Islam, Modernity, Violence, and Everyday Life

Informationen zum Autor AHMAD ATIF AHMAD is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Klappentext This book offers a better insight into the comparison of Western and Islamic cultures, with studies that address the issues of Islam and modernity, violence in Islamic law and history, and respect for individuals' privacy in Islamic cultures. Zusammenfassung This book offers a better insight into the comparison of Western and Islamic cultures! with studies that address the issues of Islam and modernity! violence in Islamic law and history! and respect for individuals' privacy in Islamic cultures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Theoretical Considerations On the Cusp of Modernity: Reading Ibn 'Abidin of Damascus (1784-1836) Egyptian Society in the Writings of Muhammad al-Abbasi al-Mahdi (1827-1897) Social Custom as a Source of Law in Modern Muslim Societies War Apostasy The Right to Privacy Incommensurable Values?

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Theoretical Considerations On the Cusp of Modernity: Reading Ibn 'Abidin of Damascus (1784-1836) Egyptian Society in the Writings of Muhammad al-Abbasi al-Mahdi (1827-1897) Social Custom as a Source of Law in Modern Muslim Societies War Apostasy The Right to Privacy Incommensurable Values?

Product details

• Authors: A Ahmad, A. Ahmad, Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Ahmad Ahmad Atif
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2009
• EAN: 9780230609846
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60984-6
• No. of pages: 221
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Soziologie, Islam, B, Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften, Sociology of Religion, Sociology, Writing, auseinandersetzen, Philosophy of religion, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Religion and sociology, Social groups: religious groups and communities