Muslims At The Crossroads

Author : Muhammad Asad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789394770157
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam at the Crossroads written by Muhammad Asad and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Critical Assessment of Islam in the Modern World In his seminal work, "Islam at the Crossroads," Muhammad Asad offers a profound and insightful examination of the challenges and opportunities facing Islam in the modern world. Asad, a convert to Islam himself, provides a unique perspective on the religion, drawing from his deep understanding of both Western and Islamic thought. Asad argues that Islam is at a crossroads, facing a choice between embracing its core values of justice, equality, and compassion or succumbing to the allure of materialism and individualism. He contends that the future of Islam depends on its ability to adapt to the changing world without compromising its fundamental principles. Asad's critique of the modern Islamic world is both incisive and respectful. He identifies a number of shortcomings, including the rise of sectarianism, the stifling of intellectual inquiry, and the misinterpretation of Islamic teachings to justify violence and oppression. However, Asad also maintains a deep faith in the potential of Islam to provide a positive and transformative vision for the future. "Islam at the Crossroads" is a challenging and thought-provoking work that is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the future of Islam. Asad's insights are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1934. Asad's work has been praised by scholars and laypeople alike for its honesty, insight, and profound understanding of Islam. "Islam at the Crossroads" is a landmark work that continues to inspire and challenge readers today.

Author : Muhammad Asad
Publisher : The Other Press
ISBN 13 : 9839541048
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam at the Crossroads written by Muhammad Asad and published by The Other Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written as a plea to the Muslims to avoid a blind imitation of Western social forms and values, and to try to preserve instead their Islamic heritage which once upon a time had been responsible for the many-sided historical phenomenon comprised in the term 'Muslim civilisation'. It clarifies something of the tragic confusion nowadays prevailing in the Muslim world.

Author : Yehuda D. Nevo
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615923292
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossroads to Islam written by Yehuda D. Nevo and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this controversial exploration of the early history of Islam, archaeologist Yehuda D. Nevo and researcher Judith Koren present a revolutionary theory of the origins and development of the Islamic state and religion. Whereas most works on this subject derive their view of the history of this period from the Muslim literature, Crossroads to Islam also examines important types of evidence hitherto neglected: the literature of the local (Christian) population, archaeological excavations, numismatics, and especially rock inscriptions. These analyses lay the foundation for a radical view of the development of Islam.According to Nevo and Koren, the evidence suggests that the Arabs were in fact pagan when they assumed power in the regions formerly ruled by the Byzantine Empire. They contend that the Arabs took control almost without a struggle, because Byzantium had effectively withdrawn from the area long before. After establishing control, the new Arab elite adopted a simple monotheism influenced by Judaeo-Christianity, which they encountered in their newly acquired territories, and gradually developed it into the Arab religion. Not until the mid-8th century was this process completed.This interpretation of the evidence corroborates the view of other scholars, who on different grounds propose that Islam and the canonized version of the Koran were preceded by a long period of development. This new view turns on its head the traditional history of the rise of Islam, which claims that Islam began with Muhammad in Mecca and Medina around 622; then spread throughout Arabia under his charismatic leadership; and finally, after Muhammad''s death (632), inspired his followers to conquer widespread territories both in the East and West. By contrast, Nevo and Koren suggest that the rise of the Arab state created a need for a state religion, eventually called Islam.This absorbing and controversial rethinking of Islam''s early history is must reading for students and scholars of Islamic history and anyone interested in the origins of the world''s second largest religion.

Author : Siraj I. Mufti
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781470182632
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslims at the Crossroads written by Siraj I. Mufti and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crimes of a few responsible for the 9/11 attacks resulted in an onslaught on Muslims. They were subjected to a “Global War on Terrorism” by the U.S. and its allies. And the tyrannical regimes installed and/or supported (or co-opted otherwise) by the Western powers, which deny them basic human rights, instituted Draconian laws against their opposition. All the while Islamophobia is rampant in Europe and the United States.This book, entitled “Muslims at the Crossroads” in accord with its subject matter discusses the above problems as well as the mainstream Muslim responses to these happenings. American Muslims became the immediate targets in the post-9/11 environment with mass suspicion and grave violations of their constitutionally guaranteed rights at home. Through the hastily drafted PATRIOT act, reauthorized by the Congress, the U.S. administration designated groups - most egregiously the common charities as co-opting with “terrorists”, stopped their operations, froze their assets, and even imprisoned those running them. Now groups with a vicious agenda raise the specter of fear and demonize American Muslims. This, despite findings of the Pew research and others that they are loyal citizens and well-integrated into the American society. They are active in helping their compatriots, involved in interfaith activities, and are engaged in work for their political empowerment. Unfortunately, the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with occasional bombing raids into Yemen and Somalia and increased incursions into Pakistan have furthered the gulf between the United Sates and the Muslim world. Afghanistan, the poorest and most land-mined country in the world, has borne the brunt of this after a decade-long war against the Soviet Union, and now in the longest U.S. war with no peaceful end in sight. Muslim history is replete with mainstream Islamic movements that came into being to redress their existing situation. A good part of this book is devoted to a discussion of their role in the broader Muslim societies extending from Morocco in the West to Indonesia in the East. They are engaged variously helping their people, and work through peaceful means to educate and enlighten them. Routinely victimized by the autocratic regimes they win elections easily, if given the opportunity. Working in cooperation with other organizations, they have been responsible for the recent Muslim awakening and rise against the rulers that deny their people elements of democracy, freedoms and human dignity.This book aims at creating an understanding of Muslims so that, respecting and respected, they regain their honored place in the comity of nations.

Author : Abdul Basit Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313396981
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Muslim Community at a Crossroads written by Abdul Basit Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling a subject that is as timely as it is complex, this expert work examines the turmoil inside Muslim communities, helping outsiders to understand and insiders to examine ways in which Islam can be reinterpreted for a modern world. The Global Muslim Community at a Crossroads: Understanding Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Infighting to End the Conflict is an illuminating work. Written by an eminent psychologist who was raised as a Muslim in India and now resides in the United States, it examines the core reasons for the current state of affairs in Muslim communities, explaining the psychological underpinnings of Muslim religion and practices and the reasons they can fuel violence. Drawing on the editor's exposure to Eastern and Western cultures and his longstanding interest in the study of comparative world religions, this impartial analysis takes a multidimensional approach to explaining the current plight of Muslim countries. It candidly discusses issues such as the influence of Islamic schools, the negative and positive roles of Ulema (religious scholars), a lack of critical inquiry into religious thought, Sharia, and the status of women in Islam. Finally, there are positive suggestions about a road to recovery, explaining how Muslim communities can address the interlocking problems they face while retaining the positive aspects of their beliefs.

Author : Paul A. Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam at the Crossroads written by Paul A. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand Islam with this accessible and compelling overview of its history, core beliefs, and polarizing divisions.

Author : Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479894508
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Cool written by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.

Author : Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi'
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791457009
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam at the Crossroads written by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds light on one of the most important religious thinkers in the modern Muslim world.

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Download or read book Islam on the Crossroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : De Lacy O'Leary
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam at the Cross Roads written by De Lacy O'Leary and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner. This book was released on 1923 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: