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The Ahmadiyya quest for religious progress : missionizing Europe 1900-1965
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ISBN: 9004305386 9789004305380 9789004305298 9004305297 Year: 2016 Volume: 19 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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What happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Ahmadiyya reform movement undertook in interwar Europe. Nowadays persecuted in the Muslim world, Ahmadis appear here as the vanguard of a modern, rational Islam that met with a considerable interest. Ahmadiyya mission on the European continent attracted European ‘moderns’, among them Jews and Christians, theosophists and agnostics, artists and academics, liberals and Nazis. Each in their own manner, all these people strove towards modernity, and were convinced that Islam helped realizing it. Based on a wide array of sources, this book unravels the multiple layers of entanglement that arose once the missionaries and their quarry met.


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Quand j'étais Frère musulman : parcours vers un islam des lumières
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ISBN: 2875572903 9782875572905 Year: 2017 Publisher: Waterloo : La Boîte à Pandore,

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Michaël Privot est islamologue, titulaire d'un Master en Histoire et philologie orientales et est Docteur en langues et littératures. Il est présenté par les médias comme " une figure montante dans la représentation de la communauté musulmane ". Michaël Privot est né à Verviers (dans cette fameuse ville belge connue pour être un foyer djihadiste). Véhiculé par la doctrine wahhabiste, il est actif au niveau européen pour la promotion d'un islam progressif et ouvert.Michaël Privot se convertit à l'âge de 18 ans à l'islam, autant par choix personnel que par amour. Sa femme est issue de la communauté turque musulmane. Ce brillant intellectuel, au parcours universitaire important, lit et parle l'arabe et le turc. Ce livre est son histoire, celle du parcours hors du commun d'un jeune homme passé par la confrérie des Frères Musulmans (qu'il a quittée) et dont il connaît parfaitement les rouages.Cet homme au physique de Tintin, bienveillant, est un redoutable débatteur qui connaît parfaitement les défauts et les égarements de sa communauté. Ni naïf, ni agressif, il se bat inlassablement pour une prise de conscience, une action et un réveil de l'islam européen.

Western Muslims and the future of Islam
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ISBN: 019517111X 0199850429 9780199850426 0195183568 0198038208 1429410426 1280845619 9786610845613 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford New York New Delhi Oxford University Press

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In a Western world suddenly acutely interested in Islam, one question has been repeatedly heard above the din: where are the Muslim reformers? With this ambitious volume, Tariq Ramadan firmly establishes himself as one of Europe's leading thinkers and one of Islam's most innovative andimportant voices. As the number of Muslims living in the West grows, the question of what it means to be a Western Muslim becomes increasingly important to the futures of both Islam and the West. While the media are focused on radical Islam, Ramadan claims, a silent revolution is sweeping Islamic communities in


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Pious practice and secular constraints
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ISBN: 9780804794664 9780804792875 0804792879 0804794669 9780804794893 0804794898 Year: 2015 Publisher: Stanford, California

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The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has provoked public anxiety. New government regulations seek not only to restrict Islamic practices within the public sphere, but also to shape Muslims', and especially women's, personal conduct. Pious Practice and Secular Constraints chronicles the everyday ethical struggles of women active in orthodox and socially conservative Islamic revival circles as they are torn between their quest for a pious lifestyle and their aspirations to counter negative representations of Muslims within the mainstream society. Jeanette S. Jouili conducted fieldwork in France and Germany to investigate how pious Muslim women grapple with religious expression: for example, when to wear a headscarf, where to pray throughout the day, and how to maintain modest interactions between men and women. Her analysis stresses the various ethical dilemmas the women confronted in negotiating these religious duties within a secular public sphere. In conversation with Islamic and Western thinkers, Jouili teases out the important ethical-political implications of these struggles, ultimately arguing that Muslim moral agency, surprisingly reinvigorated rather than hampered by the increasingly hostile climate in Europe, encourages us to think about the contribution of non-secular civic virtues for shaping a pluralist Europe.

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