Czech: Books-In-Brief: The Qur’anic Worldview: A Springboard for Cultural ‎Reform ‎

Czech: Books-In-Brief: The Qur’anic Worldview: A Springboard for Cultural ‎Reform ‎
Author: AbdulHamid AbuSulayman
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1642057754

This is a carefully reasoned, positive, and largely reflective work. Looking back at the various ‎stages of Islamic historical development, AbuSulayman puts forward a thesis that focuses on the ‎recovery of what is termed the Qur’anic worldview. By this is meant an ethical, monotheistic, and ‎purposeful perspective on the world and those within it. Our faith will only be complete when we ‎have become utterly sincere in our love for God, a love expressed in a pure, passionate love for ‎goodness and truth in this world. It was the strict internalization of this perspective and close ‎adherence to the principles of the Qur’an which AbuSulayman contends, played a key factor in ‎galvanizing the devout and intensely God-conscious followers of fledgling Islam to achieve the ‎successes that they once did, the profound historical and global impact of which is still the subject ‎of much study and admiration today. The rebirth of Islamic identity through this Qur’anic ‎worldview is the key requirement of our times and a prerequisite for any future healthy and viable ‎development of Muslim societies.‎

The Qur'anic Worldview

The Qur'anic Worldview
Author: Abdulhamid A. Abusulayman
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1565643658

This is a carefully reasoned, positive, and largely reflective work. Looking back at the various stages of Islamic historical development, AbuSulayman puts forward a thesis that focuses on the recovery of what is termed the Qur’anic worldview. By this is meant an ethical, monotheistic, and purposeful perspective on the world and those within it. Our faith will only be complete when we have become utterly sincere in our love for God, a love expressed in a pure, passionate love for goodness and truth in this world. It was the strict internalization of this perspective and close adherence to the principles of the Qur’an which AbuSulayman contends, played a key factor in galvanizing the devout and intensely God-conscious followers of fledgling Islam to achieve the successes that they once did, the profound historical and global impact of which is still the subject of much study and admiration today. The rebirth of Islamic identity through this Qur’anic worldview is the key requirement of our times and a prerequisite for any future healthy and viable development of Muslim societies.

Books-in-Brief: The Qur’anic Worldview

Books-in-Brief: The Qur’anic Worldview
Author: AbdulHamid AbuSulayman
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1565645952

This is a carefully reasoned, positive, and largely reflective work. Looking back at the various stages of Islamic historical development, AbuSulayman puts forward a thesis that focuses on the recovery of what is termed the Qur’anic worldview. By this is meant an ethical, monotheistic, and purposeful perspective on the world and those within it. Our faith will only be complete when we have become utterly sincere in our love for God, a love expressed in a pure, passionate love for goodness and truth in this world. It was the strict internalization of this perspective and close adherence to the principles of the Qur’an which AbuSulayman contends, played a key factor in galvanizing the devout and intensely God-conscious followers of fledgling Islam to achieve the successes that they once did, the profound historical and global impact of which is still the subject of much study and admiration today. The rebirth of Islamic identity through this Qur’anic worldview is the key requirement of our times and a prerequisite for any future healthy and viable development of Muslim societies.

Crisis in the Muslim Mind

Crisis in the Muslim Mind
Author: AbdulHamid AbuSulayman
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Across the Muslim world today, if anything is self-evident across the Muslim world today it is that the Ummah is badly in need of reform. On this point it can be stated with confidence that Muslims are agreed. Poverty and injustice characterize the face of Muslim lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Pollution and corruption are the order of the day in the societies where the gulf between them and the developed countries of the world has never been wider. Politics in the Muslim world are all too often the politics of deprivation, and culture the culture of despair. “Crisis in the Muslim Mind” examines the intellectual and historical roots of the malaise that has encompassed the Ummah and threatens to efface its identity. Firs published in Arabic in 1991, this important work (in an abridged English translation) is designed to familiarize educated and concerned Muslims with the nature of the crisis confronting them, and to suggest the steps necessary to overcome it.

Civil Society in the Muslim World

Civil Society in the Muslim World
Author: Amyn Sajoo
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2004-04-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781850435907

Even before the events of September 11th 2001, the global discourse on civil society--in its varied interpretations and manifestations--has caught the attention of citizens and communities across the Muslim world from Iran, Tajikistan and Indonesia, to the Mahgreb. Issues of human rights, pluralism and gender equity were already at the forefront of the wider quest for participatory politics. This survey of social and intellectual trends in diverse Muslim contexts includes contributions by Shirin Akiner, Mohammed Arkoun, Aziz Esmial, Tair Faradov, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Ersin Kalaycioglu, Iftikhar Malik, Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Oliver Roy.

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
Author: William David Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 766
Release: 1984
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521219297

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

New Multicultural Identities in Europe

New Multicultural Identities in Europe
Author: Erkan Toğuşlu
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9058679810

Multiculturalism in present-day Europe How to understand Europe’s post-migrant Islam on the one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social and economic transitions on a transnational scale challenge ethnic and religious identifications? These questions are at the very heart of the debate on multiculturalism in present-day Europe and are addressed by the authors in this book. Through the lens of post-migrant societies, manifestations of identity appear in pluralized, fragmented, and deterritorialized forms. This new European multiculturalism calls into question the nature of boundaries between various ethnic-religious groups, as well as the demarcation lines within ethnic-religious communities. Although the contributions in this volume focus on Islam, ample attention is also paid to Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. The authors present empirical data from cases in Turkey, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Norway, Sweden, and Belgium, and sharpen the perspectives on the religious-ethnic manifestations of identity in the transnational context of 21st-century Europe.

Philosophy, a School of Freedom

Philosophy, a School of Freedom
Author: Unesco
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007
Genre: Filozofija
ISBN: 9231040707

Originally published in French as "La Philosophie, une Ecole de la Liberte. Enseignement de la philosophie et apprentissage du philosopher : Etat des lieux et regards pour l'avenir." - This study is dedicated to all those who engaged themselves, with vigour and conviction, in the defence of the teaching of philosophy a fertile guarantor of liberty and autonomy. This publication is also dedicated to the young spirits of today, bound to become the active citizens of tomorrow.

Gender equality, heritage and creativity

Gender equality, heritage and creativity
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Gender mainstreaming
ISBN: 9231000500

Initiated by the Culture Sector of UNESCO, the report draws together existing research, policies, case studies and statistics on gender equality and women's empowerment in culture provided by the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, government representatives, international research groups and think-tanks, academia, artists and heritage professionals. It includes recommendations for governments, decision-makers and the international community, within the fields of creativity and heritage. Annex contains essay 'Gender and culture: the statistical perspective' by Lydia Deloumeaux.

The Postnormal Times Reader

The Postnormal Times Reader
Author: Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1642052442

IIIT Books-In-Brief Series is a valuable collection of the Institute’s key publications written in condensed form to give readers a core understanding of the main contents of the original. Postnormal times are best defined as ‘an in-between period where old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have yet to be born, and very few things seem to make sense’. or, as Ezio Mauro puts it: ‘we are hanging between the “no longer” and the “not yet” and thus we are necessary unstable –nothing around us is fixed, not even our direction of travel.’ The postnormal times theory attempts to make sense of a rapidly changing world, where uncertainty is the dominant theme and ignorance has become a valuable community. The Postnormal Times Reader is a pioneering anthology of writings on the contradictory, complex and chaotic nature of our era. It covers the origins, theory and methods of postnormal times; and examines a host of issues, ranging from climate change, governance, Middle East to religion and science, from the perspective of postnormal times. By mapping some of the key local and global issues of our transitional age, the Reader suggests a way of navigating our turbulent futures.