The Clerics of Islam
Title | The Clerics of Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Nabil Mouline |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2014-11-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0300206615 |
Followers of Muhammad b. ’Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam’s Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement he inspired, however, have often been limited by scholars’ insufficient access to key sources within Saudi Arabia. Nabil Mouline was granted rare interviews and admittance to important Saudi archives in preparation for this groundbreaking book, the first in-depth study of the Wahhabi religious movement from its founding to the modern day. Gleaning information from both written and oral sources and employing a multidisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology, and Islamic studies, Mouline presents a new reading of this movement that transcends the usual resort to polemics.
Saudi Clerics and Shi'a Islam
Title | Saudi Clerics and Shi'a Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Raihan Ismail |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190233311 |
In this book, Raihan Ismail examines the attitudes of the Saudi "ulama" towards various Shia sects and communities by analyzing their sermons, lectures, publications and religious rulings. She explores what the motivating factors are behind the divisive sectarian rhetoric that the 'ulama' employ.
The Jakhanke Muslim Clerics
Title | The Jakhanke Muslim Clerics PDF eBook |
Author | Lamin O. Sanneh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Islam |
ISBN | 9780819174819 |
This book attempts the first major study of the Jakhanke people. The Jakhanke have since the thirteenth century been a specialist group of Muslim clerics and teachers, living among the Serakhulle, from whom they sprang, and the Manding, whose language they speak. Despite the nineteenth-century ambience of militancy, they maintained their tradition of consistent pacifism and political neutrality which is unique in Muslim Black Africa. Their manuscripts and clan histories survive today in precious family collections and libraries. The author has drawn on these histories, present-day interviews, travellers' observations and colonial reports to weave a fascinating, comprehensive study of the Jakhanke for the first time in any language. The author traces the details of their wanderings and analyzes important themes such as their system of education, their function as dream-interpreters and amulet-makers and finally, the dark side of the coin, the dependence of their way of life on the institution of slavery. Includes photos and maps.
The Clerics of Islam
Title | The Clerics of Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Nabil Mouline |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0300178905 |
Followers of Muhammad b. ’Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam’s Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement he inspired, however, have often been limited by scholars’ insufficient access to key sources within Saudi Arabia. Nabil Mouline was granted rare interviews and admittance to important Saudi archives in preparation for this groundbreaking book, the first in-depth study of the Wahhabi religious movement from its founding to the modern day. Gleaning information from both written and oral sources and employing a multidisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology, and Islamic studies, Mouline presents a new reading of this movement that transcends the usual resort to polemics.
Deadly Clerics
Title | Deadly Clerics PDF eBook |
Author | Richard A. Nielsen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2017-11-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108416683 |
Explores multiple pathways of cleric radicalization to explain why some Muslim clerics turn to militant jihadism.
American Crescent
Title | American Crescent PDF eBook |
Author | Sayyid Hassan Qazwini |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780991025015 |
Islam Instrumentalized
Title | Islam Instrumentalized PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Philippe Platteau |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 547 |
Release | 2017-06-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107155444 |
This book challenges the widespread view that Islam is a reactionary religion that defends tradition against modernity and individual freedom. Jean-Philippe Platteau shows how Islam is vulnerable to political manipulation and how the threat of religious extremism is especially high because Islam is not organized as a centralized church.