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Akbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, makes this statesman both accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before.
Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 1997
Category : India
ISBN : 9780415149662
Akbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, makes this statesman both accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before.
Author : Akbar Ahmed
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815727593
An unprecedented, richly, detailed, and clear-eyed exploration of Islam in European history and civilization Tensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and female dress. Meanwhile, the parallel rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties throughout the continent, often espousing anti-Muslim rhetoric, has shaken the foundation of the European Union to its very core. Many Europeans see Islam as an alien, even barbaric force that threatens to overwhelm them and their societies. Muslims, by contrast, struggle to find a place in Europe in the face of increasing intolerance. In tandem, anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination cause many on the continent to feel unwelcome in their European homes. Akbar Ahmed, an internationally renowned Islamic scholar, traveled across Europe over the course of four years with his team of researchers and interviewed Muslims and non-Muslims from all walks of life to investigate questions of Islam, immigration, and identity. They spoke with some of Europe’s most prominent figures, including presidents and prime ministers, archbishops, chief rabbis, grand muftis, heads of right-wing parties, and everyday Europeans from a variety of backgrounds. Their findings reveal a story of the place of Islam in European history and civilization that is more interwoven and complex than the reader might imagine, while exposing both the misunderstandings and the opportunities for Europe and its Muslim communities to improve their relationship. Along with an analysis of what has gone wrong and why, this urgent study, the fourth in a quartet examining relations between the West and the Muslim world, features recommendations for promoting integration and pluralism in the twenty-first century.
Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134870493
An insightful examination of how general global processes are affecting Muslims everywhere, and the way in which these processes are moulded by particular local cultural, political, and economic configurations.
Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134495439
This accessible work balances the image of Islam as aggressive and fanatical with an objective picture of the main features of Muslim history and the compulsions of Muslim society.
Author : M. A. Sherif
Publisher : Searching for Solace
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789839154009
This is the first detailed account of the life and ideas of 'Abdullah Yusuf 'Ali, whose The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is the most widely used English translation of the Qur'an. This is a candid and sympathetic study that draw on Yusuf 'Ali's writings and private papers, as well as unpublished sources.
Author : David Page
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 1999
Category : India
ISBN : 9780195645903
This volume traces the changes in the Muslim League from 1920 to 1932. It does not seek to question the part played by religion in the formation of Pakistan, but concentrates on the formal structure of politics during this period.
Author : Fatima Jinnah
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Statesmen
ISBN :
Author : Kumari Jayawardena
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 1996-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781856494489
Embodied Violence is a major investigation into the myriad of ways in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity on women's bodies. Focusing on communal violence, it explores how such violence reconfigures women's experiences, facilitates the formation of particular identities and the dissemination of specific ideologies and how it positions women vis-a-vis their communities as well as the State. A distinguished cast of contributors explores the relationship between ideals of motherhood, tradition, community and racial purity, and uncovers the ways in which women's bodies become the recording surface of repressive cultural practices and symbolic humiliations.
Author : Ralph Russell
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 1968
Category :
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Author : Farzana Shaikh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0190929111
Pakistan's transformation from supposed model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist takeover has been remarkable. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's controversial partnership with the United States since 9/11; others see it as a consequence of Pakistan's long history of authoritarian rule, which has marginalized liberal opinion and allowed the rise of a religious right. Farzana Shaikh argues the country's decline is rooted primarily in uncertainty about the meaning of Pakistan and the significance of 'being Pakistani'. This has pre-empted a consensus on the role of Islam in the public sphere and encouraged the spread of political Islam. It has also widened the gap between personal piety and public morality, corrupting the country's economic foundations and tearing apart its social fabric. More ominously still, it has given rise to a new and dangerous symbiosis between the country's powerful armed forces and Muslim extremists. Shaikh demonstrates how the ideology that constrained Indo-Muslim politics in the years leading to Partition in 1947 has left its mark, skillfully deploying insights from history to better understand Pakistan's troubled present.