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Author | : Benedikt Pontzen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108901506 |
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Drawing on empirical and archival research, this ethnography is an exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in Ghana's Asante region, demonstrating the interconnectedness of Islam with people's lives in a zongo community.
Author | : Benedikt Pontzen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108830242 |
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An exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in a zongo community in Ghana.
Author | : Mohammed Naseehu Ali |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005-07-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060523549 |
Download The Prophet of Zongo Street Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Prophet of Zongo Street is a dazzling collection of stories that calls to mind Ben Okri and Chinua Achebe. Mohammed Naseehu Ali, the tradition's acclaimed new practitioner, offers up ten powerful and beautifully rendered tales. Set primarily on the fictitious Zongo Street -- a close-knit community of wonderfully quirky characters who hold tight to superstition, religion, and family -- these stories are anchored by the uproarious, the embarrassing, the poignant, and the rawest moments of life.
Author | : Marc David Baer |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231551789 |
Download German, Jew, Muslim, Gay Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most prominent Muslims in Germany prior to World War II. He was renamed Israel by the Nazis and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before escaping to Switzerland. He was a gay man who never called himself gay but fought for homosexual rights and wrote queer fiction under the pen name Hans Alienus during his decades of exile. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle. Baer explores how Marcus created a unique synthesis of German, gay, and Muslim identity that positioned Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an intellectual and spiritual model. Marcus’s life offers a new perspective on sexuality and on competing conceptions of gay identity in the multilayered world of interwar and postwar Europe. His unconventional story reveals new aspects of the interconnected histories of Jewish and Muslim individuals and communities, including Muslim responses to Nazism and Muslim experiences of the Holocaust. An intellectual biography of an exceptional yet little-known figure, German, Jew, Muslim, Gay illuminates the complexities of twentieth-century Europe’s religious, sexual, and cultural politics.
Author | : Gudrun Krämer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 900414949X |
Download Speaking for Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. This work contains papers which highlight the scope and variety of religious authorities in Muslim societies.
Author | : Paul Baker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107310792 |
Download Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit or subtle? This book uses a detailed analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles on Muslims and Islam, combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis methods to produce an objective picture of media attitudes. The authors analyse representations around frequently cited topics such as Muslim women who wear the veil and 'hate preachers'. The analysis is self-reflexive and multidisciplinary, incorporating research on journalistic practices, readership patterns and attitude surveys to answer questions which include: what do journalists mean when they use phrases like 'devout Muslim' and how did the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks affect press reporting? This is a stimulating and unique book for those working in fields of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, while clear explanations of linguistic terminology make it valuable to those in the fields of politics, media studies, journalism and Islamic studies.
Author | : A. Kevin Reinhart |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2020-06-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108618642 |
Download Lived Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Does Islam make people violent? Does Islam make people peaceful? In this book, A. Kevin Reinhart demonstrates that such questions are misleading, because they assume that Islam is a monolithic essence and that Muslims are made the way they are by this monolith. He argues that Islam, like all religions, is complex and thus best understood through analogy with language: Islam has dialects, a set of features shared with other versions of Islam. It also has cosmopolitan elites who prescribe how Islam ought to be, even though these experts, depending on where they practice the religion, unconsciously reflect their own local dialects. Reinhart defines the distinctive features of Islam and investigates how modernity has created new conditions for the religion. Analyzing the similarities and differences between modern and pre-modern Islam, he clarifies the new and old in the religion as it is lived in the contemporary world.
Author | : Michael Cook |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2003-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139440888 |
Download Forbidding Wrong in Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Michael Cook's magisterial study in Islamic ethics, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, was published to much acclaim in 2001. It was described by one reviewer as a masterpiece. In that book, the author reflected on the Islamic injunction, incumbent on every Muslim, to forbid wrongdoing. The present book is a short, accessible survey of the same material. Using anecdotes and stories from Islamic sources to illustrate the argument, Cook unravels the complexities of the subject. Moving backwards and forwards through time, he demonstrates how the past informs the present. By the end, the reader will be familiar with a colourful array of characters from Islamic history ranging from the celebrated thinker Ghazzali, to the caliph Harun al-Rashid, to the Ayatollah Khumayni. The book educates and entertains - at its heart, however, is an important message about the Islamic tradition, its values, and the relevance of those values today.
Author | : Holger Weiss |
Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789171064813 |
Download Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Captures the theoretical and actual dimension of social welfare in selected African Islamic countries. Describes State involvement in the post-colonial period, the roles of pious foundations, Sufi orders, and NGOs.
Author | : John O. Hunwick |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780810112995 |
Download The Cloth of Many Colored Silks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of essays honouring African scholar Ivor Wilks.