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The Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad

From Shared Historical Memory to Peaceful Co-existence

By: Ibrahim Mohamed Zein,Ahmed El-Wakil

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The Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad

From Shared Historical Memory to Peaceful Co-existence

By: Ibrahim Mohamed Zein,Ahmed El-Wakil

Through analysis of the Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad, which pledge protection to diverse faith communities, this book makes a profoundly important contribution to research on early Islam by determining the Covenants’ historicity and textual accuracy. The authors focus on the Prophet Muḥammad’s relationship with other faith communities by conducting detailed textual and linguistic analysis of documents which have received little scholarly consideration before. This not only includes decrees of the Prophet Muḥammad, ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and Mu‘āwiya ibn Abī Sufyān, but also of important Muslim rulers. They present their findings in relation to contemporaneous historical writings, historic testimonies, official recognition, archaeological evidence, historic scribal conventions, date-matching calculations, textual parallelisms, and references in Muslim and non-Muslim sources. They also provide new and revised translations of various Covenants issued by the Prophet Muḥammad which were attested by Muslim authorities after him. The authors argue that the claim of forgery is no longer tenable following the application of rigorous textual and historical analysis. This book is essential reading for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Samaritans, and Zoroastrians, as well as anyone interested in interfaith relations, Islamophobia, extremist ideologies, security studies, and the relationship between Orthodox and Oriental Christianity with Islam.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000820963

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9781000820966

The Terms of Risala-i Nur Collection

By: Ahmed Akgunduz

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The Terms of Risala-i Nur Collection

By: Ahmed Akgunduz

This important academic work is the necessary fruit of our academic efforts, which we have been carrying out for nearly 10 years, to revise the four main books of the Risāla-i Nūr Collection, The Words, The Rays, The Flashes and The Letters of Bedīuzzaman, and to explain important academic terms with glosses. The first two of these works are now in print and have attracted considerable interest in scholarly circles. Upon requests, we have found it appropriate to publish these terms, which are essential for the understanding of the Risāla-i Nūr Collection, as a separate book.

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IUR Press

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9491898388

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9789491898389

Rediscovering the Islamic Classics

How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition

By: Ahmed El Shamsy

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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics

How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition

By: Ahmed El Shamsy

The people who selected, edited, and published the new print books on and about Islam exerted a huge influence on the resulting literary tradition. These unheralded editors determined, essentially, what came to be understood by the early twentieth century as the classical written "canon" of Islamic thought. Collectively, this relatively small group of editors who brought Islamic literature into print crucially shaped how Muslim intellectuals, the Muslim public, and various Islamist movements understood the Islamic intellectual tradition. In this book Ahmed El Shamsy recounts this sea change, focusing on the Islamic literary culture of Cairo, a hot spot of the infant publishing industry, from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As El Shamsy argues, the aforementioned editors included some of the greatest minds in the Muslim world and shared an ambitious intellectual agenda of revival, reform, and identity formation. .

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Princeton University Press

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0691174563

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Human Rights in Islamic Societies

Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights

By: Ahmed E. Souaiaia

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Human Rights in Islamic Societies

Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights

By: Ahmed E. Souaiaia

This book compares Islamic and Western ideas of human rights in order to ascertain which human rights, if any, can be considered universal. This is a profound topic with a rich history that is highly relevant within global politics and society today. The arguments in this book are formed by bringing William Talbott’s Which Rights Should Be Universal? (2005) and Abdulaziz Sachedina’s Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (2014) into conversation. By bridging the gap between cultural relativists and moral universalists, this book seeks to offer a new model for the understanding of human rights. It contends that human rights abuses are outcomes of complex systems by design and/or by default. Therefore, it proposes that a rigorous systems-thinking approach will contribute to addressing the challenge of human rights. Engaging with Islamic and Western, historical and contemporary, and relativist and universalist thought, this book is a fresh take on a perennially important issue. As such, it will be a first-rate resource for any scholars working in religious studies, Islamic studies, Middle East studies, ethics, sociology, and law and religion.

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Routledge

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1000389650

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9781000389654

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The Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad

The Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad

The Terms of Risala-i Nur Collection

The Terms of Risala-i Nur Collection

Rediscovering the Islamic Classics

Rediscovering the Islamic Classics

Human Rights in Islamic Societies

Human Rights in Islamic Societies

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