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Irrationalities in Islam and Media in 19th-Century Iran
Faces of Modernity
2022 || Hardcover || Arash Ghajarjazi || Leiden University Press
This book deals for the first time with the cultural history of media in nineteenth-century Iran, a history that deals with how modern techniques of representation and communication were received in the Iranian Shiʿa society. This reception history is examined in religious photography, military reforms, Persian passion plays, Shiʿa medicine, and the burgeoning telegraphic culture. The problematic relationship between Shīʿa Islam and 19th-century media is conceptualised and contextualised,...
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Islamic Private Law
Hardcover || A Akgunduz || IUR Press
There is no explicit separation in Islâmic law between public and private law, but a special system has been used throughout history. Some scholars use the term Muslim personal law, which derived from the term al-aḥwâl al-shaḫṣiyyah in Fiqh books. But we prefer Islâmic private law; because Muslim personal law indicates different legal meaning - rules governing natural and legal persons. In this book, we will elaborate on Islâmic rules relating to seven branches of private law: perso...
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The Words
2023 || Hardcover || Bediuzzaman Said Nursi || IUR Press
The Words is the first volume of the Risale-i Nur and consists of thirty-three independent parts or Words, which explain and prove aspects of the fundamental matters of belief. These consist of such matters as God s existence and unity, the manifestation of the Divine Names and attributes in creation, the resurrection of the dead and the hereafter, prophethood, the miraculousness of the Qur’an, the angels, the immortality of man s spirit, Divine Determining (fate or destiny), together with ...
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Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia
Inventing a Sacred Tradition
2022 || Hardcover || Syaifudin Zuhri || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
This ethnographic book deals with the emergence of the Wali Pitu (seven saints) tradition and Muslim pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia. It touches upon the issues of translocal connectivity between Java and Bali, Islam-Hindu relationship, relations between Muslim groups, and questions of authority and authenticity of saint worship tradition. It offers a new perspective on Bali, seeing the island as a site of cultural motion straddling in between Islam and Hinduism with complexities of local figur...
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Ottoman Harem
Hardcover || Ahmed Akgunduz || Multilibris, Uitgeverij
Thirty years ago, we have published The Ottoman Harem in Turkish and I have given a copy to S
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The SAGE Handbook of Islamic Studies
2022 || Hardcover || Akbar S. Ahmed || SAGE
Written and edited by the most respected scholars in the field of Islamic studies, this handbook provides timely and authoritative insights on current debates within the Muslim world.
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Islamic public law
documents on practice from the Ottoman archives
2012 || Hardcover || Ahmed Akgunduz || Multilibris, Uitgeverij
Islamic law contains explications and divisions that imply a classification in terms of public and private law. In this book we will explain the outlines of Islamic public law, e.g. First Chapter; Islamic constitutional law (al-siyasah al-shar'iyyah) and administrative law (al-siyasah al-shar'iyyah); Second Chapter; penal law (al'-uqubat); Third Chapter; financial law (zakat, 'ushr, haraj and other taxes); Fourth Chapter; trial law (qada), and Fifth Chapter: international public law (al-siyar...
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Introduction to Islamic law / druk 1
Hardcover || Ahmed Akgündüz || Multilibris, Uitgeverij
The world today has become one large village. Muslims and non-Muslims live side by side and have to learn about one another, share commonalities and respect differences. At this time more than one and a half billion Muslims live in this village. Some of them are pious Muslims, trying to live in accordance with Islamic rules, whereas others do not while believing that these rules come from God (the Qur'an), from interpretations of His Messenger (the Sunnah) or the consensus of Muslim jurists (...