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Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives
Islam and Its History2018 •
Today there are over one and a half billion Muslims worldwide, making it, after Christianity, the second largest religion on the planet. The story of how a world view developed by desert nomads on the Arabian Peninsula in the sixth century CE went on to become such a major international religion is a complicated story. The present chapter seeks to tell this story with an eye to understanding the great diversity that today exists in the Muslim world. This diversity is the direct result of Muhammad’s original message as subsequently developed and expanded by later generations in response to various social, legal, religious, intellectual, and cultural needs. As Islam spread into new areas, the combination of received or inherited religious teachings and the various cultural expressions found in those areas created new and diverse Islamic expressions. While not wanting to draw a strict separation between Islam, the religion, and the cultures in which it may be found, it is important to acknowledge that, wishes of some conservative groups to the contrary, there is no one way to understand Islam or even fixed normativity. If this is true even today, it was even more the case in the early period as the immediate generations following Muhammad struggled to understand and codify his teachings. There existed – and continue to exist – many types of Muslim groups and communities, all of whom have constructed identities for themselves based on their particular understanding of the tradition. All of these diverse identities, however, legitimate and authenticate themselves based on their self-proclaimed ability to channel what their followers believe to be the originary message of the Prophet Muhammad. Because of this, any attempt to understand Islam must involve an appreciation of both its religious teachings and an awareness of its diverse cultural forms. Islam today exists not just on the Arabian Peninsula but in Africa, South Asia, Europe, the Americas, and beyond. How Islam arrived in all these diverse places is a historical question, whereas how Islam is understood and practices in these diverse locales is primarily a cultural one.
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Quote as : Salvatore, Armando, Johann P. Arnason, Roberto Tottoli, and Babak Rahimi. 2018. “Introduction: The Formation and Transformations of the Islamic Ecumene,” in The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam, ed. Armando Salvatore, Roberto Tottoli and Babak Rahimi, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell (with Johann P. Arnason, Babak Rahimi, and Roberto Tottoli), 1-35. This is the Introduction to a theoretically rich, nuanced history of Islam and Islamic civilization with a unique sociological component. This major new reference work offers a complete historical and theoretically informed view of Islam as both a religion and a sociocultural force. Uniquely comprehensive, it surveys and discusses the transformation of Muslim societies in different eras and various regions, providing a broad narrative of the historical development of Islamic civilization. This text explores the complex and varied history of the religion and its traditions. It provides an in-depth study of the diverse ways through which the religious dimension at the core of Islamic traditions has led to a distinctive type of civilizational process in history. The book illuminates the ways in which various historical forces have converged and crystallized in institutional forms at a variety of levels, embracing social, religious, legal, political, cultural, and civic dimensions. Together, the team of internationally renowned scholars move from the genesis of a new social order in 7th-century Arabia, right up to the rise of revolutionary Islamist currents in the 20th century and the varied ways in which Islam has grown and continues to pervade daily life in the Middle East and beyond. This book is essential reading for students and academics in a wide range of fields, including sociology, history, law, and political science. It will also appeal to general readers with an interest in the history of one of the world’s great religions.
Bustan: The Middle East Book Review
Contradictions and Lots of Ambiguity: Two New Perspectives on Premodern (and Postclassical) Islamic Societies. Review Article of Shahab Ahmed's "What is Islam?" and Thomas Bauer's "Die Kultur der Ambiguität."2017 •
For a long time, the Western academic study of Islam could not escape making implicit comparisons between its own religions, culture, and "civilization" and that of Islam.One would think that the events of September 11, 2001, and the polarization that followed—including the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now in Syria—only aggravated that situation.But the opposite is true. Among the generation of scholars of Islam who matured in the West after 9/11 are some who reached a new level in a project that earlier scholars in their field had already demanded: trying to understand Islam on its own terms. The two books reviewed here are thus far the two most outstanding examples of that development. Neither of them ever uses the word "decline." Unlike Ahmed, who only discusses academic voices, Bauer also deals with popular notions in politics and culture and hence is a much more polemical—and less well-structured and well-argued— engagement with Western views on Islam than Ahmed's. In the end, however, Bauer produces a more convincing approach to Islam in its post-classical period than Ahmed.
Global Journal of Research in Humanities & Cultural Studies
Islam and other Religions: An Analysis2024 •
The paper argued that the religion of all Prophets and Messengers was Islam, as a total submission and obedience to Allah alone. Also, it indicates that all other religions beside Islam are manufactured or man-made religions, and are ceased with the advent of Prophet Muhammad’صلى الله عليه وسلمs mission. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to look at the position of Islam in relation to other religions, with special reference to the clarification of the meaning of some verses of the Qur’an, misinterpreted by some people to validate the continuity and authenticity of some religions (especially Judaism and Christianity) in simultaneous way and cognizant to Islam or what is known as ‘religious pluralism’ in the modern language.
UluM-e-Islamia
Islam : An Enormous Faith A metaphor of History2019 •
Islāmic populace is influenced in every nook and corner of the world mainly, in the subcontinent of Asia including Middle Eastern Turkish, 'Arabic and Persian regions further, central and south Asians containing as Afghāns, Pakistānis and millions of Chinese and Indians while, many in the islands such as Indonesians and Malaysians, Africans as Berbers, Sudanese, Algerians, Tunisians, Swahili East Africans and west Africans while, in some countries, living as minorities too with various cultures, customs, political, social, linguistics, ethnic and some other varying aspects that are only some minor complications and differences but, in real they are more interlinked with each other through religious politics and due to their similar faiths and some cultural connections. Islāmic roots and founders gave a new way of biodiversity, consumption of technological advancements and many other theoretical frameworks to pave the way for the development of education, health, civilization and modern philosophies. This courage is all about to discover and explore the Islāmic literature review of ups and downs, antiquities, present standings, variations and treatments through this article.
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