Appreciate a rich and diverse culture. Understand real people in their everyday lives. The need to understand Islam and Muslims has never been greater, both because of conflicts that dominate the news and because of the increasing presence of Muslims in Western societies. There are hundreds of books that introduce the Western reader to Islam, and dozens of books that explore various Muslim soci…

National governments are proving ill-equipped to manage an increasingly complicated suite of global problems, from infectious diseases to climate change to conflicts over international trade. In The Coming Democracy, leading political analyst Ann Florini sets forth a compelling new paradigm for transnational governance, one based on the concept of ?transparency?? the idea that the free flow of …

Important for a general audience interested in women and religion, this book will be especially valuable to scholars in the fields of feminist theology, comparative religion, and interfaith studies. Based on the premise that women's struggles to have their voices heard are shared throughout the monotheisms, these essays offer new insights into the traditions of three religions during the past c…

Safi examines the rule of the Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking people from central Asia, who, in the 11th century, established rule over the eastern half of the Islamic world that lasted for 150 years. In an analysis that combines social, cultural, and political history, Safi examines the Saljuqs' efforts to create a lasting political presence by joining forces with scholars and saints who fun…

Tahun Terbit

2004

Edisi

Cet.2

ISBN/ISSN

979-8451-98-8

Deskripsi Fisik

xii, 132 p. ; 21 cm

No. Panggil

297 NAZ m

Written by internationally renowned scholars, this Companion maps the moral teachings of the world?s religions, and also charts new directions for work in the field of religious ethics. Now available in paperback, this is a rich resource for understanding the moral teachings and practices of the world?s religions Includes detailed discussions of issues in moral theory Offers extensive treatment…

Osama bin Laden pretends to be a selfless freedom fighter seeking to rid the Islamic world of Western dominance+and the de facto leader of the Muslim faithful. This biography tells the story of a different man, one whose troubled childhood and adolescent excesses in sex, money, and alcohol, fractures his assumed moral superiority, and renders him more human than icon. Based on information provi…

The issue of whether or not there is a God is one of the oldest and most widely disputed philosophical questions. It is a debate that spreads far across the range of philosophical questions about the status of science, the nature of mind, the character of good and evil, the epistemology of experience and testimony, and so on. In this book two philosophers, each committed to unambiguous versions…

Tahun Terbit

-

Edisi

Edisi 1, Cetakan 1

ISBN/ISSN

978-979-1078-40-5

Deskripsi Fisik

xvi, 181 p.: 23,3 cm

No. Panggil

658.409 2/ AMB/ k

Juan Cole examines Shi'i Islam as a world religion that has faced modernity on its own terms. He explores the little known history of Shi'i communities as far afield as Bahrain and India, giving attention as well to important centers such as Lebanon , Iraq, and Iran. He demonstrates the way in which the Shi'is have sought to define space and time as sacred, and to defend those spaces from encro…