An Ordinary Muslim
Title | An Ordinary Muslim PDF eBook |
Author | Hammaad Chaudry |
Publisher | Samuel French, Incorporated |
Total Pages | 106 |
Release | 2021-08-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780573709418 |
Balancing the high expectations of the previous generation, the doctrines of their Muslim community, and the demands of secular Western culture, Azeem Bhatti and his wife Saima struggle to straddle the gap between their Pakistani heritage and their British upbringing. With deep compassion, Hammaad Chaudry brings to life a recognizable and unforgettable family, and with sharp intellect, asks potent questions about the challenges of integration and assimilation for immigrants in today's global world. As witnesses, we are all forced to confront pressing questions about the nature of belonging and our own internal prejudices about that which is "other."
An Ordinary Man's Guide to Radicalism
Title | An Ordinary Man's Guide to Radicalism PDF eBook |
Author | Neyaz Farooquee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Identification (Religion) |
ISBN | 9789386850515 |
On the Muslim Question
Title | On the Muslim Question PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Norton |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2020-01-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0691195943 |
Why “the Muslim question” is really about the West and its own anxieties—not Islam In this fearless, original book, Anne Norton demolishes the notion that there is a “clash of civilizations” between the West and Islam. What is really in question, she argues, is the West’s commitment to its own ideals: to democracy and the Enlightenment trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the most fundamental sense, the Muslim question is about the values not of Islamic, but of Western, civilization.
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Title | Do Muslim Women Need Saving? PDF eBook |
Author | Lila Abu-Lughod |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674727509 |
Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights. In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism—conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West—are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam—as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.
Religion as Critique
Title | Religion as Critique PDF eBook |
Author | Irfan Ahmad |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2017-11-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1469635100 |
Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions. Ahmad interrogates Greek and Enlightenment notions of reason and critique, and he notes how they are invoked in relation to "others," including Muslims. Drafting an alternative genealogy of critique in Islam, Ahmad reads religious teachings and texts, drawing on sources in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and English, and demonstrates how they serve as expressions of critique. Throughout, he depicts Islam as an agent, not an object, of critique. On a broader level, Ahmad expands the idea of critique itself. Drawing on his fieldwork among marketplace hawkers in Delhi and Aligarh, he construes critique anthropologically as a sociocultural activity in the everyday lives of ordinary Muslims, beyond the world of intellectuals. Religion as Critique allows space for new theoretical considerations of modernity and change, taking on such salient issues as nationhood, women's equality, the state, culture, democracy, and secularism.
Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East
Title | Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Lee Bowen |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780253214904 |
A revised and updated edition of a popular and widely used text
The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human
Title | The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human PDF eBook |
Author | Marguerite Richards |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Muslims |
ISBN | 9789814867122 |