This book goes beyond the headlines to explore the broad dimensions of Islam, looking at the vitality of the main elements of the faith across the centuries and finding the basis of today's Islamic resurgence in the continuing interaction of varying styles of Islam—fundamentalist, conservative, adaptationist, and individualist—and in the way each o
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Islam: Continuity And Change In The Modern World
This liber amicorum for Urbain Vermeulen contains forty studies on a wide variety of topics, written by friends, colleagues and former students. It reflects the international appreciation for this Belgian...
John Obert Voll Islam in Revolution : Fundamentalism in the Arab World . Second Edition . R. Hrair Dekmejian Khul - Khaal : Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories . Nayra Atiya Law of Desire : Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran .
Based on a decade of research, including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story, this edition is essential for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the turmoil engulfing the Middle East, from civil wars to the ...
Arab Society: Continuity and Change
Hrair Dekmejian, “The Anatomy of Islamic Revival: Legitimacy, Crisis, Ethnic Conflict, and the Search for Islamic Alternatives,” Middle East Journal, 34, no. 1 (Winter 1980): 3. Voll, Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World, ...
Studies in Islam 6 (1969): 118–54. Voll, John Obert. Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. Wali Allah, Shah. The Conclusive Argument from God: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi's Ḥujjat ...
"---David Burrell, University of Notre Dame, author of Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas "This collection brings together some of the best writings on the universal dimensions of Islam.
FURTHER READING Islam and modernity D.W.Brown: Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge ... J.O.Voll: Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994).