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  • Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century

    A Global Perspective

    by Erin E. Stiles, Ayang Utriza Yakin, Elisa Giunchi, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, Fatima Essop, Fulera Issaka-Toure, Jean-Michel Landry, Dorothea Schulz, Souleymane Diallo0, Rune Steenberg1, Katherine Lemons2, Nadia Hussain3 ...
    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century shows the wide range of Muslim experiences in marital disputes and in seeking Islamic divorces. For Muslims, having the ability to divorce in accordance with Islamic law is of paramount importance. However, Muslim experiences of divorce practice differ tremendously. The chapters in this volume discuss Islamic divorce from West Africa to Southeast Asia, and each ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Divorcing Traditions

    Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism

    by Katherine Lemons ...
    Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian secularism.Lemons analyzes four marital dispute adjudication ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Cultures of Doing Good

    Anthropologists and NGOs

    by Steven Sampson, Christian Vannier, Erica Bornstein, Amanda Lashaw, Inderpal Grewal, David Lewis, Katherine Lemons, Victoria Bernal0, Nermeen Mouftah1, Theodora Vetta2, Aviva Sinervo3, Moshe Kornfeld4, Mark Schuller5, Amanda Woomer6, Hana Synková7, Karen Kapusta-Pofahl8 ...
    Series series NGOgraphies: Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs
    Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Thorough introductory chapters provide a short history of NGO anthropology, address how ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Islam and the Institution of Marriage

    Legal and Sociological Approaches

    Edited by Katherine Lemons, Laurens de Rooij ...
    Islam and the Institution of Marriage: Legal and Sociological Approaches is a study of Muslim marriage in modernity. The question of marriage and intimate relationships is an important site of internal contestation, as the collection demonstrates. It demands both fidelity to the tradition and its historical modes of thought and relevance to contemporary conditions. The collection of essays that ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Islam in the Modern World

    Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

    by Seyyed Hossein Nasr ...
    The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today’s hot button issues—including holy wars, women’s rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East—in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world.One of the great scholars in the modern Islamic intellectual tradition, and the acclaimed author of books ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Believing Women in Islam

    Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an

    by Asma Barlas ...
    Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. Taking a wholly different view, Asma Barlas develops a believer's reading of the Qur'an that demonstrates the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Walking Qur'an

    Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

    by Rudolph T. Ware III ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Spanning a thousand years of history — and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania — Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity. Ware shows how in Senegambia the schools ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Culture of Ambiguity

    An Alternative History of Islam

    by Thomas Bauer ...
    Translated by Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Tricia Tunstall ...
    In the Western imagination, Islamic cultures are dominated by dogmatic religious norms that permit no nuance. Those fighting such stereotypes have countered with a portrait of Islam’s medieval “Golden Age,” marked by rationality, tolerance, and even proto-secularism. How can we understand Islamic history, culture, and thought beyond this dichotomy?In this magisterial cultural and intellectual ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Speaking in God's Name

    Islamic Law, Authority and Women

    by Khaled Abou El Fadl ...
    Drawing on both religious and secular sources, this challenging book argues that divinely ordained law is frequently misinterpreted by Muslim authorities at the expense of certain groups, including women. Khaled Abou El Fadl cites a series of injustices in Islamic society and ultimately proposes a return to the original ethics at the heart of the Muslim legal system. ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Sufi Narratives of Intimacy

    Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality

    by Sa'diyya Shaikh ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place. Grounding her work in Islamic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Islam

    Faith and History

    by Mahmoud M. Ayoub ...
    Combining the scholarly with the personal, this innovative introduction by an internationally renowned Islamicist gives the reader an insight into the history, traditions and beliefs of Islam. Taking his own spiritual journey as a starting point, Professor Ayoub explores all aspects of Islam; from the Qur'an and Islamic law to the epic poetry of the Sufis; from the spread of Islam worldwide to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Merits of the Plague

    Translated by Joel Blecher, Mairaj Syed ...
    by Joel Blecher, Mairaj Syed, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani ...
    **The preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first timeA Penguin Classic**Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought—an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo—survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, not to mention tens of millions of others throughout the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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