Search Results - "Sufism"

Islam, Politics and Change : The Indonesian Experience after the Fall of Suharto /

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A millennium of Turkish literature a concise history / by Halman, Talât Sait

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: a time-honored literature -- Note on Turkish spelling and names -- The dawn in Asia -- Selçuk Sufism -- Ottoman glories -- Timeless tales -- Occidental orientation -- Republic and renascence -- Afterword: the future of Turkish literature.…”
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A millennium of Turkish literature a concise history / by Halman, Talât Sait

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: a time-honored literature -- Note on Turkish spelling and names -- The dawn in Asia -- Selçuk Sufism -- Ottoman glories -- Timeless tales -- Occidental orientation -- Republic and renascence -- Afterword: the future of Turkish literature.…”
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Muslim worldviews and everyday lives by El-Aswad, el-Sayed, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Worldview, geography, and ideology -- Muslim worldviews: unity and diversity -- The worldview of the Sunni -- The esoteric worldview of the Shi�a -- The mystic worldview of Sufism -- Muslim worldviews, imagination, and the dream world -- Multiple worldviews and multiple identities of the Muslim diaspora.…”
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Muslim worldviews and everyday lives by El-Aswad, el-Sayed, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Worldview, geography, and ideology -- Muslim worldviews: unity and diversity -- The worldview of the Sunni -- The esoteric worldview of the Shi�a -- The mystic worldview of Sufism -- Muslim worldviews, imagination, and the dream world -- Multiple worldviews and multiple identities of the Muslim diaspora.…”
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Shakespeare, the Orient, and the critics by Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's Orientalism and the reversal of stereotypes -- The Oriental framework of Romeo and Juliet -- Shakespeare's humanism: Hamlet, King Lear, and sufism -- Shakespeare and the Arabian nights -- Shakespeare and money -- Shakespeare's Roman world -- Method in the madness: success and failure of early Hamlet criticism.…”
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Shakespeare, the Orient, and the critics by Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's Orientalism and the reversal of stereotypes -- The Oriental framework of Romeo and Juliet -- Shakespeare's humanism: Hamlet, King Lear, and sufism -- Shakespeare and the Arabian nights -- Shakespeare and money -- Shakespeare's Roman world -- Method in the madness: success and failure of early Hamlet criticism.…”
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Producing desire changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / by Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Producing desire changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / by Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 / by Reese, Scott Steven

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a community of Muslims -- Hanuman's tunnel : collapsing the space between Hind and Arabia in the Arab imaginary -- Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean interests -- Claims to community : mosques, cemeteries and the universe -- "The Qadi is not a judge" : the Qadi's courts, community and authority -- "An innocent amusement" : marginality, spirit possession and the moral community -- Scripturalism, Sufism and the limits of defining public religiosity.…”
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Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 / by Reese, Scott Steven

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a community of Muslims -- Hanuman's tunnel : collapsing the space between Hind and Arabia in the Arab imaginary -- Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean interests -- Claims to community : mosques, cemeteries and the universe -- "The Qadi is not a judge" : the Qadi's courts, community and authority -- "An innocent amusement" : marginality, spirit possession and the moral community -- Scripturalism, Sufism and the limits of defining public religiosity.…”
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An introduction to Islam for Jews by Firestone, Reuven, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Jihad -- The range of practice among Muslims -- Sufism -- The shi'a -- Mosque and clergy -- The calendar -- The Muslim life-cycle -- Personal observance.…”
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An introduction to Islam for Jews by Firestone, Reuven, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Jihad -- The range of practice among Muslims -- Sufism -- The shi'a -- Mosque and clergy -- The calendar -- The Muslim life-cycle -- Personal observance.…”
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Islam and modernity key issues and debates /

Table of Contents: “…Islam, Modernity and the Politics of Gender: Perspectives from the Middle East, Central Asia and Afghanistan, Deniz Kandiyoti; 5. Sufism, 'Popular' Islam and the Encounter with Modernity, Martin van Bruinessen; 6. …”
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Islam and modernity key issues and debates /

Table of Contents: “…Islam, Modernity and the Politics of Gender: Perspectives from the Middle East, Central Asia and Afghanistan, Deniz Kandiyoti; 5. Sufism, 'Popular' Islam and the Encounter with Modernity, Martin van Bruinessen; 6. …”
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Histories of the Middle East studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch /

Table of Contents: “…Powers -- The view from the south : the maps of the book of curiosities and the commercial revolution of the eleventh century / Yossef Rapoport -- From artisan to courtier : sufism and social mobility in fifteenth-century Egypt / Adam Sabra -- Mini-dramas by the water : on irrigation rights and disputes in fifteenth-century Damascus / Boaz Shoshan -- Army economics : an early papyrus letter related to 'ata' payments / Petra M. …”
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Histories of the Middle East studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch /

Table of Contents: “…Powers -- The view from the south : the maps of the book of curiosities and the commercial revolution of the eleventh century / Yossef Rapoport -- From artisan to courtier : sufism and social mobility in fifteenth-century Egypt / Adam Sabra -- Mini-dramas by the water : on irrigation rights and disputes in fifteenth-century Damascus / Boaz Shoshan -- Army economics : an early papyrus letter related to 'ata' payments / Petra M. …”
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Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism : Dynamics in the West and in the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Fethulla Gülen, Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf al-Qaradawi : the pluralisation of Islamic knowledge / Erkan Toğuşlu ; Tariq Ramadan and Abdullahi An-Naʼim's Islamic gender reform in the Brussels Moroccan community / Thierry Limpens ; The contribution of Sufism to the construction of contemporary Europe's Islam / Eric Geoffroy -- Secularism, Islam and public sphere : Turkey and Egypt. …”
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Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism : Dynamics in the West and in the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Fethulla Gülen, Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf al-Qaradawi : the pluralisation of Islamic knowledge / Erkan Toğuşlu ; Tariq Ramadan and Abdullahi An-Naʼim's Islamic gender reform in the Brussels Moroccan community / Thierry Limpens ; The contribution of Sufism to the construction of contemporary Europe's Islam / Eric Geoffroy -- Secularism, Islam and public sphere : Turkey and Egypt. …”
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Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Bruce Elder -- Wax figures and anatomical models : the body unveiled -- Uneasy associations : wax bodies outside the canon / Catherine Heard -- What lies beneath : the female anatomy flap revealed / Linda Carreiro -- Buddhist and Sufi texts : deception and disguise in the spiritual journey -- Why must God show himself in disguise? an exploration of Sufism within Farid Attar's "The conference of the birds" / Rebekah Zwanzig -- Deception in Chinese Buddhist thinking : reflections from the Lotus Sūtra and the Vimalakīrti Sūtra / Anna Ghiglione.…”
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