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  • The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism

    From Taha to Nasr

    Series series Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
    In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship. The book presents reflections on Quranic exegesis by explaining - and distinguishing between - interpretation and explication. While the book focuses on Quranic and literary scholarship in twentieth-century Egypt from Taha ... Read more

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  • Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt

    From the Monarchy to the Republic

    Telling a new story of modern Egypt, Mohammad Salama uses textual and cinematic sources to construct a clear and accessible narrative of the dynamics of Islam and culture in the first half of the twentieth century. The conflict between tradition and secular values in modern Egypt is shown in a stimulating and challenging new light as Salama bridges analysis of nationalism and its connection to ... Read more

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  • German Colonialism

    Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany

    More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most important essays from the past five years exploring the "continuity thesis," this anthology debates the ... Read more

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  • Qur'an and Woman

    Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

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  • Islam in the Modern World

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

    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

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  • Believing Women in Islam

    Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an

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    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

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  • What Is Islam?

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    by Shahab Ahmed ...
    A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversityWhat is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we ... Read more

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  • Sufi Narratives of Intimacy

    Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality

    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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  • Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice

    Series Book 6 - Themes in Islamic History
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