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Reading and Writing Scripture in New Religious Movements.New Bibles and New Revelations
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ISBN: 9781137434821 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan


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The Yezidis : the history of a community, culture and religion
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ISBN: 9781784532161 9781848852747 1848852746 1784532169 Year: 2014 Publisher: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States and in Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,


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Jews, Christians, and the abode of Islam
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ISBN: 1280126213 9786613530073 0226471098 0226471071 9780226471099 9781280126215 9780226471075 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago London

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In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined-and continues to define today-the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner looks closely at the debates occasioned by modern Western scholarship on Islam to throw new light on the social and political status of medieval Jews and Christians in various Islamic lands from the seventh to the thirteenth century. Utilizing a vast array of primary sources, Lassner balances the rhetoric of literary and legal texts from the Middle Ages with other, newly discovered medieval sources that describe life as it was actually lived among the three faith communities. Lassner shows just what medieval Muslims meant when they spoke of tolerance, and how that abstract concept played out at different times and places in the real world of Christian and Jewish communities under Islamic rule. Finally, he considers what a more informed picture of the relationship among the Abrahamic faiths in the medieval Islamic world might mean for modern scholarship on medieval Islamic civilization and, not the least, for the highly contentious global environment of today.


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Sufism
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ISBN: 9781400887972 1400887976 9780691139098 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present. After centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the twentieth century, only to experience a stunning revival in recent decades. In this comprehensive new history of Sufism from the earliest centuries of Islam to today, Alexander Knysh, a leading expert on the subject, reveals the tradition in all its richness. Knysh explores how Sufism has been viewed by both insiders and outsiders since its inception. He examines the key aspects of Sufism, from definitions and discourses to leadership, institutions, and practices. He devotes special attention to Sufi approaches to the Qur'an, drawing parallels with similar uses of scripture in Judaism and Christianity. He traces how Sufism grew from a set of simple moral-ethical precepts into a sophisticated tradition with professional Sufi masters (shaykhs) who became powerful players in Muslim public life but whose authority was challenged by those advocating the equality of all Muslims before God. Knysh also examines the roots of the ongoing conflict between the Sufis and their fundamentalist critics, the Salafis--a major fact of Muslim life today. Based on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Sufism is an indispensable account of a vital aspect of Islam --

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Mysticism --- RELIGION / Islam / General. --- Sufism --- Sufism. --- Islam --- History. --- Islam. --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Abrahamic religions. --- Al-Ghazali. --- Al-Qushayri. --- Asceticism. --- Author. --- Bernard McGinn (theologian). --- Bruce Lincoln. --- Christian mysticism. --- Christianity and Islam. --- Christianity. --- Christopher Melchert. --- Dhikr. --- Dichotomy. --- Divine presence. --- Doctrine. --- Edward Said. --- Esoteric interpretation of the Quran. --- Exegesis. --- Fear of God. --- Fiqh. --- Font Bureau. --- God. --- Hadith. --- Heresy. --- Historiography. --- Ibn Khaldun. --- Ibn Taymiyyah. --- Idolatry. --- Illustration. --- Irfan. --- Islamic culture. --- Islamic fundamentalism. --- Islamic holy books. --- Islamic studies. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Judeo-Christian. --- Justification (theology). --- Kafir. --- Kashf. --- Literature. --- Louis Massignon. --- Mansur Al-Hallaj. --- Modernity. --- Monasticism. --- Mosque. --- Muhammad. --- Murid. --- Muslim world. --- Muslim. --- Mystical theology. --- Mysticism. --- Najm al-Din. --- Naqshbandi. --- Narrative. --- Occult. --- Orientalism. --- Orthodoxy. --- P. J. Conkwright. --- Persecution. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physician. --- Piety. --- Plotinus. --- Polemic. --- Political correctness. --- Presence of God (Catholicism). --- Princeton University Press. --- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. --- Quran. --- Religion. --- Religious studies. --- Religious text. --- Renunciation. --- Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi. --- Saint. --- Salafi movement. --- Sayyid. --- Sheikh. --- Silsila. --- Sufi cosmology. --- Sufi metaphysics. --- Sufi studies. --- Sunni Islam. --- Tariqa. --- The Sufis. --- Theology. --- Treatise. --- Ulama. --- Umberto Eco. --- Ummah. --- Wahhabism. --- William Chittick. --- World to come. --- World view. --- Worship. --- Writing.

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