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  • Political Muslims

    Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context

    by Sameera Ahmed, Asma Bala, Jürgen Endres, Chloe A. Gill-Khan, Carool Kersten, Shehnaz Haqqani, Aminul Hoque, Martijn de Koning, Hadiyah Muhammad, Idrisa Pandit, Yusuf Sarfati, Andreas Tunger-Zanetti, Munazza Yaqoob, Jasmin Zine ...
    Series series
    In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world. Specifically, the rising population of young Muslims has generated concerns about religious radicalism, Islamism, and conflicts in multicultural societies. However, few studies have been devoted to how a new generation of Muslims is reshaping society in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World

    Trends, Themes, and Issues

    by Carool Kersten ...
    Series series Contemporary Thought in the Islamic World
    This book presents an intellectual history of today’s Muslim world, surveying contemporary Muslim thinking in its various manifestations, addressing a variety of themes that impact on the lives of present-day Muslims.Focusing on the period from roughly the late 1960s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, the book is global in its approach and offers an overview of different strands of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Critique of Religious Discourse

    by Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd ...
    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    An important work of contemporary Islamic thought argues against the programmatic use of Islamic religious texts to support fundamentalist beliefsFirst published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd’s controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservative ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Demystifying the Caliphate

    Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts

    Edited by Madawi Al-Rasheed, Marat Shterin, Carool Kersten ...
    In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of apprehension and disdain, as if they were the first steps towards usurping democracy. Yet these images and perceptions have little to do with reality. While some Muslims may be nostalgic for the Caliphate, only ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Poesis of Peace

    Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies

    Edited by Klaus-Gerd Giesen, Carool Kersten, Lenart Škof ...
    Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The Poesis of Peace applies a multidisciplinary approach to case studies in both Western and non-Western contexts including Islam, Chinese philosophy, Buddhist and Hindu traditions. Established and renowned theologians and philosophers, such as Kevin Hart, Eduardo ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Alternative Islamic Discourses and Religious Authority

    Edited by Carool Kersten, Susanne Olsson ...
    Series series Contemporary Thought in the Islamic World
    Like anywhere else, the present-day Islamic world too is grappling with modernity and postmodernity, secularisation and globalisation. Muslims are raising questions about religious representations and authority. This has given rise to the emergence of alternative Islamic discourses which challenge binary oppositions and dichotomies of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, continuity and change, state and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • History of Islam in Indonesia

    Unity in Diversity

    by Carool Kersten ...
    Series series The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys

    $31.99 USD

  • Islam in Indonesia

    The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values

    by Carool Kersten ...
    Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam in society. Debates over the underlying principles of democratisation have further heated up after ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Hegel and the Infinite

    Religion, Politics, and Dialectic

    Edited by Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Philosophy as a Way of Life

    Ancients and Moderns - Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot

    Edited by Michael Chase, Stephen R. L. Clark, Michael McGhee ...
    Philosophy as a Way of LifeThis unique collection of essays on the late Pierre Hadot’s revolutionary methodological approach to studying and practicing philosophy explores Hadot’s primary conviction that philosophy itself goes beyond solving puzzles and analyzing abstract arguments. Hadot believed that philosophy is a key part of humanity’s search for happiness, that it can transform our ... Read more

    $90.00 USD

  • The Philosopher

    A History in Six Types

    by Justin Smith-Ruiu ...
    How the role of the philosopher has changed over time and across cultures—and what it reveals about philosophy todayWhat would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions—ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years? The Philosopher does just that ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Five Pillars of Islam

    Laying the Foundations of Divine Love and Service to Humanity

    by Musharraf Hussain ...
    The Five Pillars of Islam is a comprehensive and practical manual on the fundamental beliefs and practices of a Muslim and provides an understanding of the true spirit of worship in Islam. Written by a noted Muslim scholar and educationist with a contemporary Muslim audience in mind, this is an invaluable reference for every home and classroom.Musharraf Hussain, PhD, is the director of the Karimia ... Read more

    $9.99 USD