Between feminism and Islam

Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco

There are two major women’s movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold shari’a as the platform for building a culture of women’s rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations’ framework to amend shari’a law. Between Feminism and Islam shows ...

Turkey and the European Union

the question of european identity

European identity has always been in a state of construction. With the creation of the European Union, however, this construction now takes place within an institutional framework, introducing a number of new variables. Selcen Öner's Turkey and the European Union: The Question of European ...

Early islamic institutions

administration and taxation from the Caliphate to the Umayyads and 'Abbasids

The rapid expansion of the early Islamic world is conventionally ascribed to a combination of brilliant military leadership and religious fervour. In this book, Abd al-Aziz Duri demonstrates how the growth, development and durability of early Islamic governance derived from highly sophisticated systems of administration ...

Muslims

their religious beliefs and practices

Andrew Rippin's Muslims is essential reading for students and scholars alike. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and for the first time features a companion website with extensive links to additional reading and resources to help deepen students' understanding of the subject. Muslims ...

Moroccan monarchy and the islamist challenge

maintaining Makhzen power

Despite the much debated global crisis of authoritarianism, in which authoritarian regimes came under attack from pro-democracy groups and movements, the traditional systems in the Middle East still stand. This book examines the factors behind the survival and persistence of monarchical authoritarianism in Morocco and ...

The Arab revolution

ten lessons from the democratic uprising

The democratic uprising throughout the Arab world is proving how wrong were the hitherto accepted political alternatives, either dictatorship or Islamism. Yet more lessons are already being learnt from this grass-root process, even while it is in the making. Above all, when it comes to ...

Caridad y compasión en biografías islámicas

La caridad desempeña un papel fundamental en las creencias religiosas de los musulmanes, ya que constituye un aspecto ineludible de la relación entre Dios y el hombre. Es, además, una expresión de fe religiosa en las interacciones sociales entre los seres humanos. La significación de ...

Cosmopolitans and heretics

new muslim intellectuals and the study of Islam

Dramatic political events involving Muslims across the world have put Islam under increased scrutiny. However, the focus of this attention is generally limited to the political realm and often even further confined by constrictive views of Islamism narrowed down to its most extremist exponents. Much ...

El Islam a las puertas de Europa

cómo evitar el choque de culturas y civilizaciones

Nuestra exposición se centrará en los orígenes de los problemas multiculturales. Las situaciones derivadas de la falta de mutuo conocimiento, de la intolerancia frente al rechazo de lo ajeno precisan de acciones conjuntas tanto de la comunidad nacional como internacional. Para ello, se ha utilizado ...

Oh Jerusalén

un libro esencial para entender las raíces del conflicto árabe-israelí

Oh, Jerusalén narra el nacimiento del Estado de Israel en 1948, tras la cruenta lucha entre árabes y judíos. Esta obra se ha convertido en un texto clave para entender por qué Israel sigue siendo, medio siglo después de su fundación, una de las zonas ...

A history of civilization in Palestine

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge ...

The dream in Islam

from Qr'anic tradition to jihadist inspiration

The war in the Middle East is marked by a lack of cultural knowledge on the part of the western forces, and this book deals with another, widely ignored element of Islam-the role of dreams in everyday life. The practice of using night dreams to ...

Egypt and the Second Palestinian Intifada

policymaking with multifaceted commitments

With the outbreak of the Palestinian Intifadat al-Aqsa in September 2000 that followed the failure of the Camp David II summit, the chain of belligerent events took Egypt by surprise. Facing a dilemma in its search for an appropriate policy towards the Palestinian-Israeli escalation, this ...

Islamist radicalisation in Europe

an occupational change process

This book examines the Islamist radicalisation process in Europe, developing a new theoretical model based on an empirical study of the evolution of Islamist radicals in their social environment. The approach of this book is to examine how, and under what conditions, people choose to ...

The golden cage

three brothers, three choices, one destiny

"If you do not have the power to overthrow the rule of oppression, inform others of the oppression." Persian proverb Questions about Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution shape The Golden Cage while the answers shed light on Iran's current events and tell us why ...

Innovation in Islam

traditions and contributions

Why has the West developed and modernized, while the Muslim world has lagged behind? Why has democracy not found a hospitable home in much of the Muslim world? And why have the opponents of innovation found their message so resonant with ordinary Muslims? Featuring essays ...

Osama Bin Laden y Al Qaeda

el fin de una era

El día 2 de mayo del 2011 un comando de la marina de los Estados Unidos dio muerte en su refugio de Pakistán al enemigo público más buscado: Osama bin Laden. En este breve y ágil ensayo, Juan Avilés sostiene que ello representa el simbólico ...

An Islam of her own

reconsidering religion and secularism in women's islamic movements

As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either "religious" or "secular" discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to ...

Voices from Iraq

a people's history, 2003-2009

"Baghdad fell on a Tuesday I think. I went driving around our neighborhood, Karada, with my husband a day or two after that just to have a look around. The looters were everywhere. I saw women and children pushing trolleys full of things out of ...

Cotton, climate, and camels in Early Islamic Iran

a moment in world history

A boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran's impressive agricultural economy entered a steep decline, bringing the country's primacy to an ...