Western Muslims and the Future of Islam
Title | Western Muslims and the Future of Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Tariq Ramadan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 019517111X |
Begins by offering a reading of Islamic sources, interpreting them for a Western context. The author demonstrates how an understanding of universal Islamic principles can open the door to integration into Western societies. He then shows how these principles can be put to practical use.
What Everyone Should Know about Islam and Muslims
Title | What Everyone Should Know about Islam and Muslims PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Haneef |
Publisher | khalid siddiqui |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9788172313227 |
A summary of the Islamic beliefs, ways of worship, qualities, values, morals, standards of conduct, and, in concrete practical terms, the Islamic way of life.
Islam Is a Foreign Country
Title | Islam Is a Foreign Country PDF eBook |
Author | Zareena Grewal |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1479800562 |
Considers the question: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? In Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for Islam and to lead the stunningly diverse population of American Muslims? Do their ties to the larger Muslim world undermine their efforts to make Islam an American religion? Offering rich insights into these questions and more, Grewal follows the journeys of American Muslim youth who travel in global, underground Islamic networks. Devoutly religious and often politically disaffected, these young men and women are in search of a home for themselves and their tradition. Through their stories, Grewal captures the multiple directions of the global flows of people, practices, and ideas that connect U.S. mosques to the Muslim world. By examining the tension between American Muslims’ ambivalence toward the American mainstream and their desire to enter it, Grewal puts contemporary debates about Islam in the context of a long history of American racial and religious exclusions. Probing the competing obligations of American Muslims to the nation and to the umma (the global community of Muslim believers), Islam is a Foreign Country investigates the meaning of American citizenship and the place of Islam in a global age.
Teaching about Islam and Muslims in the Public School Classroom
Title | Teaching about Islam and Muslims in the Public School Classroom PDF eBook |
Author | Council on Islamic Education (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
"Helps teachers with the challenging task of teaching about Islam and Muslims. This resource contains: Information on beliefs and practices of Muslims, including glossary of terms, charts and graphics." Includes: Basic Beliefs, Religious Obligations, The Muslim Society, Contemporary Issues.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Title | Encyclopaedia Britannica PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Chisholm |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1090 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Why I Am Not a Muslim
Title | Why I Am Not a Muslim PDF eBook |
Author | Ibn Warraq |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2010-09-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1615920293 |
Those who practice the Muslim faith have resisted examinations of their religion. They are extremely guarded about their religion, and what they consider blasphemous acts by skeptical Muslims and non-Muslims alike has only served to pique the world's curiosity. This critical examination reveals an unflattering picture of the faith and its practitioners. Nevertheless, it is the truth, something that has either been deliberately concealed by modern scholars or buried in obscure journals accessible only to a select few.
Islam & Muslims
Title | Islam & Muslims PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Sedgwick |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2006-03-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1473643910 |
The need to understand Islam and Muslims has never been greater, both because of conflicts that dominate the news and because of the increasing presence of Muslims in Western societies. There are hundreds of books that introduce the Western reader to Islam, and dozens of books that explore various Muslim societies (usually Arab ones). Islam & Muslims is the first to bring together both, explaining Islam in theory and in practice across the diverse Muslim world. Readers learn not just what Islam says about everything from the nature of God to marriage to prayer to politics, but also how individual Muslims (traditional or modern, devout or barely observant) apply teachings in everyday life.