Download or read book Orphans of Islam written by Jamila Bargach and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and 'excluded body' of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of 'adoption,' which too often is considered a panacea. Through a close and historically grounded reading of legal, social, and cultural mechanisms of one predominantly Islamic country, Jamila Bargach shows how 'the surplus bastard body' is created by mainstream society. Written in part from the perspectives of the children and single mothers, intermittently from the view of 'adopting' families, and employing bastardy as a haunting and empowering motif with a potentially subversive edge, this ethnography is composed as an intricate, open-ended, and arabesque-like evocation of Moroccan society and its state institutions. It equally challenges received sociological and anthropological tropes and understandings of the Arab world.
Download or read book Orphans of Islam written by Jamila Bargach and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and 'excluded body' of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of 'adoption, ' which too often is considered a panacea. Through a close and historically grounded reading of legal, social, and cultural mechanisms of one predominantly Islamic country, Jamila Bargach shows how 'the surplus bastard body' is created by mainstream society. Written in part from the perspectives of the children and single mothers, intermittently from the view of 'adopting' families, and employing bastardy as a haunting and empowering motif with a potentially subversive edge, this ethnography is composed as an intricate, open-ended, and arabesque-like evocation of Moroccan society and its state institutions. It equally challenges received sociological and anthropological tropes and understandings of the Arab world
Download or read book Orphan of Islam written by Alexander Khan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I've told you before, and I will tell you again, if you are unable to read the Holy Book you will be punished.” The teacher’s face was a mask of anger. “Understand?”
Download or read book The Orphan Scandal written by Beth Baron and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led to a beating—and to the end of most foreign missions in Egypt—and contributed to the rise of Islamist organizations. Turkiyya Hasan left the Swedish Salaam Mission with scratches on her legs and a suitcase of evidence of missionary misdeeds. Her story hit a nerve among Egyptians, and news of the beating quickly spread through the country. Suspicion of missionary schools, hospitals, and homes increased, and a vehement anti-missionary movement swept the country. That missionaries had won few converts was immaterial to Egyptian observers: stories such as Turkiyya's showed that the threat to Muslims and Islam was real. This is a great story of unintended consequences: Christian missionaries came to Egypt to convert and provide social services for children. Their actions ultimately inspired the development of the Muslim Brotherhood and similar Islamist groups. In The Orphan Scandal, Beth Baron provides a new lens through which to view the rise of Islamic groups in Egypt. This fresh perspective offers a starting point to uncover hidden links between Islamic activists and a broad cadre of Protestant evangelicals. Exploring the historical aims of the Christian missions and the early efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood, Baron shows how the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist associations developed alongside and in reaction to the influx of missionaries. Patterning their organization and social welfare projects on the early success of the Christian missions, the Brotherhood launched their own efforts to "save" children and provide for the orphaned, abandoned, and poor. In battling for Egypt's children, Islamic activists created a network of social welfare institutions and a template for social action across the country—the effects of which, we now know, would only gain power and influence across the country in the decades to come.
Download or read book Children of Islam written by A. Gil'adi and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of the first comprehensive research, carried out within the framework of Islamic Studies, on childhood in medieval Muslim society. It deals with the images of children, with adults' attitudes towards them, and with concepts of childhood as reflected in legal, theological, philosophical, ethical and medical writings as well as works of belles lettres. The studies included in this volume are based on the historical-philological methodology enriched by a comparative approach towards the subject.
Download or read book Children of Dust written by Ali Eteraz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary personal journey from Islamic fundamentalism to a new life in the west In this spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine, Ali Eteraz tells the story of his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan, his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and his voyage back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife. This lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity and the temptations of religious extremism.
Download or read book Children of Abraham written by Khalid Duran and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book, developed with a grant from the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Institute for Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee, is a stepping stone to dialogue. Descended from a common ancestor, Jews and Muslims share a special relationship and practice religions that exhibit remarkable moral and theological resemblance. But most Jews know little about Islam. Professor Khalid Duran presents the majesty of Islam, its history and culture, but neither ignores nor rationalizes its more problematic aspects. His book offers an insightful and forthright treatment of the varieties of Muslim fundamentalism, Islamism and Jihadism. It offers a candid analysis of the status of women in Muslim belief and practice, as well as an unsentimental assessment of the historical treatment of minorities in Islamic societies. A publication of the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee.
Download or read book Islam s Attitude Towards Women and Orphans written by C. A. Soorma and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uthman Ibn Affan The Third Caliph of Islam Goodword written by Saniyasnain Khan and published by Goodword Books. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uthman Ibn Affan (ra), the third Caliph of Islam ruled for twelve years, the longest among the rightly guided Caliphs. During his rule people became economically more prosperous and he further undertook such activities and projects which also improved their overall quality of life. He was a peace loving, liberal and kind hearted ruler. Uthman Ibn Affan (ra), had all the qualities of the good Muslim but his generosity and modesty stood out. He was the richest person among the Quraish but he spent most of his wealth in the well being of his people and in the cause of Islam. In particular he helped the orphans and the widows. In spite of being rich and powerful he was extremely humble and lived a simple life. Uthman Ibn Affan (ra), was very religious and a man of principles and whatever might be the circumstances he never compromised with his beliefs and principles. Thrice he received the glad tidings of Paradise from the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
Download or read book Bringing Up Children In Islam written by Maulana Habibullah Mukhtar and published by khalid siddiqui. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minding their Place written by Antonia Bosanquet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minding Their Place Antonia Bosanquet analyses the relevance of space to Ibn al-Qayyim’s (d. 751/1350) rulings about non-Muslim subjects in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma. She shows how his definition of their social role develops his theological view of inter-religious relations.
Download or read book What The Koran Really Says written by and published by Manas Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam Has Worldwide Influence, And Even In The United States Is Experiencing A Period Of Unprecedented Growth. Islam And Its Sacred Book, The Koran, Have Been The Subject Of Voluminous Commentary And, Recently, Great Popular Interest; Yet It Has Rarely Received The Kind Of Objective Critical Scrutiny That Has Been Applied To The Texts Of The Bible For More Than A Century.Though Some Scholars Of Note Have Raised Crucial Questions About The Authenticity And Reliability Of The Koran And Muslim Tradition, Koranic Studies By And Large Have Failed To Take Advantage Of Critical Skeptical Methodologies. Today The Majority Of Interpreters Of Islam S Sacred Text Appear Content To Lie In The Procrustean Bed Prepared By Muslim Tradition More Than A Thousand Years Ago.
Download or read book Guidelines For Raising Children written by and published by Darussalam. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam places great emphasis on the child, right from infancy to the age of puberty. The reason for this is to prepare him to become a good member of the community. Children learn more by example than by words. Telling our children what to do and not showing them by a good example is a hypocritical act and drives children to confusion and away from us. It is for this reason we are presenting this booklet as a guideline for those parents who are concerned about their present and future offspring
Download or read book Orphans Property and the Judicial Treasury in Medieval Islam written by Evan McKibbin Metzger and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of Muslim legal institutions dedicated to preserving and investing the property of orphans in Egypt and Syria in the Islamic Middle Period. These institutions coalesced into centralized treasuries under the control of the judiciary in Cairo and Damascus and accumulated enough resources to fund large-scale military campaigns. In Cairo, this institution was known as the mūda' al-ḥukm; in Damascus, it was called the dīwān al-aytām or makhzan al-aytām. Orphans' property rights were the subject of legislation since the Ancient Period in the Near East and a significant topic in both the Qur'an and early Arabic poetry. Although the emergence of Islamic legal texts played a central role in the creation of legal practices for preserving and investing orphans' property studied in this dissertation, an analysis of Arabic chronicles and prosopography indicates that the creation and perpetuation of the judicial treasuries in Cairo and Damascus was a product of the efforts of both political rulers and Muslim jurists and judges. The eventual decline in the fortunes of these institutions in the early 15th century A.D. was due to the combination of the economic woes of the Mamluk Sultanate and the adoption of alternative, diffuse methods of preserving and investing orphans' property. These alternative methods relied less on the centralized political power of the state but, rather, on networks of trust and authoritative fixed-texts of law. The employment of decentralized legal practices was facilitated by the increasing authority of particular legal texts favored by the legal school (madhhab). A study of Shāfi'ī legal commentaries on some of the most important texts of positive law (furū') shows that Muslim jurists in the Mamluk Period nevertheless continued to authorize divergent legal opinions within chapters on ḥajr, which is the chapter that that most explicitly discusses orphans and their property. Thus, gradual change and innovation was countenanced within the framework of a relatively stable set of widely-recognized rules regarding the preservation and investment of orphans' property.
Download or read book Greater Sins written by Abdul Husain Dastghaib and published by Al-Burāq. This book was released on 2004 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books describes the greatest sins according to Islam. Written by Ayatollah Dastghaib Shirazi, it's easy to understand and insightful to the reader.
Download or read book Bringing Up Children in Islam written by M. M. H. Mukhtar and published by Adam Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children written by Nadjma Yassari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains selected contributions presented during the workshop “Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?”, which was convened in Beirut, Lebanon in November 2017. Filiation is a multifaceted concept in Muslim jurisdictions. Beyond its legal aspect, it encompasses the notion of inclusion and belonging, thereby holding significant social implications. Being the child of someone, carrying one’s father’s name, and inheriting from both parents form important pillars of personal identity. This volume explores filiation (nasab) and alternative forms of a full parent-child relationship in Muslim jurisdictions. Eleven country reports ranging from Morocco to Malaysia examine how maternal and paternal filiation is established – be it by operation of the law, by the parties’ exercise of autonomy, such as acknowledgement, or by scientific means, DNA testing in particular – and how lawmakers, courts, and society at large view and treat children who fall outside those legal structures, especially children born out of wedlock or under dubious circumstances. In a second step, alternative care schemes in place for the protection of parentless children are examined and their potential to recreate a legal parent-child relationship is discussed. In addition to the countr y-specific analyses included in this book, three further contributions explore the subject matter from perspectives of premodern Sunni legal doctrine, premodern Shiite legal doctrine and the private international law regimes of contemporary Arab countries. Finally, a comparative analysis of the themes explored is presented in the synopsis at the end of this volume. The book is aimed at scholars in the fields of Muslim family law and comparative family law and is of high practical relevance to legal practitioners working in the area of international child law. Nadjma Yassari is Leader of the Research Group “Changes in God’s Law: An Inner-Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law” at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law while Lena-Maria Möller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute and a member of the same Research Group. Marie-Claude Najm is a Professor in the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Saint Joseph University of Beirut in Lebanon and Director of the Centre of Legal Studies and Research for the Arab World (CEDROMA).
