Practices of Islamic Preaching

Practices of Islamic Preaching
Author: Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske, Aydın Süer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-08-07
Genre:
ISBN: 3110788365

Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond

Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond
Author: Simon Stjernholm
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-06-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1474467490

This title explores the ways in which Muslims relate various forms of religious oratory to authoritative tradition in 21st-century Islamic practice, while striving to adapt to local contexts and the changing circumstances of politics, media and society.

An American Muslim Guide to the Art and Life of Preaching

An American Muslim Guide to the Art and Life of Preaching
Author: Sohaib Sultan
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2023-03-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 150648333X

This book explores the art and craft of delivering Islamic sermons, while also providing a model of spiritual formation for those serving Muslim communities of faith in positions of religious leadership. Special attention is paid to the American Muslim context in which these faith leaders regularly live, operate, and faithfully engage.

Practices of Islamic Preaching

Practices of Islamic Preaching
Author: Ayşe Almıla Akca
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110788330

Preaching, a practice composed of and accompanied by a myriad of different activities, is an essential element of Muslim religious life both within and beyond mosques. As such, Islamic preaching is a common means of religious promulgation and knowledge transfer, of pastoral guidance and uplift, but also of communication between believers, and as a source of negotiating religious normativity, power relations, and societal topics. Given the centrality of preaching in Muslims' religious life, this collective volume presents contributions on various aspects of performance, text, space, and materiality of Islamic preaching in history and present. The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary framework captures Islamic preaching as it unfolds in its social setting. The volume aims at representing the inner-Islamic diversity by depicting the practice of preaching as it came about in different times and geographical locations, shedding light onto Friday gatherings and sermons (ḫutba), and other forms of preaching (e. g. waʿẓ), be it during Ramadan, at religious feasts and commemorations, or on personal occasions such as weddings and funerals. Therefore, each chapter offers a different insight into the interwoven character of sermons' contents, the preacher him/herself, and the audience by emphasising the role of their bodily performance, of the temporality and spatiality of preaching, and of the objects and items involved.

Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching

Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching
Author: Ruth Conrad
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2023-12-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1350408859

Christian and Islamic sermons from past and present, and their preachers, are analyzed to reveal the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches. Part I focuses on the explicit contribution of sermons in socio-cultural transformation processes. It shows how sermons connect with holy texts, religious norms of the specific group, and social-cultural contexts. Part II analyzes the dynamic tension between normativity and popularity. Rather than juxtaposing normative stances and the popularity of sermons, it shows how that normativity can itself contribute to popularity and the quest of popularity carries its own normative stances. Part III explores the ritual embeddedness of religious speech in the sermon in relation to social dynamics, normativity, and popularity, and shows how speech and rituals have a reciprocal relationship.

Introduction to Islam

Introduction to Islam
Author: Zahid Aziz
Publisher: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore USA
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2015-04-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1934271209

There has been a great demand for a booklet to introduce younger people to the teachings of Islam in fairly simple language. The Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha'at Islam Lahore has, over the past decades, produced a range of excellent works dealing with all aspects of Islam. This literature has been widely appreciated and acclaimed as meeting the needs of the present times, both for teaching Muslims and for presenting Islam to the world generally. It has been felt for sometime that the wonderful knowledge contained in these comprehensive works must be made more readily accessible to younger people by presenting it at an introductory level in simpler language. This booklet has therefore been prepared to satisfy these requirements. All the basic doctrines and practices of Islam have been covered, supplemented by information about the Holy Quran, Hadith, and the moral teachings of Islam. No prior knowledge is assumed. The question-answer format used, it is hoped, will make the booklet more interesting than would be the case with a descriptive approach.There are abundant, direct quotations from the Holy Quran throughout with full references. In some places the teachings of Islam are elaborated in general words, without direct quotations or specific references, as this was not considered necessary in those cases in an introductory booklet of this kind. For further reading on any point, or fuller explanation, the writings of Maulana Muhammad Ali should be consulted. In any case, as younger readers advance in their knowledge, they would be expected to move on to these standard books.

Preaching Islamic Renewal

Preaching Islamic Renewal
Author: Jacquelene G. Brinton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520286995

"The book is an in-depth study of Muhammad Mitwall Sha'rawi one of the most important religious figures in late twentieth century Egypt. Sha'rawi was an advisor to the rulers of Egypt as well as being the first Arab television preacher. At the height of his career it was estimated that up to 30,000,000 people tuned in to his show each week. Much of the academic literature that focuses on Islam in modern Egypt repeats the claim that traditionally trained Muslim scholars suffered the loss of religious authority. Sha'rawi however is an example of a well-trained Sunni scholar who became a national media sensation. He used television for the purpose of renewing religion by popularizing long held theological and ethical beliefs."--Provided by publisher.