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 ...

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 ...

El Corán de Toledo

Edición y estudio del manuscrito 235 de la Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha

En la primavera de 1606, probablemente en el pueblo de Villafeliche en Aragón, un piadoso morisco pidió prestado a «una onrrada gente» su ejemplar del Corán para copiarlo. El original era un manuscrito bilingüe, en árabe con su traducción al aljamiado, hoy desconocido para nosotros ...

Islam, modernity, and the Human Sciences

This book discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. The disclosure is accomplished by a comparative reading of contemporary Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand, and of ...

The muslim brotherhood

Hasan al-Hudaybi and ideology

The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most influential Islamist organisations today. Based in Egypt, its network includes branches in many countries of the Near and Middle East. Although the organisation has been linked to political violence in the past, it now proposes a politically ...

Islam, christianity and the mystic journey

a comparative exploration

This distinctive comparison of Islamic and Christian mysticism focuses on the mystic journey in the two faith traditions - the journey which every believer must make and which leads to the Divine. The author clears away misconceptions and highlights similarities and differences in the thought and ...

Pensadores judíos

de Filón de Alejandría a Walter Benjamin

Esta obra recoge las conferencias de cinco ciclos organizados por el Instituto de Relaciones Cultu­rales Baleares-Israel, en colaboración con la UNED. En ellas, destacados investigadores nos acercan a la realidad de pensadores judíos de todos los tiempos, desde el mundo clásico (Filón de Alejandría ...

Después de Dios

la religión y las redes de la ciencia, el arte, las finanzas y la política

En un mundo en el que ser es estar conectado, Mark C. Taylor señala la necesidad de conocer la tradición religiosa occidental para mejor comprender los complejos sistemas y redes de la era de la globalización. El desconocimiento de nuestra tradición religiosa ha hecho imposible ...

La interpretación coránica

pistas para un enfoque contemporáneo

El Sagrado Corán es la guía fundamental de la experiencia musulmana, determinando el 'imaginario colectivo', el lenguaje y la jurisprudencia con los que se le da forma social. En esta obra, Abdullah Saeed explora el tema de la interpretación de los pasajes coránicos con relevancia ...

Islam in Europe

the lure of fundamentalism and the allure of cosmopolitanism

Islam in Europe is a book full of striking images: the assassination of and the death threats against artists and intellectuals; violent demonstrations demanding Sharia law for Europe; and acts of terrorism, Also detailed are European political initiatives and, in some cases, new laws that ...

Los hermanos musulmanes

Concebida como un movimiento regeneracionista en tiempos de crisis política y espiritual, la Sociedad de los Hermanos Musulmanes está considerada el numen de todas las corrientes islamistas, moderadas y radicales, que se han desarrollado desde entonces. Esta obra ofrece un recorrido por la historia de ...

Islam and Christianity

theological themes in comparative perspective

In light of the widespread public perception of incompatibility between Islam and Christianity, this book provides a much-needed straightforward comparison of these two great faith traditions from a broad theological perspective. Award-winning scholar John Renard illuminates the similarities as well as the differences between Islam ...

Violencia e Islam

En los últimos años se ha extendido en occidente la imagen de un Islam violento y fanático, incapaz de integrarse, en el ámbito internacional, en la sociedad de naciones surgida tras la II Guerra Mundial y, respecto a las comunidades constituidas en Europa, en sociedades ...

Al-Jwarizmi

el algebrista de Bagdad

Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Jwarizmi vivió entre los años 780 y 850, y fue miembro de la Casa de la Sabiduría que los califas abbasíes habían fundado en Bagdad. De las obras que nos han llegado de él, la más importante y de mayor influjo posterior es ...

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 ...

I Jornadas Maimónides

la interculturalidad en al-Andalus

Eds. M. José Cano Pérez, Tania M. García Arévalo. En este encuentro se trataron diversos aspectos relacionados tanto con la obra como con la personalidad del filósofo, médico y legislador judeoandalusí, Mosheh ben Maimón, Maimónides. Este libro lo recoge.

Islam and global dialogue

religious pluralism and the pursuit of peace

Ed. Roger Boase. At a time when the world is becoming increasingly interdependent, multi-cultural and multi-religious, the concept of religious pluralism is under assault as a result of hatred, prejudice and misunderstanding from both religious exclusivists and dogmatic secularists. In this important and timely book ...

Light of the Sufis

the mystical arts of Islam

"Light of the Sufis" introduces the complex and multilayered topic of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, by concentrating on its expression in the visual arts and offers new insights into the integrative and fluid nature of the Sufi experience that has solicited strong reactions - both negative ...

Pathways to an inner Islam

Massignon, Corbin, Guénon, and Schuon

Pathways to an Inner Islam provides an introduction to the esoteric or spiritual #inner Islam# presented by Western thinkers Louis Massignon, Henry Corbin, René Guénon, and Frithjof Schuon. Particularly interested in Sufism#the mystical tradition of Islam#these four twentieth-century authors who wrote in French ...

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 ...