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"A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, Sunni and Shi'a, popular mystics and erudite scholars, ancient heroes and modern critics. A product of Islamic culture, Arkoun nonetheless disagrees with the Islamic establishment and militant Islamist groups; as...
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One of the Islamic world's leading voices in the struggle against extremism, Sa'id al-'Ashmawy was trained as a specialist in Islamic law and comparative law at Cairo University and served as judge, chief prosecutor, chief justice of the High Criminal Court, chief justice of the High Court for Security of State as well as chief justice of the High Court Assizes in Egypt. The author of 15 books on Islam and the law, he has been consistently critical...
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Part four of Faces of Islam is a cinematic journey into the wondrous and varied world of 1.5 billion Muslims. Witness the everyday lives of modern Islam practitioners - scholars, teachers and activists who view their faith as a philosophy and instrument of social change, and seek to adapt it to the modern world. Journey into mosques, markets, schools, workshops, and music studios and get answers to questions about beliefs, traditions, gender roles,...
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Islamic fundamentalism has had a significant impact in nearly every corner of the world in recent years. Bassam Tibi, a widely recognized expert on Islam and Arab culture, offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics. A Muslim and descendant of a famous Damascene Islamic scholar family, Tibi sees Islamic fundamentalism as the result of Islam's confrontation with modernity. The movement is unprecedented...
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Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and monolithic religion, whose adherents are intent upon battling nonbelievers throughout the world. Shattering the Myth demonstrates that these conceptions more accurately reflect the bias of Western reporters than they do the realities of contemporary Islam. Westerners are barraged by images of violence that usually originate from armed confrontations in one small...
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In this book, Boulares explores the ways in which the effort to transform the Islamic message into a political programme may turn out to be counterproductive and do damage to the message itself. His preferred term for these efforts is "Islamism" defined as an action carried out by militant Muslims so that their concept of religion penetrates the state and society. The book, as the author claims, is "both a report of actual events and an essay. Islam...
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Muslims have lived in the U.S. for centuries. Should the work of Islamist extremists be allowed to undermine their place in American society? This program captures a spirited discussion between Bill Moyers and Imam Zaid Shakir, who details his experiences as both a Muslim and an American in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In addition, Imam Zaid describes the structure and comprehensiveness of Islam, the compatibility of core Islamic and American values,...
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In this book Esposito places the challenge of critical perspective. Exploring the vitality of this religion as a global force and the history of its relations with the West, Esposito demonstrates the diversity of the Islamic resurgence-and the mistakes out analysts make in assuming a hostile, monolithic Islam.
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"As the faithful of Islam face the east in prayer, some Muslims also face the West with a growing sense of confusion, alarm, and anger. This timely four-part series brings Bill Moyers together with several of today's leading experts on Islam, John Esposito, Zaid Shakir, Azizah al-Hibri and Karen Armstrong to grapple with some of the issues on everyone's mind since September 11, 2001"--Container cover
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What is the meaning and scope of images today? Bombarded by thousands of images every day, what do we really see? In a constantly changing world, socially and politically engaged creators are searching for new ways to capture our attention. Filmmaker Helen Doyle has chosen the work of several artists and photographers who provoke us into looking deeper at the outside world and at ourselves.
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