April 8th, 2008

Asad: Modernity, Secularity & Islam -1/3


Living Islam: What It Means to Be a Muslim in Today's World [Struggling with Modernity, Vol. 3]


Living Islam: What It Means to Be a Muslim in Today’s World [Struggling with Modernity, Vol. 3]


$55.00


The West often associates Islam with technological backwardness, religious intolerance, and a savage penal code. Is this justified. Or should the concept of “modernity” be seen in the context of the Third World and a fundamentally difference world view. This program looks at the tensions within Islamic states as they attempt to make their laws and practices compatible with the 21st Century whil…

Living Islam What It Means to Be a Muslim in Today's World ; Volume 3 ; Struggling with Modernity


Living Islam What It Means to Be a Muslim in Today’s World ; Volume 3 ; Struggling with Modernity



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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East


What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East


$2.59


Bernard Lewis is the West’s greatest historian and interpreter of the Near East. Books such as The Middle East and The Arabs in History are required reading for anybody who hopes to understand the region and its people. Now Lewis offers What Went Wrong?, a concise and timely survey of how Islamic civilization fell from worldwide leadership in almost every frontier of human knowledge fi…

Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization


Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization


$5.99


The world’s leading Islamicist offers a concise introduction to this rich and diverse tradition of 1.2 billion adherents. In this informative and clear introduction to the world of Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr explores the following topics in depth: •What Is Islam? •The Doctrines and Beliefs of Islam •Islamic Practices and Institutions •The History of Islam •Schools of Is…

Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present)


Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present)


$14.00


Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?? this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the…


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