Books-in-Brief: Toward Our Reformation
Title | Books-in-Brief: Toward Our Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Mohammad Omar Farooq |
Publisher | International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1565646746 |
It is the author’s contention that at the heart of the Muslim predicament lies ignorance and/or lack of commitment to core Islamic values, thus what is advocated throughout this work is a return to what is termed a “value-oriented” approach. We further learn that with the passage of time what we today consider to be the Shariah is in effect an original hub enveloped in a labyrinthine shroud of scholastic views and deductions hindering Muslim development, and to rely on fraudulent hadith and fallacious implementation of hudud law is not only to betray the spirit of the Qur’an and the Prophet’s message, but a disastrous exercise. Consequences being blatant abuse of the Muslim populace under cover of implementing a bogus Shariah. This abuse and misapplication is explored throughout the work.
Books-in-Brief: Toward Our Reformation (Italian Language)
Title | Books-in-Brief: Toward Our Reformation (Italian Language) PDF eBook |
Author | Mohammad Omar Farooq |
Publisher | International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2020-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1642053392 |
It is the author’s contention that at the heart of the Muslim predicament lies ignorance and/or lack of commitment to core Islamic values, thus what is advocated throughout this work is a return to what is termed a “value-oriented” approach. We further learn that with the passage of time what we today consider to be the Shariah is in effect an original hub enveloped in a labyrinthine shroud of scholastic views and deductions hindering Muslim development, and to rely on fraudulent hadith and fallacious implementation of hudud law is not only to betray the spirit of the Qur’an and the Prophet’s message, but a disastrous exercise. Consequences being blatant abuse of the Muslim populace under cover of implementing a bogus Shariah. This abuse and misapplication is explored throughout the work.
Toward an Islamic Reformation
Title | Toward an Islamic Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Abdullahi Ahmed An Na'im |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1996-07-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780815627067 |
Toward an Islamic Reformation is an ambitious attempt to modernize Islamic law, calling for reform of the historical formulations of Islamic law, commonly known as Shari'a that is perceived by many Muslims to be part of the Islamic faith. As a Muslim, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is sensitive to and appreciative of the delicate relationship between Islam as a religion and Islamic law. Nevertheless, he considers that the questions raised here must be resolved if the public law of Islam is to be implemented today. An-Na'im draws upon the teachings and writings of Sudanese reformer Mahmoud Mohamed Taha to provide what some have called the intellectual foundations for a total reinterpretation of the nature and meaning of Islamic public law.
The Unintended Reformation
Title | The Unintended Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Brad S. Gregory |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2015-11-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 067426407X |
In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge. The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.
A Challenge to Islam for Reformation
Title | A Challenge to Islam for Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Günter Lüling |
Publisher | Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Pages | 654 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Hymns, Early Christian |
ISBN | 9788120819528 |
As a Protestant theologian and diciple of renowned critics of Christianity, Albert Schweitzer and Martin Werner, the Author wanted since long to contribute to the breakthrough of their resolute nontrinitarian position which has throughout the twentieth century by all and every Western Christian university theology been silenced by pretending tacitly and tenaciously the non-existence of their strong argument.
A Call to Spiritual Reformation
Title | A Call to Spiritual Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | D. A. Carson |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1992-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0801025699 |
Carson calls believers to revolt against superficiality and find again the deeper knowledge of God at Paul's school of prayer. Strong expositional study.
Reformation Reader
Title | Reformation Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Denis R. Janz |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 474 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1451406509 |
Although deeply political, economic, and social, the European Reformations of the sixteenth century were at heart religious disputes over core Christian theological issues. Denis Janz's A Reformation Reader is unabashed in its generous selection of key theological and related texts from five distinct Reformation sites. Along with plenty on the late-medieval background, the Lutheran, Calvinist, Radical, English, and Catholic Reformations are all well-represented here. Janz's selection of more than 100 carefully edited primary documents captures the energy and moment of that tumultuous time. The new edition incorporates a dozen readings by and about women in the Reformation, adds a new chapter on Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants' War, and adds illuminating graphics.