Shattering tradition

custom, law and the individual in the Muslim Mediterranean

Few deny that in the Muslim world religion and law are intimately linked. However, local legal realities mean that Islamic law is often pushed out of the picture by customary law, which is usually tribal, and by state law. Shattering Tradition concentrates on customary law ...

Modern islamic political thought

the response of the Shi i and muslims to the twentieth century

Medieval islamic philosophical writings

Hizbullah

the story from within

The resistance group Hizbullah ('Party of God') formed in 1982 in response to Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and were instrumental in eventually forcing Israel to withdraw its troops altogether - thus ending a twenty-two-year-old military occupation. Many armed factions had sprung up in the ...

Les turqueries du grand Mamamouchi

Islam obscured

the rhetoric of anthropological representation

Ethnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. This study analyzes four seminal texts that have been read widely outside anthropology. Two are by distinguished anthropologists on either side of the Atlantic, Islam Observed (by Clifford Geertz in 1968) and Muslim Society (by Ernest ...

Políticas de la negación

Israel y los refugiados palestinos

Islamicités

Le débat civique se construit et se bloque en France autour d'une image globale de l'islam comme religion et comme culture, un islam induisant une solution de continuité des principes et même du territoire de la République. Ce débat se radicalise de manière ...

Morocco

the islamist awakening and other challenges

In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. It addresses emerging issues and problems - equal rights for women, elimination of corruption and correction of glaring ...

Glosario árabe español de indumentaria según el Kitab Al-Mujassaas de Ibn Sidah

INDICE: Prefacio. Estudio. Presentación. El autor y su obra. Organizando el trabajo: la indumentaria ocmo terminología. Técnica lexicográfica: criterios de presentación. Glosario. Abreviaturas y signos empleados. Ilustraciones. Bibliografía.

Resurgent Islam a sociological approach

The contemporary resurgence of Islam in all of its varied manifestations demands the attention of social scientists. This ground- breaking book provides a unique insight into resurgent Islam from the standpoint of sociology. Clearly written, and jargon free, the book aims to create a more ...

The Palestinian National Movement

politics of contention, 1967-2005

This innovative study examines the internal dynamics of the Palestinian political elite and their impact on the struggle to establish a Palestinian state. The PLO leadership has sought to prevent the rise of any alternative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that can challenge ...

'Abd al-Malik

'Abd al-Malik , who came to prominence during the second civil war of early Islam, ruled the Islamic empire from 692 until 705. Not only did he successfully suppress rebellion within the Muslim world and expand its frontiers, but in many respects he founded the empire ...

Ibn 'Arabi

heir to the prophets

Muhyi ad-Din Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was an outstanding Spanish-born mystic and one of the most prolific writers in Islamic history. He made major contributions to the fields of Qur'an commentary, jurisprudence, theology, philosophy, cosmology, and spiritual psychology, and he was also a great poet ...

El banquete de las palabras

la alimentación de los textos árabes

Este volumen pretende ofrecer una contribución a la historia de la alimentación en el mundo árabe- islámico basada en el examen particularizado de diversos tipos de textos árabes (culinarios, médicos, literario, etc.)

Pakistan

At the Crosscurrent of History

This controversial book explores one nation's journey from the margins of history to the centre of the world stage. Tracing the development of the country from its birth in 1947 to the present day, Ziring explores how a country once envisaged as a secular ...

Crime and punishment in Islamic Law

theory and practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Rudolph Peters' book is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic law. In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes, such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern states of Nigeria have reintroduced Islamic law in place of western ...

Sadr Ad-Din Sirazi

la filosofía islámica y el problema del ser

Pensador de formación a la vez gnóstica y neoplatónica cuya obra representa un giro definitivo en el desarrollo de la filosofía islámica y una vasta síntesis del pensamiento elaborado en la dar al-islam hasta finales de nuestro siglo XVI, así como también el más firme ...

Recopilación de algunos nombres arábigos

que los árabes pusieron a algunas ciudades y a otras muchas cosas

La Recopilación de Diego de Guadix es sin duda una obra amplia, compleja y sistemática. En ella se registran todas las palabras y significados que (en cualquier lengua conocida por Guadix), procedían, a su juicio, del árabe. La mayor parte de la obra se dedica ...

Buscando desesperadamente el paraíso

viajes de un musulmán escéptico

¿Por qué la percepción de los norteamericanos se aparta tanto de la del resto del mundo? ¿Por qué la presunción de inocencia y de rectitud es tan importante para su autoimagen? ¿Por qué el pueblo norteamericano es tan extremadamente ignorante sobre los asuntos internacionales? ¿Por ...