressing a challenging topic in a challenging time ( Choice).How can teachers introduce the subject of Islam when daily headlines and social-media disinformation can prejudice students' perception of the subject? Should Islam be taught differently in secular universities than in colleges with a clear faith-based mission? What are strategies ... Read more

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  • Ten Arab Filmmakers

    Political Dissent and Social Critique

    by Christa Salamandra, Jonathan Smolin, Dalia Said Mostafa, Tim Kennedy, Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Viola Shafik, Benjamin Geer, Guy Austin, Will Higbee ...
    Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world—Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria. Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned films and gained ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Inside the Gender Jihad

    Women's Reform in Islam

    by Amina Wadud ...
    Series series Islam in the Twenty-First Century
    A world-renowned professor of Islamic studies, Amina Wadud has long been at the forefront of what she calls the 'gender jihad,' the struggle for justice for women within the global Islamic community. In 2005, she made international headlines when she helped to promote new traditions by leading the Muslim Friday prayer in New York City, provoking a firestorm of media controversy and kindling ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • The Media World of ISIS

    Edited by Michael Krona, Rosemary Pennington ...
    This anthology explores how ISIS used media and propaganda, shedding light on the characteristics, mission, and tactics of its messaging.From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multiplatformed campaign is so effective that it has ensured global news ... Read more

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  • Egypt in the Future Tense

    Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011

    by Samuli Schielke ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth . . . Recommended." — ChoiceAgainst the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in ... Read more

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  • An Enchanted Modern

    Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon

    by Lara Deeb ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and specifically an enchanted modernity, may be constructed by Shi'I Muslims who consider themselves ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Women Embracing Islam

    Gender and Conversion in the West

    Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk ...
    Many Westerners view Islam as a religion that restricts and subordinates women in both private and public life. Yet a surprising number of women in Western Europe and America are converting to Islam. What attracts these women to a belief system that is markedly different from both Western Christianity and Western secularism? What benefits do they gain by converting, and what are the costs? How do ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Philosophies of Islamic Education

    Historical Perspectives and Emerging Discourses

    Edited by Mujadad Zaman, Nadeem Memon ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Education
    The study of Islamic education has hitherto remained a tangential inquiry in the broader focus of Islamic Studies. In the wake of this neglect, a renaissance of sorts has occurred in recent years, reconfiguring the importance of Islam’s attitudes to knowledge, learning and education as paramount in the study and appreciation of Islamic civilization. Philosophies of Islamic Education, stands in ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice

    Inheritance, Context, and Interactive Development

    by Paul Weller ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews with Gülen and Hizmet participants and a literature review, this Open Access book locates the clear origins of Gülen’s teaching in the ... Read more

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  • The Future of Palestine

    How Discrimination Hinders Change

    by Tamar Haddad ...
    The Future of Palestine: How Discrimination Hinders Change was inspired by the shocking “honor killing” of the author’s classmate and friend, Israa Ghrayeb. Her alleged crime? The simple act of going out, in broad daylight, with her fiancé and his sister—an act Ghrayeb’s cousin maintained was unacceptable in a conservative society. While Ghrayeb’s killers may be free, their manner of thinking is ... Read more

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  • Arabs and Muslims in the Media

    Race and Representation after 9/11

    by Evelyn Alsultany ...
    Series series Critical Cultural Communication
    After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of “the enemy” during the War on Terror.Evelyn Alsultany explains that a new ... Read more

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  • Shari'a (Islamic Law): Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Andrew March ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD