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 ...

Ottoman reform and Muslim regeneration

The late Ottoman period was one of enormous change. This book focuses on the evolution of Ottoman reform as it was perceived, and negotiated, from the perspectives of the capital Istanbul and of the Arab provinces of Syria, including Palestine. It also examines the close ...

Modern islamic political thought

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

Modernity, islam and secularism in Turkey

bodies, places and time

Focus de l'origene journal d'intifada

Hezbollah

the changing face of terrorism

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 ...

Le révélateur des mystères

traité de soufisme

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 ...

Exposición y refutación del Islam

la versión latina de las epístolas de al-Hasimi y al-Kindi

Abu Nuwas

a genius of poetry

Abu Nuwas (c.756-813) was one of the greatest Arab poets of the classical period. In literary history he is remembered chiefly as the hard-drinking and eloquent composer of dissolute wine poems, from which he emerges as one of the most charismatic figures in world ...

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.)

Ciencia del Islam desde los orígenes hasta hoy

Future Jihad

terrorist strategies against America

This book presents a frightening new picture of what we can expect from terrorists in the future. Phares shows that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about Al Qaeda's ultimate goal in the West and what victory means to jihadists. Called by the press ...

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 ...

El islamismo

la última guerra mundial

El islamismo -siempre habrá que reiterarlo- no es el Islam. La guerra en contra del islamismo no puede ser en ningún caso una guerra entre culturas; mucho menos una guerra entre religiones. El islamismo es una ideología y una práctica totalitaria construida sobre la base ...