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Authority, Privacy and Public Order in Islam


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This book contains selected papers delivered during the 22nd Congress of L'Union Europenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, held in Poland, from 29th September to 4th October 2004. The proceedings have been arranged into four thematic sections: (1) Theology and Philosophy, (2) Literature, (3) History of State and Society, and (4) Philology and Linguistics, though quite a number of the papers were of an interdisciplinary character. The authors of the 37 publications presented in this volume represent the international academic community and present in their articles the results of the latest research and studies into the areas touching on history, culture, literature, religion and art to mention a few. They constitute various attempts to answer the following questions: What is the meaning of Authority? and What is the place of the individual in Society? The book is essential source reading for specialists and students. This book is also recommended to all those who wish to become better acquainted with the problems and issues of the Arab-Muslim world.










Conflict and Coexistence


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This volume comprises nineteen papers presented at the 29th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants at the University of Münster, Germany in September 2018. The articles focus on a variety of phenomena from premodern and modern Islamicate cultures and societies. They are organized in sections on Sciences, Literature and Linguistics, Islamic Law, Theology and Philosophy, History and Society and Material Culture. The variety of approaches to the sources and methods employed represents the width of European research in this field. Thus, the volume provides an easy access to the newest European scholarship on the Islamicate Near and Middle East.




Islam and Globalisation


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This volume contains the Proceedings of the 25th Congress of the 'Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants' (Naples, September 8-12, 2010) on 'Islam and Globalisation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives'. Besides a general view on globalisation and the history of the Union on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the contributions concern History, Islam, Islamic Law, Literature & Linguistics, Travel, Philosophy & Science and Art.




Contacts and Interaction


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The Proceedings of the 27th congress of the Union Europ�enne des Arabisants et Islamisants (Helsinki, Finland, June 2-6, 2014) contain forty-three scholarly articles on various aspects of the Islamic world from late antiquity to modernity. The scholarly focus of most contributions is the medieval Muslim civilisation. In addition to the Arabic cultural sphere, the Persian and Turkish regions and sources are represented in this collection of articles. The studies discuss social, political, literary, religious and cultural history. The variety of approaches to the sources and methods employed shows the width of European research on the Arab-Islamic culture. This volume provides an easy access to the newest European scholarship on the Middle East.