[PDF] Islam And Western Society eBook

Author : Antony Black
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :

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This comparative history of political thought examines what the Western and Islamic approaches to politics had in common and where they diverged. It throws light on why the West and Islam each developed their own particular kind of approach to government, politics, and the state, and on why these approaches are so different.

Author : Thomas W. Simons
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804748330

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A former U.S. ambassador and author of The End of the Cold War? takes readers on a tour of Islamic history, reconstructing the complex historical and geopolitical trends that have created modern Islam. Simultaneous. (Islam)

Author : A. Tyler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230612040

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This book provides an honest assessment of the contemporary relationship between Western and Islamic cultures and puts forth the cross-cultural idea of tolerance as one invaluable approach for affecting peaceful coexistence.

Author : Markus Dressler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134105746

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This book examines the development of Sufi movements that have migrated from their place of origin to become global religious networks.

Author : Mohammed Jabar
Publisher : Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1861513003

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ÿSince its origins in the deserts of Arabia fourteen centuries ago, Islam has grown until today it has one and a half billion followers, nearly a quarter of mankind. Today Islam is feared and distrusted by much of the Western world for its association with religious extremism and terrorism, although the vast majority of Muslims believe only in peace, love and service to Allah and assert that extremism has no place in their faith.

Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1994-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 019028238X

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Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe. Eminent French historian Robert Mantran has written of Lewis's work: "How could one resist being attracted to the books of an author who opens for you the doors of an unknown or misunderstood universe, who leads you within to its innermost domains: religion, ways of thinking, conceptions of power, culture--an author who upsets notions too often fixed, fallacious, or partisan." In Islam and the West, Bernard Lewis brings together in one volume eleven essays that indeed open doors to the innermost domains of Islam. Lewis ranges far and wide in these essays. He includes long pieces, such as his capsule history of the interaction--in war and peace, in commerce and culture--between Europe and its Islamic neighbors, and shorter ones, such as his deft study of the Arabic word watan and what its linguistic history reveals about the introduction of the idea of patriotism from the West. Lewis offers a revealing look at Edward Gibbon's portrait of Muhammad in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (unlike previous writers, Gibbon saw the rise of Islam not as something separate and isolated, nor as a regrettable aberration from the onward march of the church, but simply as a part of human history); he offers a devastating critique of Edward Said's controversial book, Orientalism; and he gives an account of the impediments to translating from classic Arabic to other languages (the old dictionaries, for one, are packed with scribal errors, misreadings, false analogies, and etymological deductions that pay little attention to the evolution of the language). And he concludes with an astute commentary on the Islamic world today, examining revivalism, fundamentalism, the role of the Shi'a, and the larger question of religious co-existence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. A matchless guide to the background of Middle East conflicts today, Islam and the West presents the seasoned reflections of an eminent authority on one of the most intriguing and little understood regions in the world.