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  • The Feeling of History

    Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

    de Charles Hirschkind ...
    In today's world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be hardening. Alarmist editorials compare the arrival of Muslim refugees with the "Muslim conquest of 711," warning that Europe will be called on to defend its borders. Violence and paranoia are alive and well in Fortress Europe.Against this xenophobic tendency, ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Ethical Soundscape

    Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics

    de Charles Hirschkind ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form-the cassette sermon-has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades.An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Hirschkind ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    de Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Leer más

    $29.59 USD

  • Qur'an and Woman:Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

    Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

    de Amina Wadud ...
    Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of the shadows. Muslim progressives have long argued that it is not the religion but patriarchal ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Cultural Hybridity

    de Peter Burke ...
    The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

  • Western Muslims and the Future of Islam

    de Tariq Ramadan ...
    In a Western world suddenly acutely interested in Islam one question has been repeatedly heard above the din: where are the Muslim reformers? With this ambitious volume Tariq Ramadan firmly establishes himself as one of Europe's leading thinkers and one of Islam's most innovative and important voices. As the number of Muslims living in the West grows the question of what it means to be a Western ... Leer más

    $27.59 USD

  • Spanish Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Jo Labanyi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there is a flourishing literature in Catalan, Galician, and Basque as well as in Castilian-the language that has became known as 'Spanish ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Politics of Piety

    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    de Saba Mahmood ...
    Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • The Darker Side of Western Modernity

    Global Futures, Decolonial Options

    de Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Latin america otherwise: languages, empires, nations
    During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Sexual Ethics and Islam

    Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence

    de Kecia Ali ...
    Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives’ sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument. In this updated and expanded edition of her ground-breaking work, feminist Muslim scholar Dr Kecia Ali asks how one can determine what makes sex lawful and ethical in the sight of God.Drawing ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Cruel Modernity

    de Jean Franco ...
    In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the continent over the last eighty years and how its causes differ from the conditions that brought about the Holocaust, which is generally the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • What Is Islam?

    The Importance of Being Islamic

    de 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 ... Leer más

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