Muslims in 21st century Europe

structural and cultural perspectives

Ed. Anna Triandafyllidou. 'Muslims in 21st Century Europe' explores the interaction between native majorities and Muslim minorities in various European countries with a view to highlighting different paths of integration of immigrant and native Muslims. Starting with a critical overview of the institutionalisation of Islam ...

Los niños judíos de Izieu, 6 de abril de 1944

un crimen contra la humanidad

Prólogo de Patricia Amardeil; Trads., Cécile Lefort e Idda Malagón-Moreau. El 6 de abril de 1944, la Gestapo de Lyon, bajo el mando de Klaus Barbie, en Izieu, detiene a cuarenta y cuatro niños y a sus siete educadores. Cuarenta y dos de los niños ...

Jaén en época de los Nazaríes

(Al-Andalus, s.XIII-XV): estudios de historia y patrimonio cultural islámico y cristiano

Ed., Francisco Vidal Castro. Frecuentemente presentados como antagónicos o enemigos en guerra, el Islam y el Cristianismo, Oriente y Occidente, encierran dos tipos de organización del mundo que se reflejan y condicionan las relaciones con la otra parte, pero que no conducen necesariamente al conflicto ...

An introduction to islamic archaelogy

This introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world traces the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present and evaluates the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of key aspects of Islamic culture. The author argues that it is ...

Pequeña historia marrueca

Alcazarquivir

Esta obra trata la historia de Alcazarquivir desde una visión de remembranzas de infancia y pubertad de algunos hechos que acontecieron en dicho pueblo.

Ibn Khaldun, Life and Times

Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) was a tremendously influential and important Muslim thinker. Sociologists, anthropologists, and historians study his great work on the philosophy of history, treating his Muqaddimah as a timeless philosophical accomplishment. Rejecting portrayals of this intellectual as a modern mind lost to obscure medieval ...

La ola verde

crónica de la revolución espontánea en Irán

La ola verde es la crónica del levantamiento espontáneo que se está produciendo en contra del régimen teocrático de Irán. La historia de una revolución que es fruto del hartazgo que sienten los ciudadanos ante un sistema insoportable que gobierna el país desde que el ...

Lámpara de los príncipes

Trad. Maximiliano Alarcón. Acompaña CD-ROM con reprod. facs. de la ed.. de Madrid, 1930. Acompañado del prólogo: Maximiliano Alarcón (1880-1933) y el arabismo de su tiempo de Manuela Marín

Islam political violence

muslim diaspora and radicalism in the West

Eds. Shahram Akbarzadeh, Fethi Mansouri. How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the 'war on terror'? The widely felt sense of insecurity in the West is shared by Muslims both within and outside Western societies ...

Theodicy and justice in modern islamic thought

the case of Said Nursi

This book explores the theology and philosophy of the distinguished modern Muslim scholar and theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi [d. 1960]. Nursi wrote in both Ottoman Turkish and Arabic and his life and thought reflected the transition of modern Turkey from an empire to a secular ...

Islam and travel in the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures - touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe - they also ...

El mundo árabe explicado a Europa

historia, imaginario, cultura, política, economía, geopolítica

El volumen del profesor Khader, de la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, consta de dieciocho capítulos que resumen cuestiones candentes como son los movimientos migratorios en el mundo de referencia; la energía petrolífera y el futuro de su agotamiento; el nuevo reinado del terror (yihadista); dificultades ...

La mujer musulmana

desde la traducción a la realidad

Eds. Katjia Torres Calzada, Francisco José Borrego Sierra. INDICE: Hind Bint Utba b. Rabia "la comedora de hígados" (s. VII d.C.): una mujer velada por el Islam. Mujeres paradigma del Isla: Jadiya, Aixa y Fátima. El velo velado. La muer en el al-Andalus: imágnees ...

Islam's quantum question

reconciling muslim tradition and modern sciece

In secular Europe the veracity of modern science is almost always taken for granted. Whether they think of the evolutionary proofs of Darwin or of spectacular investigation into the boundaries of physics conducted by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, most people assume that scientific enquiry ...

Globalization and islamism

beyond fundamentalism

Tensions between the West and the Islamic world have reached an all- time high, fuelled by caricatures and misunderstandings on both sides. In contrast, as Nevzat Soguk shows, actual histories reveal profound connections across Islamic and Western civilizations. Moving beyond the usual focus on Wahhabi ...

The new Cambridge history of Islam

Vol.III: The eastern islamic world, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge ...

Historia de los musulmanes en España

Contiene: Libro 3: El califato -- Libro 4: Los reyes de Taifas. Fruto de largos años de trabajo y de una prodigiosa labor de investigación original, la Historia de los musulmanes de España, obra cumbre del filólogo e historiador holandés Reinhart P. Dozy, provocó de inmediato ...

Europe and Tunisia

democratisation via association

This book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia#s specific mode of democratization works in ...

A collection of Sufi rules of conduct

'A Collection of Sufi Rules of Conduct' ('Jawami Adab al-Sufiyya') was written by one of the foremost early masters of Sufism and is considered as the first work devoted to the description of the way of life and the customs of the Sufis. It represents ...

A History of Saudi Arabia

This updated edition analyses the challenges, both internal and external, facing Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century. Two new chapters discuss the political, economic and social developments in the aftermath of 9/11, painting a vivid picture of a country shocked by terrorism and condemned ...