Download or read book Universalism and Particularism in Islam written by M. Alam and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: A, National Islamic University (CSCRC), course: MPhil, language: English, abstract: I would like to discuss about historical continuity, global changes and symbolic connections. In the construction of modern Muslim identities there is a striking degree of historical structural continuity. In some cases, contemporary Islamic states and Islamic religious movements are simply the direct continuations of past ones. In the shaping of the modern Islamic world there have been two contradictory trends: the trend toward global integration, which favors universalistic Islam and the trend toward the consolidation of national states, which favors the particularization or localization of Islam.
Download or read book Toward an Historical Islam written by Edward Earl Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Muslim Community in North America written by Earle H. Waugh and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1983 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of fifteen studies addressed to the relatively recent phenomenon of Muslims residing in North America, their adaptation to an often alien way of life, as well as the problem the larger North American community faces in not only accepting but also benefiting from the existence of this new group. Most of the papers were presented at a symposium on Islam in North America, held at the University of Alberta from May 27 to 31, 1980. In this book the studies are grouped under six major headings: "Islam and the Modern World," "Muslims in North America: Dynamics of Growth," "Muslim Immigrant Communities: Identity and Adaptation," "Islam and the Educational Establishment," "Indigenous Muslims," and "Statements from within the Tradition." It is an excellent introduction to a subject of great interest, fraught with problems and needing further in-depth research.
Download or read book The Universalism of Islam written by Aliran (Association) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islam in Black America written by Edward E. Curtis IV and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the most prominent figures in African-American Islam have been dismissed as Muslim heretics and cultists. Focusing on the works of five of these notable figures—Edward W. Blyden, Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Wallace D. Muhammad—author Edward E. Curtis IV examines the origin and development of modern African-American Islamic thought. Curtis notes that intellectual tensions in African-American Islam parallel those of Islam throughout its history—most notably, whether Islam is a religion for a particular group of people or whether it is a religion for all people. In the African-American context, such tensions reflect the struggle for black liberation and the continuing reconstruction of black identity. Ultimately, Curtis argues, the interplay of particular and universal interpretations of the faith can allow African-American Islam a vision that embraces both a specific group of people and all people.
Download or read book Rethinking Jewish Philosophy written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.
Download or read book Religious Particularism vs Religious Universalism written by Zoran Matevski and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of globalization means that borders between societies are becoming less important, and socio-cultural developments in certain societies are increasingly influenced by events from other parts of the world. This creates two opposing social effects. On the one hand, there is a risk of clashes between different religions, which are present within a social community. On the other hand, these close contacts among different religions may diminish differences among them, and thus reduce tensions and conflicts. This book explores the conflict between particularism and universalism. Particularism emphasizes the importance of the characteristics of particular social groups; ethnic, cultural, religious, and regional. Unlike particularism, universalism emphasizes the importance of similarities among people and systems of values in individual societies. The authors in this collection address some of the important issues at the interface of particularism and universalism, including the role of religion as a mitigator of the influence of global processes; fundamentalism as a form of collective identity; and the idea of ecumenism and neo-ecumenism as myth or reality. An important collection for scholars and researchers in religion and faith, politics, and globalization.
Download or read book The Universality of Islam written by Abdallah H. Kahtany and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the following chapters of this book, Islamic principles of equality, tolerance, solutions to problems facing humanity and position towards sciences and advancements will be compared to a number of contemporary ideologies and religions that may aspire for universality. The last chapter concludes with some of the major inherent principles of Islam as part and parcel of its teachings for the betterment of humanity. - Introduction.
Download or read book Particularism and Universalism in Modern Jewish Thought written by Svante Lundgren and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.
Download or read book Islamic Universalism written by Shafiq Ali Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research offers a new lens through which al-al-Biruni's scholarship can be perceived. It provides an understanding of his broader analytical framework which has hitherto only been alluded to in passing by such persons the likes of Rosenthal and Lawrence among others. Drawing from a textual analysis of al-Bīrūnī's works ranging from his earliest to last, the thesis maps and attempts to give body to the pervading quality of universalism intrinsic to the corpus al-Birunicum. The study engages al-Biruni from three distinct yet necessarily interrelated trajectories. We begin with the socio-historical whereby we argue that al-Biruni approached the study of the Hindu civilisation not as a reaction to the political strategy pursued by Sultan Maḥmūd, but more so as a means to provide an Islamic intellectual understanding of Hinduism to learned Muslims. In this, we conclude that the interpretations of Sultan Maḥmūd's governance, especially towards the Hindus has coloured the ways in which al-Bīrūnī and his Kitāb al-Hind have been understood, and that for the most part, the far majority of historical representations of Sultan Maḥmūd have had significant political overtones culminating in a strategic misapprehension of Maḥmūd and by extension al-Bīrūnī. Following this, the thesis examines the axiological bases and theological foundations for a case of Islamic universalism from al-Biruni's scholarship. Here, we argue that within the broader theme of axiology, al-Biruni's deontological discourse in the introduction of his Kitab al-Hind was unprecedented in the study of religion and civilisations, and represents a truly Islamic spirit to civilisational expansion. The thesis concludes by extending the same set of eudemonic values that emphasise the moral courage to accept reason over desire to an aspect of al-Biruni's engagement with the scientific enterprise. Through a distinction between astronomy and astrology coupled with al-Biruni's criticism of Aristotelian astral physics, the thesis argues that the language of neutral science is an important aspect in any discourse on universalism. In this discussion, a preliminary case for an Islamic humanism is argued. Not only do we believe that this thesis will encourage a new perspective on how al-Bīrūnī and the Islamic civilisation is understood, it has a clear relevance to contemporary issues, especially those troubling the West, concerning cultural integration, immigration, and conflict management, among others.
Download or read book Islamic Modernism and the Re Enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History written by Monica M. Ringer and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the complex relationship of religion to modernity and argues that modernity should be understood as the consequence, not the cause, of the new intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Shows how the adoption of historicism in the 19th century engendered Islamic modernism as a theological reform movement.
Download or read book Particularism and Universalism in the Book of Isaiah written by Se-Hoon Jang and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a critical assessment of the two contested issues, religious pluralism and iconoclasm, from a Korean perspective by looking at a number of Isaiah's central themes, which can be identified as particularistic and universalistic. It also seeks to elucidate the contemporary implications of Isaiah's particularistic and universalistic themes for a pluralistic world, especially for Korean religious communities, which have been overwhelmed by a fiery debate about these issues.
Download or read book Islamic Civilisation and The Modern World written by Osman Bakar and published by ubd. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thematic treatment of Islamic civilisation. Each of the fourteen chapters comprising this book treats at least one of the major themes that are characteristic of this youngest religiously-based civilisation of the world. The author’s thematic approach is primarily meant to promote a better appreciation of the living nature of Islamic civilisation. The book’s content provides ample evidence that Islamic civilisation is not merely a passing historical phenomenon. The various themes it discusses clearly demonstrate the continuing relevance of Islamic civilisation to the present and future humanity.
Download or read book Islam Islam as religion and law written by Bryan S. Turner and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a study of Islamic thought and institutions that represents a critical introduction to the system of Islamic belief and practice from a social science perspective.
Download or read book Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law written by Anver M. Emon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing the rules governing the treatment of foreigners in Islam and situating them in their historical, political, and legal context, this book sets out a new framework for understanding these rules as part of a wider problem of governing through law amidst pluralism.
Download or read book Limits of Islamism written by Maidul Islam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the dynamics from the formation of Islamist politics for the struggle for hegemony to failure to become a hegemonic force in Bangladesh. The contradiction between Islamic universalism/Islamist populism, on one hand, and a politics of Muslim particularism in India, on the other, is revealed in this study.
Download or read book Islam vs Islamism written by Peter R. Demant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam vs. Islamism introduces the Islamic world's diversity, conflicts, and dilemmas—its origins, extraordinary creativity, and current crisis, the result of its unhappy encounter with Western modernity. Particular attention is given to Islamism, Islam's radically antimodern and often violent revision that is causing turmoil in the Middle East and beyond. Islam vs. Islamism introduces the reader to the Islamic world, to its diversity and conflicts, and to possible solutions to those conflicts. Steering clear of either Islamophilia or Muslim-bashing, yet avoiding blandness, Demant explains the origins of Islam, its history, and its position in today's world. After a period of extraordinary expansion and creativity, and a long sequel of decline, the Islamic world is now in deep crisis, caused by Islam's unhappy encounter with the West and its modernity. Islamic societies have tried a variety of approaches to escape from their predicament, but the result has only been to deepen Muslim powerlessness and Muslims' feelings of frustration. Then came Islamism (Islamic fundamentalism) with its revolutionary but antimodern proposal to refashion Muslim society after the Prophet's original model. Islamism has had unsettling results, first in Islam's heartlands, then along its multiple frontiers, and finally in confrontation with the West itself. Among the outcomes has been an ascending wave of terrorism. But violence is not the whole story. Extremism represents no more than a minority within Islam. Although co-existence with violent fundamentalists is a hopeless task, the questions Islamists raise are serious and evoke echoes in the hearts of many more Muslims. To prevent a war of civilizations, dialogue with the moderate majority of Muslims is more urgent than ever. This book is one step on that long road.
