Practicing Islam

Author : Edward E. Curtis IV
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479804886
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Islam in America written by Edward E. Curtis IV and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Muslims have always been part of the United States, but very little is known about how Muslim Americans practice their religion. How do they pray? What's it like to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? What rituals accompany the birth of a child, a wedding, or the death of a loved one? What holidays do Muslims celebrate and what charities do they support? How do they learn about the Qur'an? [This book] introduces readers to the way Islam is lived in the United States, offering ... portraits of Muslim American life passages, ethical actions, religious holidays, prayer, pilgrimage, and other religious activities"--Back cover.

Author : David W. Montgomery
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981971
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Islam written by David W. Montgomery and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David W. Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic life in Kyrgyzstan. As he shows, becoming and being a Muslim are based on knowledge acquired from the surrounding environment, enabled through the practice of doing. Through these acts, Islam is imbued in both the individual and the community. To Montgomery, religious practice and lived experience combine to create an ideological space that is shaped by events, opportunities, and potentialities that form the context from which knowing emerges. This acquired knowledge further frames social navigation and political negotiation. Through his years of on-the-ground research, Montgomery assembles both an anthropology of knowledge and an anthropology of Islam, demonstrating how individuals make sense of and draw meanings from their environments. He reveals subtle individual interpretations of the religion and how people seek to define themselves and their lives as "good" within their communities and under Islam. Based on numerous in-depth interviews, bolstered by extensive survey and data collection, Montgomery offers the most thorough English-language study to date of Islam in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. His work provides a broad view into the cognitive processes of Central Asian populations that will serve students, researchers, and policymakers alike.

Author : Aaron Rock-Singer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492053
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Islam in Egypt written by Aaron Rock-Singer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how, why and where an Islamic revival emerged in 1970s Egypt, and why this shift remains relevant today.

Author : Omar Subedar
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781511713627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Steps in Practising Islam written by Omar Subedar and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Steps in Practising Islam has been prepared to serve as an introductory book for those who wish to learn the essential aspects of the religion, and for those who intend to pursue higher Islamic studies in the areas of creed and ritual worship. It comprises of the most fundamental aspects of Islamic beliefs, purification, ritual prayer, wealth purification and fasting while being referenced to the sacred texts. Key discussions have been carefully identified and the material has been delivered in plain English so that the scope of this book's benefit can be as broad as possible. This book has been concluded with a section on essential traits every Muslim is required to adopt in order to have a healthy relationship with Allah and His creation. Ultimately, this book lets the reader develop insight and confidence in Islam thus making them realize that Islam is still relevant today as it was for generations before.

Author : William C. Chittick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791498948
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Practice of Islam written by William C. Chittick and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-10-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations and analyses of three Persian Sufi texts, offering a perspective on Islam that is rarely met in modern works.

Author : Salih Sayilgan
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506468039
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Islam written by Salih Sayilgan and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Islam is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the foundations of the Islamic faith, including its history, theology, and spiritual practice. The book also deals with issues such as jihad, the status of women, and the various sectarian divisions in Islam. Most distinctive about this work is its analysis of the lived experience of Muslims in modern American life. The book explores questions such as: - What are the foundations of Islam? - How do Muslims relate to and interpret the Qur'an? - Who is the Prophet Muhammad? - What does Shari'a law really mean? - What are the major themes of Islamic theology? - What are the theological and political issues that led to divisions among Muslims? - Do Muslims and Christians believe in the same God? - How do Muslims practice Islam in America? - What are the challenges and opportunities for American Muslims? In addressing these questions, Sayilgan offers readers a perspective that is scholarly, judicious, and engaging.

Author : Barbara D. Metcalf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831385
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in South Asia in Practice written by Barbara D. Metcalf and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages--highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters to a discussion among college women affiliated with an "Islamist" organization. Drawn from premodern texts, modern pamphlets, government and organizational archives, new media, and contemporary fieldwork, the selections reflect the rich diversity of Islamic belief and practice in South Asia. Each reading is introduced with a brief contextual note from its scholar-translator, and Barbara Metcalf introduces the whole volume with a substantial historical overview.

Author : Virginia G. Blakemore-Henry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031305116X
Total Pages : 1397 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Islam written by Virginia G. Blakemore-Henry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 1397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite frequent and extensive publications on Islam, very few Americans, indeed very few non-Muslims, truly understand the faith or the more than one billion adherents who live it. This set presents the diversity and richness of Islam, filling in the blanks and expanding our knowledge and understanding. Portraying Muslims in all their humanity and diversity balances the images that have bombarded society and presents the reader with a fuller and more accurate picture of the Islamic faith and what it means to live as a Muslim—in Muslim communities, and as part of a broader tapestry of pluralism in the nations of the world. What does it mean to share Muslim concerns? To experience Muslim spirituality? What is the difference between Sunni and Shiite sects? Why do Muslims pray so frequently? What is the reality of Muslim marriage and gender relations? What is the meaning of jihad and martyrdom to a practicing Muslim? What role do the arts and humanities play in modern Muslim life? How are Islamic children raised? These questions and others are answered in these volumes, which bring together Muslim voices from around the world, including men and women, scholars and laypersons, fundamentalists and progressives, and others from various cultural, political, and Islamic backgrounds. Personal experiences and poetry are included to illustrate the many different expressions of Islam.

Author : Diane Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031336026X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Islam written by Diane Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory guide to the important elements of the world's largest religion, including the Quran, the Pillars of Faith, and the life of Muhammad, as well as Islamic history, customs and rituals, and contributions to world culture. Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice is the ideal beginner's resource on the core elements of a faith that, like Christianity and Judaism, offers a guide to holy living and a path to salvation—one that like other world faiths has inspired peace and war, tolerance and brutality, enlightenment and abysmal ignorance. Essential Islam offers an insightful, objective look at Islam from its inception to the present day, including a discussion of Islamic beliefs about God, history, warfare, marriage, the afterlife, and the relationship between Islam and other faiths. It is a rich source for dispelling misconceptions—for example, only 10 percent of Muslims are Arabic, and only a quarter of those reside in the Middle East—and for understanding tensions between groups within and outside Islam. More importantly, it gives readers a portrait of Islam not as a religion of extremists, but as a dynamic living faith practiced by people of all kinds in virtually every corner of the world.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: