The Christian Arabs, organized in a variety of denominations, constitute today no more than a small minority in the predominantly Muslim Arab World. Yet they have historically enjoyed -and continue to enjoy- an importance out of all proportion to their numbers. With the wave of religious fundamentalism currently sweeping the Muslim world, there has been much speculation about their future. Such…
Can the current vitality of islamic revivalism be attributed primarily to the religious characteristics of islam? or do political, social, and economic factors play a more fundamental role?leading authorities on islam and the muslim world analyze the success of revivalist movement in a wide range of islamic countries in the middle east, africa and asia from a comparative perspective.
For over a billion Muslims all over the world the new For world order is dead even before it was born. Twentieth century has witnessed many a people talking of a new world order. After the First World War, the American President Woodrow Wilson tried to breath some fresh air into the debate on the future world order and came out with the dream of a world ruled by principles and universally accep…
This book gives an overview of Shari'a from post-Independence in 1945 to the most recent developments in Indonesia at the start of the new millennium.
The Islamic world stretches from North America to Shoutheast Asia and includes some forty independent states in which Muslims constitute a majority of the population.
This book is a compilation of the speeches which Sheikh Mujib delivered in the constituent assembly and national assembly of Pakistan of which he was an elected member.
This is the first sourcebook to present a wide selection of contemporary materials on Islam in Southeast Asia, most of which have not previously been available in English. The material covers six broad themes: personal expressions of faith; Islamic law; state and governance; women and family; jihad; and interactions with non-Muslims and the wider Muslim world. The book looks at the ideological …
This is a book about people. It is not a book of opinion. It is a book of stories. The stories were collected during five months of travel in 1995 in four non-Arab Muslim countries-Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia. So there is a context and a theme.
The objective of this book is not only offering a map of the Imams training centres existing in the EU but also getting to know the current face of Islam and how member states deal with denominations
The return of Islam in Europe more than five centuries after the fall of the reign of Granada (1492) and the definitive expul- sion of the Moriscos and the Jews from Spain in 1609, represents one of the most extraordinary and visible events of the last decades of the second Millennium