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The Vast Oceans - Remembering Allah And Self On The Mustafawiyya Sufi Path

by Youssef J. Carter

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 In the mid-1990s, Shaykh Arona Rashid Faye al-Faqir arrived in South Carolina from Senegal. Settling in Moncks Corner, he brought with him the Mustafawiyya Tariqa, a Sufi movement that emphasizes remembrance and inward cultivation, which he inherited from its founder, Shaykh Muhammad Mustafa Gueye. Today, Masjid Muhajjirun wal Ansar in Moncks Corner remains the center of this North American transnational community despite the Mustafawiyya Tariqa’s spread to larger cities like Philadelphia and Atlanta. Monck’s Corner serves as a haven for Muslims to build community and, as Youssef J. Carter argues, to construct diasporic consciousness as they connect with Muslims across the Atlantic. In The Vast Oceans, Carter shows that this expansion of a West African Sufi movement in the Black Atlantic offers those traveling the Mustafawiyya path empowerment through spiritual care as they confront historical and contemporary anti-Blackness. As Carter tracks the community’s thought and practice over time and space, he examines how practices of solidarity and remembrance aid in healing. Ultimately, his richly textured depiction of lived religion expands our understanding of global Islam, particularly the dynamic Black Muslim devotional practices of study and remembrance that span from West Africa to the American South.
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Sufi Narratives Of Intimacy - Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, And Sexuality

by Sa'Diyya Shaikh

131,18€ + 10% CARD

 Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place.
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Walking Qur'An - Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, And History In West Africa

by Rudolph T. Ware Iii

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 "Typesetter: code used below Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Quran schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity. Ware shows how in Senegambia the schools became powerful channels for African resistance during the eras of the slave trade and colonization. While illuminating the past, Ware also makes signal contributions to understanding contemporary Islam by demonstrating how the schools' epistemology of embodiment gives expression to classical Islamic frameworks of learning and knowledge. Today, many Muslims and non-Muslims find West African methods of Quran schooling puzzling and controversial. In fascinating detail, Ware introduces these practices from the viewpoint of the practitioners, explicating their emphasis on educating the whole human being as if to remake it as a living replica of the Quran. From this perspective, the transference of knowledge in core texts and rituals is literally embodied in people, helping shape them--like the Prophet of Islam--into vital bearers of the word of God. "--
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Islam Without Europe - Traditions Of Reform In Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought

by Ahmad S. Dallal

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal's ground breaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being moribund, Dallal argues, the eighteenth century was one of the most fertile eras in Islamic thought.
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Gender, Sainthood, And Everyday Practice In South Asian Shi'Ism

by Karen G. Ruffle

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi ism"
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Isma'Ili Modern - Globalization And Identity In A Muslim Community

by Jonah Steinberg

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan, as well as in Europe, this investigates Isma'ili Muslims and the development of their expansive twenty-first-century global structures.
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Modernism And The Art Of Muslim South Asia

by Iftikhar Dadi

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 Traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments. Iftikhar Dadi explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond.
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Jasmine And Stars - Reading More Than Lolita In Tehran

by Fatemeh Keshavarz

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 Presents an exploration of Iranian literature and society. This book warns against the rise of what the author calls the 'New Orientalist narrative', which thrives on stereotype and prejudice and is often tied to geopolitical conflict rather than an understanding of Iran.
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Imuslims - Rewiring The House Of Islam

by Gary R. Bunt

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 Exploring the increasing impact of the Internet on Muslims around the world, this book sheds new light on the nature of contemporary Islamic discourse, identity, and community. The Internet has profoundly shaped how both Muslims and non-Muslims perceive Islam and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting in the twenty-first century, says Gary Bunt. While Islamic society has deep historical patterns of global exchange, the Internet has transformed how many Muslims practice the duties and rituals of Islam. A place of religious instruction may exist solely in the virtual world, for example, or a community may gather only online. Drawing on more than a decade of online research, Bunt shows how social-networking sites, blogs, and other "cyber-Islamic environments" have exposed Muslims to new influences outside the traditional spheres of Islamic knowledge and authority. Furthermore, the Internet has dramatically influenced forms of Islamic activism and radicalization, including jihad-oriented campaigns by networks such as al-Qaeda. By surveying the broad spectrum of approaches used to present dimensions of Islamic social, spiritual, and political life on the Internet, iMuslims encourages diverse understandings of online Islam and of Islam generally.
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Sufis And Saints' Bodies - Mysticism, Corporeality, And Sacred Power In Islam

by Scott Kugle

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 Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, this title demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.
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Sufi Narratives Of Intimacy - Ibn ''Arabi, Gender, And Sexuality

by Sa'Diyya Shaikh

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place.
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Aden And The Indian Ocean Trade - 150 Years In The Life Of A Medieval Arabian Port

by Roxani Eleni Margariti

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 Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs. Roxani Eleni Margariti examines the ways in which physical space and urban institutions developed to serve and harness the commercial potential presented by the city's strategic location.
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Politics Of Knowledge In Premodern Islam - Negotiating Ideology And Religious Inquiry

by Omid Safi

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 Scholars, saints, and the state.
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Everyday Islamic Law And The Making Of Modern South Asia

by Elizabeth Lhost

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 Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal change. The rich archive of unpublished fatwa files, qazi notebooks, and legal documents they left behind chronicles their efforts to make Islamic law relevant for everyday life.
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China'S Muslims And Japan'S Empire - Centering Islam In World War Ii

by Kelly A. Hammond

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 In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Hammond shows how imperial Japanese aimed to defeat the Chinese Nationalists in winning the hearts and minds of Sino-Muslims, a vital minority population.
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Muhammad'S Body - Baraka Networks And The Prophetic Assemblage

by Michael Muhammad Knight

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 Analysing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad's body as they emerge in Sunni hadith and sira from the eighth to the eleventh centuries, Michael Muhammad Knight argues that early Muslims' theories and imaginings about Muhammad's body contributed in significant ways to the construction of prophetic masculinity and authority.
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In A Pure Muslim Land - Shi''Ism Between Pakistan And The Middle East

by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this â€œLand of the Pureâ€.
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Religion As Critique - Islamic Critical Thinking From Mecca To The Marketplace

by Irfan Ahmad

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 Makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam - indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions.
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Modernism On The Nile - Art In Egypt Between The Islamic And The Contemporary

by Alex Dika Seggerman

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 Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism.
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Hashtag Islam - How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority

by Gary R. Bunt

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 Gary R. Bunt is a twenty-year pioneer in the study of cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs). In this new book, he explores the diverse and surprising ways digital technology is shaping how Muslims across vast territories relate to religious authorities in fulfilling spiritual, mystical, and legalistic agendas.
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Muslim Pilgrimage In The Modern World

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 Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional practices, is changing in an age characterized by commerce, technology, and new sociocultural and political frameworks.
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When Sun Meets Moon - Gender, Eros, And Ecstasy In Urdu Poetry

by Scott Kugle

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 The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture.
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Call Of Bilal - Islam In The African Diaspora

by Edward E. Curtis Iv

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam? The Call of Bilal is a penetrating account of the rich diversity of Islamic religious practice among Africana Muslims worldwide. Covering North Africa and the Middle East, India and Pakistan, Europe, and the Americas, Edward E. Curtis IV reveals a fascinating range of religious activities.
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Who Is Muhammad?

by Michael Muhammad Knight

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 Combining insights from the best published historical and religious studies scholarship, original research, and rich first-person perspective, this highly readable book offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the founder and central figure of the Islamic tradition: the prophet Muhammad.
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