Islam as political religion

the future of an imperial faith

This comprehensive survey of contemporary Islam provides a philosophical and theological approach to the issues faced by Muslims and the question of global secularisation. Engaging with critics of modern Islam, Shabbir Akhtar sets out an agenda of what his religion is and could be as ...

The islamic world in the new century

the organisation of the Islamic Conference, 1969-2009

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the Muslim world's only intergovernmental body-the largest such system operating outside of the United Nations. Based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the OIC was founded forty years ago to respond to the Palestinian crisis and counts fifty- ...

Un nuevo compromiso con el mundo islámico

El miedo social es el mejor aliado de las políticas imperiales, al tiempo que la causa fundamental del fracaso de estas. El miedo al Islam -que cristalizó un 11 de septiembre de 2001 pero que es muy anterior- ¬¬¬¬ es fruto de la ignorancia y también ...

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 ...

Radicalism and political reform in the Islamic and Western Worlds

Over the last decade, political Islam has been denounced in the Western media and in the surrounding literature as a terrorist or fascist movement that is entirely at odds with Western democratic ideology. Kai Hafez's book overturns these arguments, contending that, despite its excesses ...

Thinking through islamophobia

global perspectives

Eds. Salman Sayyid, Abdoolkarim Vakil. Since September 11 the term Islamophobia has entered common parlance across the globe. Widely used but diversely and inconsistently defined and deployed, Islamophobia remains hotly disputed and frequently disavowed both as word and concept. To its supporters it names a ...

Sharia in the West

Eds. Rex Ahdar, Nicholas Aroney. In February 2008, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, delivered a public lecture in which he stated that it "seem[ed] unavoidable" that certain aspects of Islamic law (Shari'a) would be recognized and incorporated into British law. The ...

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 ...

Clash of ideas in world politics

transnational networks, States, and regime change, 1510-2010

Some blame the violence and unrest in the Muslim world on Islam itself, arguing that the religion and its history is inherently bloody. Others blame the United States, arguing that American attempts to spread democracy by force have destabilized the region, and that these efforts ...

Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel

the Ambivalences of Rejection, Antagonism, Tolerance and Cooperation

Manifestations of hatred of Jews and Israel have risen over the last few decades in the Arab and Muslim world. This hatred is demonstrated in many ways # from propaganda to terrorism. But is such hatred the result of Islamic anti-Semitism, as widely claimed? Or does ...

Revelación y presencia divina

comentario coránico y poesía mística del Sayj Al-`Alawi

Trad., Juan José González. Esta obra, escrita por uno de los maestros del sufismo del siglo pasado, considera la naturaleza y el significado de la Revelación divina.

Manuscritos moriscos aragoneses

Contiene ilustraciones. Índice: 5. Introducción 9. La literatura de la minoría musulmana 17. La aljamía 29. Tipología de los manuscritos moriscos 45. La identidad islámica en la literatura aljamiada 59. Porcedencia aragonesa de la literatura aljamiada 79. Bibliografía

Kitab al-Garib al-Muntaqà min kalam ahl al-tuqà

(El lenguaje de los sufíes)

Ed. Mehmet Necmeddin Bardakci. Este libro, fruto del trabajo conjunto de Pilar Garrido (estudio preliminar) y Mehmet Bardakcl (edición) presenta la primera edición existente del K. al-Garïb al-muntaqà fï kalam ahl al-tuqà (El lenguaje de los sufíes), única obra conocida de Ibn Jamis de Évora ...

El retorno/el reencuentro

la inmigración en la literatura hispano-marroquí

Ed. Ana Rueda; Col. Sandra Martín. Recoge historias representativas de las variadas experiencias humanas y artísticas en torno a la emigración hispano-marroquí de la primera década del siglo XXI a través de una selección de autores de ambos países.

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

La imagen del otro en la prensa

Arabia Saudí, Egipto y Marruecos

Es una investigación que tiene su anclaje tanto terminológico como metodológico en los nuevos estudios lingüísticos del Análisis Crítico del Discurso. La imagen del árabe en la literatura, en el cine, en el ensayo histórico y, últimamente, en los medios de comunicación es un tema ...

Saint Francis and the Sultan

the curious history of a christian-muslim encounter

In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil. Although we in fact know very little about this event, this has not prevented artists and writers ...

Said Nursi

This title offers a sure guide to the fierce debates surrounding Said Nursi's life, thought and major writings. It will be indispensable reading for all those interested in Turkey, and in the bitter power struggles within the country between 'religionists' and 'secularists'.

Religion in the Middle East

Volume II: Islam

It is generally accepted that the Middle East witnessed the ancient rise of monotheism and its dissemination. The three faiths predominantly concerned - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have retained their separateness and have been in different degrees torn asunder by schisms; but less well known has ...

Una mujer hermosa en la prisión de Sócrates

Como en sus obras anteriores, Ahmed Etman plantea una aguda crítica de la vida moderna a través de la visión de una figura clásica. Se trata en este caso del filósofo Sócrates, cuya vida es trazada magistralmente, que aparece conversando con un personaje ficticio tomado ...