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Today Islam is numerically the second largest religion in the world. Its message is aimed generally at all people and has been addressed to Muslims and non-Muslims alike since the beginning of Islam through the 'Call to Islam' (Arabic däwa islamiyya). But what exactly does 'Call to Islam' mean? After a brief historical sketch of different forms of däwa, this book provides an overview of various däwa theologies of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as of some däwa organizations and different däwa approaches. Finally, the question is raised about the challenges that däwa activities of a conservative or an Islamist Islam pose for liberal and democratic societies.

This book is an important contribution to the assiduous Muslim contention that human rights, freedom of conscience and expression are integral to Islam. Such claims have come under increased scrutiny and debate especially after the Salman Rushdie controversy in 1989 and also in light of fatwas issues by various Muslim scholars against those deemed to apostates and blasphemers. The papers presented in this volume challenge the sources, hermeneutics and methodologies often used to constrain or limit freedom of expression and the critique of religious beliefs and attitudes.

The book deals with the issues about the origins of Islamic economics, the basic methodological questions, the use of the opportunities offered by fiqh in the methodological discussions and the main problems arising from the encounter with other cultures and civilizations.

This impressive biographical work deftly weaves translated accounts from authentic Ottoman Turkish texts with ancient lore, resulting in a compelling, unforgettable portrait of the founder of Islam as seen through the eyes of Muslims around the world.

Since no religious institution has emerged from Islamic religious history that is the sole and binding determinant of legitimate faith, Muslim scholars had to legitimize their religious positions in a different way. Canonisation and censorship processes, this volume argues, played a decisive role in the formation and deconstruction of religious authority. This volume therefore examines how texts, positions and the people behind them gain or lose their authority, and which structural, contextual and institutional factors contribute to the establishment or suppression, but also to the maintenance of this claim. Case studies from different historical periods and regions of the Islamic world show how certain religious beliefs gain legitimacy and others lose legitimacy in a specific historical context.

'An urgent, vital contribution to the feminist conversation - one that tears through the comfortable myth of universal sisterhood' - Alya Mooro, author of The Greater FreedomGrowing up, journalist Shahed Ezaydi was often asked how she could call herself a feminist and still practise her faith. It's a question that reveals a deeper issue that Muslim women often face: being ignored in feminist spaces entirely, or cast as passive victims in need of being saved. This mindset fuels gendered Islamophobia and a narrow white feminism. But Muslim women don't need rescuing.The Othered Woman is the book Ezaydi wishes her younger self could have turned to. It challenges the myths of how Muslim women are oppressed and who by, and shows that these myths translate into very real harm both in Britain and around the world, showcasing the voices of intersectional feminists who are fighting for liberation on their own terms. Accessible and compelling, this is urgent reading for anyone who considers themselves a feminist.

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Prominent members of the Ottoman imperial polity, Bosnian Muslims became minority subjects of Austria-Hungary, developing a relationship with the new authorities in Vienna while transforming their interactions with Istanbul and the rest of the Muslim world. Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular explores the enduring influence of the Ottoman Empire during this period—an influence perpetuated by the efforts of the imperial state from afar, and by its former subjects in Bosnia Herzegovina negotiating their new geopolitical reality. Muslims' endeavors to maintain their prominence and shape their organizations and institutions influenced imperial considerations and policies on occupation, sovereignty, minorities, and migration.  This book introduces Ottoman archival sources and draws on Ottoman and Eastern European historiographies to reframe the study of Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina within broader intellectual and political trends at the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing transregional connections, imperial continuities, and multilayered allegiances, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe bridges Ottoman, Islamic, Middle Eastern, and Balkan studies. Amzi-Erdoğdular tells the story of Muslims who redefined their place and influence in both empires and the modern world, and argues for the inclusion of Islamic intellectual history within the history of Bosnia Herzegovina and Eastern Europe.

Die Liebeserklärung eines Muslims an das Judentum: Ahmad Milad Karimi ist davon überzeugt, dass es eine tiefe Verbindung gibt zwischen den spirituellen Überlieferungen von Judentum und Islam und dass diese Brücke, recht verstanden, für die Konflikte unserer Zeit Teil der Lösung sein könnte und nicht Teil des Problems ist. Der Islamgelehrte erinnert an die Nähe beider Glaubenswege, die sich auf Abraham, auf Sara und Hagar berufen, auf gemeinsame Propheten und Geschichten. Er entdeckt die Schönheit jüdischer Spiritualität, für ihn ein Zeichen, dass - trotz Wut und Hass - Friede möglich ist, "dass das, was uns verbindet, größer ist als das, was uns trennt".

'A brilliant and captivating work ... There is simply no better book on Islam in history' Eugene RoganFrom its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam, James McDougall explores its origins and transformations from Late Antiquity to the digital age.Over the span of a thousand years, armies, missionaries, and merchants carried it to the edges of Europe, the coasts of Southeast Asia, and the remote interior of China. By the nineteenth century, Islam encompassed a world of great diversity, from Muslim-ruled empires to nations where Muslims lived out their faith among many others. In the twentieth century, while monarchs in the Gulf asserted dynastic privilege and fundamentalists in Egypt and Pakistan preached social morality, revolutionaries from Algeria to Indonesia fought for national self-determination, and activists in North America and Europe campaigned for civil liberties and social justice.As empires fell and new superpowers rose, Muslims proved to be as adaptable and dynamic as modernity itself. Sweeping and authoritative, Worlds of Islam narrates the epic story of how Muslims emerged as a community, built empires, traversed the globe, came to number in the billions, and became modern.

For over a century, Muslim women have championed their own brand of feminism, rooted in human rights principles and a deep understanding of their diverse cultural contexts. Yet, secular Muslim feminism remains shrouded in misunderstanding and contention.<BR>This book boldly confronts the complexities and controversies surrounding this contested concept, offering a nuanced exploration of its potential to bridge divides and empower women. The book challenges the simplistic portrayals of Muslim women, dismantling the harmful narratives of oppression and victimhood propagated by both Western and Islamist agendas. It critiques the selective glorification of religious agency by some feminists, recognizing how this can inadvertently reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Additionally, it exposes the hijacking of the secular Muslim feminist movement by the far-right, disguised as advocates for women's rights but fueled by anti-Muslim sentiments. Drawing on over two decades of personal observations and interactions with diverse organizations in the Middle East and Europe, the book delves into the heart of secular Muslim feminism, dissecting its nuances and potential to reconcile divergent perspectives. It amplifies these voices, challenging the misrepresentation and limitations imposed by external agendas. <BR><BR>Secular Muslim Feminism emerges as a bold and transformative force, redefining the boundaries of equality and empowering women to shape their destinies. It offers a nuanced and critical framework for understanding the complex realities of Muslim women's lives, paving the way for a more just and equitable future.

In a world brimming with chaos and distractions, the timeless wisdom of the Holy Quran offers a sanctuary for the weary soul. This poetry book is a heartfelt attempt to translate the profound philosophies of the Quran into verses that inspire self-help and personal growth. Each poem is a gentle reminder of the divine guidance available to us, urging us to look inward and discover our true potential. Through the power of words, we hope to ignite a spark of transformation within readers, helping them navigate life's challenges with grace and resilience, all while staying rooted in the teachings of the Quran.

At its core, Home Sweet Home is about relationships: the power it has over one's sense of peace and self and how knowing one's rights and duties can empower one to confidently set boundaries. Most importantly, it discusses issues and conflicts that may exist within the home and how to ensure they are not mismanaged and handled disproportionately. It emphasizes the need to reflect and ponder over the origins of conflict and aims to make its readers more cognizant of the Islamic principles related to every relationship and interaction. In particular, there is a focus on the positive impact faith can have on smoothing out many common problems. <BR>This is underpinned by psychological concepts, the Qur'an and Hadith literature. By taking into account the various issues faced by many and the different types of relationships, a holistic understanding can be crucially obtained. Through the insights provided by this book, there is hope that it leads to better and more confident decisions being taken in the home so that family members can thrive together and support each other.<BR>

In seiner Studie untersucht Erkan Binici auf Basis von Interviews und der dokumentarischen Methode wie (muslimische) Jugendliche zwischen 12 und 19 Jahren in ihrer alltäglichen Mediennutzung Religion wahrnehmen und deuten. Seine Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Jugendlichen in ihrem Umgang mit Medien und Religion (in Medien) Selbst- und Weltdeutung verhandeln. Die vorliegende Studie liefert wertvolle Impulse für die (Islamische) Religionspädagogik, Medienpädagogik und Bildungsarbeit. Die Untersuchung leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Gestaltung einer Religionspädagogik, die den mediatisierten Lebenswelten der Jugendlichen gerecht wird und medien- sowie diskriminierungskritische Haltungen fördert, um einen kompetenten Umgang mit den Wechselwirkungen von Religion und Medien in einer pluralen und von Digitalität geprägten Gesellschaft zu ermöglichen.

A concise history of the enormously powerful and influential Shi'i caliphate. The Fatimids (909-1171) built an empire that included North Africa, Egypt, and parts of Sicily, Syria, Palestine, and Arabia. Theirs is the only Muslim dynasty known by a woman's name, Fatima, the Prophet Muhammad's daughter. The Fatimids promoted women to unprecedented positions of authority and visibility in Islamic history. From Cairo, which they founded in 969, this Shi'i dynasty fostered cultural and artistic excellence as well as cultural tolerance and prosperity across the empire. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, the book tells both the historical and ongoing influence of the Fatimids on global culture.

'Vital, important' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'Perspective-shattering' CAROLINE SANDERSON 'Offers a fresh, bracing perspective on European history' THE TIMESFor over 1,400 years, Muslims have been an integral part of Europe's story, yet their contributions have been pushed to the margins or erased altogether. In Muslim Europe, award-winning author Tharik Hussain restores this forgotten history.In a revelatory journey across the continent, we tread in the footsteps of the first Muslims who arrived on European soil in 647 AD. We travel through Cyprus, Sicily, Malta, Portugal and Spain, learning about the continent's great Caliphate culture and Muslim commonwealth, encountering red-haired European Sultans and Arabic-speaking Christian Kings, the Sufi lodges of Cyprus and the palaces of Sicily.Forgotten Muslim pioneers like Abbas Ibn Firnas gave us flight, Ibn Rushd gifted us modern philosophy and the cross fertilisation of faiths and cultures birthed Europe's Christian Renaissance. For twelve centuries, Muslim Europe was a sanctuary for the continent's Jews. Recalling the poignant voices of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut and Abraham Ibn Daoud, Jews flourished under Muslim protection triggering the Jewish Golden Age.For the first time, Muslim Europe lays bare the cause of our collective Islamic amnesia by mapping Europe's 'anti-Muslim DNA' through medieval Crusade narratives and nation-building myths. But Islam was never a sideshow to Western culture; it was integral to its development for over 1,400 years.Deep, learned and utterly convincing, this first Muslim Eurocentric history of the continent dismantles the myth of Europe's Judaeo-Christian cultural foundation, and offers nothing less than a profound shift in our self-understanding.'Uncovers a world of which few are fully aware' COLIN THUBRON

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026The Sunday Times BestsellerShortlisted for the Nero Book AwardsShortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje PrizeShortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland PrizeLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionThe Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer and Economist Book of the Year 2025A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan - the first book from one of the world's leading war correspondents.'Simply unforgettable' ELIF SHAFAK'Terrific' THE TIMES'Incredible' PETER FRANKOPAN'Powerful and charming' FINANCIAL TIMES'Utterly compelling' PHILIPPE SANDS'Masterly' TELEGRAPH'Ingenious' KAMILA SHAMSIE'A must-read' SUNDAY TIMES'Beautiful' RORY STEWARTIn 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected Afghanistan's hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the world.Lyse Doucet first checked into the Inter-Continental on Christmas Eve 1988. In the decades since, she has witnessed a Soviet evacuation, a devastating civil war, the US invasion, and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban, all from within its increasingly battered walls. The Inter-Con has never closed its doors.Now, she weaves together the experiences of the Afghans who have kept the hotel running to craft a richly immersive history of their country. It is the story of Hazrat, the septuagenarian housekeeper who still holds fast to his Inter-Continental training from the hotel's 1970s glory days - an era of haute cuisine and high fashion, when Afghanistan was a kingdom and Kabul was the 'Paris of Central Asia'. Of Abida, who became the first female chef after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. And of Malalai and Sadeq, the twenty-somethings who seized every opportunity offered by two decades of fragile democracy - only to see the Taliban come roaring back in 2021.Through these intimate portraits of Afghan life, the story of a hotel becomes the story of a people.'Fabulous . . . A cross between the novel A Gentleman in Moscow and Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.' THE TIMES'The Finest Hotel in Kabul plays to all Lyse Doucet's strengths. Clarity, empathy, depth of knowledge and innate grasp of fine detail . . . a most readable account of joy, despair and resilience in one of the world's most fascinating countries.' MICHAEL PALIN'A deeply humane story of Afghanistan revealing the impact of decades of upheaval on everyday lives.' JUDGES OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Full of warmth, wit, and a lovely eye for the human stories that make the hotel not just a monument to tragedy, but also love and resilience . . . This is the book about an Afghanistan I never knew that I always wanted to read.' FINANCIAL TIMESCover may vary

Der vorliegende Band behandelt den Westen der islamischen Welt, von den Anfängen der Philosophie im islamischen Spanien, die in das 10. Jahrhundert zurückreichen, bis in die Zeit um 1200. Im Vordergrund stehen einzelne prominente Denker wie Ibn B¿¿¿a, Ibn ¿ufail und insbesondere Ibn Ru¿d, dessen Wirkung weit über die islamische Welt hinausstrahlte. Darüber hinaus kommen die arabisch-(hebräisch-)lateinischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters sowie die jüdischen Autoren im islamischen Kulturkreis ausführlich zur Sprache. Letztere bildeten eine langanhaltende Tradition, die von ihren Anfängen im 9. Jahrhundert bis ins frühe 16. Jahrhundert und vom Maghreb bis in den Jemen verfolgt wird. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den prominenten jüdischen Philosophen von Ibn Gabirol bis zu Mo¿eh ben Maimon (Maimonides), die im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert im Westen der islamischen Welt gewirkt haben.Halbband 2/2 tritt neben 2/1, der sich mit den zentralen und östlichen islamischen Gebieten im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert befasst. Beide Halbbände gehören zu der vierbändigen Reihe Philosophie in der islamischen Welt, die zum ersten Mal einen umfassenden Überblick zur Geschichte der Philosophie in der islamischen Welt vermittelt.

Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in spring 2014 - 160 years after the Crimean War - and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Black Sea region has again become the focus of world history. In this handbook, international scholars from various historical and cultural disciplines provide deep historical insights into the structures of conflict, cooperation, and interrelations between the Balkans, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe in the space referred to as the Black Sea world. The trans-maritime communication and intra-regional circulations, spanning from Antiquity to the present day via, Byzantium, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Crimean Khanate, the Venetian, Safavid, Ottoman, and Romanov empires, two World Wars, and the Cold War, highlight the autonomy of this historical region in the larger transcontinental setting - designated in various times and varying languages as the Pontus Euxinus, the Mare Maggiore, the Kara Deniz, the Chernoe More, or the Black Sea. "This voluminous edition sheds real light upon the history of the Black Sea region from antiquity until the end of the 20th century. Not only does this first-rate book provide a host of excellent historical essays across time, it also devotes considerable attention to important questions regarding how the Black Sea region is conceptualized and theorized. A very useful contribution." (James H. Meyer, Montana State University) "In the wake of several research projects, monographs and journals, this is the first groundbreaking handbook on the cohesive history of the Black Sea as a historical meso-region. It gathers 39 excellent contributions that provide the conceptual apparatus, survey the history of the region from a Greek to Byzantine to Ottoman lake, to conflicting rivalries, to its recent transformation from a quasi-Soviet to a quasi-NATO lake, examine the ideas that underpin the various national, ethnic and religious identities, research the different mobilities through migration, transport,<BR>infrastructure, and take stock of its turbulent history through conflicts and war." (Maria Todorova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) <BR>"Mostly the work of scholars from Central Europe and the Black Sea region, this massive volume focuses on the relationship between historical research and memory, in particular the difficulty of certain groups living in the region when confronted with empires and nation states, whose centers may be quite distant from the Black Sea. Attentive readers may thus view the present handbook not merely as a work of reference on history, memory and movement, but also as a testimony to the historical perspectives developed by a significant number of Central European and Black Sea scholars during the first quarter of the twenty-first century." (Suraiya Faroqhi, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul)