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Embracing the religious and secular worlds
by S. Parvez Manzoor
Nietzsche and Islam
This is an extended argument against all reductionist assaults on Islam, whether enshrined in the triumphalist rhetoric of Empire or in the hallowed fantasies of reactionary fundamentalism, which would reduce it to a mere body-politics.
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The key to western military dominance, or a one-sided view ?
by M A Sherif
Why the West has won: Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam
Professor Hanson, a military historian and Professor of Classics at the California State University, has written a classic Eurocentric account of the history of warfare that ends with the chilling observation that when the 'West' declares war, this is pursued till the enemy is destroyed outright. The Western military tradition is one of "decisive battle to annihilate the enemy".
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The problem with God
by M A Sherif
God's Funeral
A.N. Wilson's lengthy book provides a wide panoramic sweep on the history of ideas, encompassing philosophers (Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx), churchmen (Newman, Pusey ), writers and poets (George Elliot, Swinbourne, Tennyson), the prophets of the scientific age (Darwin, Freud) and a medley of unclassifiable intellectual giants (Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin, Jowett, Bernard Shaw and William James). In this overarching sweep of over two centuries of intellectual history, A. N. Wilson is primarily concerned with the challenges to the Churches (Anglican and Catholic) and its responses. The reoccurring themes are the debates between faith and reason, the quest to retain faith in religion without a sacrifice of the intellect and the decline in the belief in God.
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Yahya Birt on Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and back
This is the first full account by one of the nine British citizens formerly held at Guantánamo, the American military base in Cuba.
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Iqbal Asaria on Multicultural Politics -Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain
Professor Tariq Modood, is perhaps one of the foremost academic commentators on the subject of race, ethnicity and Muslims in the UK. For sometime now Modood has argued that faith can be used as an increasingly potent category to explain a large body of evidence. Making faith central to the analysis also has several implications for any progressive prescriptive agenda to redress the inequities.
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Rashied Omar on Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination
Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali is known as one of the most influential thinkers and authoritative interpreters of Islam of the classical period. Ebrahim Moosa's Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination brilliantly illustrates the relevancy of al-Ghazali for the contemporary Muslim intellectual crisis.
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M A Sherif on Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI-Three)
Brill's 'Encyclopaedia of Islam' has long been the crown jewels of scholars' libraries. Work has now commenced on the third edition, but with the world of knowledge production and dissemination changing day by day, the challenges must be immense.
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M A Sherif on The Bosniak
An account packed with social history, adventure and political drama that provides new insights into Bosnia's past and present.
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Jamila Sherif on A Thousand Splendid Suns
A gripping drama of beauty, destruction, sadness, and suspense, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of the last thirty years of Afghan history, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and the salvation to be found in love.
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Salaam Reviewer on Urban Hope and Spiritual Health
This book is based on an analysis of over 34,000 13 to 15-year old pupils in England and Wales, including 500 Muslims. It finds that "there are significant ways in which young people affiliated with the Islamic tradition enjoy higher levels of spiritual health in comparison with young people who belong to no religious tradition."
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Salaam Reviewer on British Muslims between Assimilation and Segregation
This is a companion volume to the Islamic Foundation's 'British Muslims Loyalty and Belonging', drawing on the discussion and issues raised at a seminar held in June 2002 in collaboration with the Citizen Organising Foundation.
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Noorah Riyadh on Thirty lessons for those who fast
This book serves as both a startling reminder of what Ramadan really means, as well as being a practical guide on how to transform one's self and one's relationship with others in order to perfect one's relationship with Allah (swt)- which is the ultimate aim of fasting ('O you who have attained to faith!
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M A Sherif on Untying the Knot Muslim Women, Divorce and the Shariah
This is a sensitive and sympathetic empirical study of matrimonial dispute and divorce cases by an academic barrister in which one or other party, usually the wife, has sought the intervention of the Muslim Law Shariah Council (MLSC), London.
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