Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems

Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems
Author: Atsuyuki Okabe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134320426

In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. This highly illustrated and comprehensive work highlights how GIS can be applied to the social sciences. With its description of how to process, construct and manage geographical data the book is ideal for the non-specialist looking for a new and refreshing way to approach Islamic area studies.

Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies

Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies
Author: Kazuo Morimoto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0415519179

The modern world is home to a large number of lineal descendents and relatives of the Prophet Muhammad. This book brings together an international group of renowned scholars to provide a comprehensive examination of the place of the descendants of Muhammad in Muslim society, offering a thorough analysis of these descendents throughout history and in a number of different local manifestations.

Asiatic Russia

Asiatic Russia
Author: Tomohiko Uyama
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113662015X

Although the Russian Empire has traditionally been viewed as a European borderland, most of its territory was actually situated in Asia. Imperial power was huge but often suffered from a lack of enough information and resources to rule its culturally diverse subjects, and asymmetric relations between state and society combined with flexible strategies of local actors sometimes produced unexpected results. In Asiatic Russia, an international team of scholars explores the interactions between power and people in Central Asia, Siberia, the Volga-Urals, and the Caucasus from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, drawing on a wealth of Russian archival materials and Turkic, Persian, and Tibetan sources. The variety of topics discussed in the book includes the Russian idea of a "civilizing mission," the system of governor-generalships, imperial geography and demography, roles of Muslim and Buddhist networks in imperial rule and foreign policy, social change in the Russian Protectorate of Bukhara, Muslim reformist and national movements. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of Russian, Central Eurasian, and comparative imperial history, as well as imperial and colonial studies and nationalism studies. It may also provide some hints for understanding today’s world, where "empire" has again become a key word in international and domestic power relations.

Popular Movements and Democratization in the Islamic World

Popular Movements and Democratization in the Islamic World
Author: Masatoshi Kisaichi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134150601

Ever since the terrorist incident of September 11th a general understanding seems to have arisen among people that the challenges posed by Islam have now acquired human and global dimensions. Popular Movements and Democratization in the Islamic World contains case studies of people’s movements in diverse areas and periods, and it seeks to develop a comparative view of Islam and democracy that goes beyond the usual stereotype of Islam being incompatible with democracy. Unravelling the complexities that have arisen between Islam and democracy is the principal task of Islamic scholars, and this book will undoubtedly prove a starting point for all such endeavours. While primarily intended for students and scholars, this timely and important text will prove of interest even to general readers with interests in Islamic studies.

The Moral Economy of the Madrasa

The Moral Economy of the Madrasa
Author: Keiko Sakurai
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011-03-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1136894012

The revival of madrasas in the 1980s coincided with the rise of political Islam and soon became associated with the "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. This volume examines the rapid expansion of madrasas across Asia and the Middle East and analyses their role in society within their local, national and global context. Based on anthropological investigations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Iran, and Pakistan, the chapters take a new approach to the issue, examining the recent phenomenon of women in madrasas; Hui Muslims in China; relations between the Iran’s Shia seminary after the 1979-Islamic revolution and Shia in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and South Asian madrasas. Emphasis is placed on the increased presence of women in these institutions, and the reciprocal interactions between secular and religious schools in those countries. Taking into account social, political and demographic changes within the region, the authors show how madrasas have been successful in responding to the educational demand of the people and how they have been modernized their style to cope with a changing environment. A timely contribution to a subject with great international appeal, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international politics, political Islam, Middle East and Asian studies and anthropology.

Bread from the Lion's Mouth

Bread from the Lion's Mouth
Author: Suraiya Faroqhi
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782385592

The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries. The guilds transformed and eventually dissolved as they were increasingly co-opted by modernization and state-building projects, and by the movement of manufacturing to the countryside. In consequence by the 20th century, many artisans had to confront the forces of capitalism and world trade without significant protection, just as the Ottoman Empire was itself in the process of dissolution.

Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World

Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World
Author: Stephane A. Dudoignon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1134205988

Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentieth century. The contributors reassess the typology and history of various scholars, providing significant diachronic analysis of the different forms of communication, learning, and authority. While each chapter presents a separate regional case, with an historically and geographically different background, the volume discloses commonalities, similarities and intellectual echoes through its comparative approach. Consisting of two parts, the volume focuses first on al-Manar, the influential journal published between 1898 and 1935 that inspired much imagination and arguments among local intelligentsias all over the Islamic world. The second part discusses the formation, transmission and transformation of learning and authority, from the Middle East to Central and Southeast Asia. Constituting a milestone in comparative studies of the modern Islamic world, this book highlights the range of and transformation in the role of intellectuals in Islamic societies.

New Frontiers in Urban Analysis

New Frontiers in Urban Analysis
Author: Yasushi Asami
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-06-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 143980253X

Bringing together the world's leading experts in Urban Analysis, this remarkable and critically acclaimed volume applies the theories and models of Atsuyuko Okabe, Japan's preeminent spatial analyst, to case studies in urban planning, transport, administration, and public health in the context of the highly advanced Japanese planning system. It inc

Muslim Societies

Muslim Societies
Author: Sato Tsugitaka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134320221

This volume examines Muslim societies across Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and South Asia from the eighteenth century to the present, providing fresh insight through comparison. Movements and populations covered include the nineteenth century North African Sansusi movement and its relationships to Sufis and Arabs of the region, Soviet and Chinese Central Asia, Muslim-Hindu relationships in South Asia, Muslims in Syria and Muslim immigrants in Europe.

Fiction and Faction in the Malay World

Fiction and Faction in the Malay World
Author: Mohamad Rashidi Pakri
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1443846511

This book offers a variety of essays and perspectives on some of the foreigners and traders who came to the Malay World and wrote fiction and “faction” (writing that portrays real people or events in a dramatised manner) during their sojourn – regardless of whether they continued to stay in the region, returned to their home country, or migrated to another country. The essays tend to cross generic and disciplinary boundaries as the contributors of this book are drawn from various fields within the arts and humanities, including history, geography, language and literature and translation. All of them, however, deal with colonial texts, the Malay World, or primarily cover the period from the 18th to the 20th century. Including readings of fiction, diaries, vignettes, letters written by traders or colonial officers, the uniqueness of this book lies in the personal, private and/or informal nature of the various documents studied. The encounters of these ‘outsiders’ with the ‘natives’ not only offer fascinating historical insights into the Malay World, but, to a significant degree, vividly express the views and personalities of the writers themselves, as mediated through their assigned commercial and colonial roles.