Kabir

Kabir
Author: Muhammad Hedayetullah
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 8120833732

Hinduism and Islam are usually considered to be poles apart, especially on religious grounds. But in this work, the author has endeavored to demonstrate that in spite of sharp differences between them, they met on religious, commercial, intellectual and political levels both in and outside of India. Although orthodox Hinduism and orthodox Islam could hardly reconcile, it is shown here that they were bound to accommodate each other. However, the real fusion took place with the coming to India of a host of Sufis; especially the lives and conduct of the left wing mystics of both religions made the two peoples to come closer through Bhakti mysticism. Of the many Bhakta-Mystics who strove in this direction, Dr. Hedayetullah made a special study of kabir (d. 1518) who dedicated his whole life to the achievement of Hindu-Muslim unity on socio-religious levels. So far Kabir has not only been denied his rightful credit as an apostle of Hindu-Muslim unity, but he has also been misunderstood by many. In the present work, he is shown to have gained the place of honor between the two religions as a mediator and a harmonizer. His efforts were crowned with success-the resultant Indo-Islamic culture and civilization is a living proof.

Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment

Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
Author: Ahmet T. Kuru
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2019-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108419097

Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760
Author: Richard M. Eaton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520205079

Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among the finest contributions to South Asian scholarship to appear for some while.

The different aspects of islamic culture

The different aspects of islamic culture
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Total Pages: 926
Release: 2003-12-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9231039091

This publication examines art, the human sciences, science, philosophy, mysticism, language and literature. For this task, UNESCO has chosen scholars and experts from all over the world who belong to widely divergent cultural and religious backgrounds.--Publisher's description.

Beyond Turk and Hindu

Beyond Turk and Hindu
Author: David Gilmartin
Publisher: Orange Grove Texts Plus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-09-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781616101183

Bastubādī Bāula

Bastubādī Bāula
Author: Śaktinātha Jhā
Publisher:
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1999
Genre: Bauls
ISBN:

On religious practices, social life and customs of Bauls from Murshidābād District, India.

A History of Humanity

A History of Humanity
Author: Patrick Manning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2020-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108804187

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution. Throughout each of these shifts, migration and social diversity have been central, and social institutions have existed in a delicate balance, serving not just their own members but undergoing regulation from society. Integrating approaches from world history, environmental studies, biological and cultural evolution, social anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary linguistics, Patrick Manning offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of humans and our complex social system and explores the crises facing that human system today.

Women and Islam in Bangladesh

Women and Islam in Bangladesh
Author: T. Hashmi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2000-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 033399387X

This work of research by Taj Hashmi puts the issue of women's position in society in historical as well as Islamic perspectives to relate it to the objective conditions in Bangladesh. In eight illuminating chapters, he narrates how Quranic edicts about women have through the ages been misinterpreted by the power elites and the mullahs to suppress women. Even NGOs are not immune from exploiting them. Hope, according to the author, lies in the literacy and economic self-reliance of the Bangladeshi women.

Universal Empire

Universal Empire
Author: Peter Fibiger Bang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107022673

This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.