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  • An Intellectual Biography of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari

    by Katajun Amirpur ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    This monograph details the life and ideas of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari, the leading representative of secular Islam among the Iranian clergy and a pioneer of the Post-Islamist Movements in Iran.Shabestari stands as the leading representative of secular Islam among the Iranian clergy, advocating for a progressive interpretation of Islamic thought that aligns with modern secular values. This ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • New Thinking in Islam

    The Jihad for Democracy, Freedom and Women’s Rights

    by Katajun Amirpur ...
    In Rethinking Islam, Katajun Amirpur argues that the West’s impression of Islam as a backward-looking faith, resistant to post-Enlightenment thinking, is misleading and—due to its effects on political discourse—damaging. Introducing readers to key thinkers and activists—such as Abu Zaid, a free-thinking Egyptian Qur’an scholar; Abdolkarim Soroush, an academic and former member of Khomeini’s ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Gender and Religious Leadership

    Women Rabbis, Pastors, and Ministers

    by Hartmut Bomhoff, Stefanie Sinclair, Katajun Amirpur, Judith Frishman, Karla Goldman, Renate Jost, Yael Kupferberg, Pamela Nadell, Esther Seidel, Marie-Theres Wacker0, Elisa Klapheck1, Denise L. Eger3, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso4, Katharina von Kellenbach5, Gail Twersky Reimer6, Kathy Ehrensperger8, Walter Homolka9, Shuly Rubin Schwartz1 ...
    This volume analyzes historical and recent developments in female religious leadership and the larger issues shaping the scholarly debate at the intersection of gender and religious studies. Jewish activism and scholarship have been crucial in linking theology and gender issues since the early twentieth century. Academic and vocational leadership and training have had significant, concrete impact ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

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  • Reopening Muslim Minds

    A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance

    by Mustafa Akyol ...
    A fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an "Islamic Enlightenment" todayIn Reopening Muslim Minds, Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times, both diagnoses "the crisis of Islam" in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • What Is Islam?

    The Importance of Being Islamic

    by Shahab Ahmed ...
    A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversityWhat is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Key Themes for the Study of Islam

    by Jamal J. Elias ...
    "Key Themes for the Study of Islam" examines the central themes and concepts indispensable to an informed understanding of Islamic religion and society. From Gender and History to Prayer and Prophecy, each authoritative chapter focuses on a single aspect of the religion and presents a critical discussion written by a world expert in that field. Exposing as false the idea that Islam and Muslims are ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Women Embracing Islam

    Gender and Conversion in the West

    Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk ...
    Many Westerners view Islam as a religion that restricts and subordinates women in both private and public life. Yet a surprising number of women in Western Europe and America are converting to Islam. What attracts these women to a belief system that is markedly different from both Western Christianity and Western secularism? What benefits do they gain by converting, and what are the costs? How do ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Muslim Brotherhood

    Hasan al-Hudaybi and ideology

    by Barbara Zollner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Political Islam
    The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most influential Islamist organisations today. Based in Egypt, its network includes branches in many countries of the Near and Middle East. Although the organisation has been linked to political violence in the past, it now proposes a politically moderate ideology.The book provides an in-depth analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood during the years of al-Hudaybi’s ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

    A New Cultural Synthesis for Muslims in the West

    by Mohamed Wa Baile ...
    In todays ever-changing and often uncertain world, encouraging healthy dialogue between all cultures and religions is vital. In Beyond the Clash of Civilizations, Mohamed Wa Baile carefully explores how Muslims and people of other faiths can achieve a peaceful coexistence instead of being victims of conflict.Wa Baile, a follower and practitioner of Islamic religion, has had the privilege of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy

    Classical and Modern Interpretations

    by Yaser Ellethy ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy aspires to clarify the tensions and congruences between the revelational and the rational, the text and the context, the limits and the horizons of contextualization in Islam, as these emanate from the Islamic interpretative tradition.This book examines classical and modern Muslim interpretations with regard to the concepts of diachronic development, ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Islam's Predicament with Modernity

    Religious Reform and Cultural Change

    by Bassam Tibi ...
    Islam's Predicament with Modernity presents an in-depth cultural and political analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved.Looking at the issue of modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author examines the role of culture and religion in Muslim society under conditions of globalisation, and analyses issues ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Construction of Belief

    Reflections on the Thought of Mohammed Arkoun

    Edited by Aziz Esmail, Abdou Filali-Ansary ...
    Mohammed Arkoun was one of the most prominent and influential Arab intellectuals of his day. During a career spanning more than thirty years, he was revered as an outstanding research scholar, a bold critic of the theoretical tensions embedded within Islamic Studies and an outspoken public figure, upholding political, social and cultural modernism. This Festschrift honours Arkoun AZs scholarship, ... Read more

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