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Abstract Slavery in the Islamic Middle East. Edited by Shaun E. Marmon. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1999. Pp.x + 117. $39.95 (cloth) ISBN 1–55876–168–3; $16.95 (paper) ISBN 1–55876–169–1. A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post‐Cold War Era. By Matthew Connelly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp.xiv + 400, 14 illus. $45.00, L38.99 (cloth) ISBN 0–19–514513–5. Libya and the United States: Two Centuries of Strife. By Ronald Bruce St John. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp.256, 1 vol. $49.50 (cloth) ISBN 0–8122–3672–6. The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam. Edited by John Hunwick and Eve Troutt Powell. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2002. Pp.xxxvii + 46. $44.95 (cloth) ISBN 1–55876–274–4; $22.95 (paper) ISBN 1–55876–275–2. Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism. By Azzam S. Tamimi. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp.280. $49.95 (cloth) ISBN 0–19–514000–1. Colonial Histories, Post‐Colonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine. By Abdelmajid Hannoum. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. Pp.xix + 216. $59.95 (cloth) ISBN 0–325–00253–3. The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria. By John W. Kiser. New York: St Martin's Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 235. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–312–25317–6. Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria. By James D. Le Sueur. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp.xi + 342, 5 figures. $46.50 (cloth) ISBN 0–8122–3588–6. Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East. Edited by EUGENE ROGAN. London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers in association with the European Science Foundation, 2002. Pp.263, select bibliography (no index). $65.00 (cloth) ISBN 1–860–64698–0. Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic. By Jeffrey Heath. London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2002. Pp.xvi + 598, 509 maps. $90 (cloth) ISBN 0–7007–1514–2.Keywords:
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Probing the Muslims' attitude toward Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in Islamic countries, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes: the fanatical warrior, sword in one hand and Qur' an in the other, and the Muslim designer of an interfaith utopia. Available for the first time in paperback, his portrayal of the Judaeo-Islamic tradition is set against a vivid background of Jewish and Islamic history.
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Anyone who has studied Islam from a textbook will find the actual beliefs and practices of Muslims in Africa quite varied from orthodox Islam discussed in textbooks. For Islam has always accommodated the various traditional beliefs of the peoples who have embraced Islam. Becoming a Muslim is quite simple. Anyone who recites the Muslim creed once with sincerity is a Muslim. So the traditional beliefs and practices are carried into Islam.
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This book has its origins in a comparative religions course Burns has taught at the University of Arizona for the past thirty years. Those who have enrolled in the class have come from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Whatever the mix, a shared curiosity about Christianity, Judaism, and Islam has always been present. Since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, students-as well as the general public-are especially interested in Islam. Like many Americans, they have little or no knowledge of the Islamic religion. This work touches upon the origins and central teachings of the Islamic religion and discusses the commonalties and differences between Islam and Christianity. Throughout the book, Burns poses and answers the kinds of questions most frequently asked by his students. This approach will be helpful to students in comparative religions courses, as well as other individuals interested in the connections between Christianity and Islam. The purpose of this book is to help alleviate the misinformation surrounding Islam and Christianity and to inspire a dialogue between the two religions. Such communication will, the author hopes, help promote justice and peace throughout the world.
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The recent developments of islamic thought have been coloured by two contrasting forms, which accupy diametrically opposed positions in ways of understanding islamic doctines: revivalist and liberal islam respectively. both these revivalist and liberal views of islam have widely coloured islamic discourse in the muslim world, and delineate a conflict and a tension between both groups which starts from their different opinions and methods of interpretation.
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This article is designed to survey and compare Christian responses to Islam in the Islamic World, Byzantium, and Christianity from the period of the emergence of Islam(622) to the fall of Constantinople(1453). More concretely, it seeks to outline Christian apologetic or polemical works in response to Islam, especially Quran and Muhammad, and to make a comparison among Christian writers in the three regions. In its conclusive remarks, this study emphasizes the literary legacy of Oriental Christians living in the Islamic world who possessed an intimate knowledge of Quran and Islam and defended their own faith in response to Islamic challenges. Oriental Christian apologetic and polemical works made a sharp contrast with those produced out of Byzantine and Latin Christianity which found themselves in antagonistic relations with the Islamic world, which had great difficulties in getting personal acquaintances with Muslims and Islamic religious teachings and practices due to language barriers and limitation of traffics or trades. Mostly, intellectuals of Byzantium or Latin Christianity paid little attention to the religious claims of Islam until the existence of Christianity itself ran into danger, and only then they took seriously religious aspects of Islam and initiated more objective and scholarly approach to Islam. Finally, this study calls the Korean Christianity to launch a more objective and serious study of Islam for effective ministry with Muslim migrants into Korea as well as mission to Muslims inside and outside Korea.
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Journal Article An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic MovementsBy Sherine Hafez Get access An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic MovementsBy Sherine Hafez (New York and London: New York University Press, 2011), xi + 164 pp., notes, bibliography, index. Price PB £13.99. EAN 978–0814773048. Mary Hossain Mary Hossain Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 409–411, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/ets049 Published: 29 May 2012
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Abstract Islam contains a greater plurality of theology than is often realised. Here two “alternative voices” are chosen as examples of how cultural accretions can be questioned to what is taken to be the original, pure voice of Islam. Amina Wadud has led a mixed congregation in prayer in New York and has demonstrated, not without opposition, that women can be imams. There follows a discussion of the historical debate about women as imams and reactions to Wadud's actions. The second voice is Hasan Askari, an Indian Muslim who has written widely on inter-faith dialogue. He maintains that to reduce differences between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, differences should be interpreted symbolically rather than literally. He questions all claims to finality in any religion and he believes that historical Islam has yet to be transformed to “universal Islam”. Religious differences can only be finally transcended at a level of mystical experience.
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This paper describes the ethics toward non-Muslims based on al-Qur’an. Islam as a religion of peace was accused and insulted by the orientalists frequently. These accusations and insulting stated in several articles, journals either in their books. Their books like Islamic Invasion wrote by Robert Morey and Islam Revealed by Anis A Shorrosh are some sample of how the orientalists discredits Islam. Whereas Islam is not like what they accused. On the contrary, Islam has responding their accusations with an elegant and tolerant doctrine. Islam has teaches its peoples to respects another religion’s people, Islam forbids his people to insult other religions, to excoriate their worships or forcing non-Muslims to convert or believes to Islam, even Islam teaches its people to acknowledge non-Muslims as brother and sister. This is Islam’s admiration toward non- Muslims. Surprisingly, these admirations inversely proportional to what non- Muslims did toward Islam and its people. The abuses as what we mention it before, was being happened even until now. Lately, one of Christian pastor in United State was told his people to burn the Holly Qur’an or as we known about suppression of Rohingya’s Muslims that was did by Myanmar’s Buddhists.
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