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Islam Extremism --- Muhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawy --- holy war --- intolerance --- violence --- Muslim thought --- Islamic law --- religious reform --- Judaism --- Christianity --- religion and politics

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9/11 and continued acts of global terrorism have challenged the understanding of academic experts, policymakers, and students, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Critical questions have been raised about Islam and Muslim politics in the modern world: Are Islam and modernity compatible? Is Islam in need of and capable of reform? What do Islam and what do Muslims have to say about globalization, democracy, human rights, women, jihad, violence, terrorism, and suicide bombing? Thoroughly revised and updated in this second edition, Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives responds to these and other questions, taking into account the myriad of changes and challenges that Islam and Muslims have experienced over the last twenty years. Featuring numerous contemporary writings, fifty percent of which are new to this edition, it provides a point of entry into the various and changing dynamics of Muslim discourse and politics. This volume also bridges the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries by retaining relevant classic selections from the first edition--by a diverse group of contributors from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the U.S.--that offer historical background. Ideal for courses on Islam, politics in Islam, and Middle Eastern history, Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives, Second Edition, presents a wide range of viewpoints from a cross-section of Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders, from secular to devout, traditionalist to reformist, and moderate to extremist. The essays address key issues including Islam and nationalism, socialism, the secular state, economics, modernization, democracy, women, jihad, violence, terrorism, suicide bombing, globalization, and civilizational dialogue.

Islam --- Religious awakening --- Réveil religieux --- Islam. --- Histoire --- Geografie --- Sociale geografie --- Maatschappij. --- Réveil religieux --- -Religious awakening --- -297 --- Awakening, Religious --- Awakening (Religion) --- 297 --- Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Islam - 20th century --- Religious awakening - Islam --- intellectualism --- 9-11 --- terrorism --- Muslim politics --- modernity --- religious reform --- globalization --- democracy --- human rights --- gender issues --- jihad --- violence --- suicide bombing

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In The Wahhabis seen through European Eyes (1772-1830) Giovanni Bonacina offers an account of the early reactions in Europe to the rise of the Wahhabi movement in Arabia. Commonly pictured nowadays as a form of Muslim fundamentalism, the Wahhabis appeared to many European witnesses as the creators of a deistic revolution with serious political consequences for the Ottoman ancien regime. They were seen either in the light of contemporary events in France, or as Islamic theological reformers in the mould of Calvin, opposing an established church and devotional traditions. These audacious but fascinating attempts to interpret the unknown by way of the better known are illustrated in Bonacina’s book.

Wahhābīyah --- Public opinion --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Najdi doctrine --- Wahabism --- Wahhabi mission --- Wahhabi movement --- Wahhabi movement (India) --- Wahhabi religious reform movement --- Wahhabis --- Wahhabism --- Wahhabiyya --- Islamic sects --- Islamic renewal --- History. --- History --- Europe --- Intellectual life

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The Protectorate is arguably the Cinderella of Interregnum studies: it lacks the immediate drama of the Regicide, the Republic or the Restoration, and is often dismissed as a 'retreat from revolution', a short period of conservative rule before the inevitable return of the Stuarts. The essays in this volume present new research that challenges this view. They argue instead that the Protectorate was dynamic and progressive, even if the policies put forward were not always successful, and often created further tensions within the government and between Whitehall and the localities. Particular topics include studies of Oliver Cromwell and his relationship with Parliament, and the awkward position inherited by his son, Richard; the role of art and architecture in creating a splendid protectoral court; and the important part played by the council, as a law-making body, as a political cockpit, and as part of a hierarchy of government covering not just England but also Ireland and Scotland. There are also investigations of the reactions to Cromwellian rule in Wales, in the towns and cities of the Severn/Avon basin, and in the local communities of England faced with a far-reaching programme of religious reform. PATRICK LITTLE is Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust. Contributors: BARRY COWARD, DAVID L. SMITH, JASON PEACEY, PAUL HUNNEYBALL, BLAIR WORDEN, PETER GAUNT, LLOYD BOWEN, STEPHEN K. ROBERTS, CHRISTOPHER DURSTON.

Cromwell, Oliver, --- Great Britain --- History --- Politics and government --- Cromwell, Oliver --- Cromwel, Oliver --- HISTORY / Modern / General. --- History of Parliament Trust. --- Interregnum studies. --- Oliver Cromwell. --- PATRICK LITTLE. --- Protectorate. --- Richard Cromwell. --- Severn/Avon basin. --- Stuarts. --- Wales. --- architecture. --- art. --- conservative rule. --- council. --- law-making body. --- religious reform.

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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unlike previous books on conversion in early modern Spain, however, Parables of Coercion focuses not on the experience of the converts themselves, but rather on how questions surrounding conversion drove religious reform and scholarly innovation. In its careful examination of how Spanish authors transformed the history of scholarship through debate about forced religious conversion, Parables of Coercion makes us rethink what we mean by tolerance and intolerance, and shows that debates about forced conversion and assimilation were also disputes over the methods and practices that demarcated one scholarly discipline from another.

Moriscos. --- Muslims --- Jews --- Spanish literature --- Conversion to Christianity --- History and criticism. --- Catholic Church --- History. --- Spain --- Intellectual life --- conversion, religion, islam, spain, history, christianity, pluralism, judaism, religious reform, scholarship, tolerance, intolerance, assimilation, moriscos, jews, muslims, catholic church, literature, spirituality, belief, nonfiction, heresy, theology, canon, philology, orthodoxy, ritual, faith, political science, politics, economics, iberian studies, new world, secularism.