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"This updated, 2nd edition of the Handbook book covers a range of political actors that use Islam to advance their cause. While they share the ultimate vision of establishing a political system governed by Islam, the tactics and methods can be very different. Capturing this diversity, this volume also sheds light on some of the less-known experiences from South East Asia to North Africa. Drawing on the expertise from some of the top scholars in the world, the chapters examine the main issues surrounding political Islam across the world, including: Theoretical foundations of political Islam, Historical background, Geographical spread of Islamist movements, Political strategies adopted by Islamist groups, Terrorism, Attitudes towards democracy, Relations between Muslims and the West in the international sphere, Challenges of integration, Gender relations Capturing the geographical spread of Islamism and the many manifestations of this political phenomenon make this book a key resource for students and researchers interested in political Islam, Muslim affairs and the Middle East"--

In the context of Pope Benedict's controversial remarks on Islam, discussion begins by distinguishing between Christian & Islamic understandings of the reason-revelation relationship. The pope's conclusion that the different positions of reason within Islam & Christianity yield different propensities for violence among their respective faithful is supported. The Muslim response to the pope's words is examined, identifying three divergent views: traditionalists & two kinds of revivalists. Attention is given to the substance of the traditionalist "Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI." It is argued that while contributing to a dialogue, the document does not address the pope's central contention that in Catholicism reason serves to regulate interpretations of scripture that are irrational & unjust, while precepts in Islam's Qur'an characterize what is reasonable & just, which may serve to legitimize violence & irrationality. Two issues with the pope's stance are briefly critically addressed. D. Edelman

Conspicuously, Islam has become a key concern in most European societies with respect to issues of immigration, integration, identity, values and inland security. As the mere presence of Muslim minorities fails to explain these debates convincingly, new questions need to be asked: How did »Islam« become a topic? Who takes part in the debates? How do these debates influence both individual as well as collective »self-images« and »image of others«? Introducing Switzerland as an under-researched object of study to the academic discourse on Islam in Europe, this volume offers a fresh perspective o

Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister as keys to understanding the invention of the Islamic ummat as a modern fraternal community. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant binaries of modern and traditional, West and East, secular and religious, and civilized and barbaric. Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister responds to a number of important questions raised in connection with 9/11. The author considers how veiling intersects with other identity markers in nation-state building and modern formations of gendered citizenship. She shows how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are fed by a hybrid blend of images and myths of both pre-Islamic and Islamic Iran, as well as globally circulated patriarchal ideologies

Einführung -- Islam, Scharia, Islamismus – eine Begriffsskizze von Lothar Häberle -- Freiheit und ihre Grenzen für Muslime und Islamfeinde – Zur Religions-, Meinungsäußerungs- und Kunstfreiheit unter dem Grundgesetz von Michael Sachs -- Die Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu Fragen der Religions- und Glaubensfreiheit – Vom "Aktion Rumpelkammer"-Beschluss zu den "Kopftuch"-Entscheidungen von Udo Steiner.-Toleranz in islam-bezogenen Konflikten um Religions- und Meinungsfreiheit – Islamische Kopfbedeckungen in der Öffentlichkeit, Blasphemie durch Karikatur und Satire sowie der Wunsiedel-Beschluss des BVerfG von Lothar Häberle -- Europäische Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit im Zeitalter des Internets von Verena Hoene -- Neue Herausforderungen für die Meinungsfreiheit in Europa – Zur ambivalenten Rolle des Internets und zu den Auseinandersetzungen um "den" Islam von Klaus F. Gärditz -- Internet-Konflikte zwischen Meinungsfreiheit und Recht auf persönliche Ehre – Anonymität im Netz, Hate Speech-Bekämpfung, Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz und alternative Regulierungsansätze für das Internet von Lothar Häberle.

"Most of the essays in this volume were originally delivered as papers at a conference in Uppsala, Sweden, in October 2017, by top scholars in this evolving field. The conference had a theme of the Roman Catholic theology of religions, which in general terms makes up the subject of the foreword and the first three essays of the book, the third of which addresses Judaism specifically. The next three essays discuss the status of truth claims in Catholic and Christian theology of religions. In the final four essays of the book, the special case of Islam in relation to Christianity is specifically in focus. The concluding essay, "A Faithful Interpretation of Islam," gives the collection its name"--

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Part I. The general background : The broader context of liberal religion -- Part II. The Abrahamic religions : Liberal Judaism -- Liberal Protestantism -- Liberalism in the Roman Catholic Church -- Liberal Islam

Sociologically speaking, Islam is what Muslims do. From this premise, the book elaborates a sociology of Islam in three major chapters. They show Islam has operated as a cluster of practical orientations ("lifeworlds") that established it as a presence in three fields of social life: global networks, public philosophies, and participatory ethics. The book argues that all three are poorly understood in recent literature, which tends to focus on one specific problem or another, and then in isolation from global and historical contexts. The book argues that the larger preoccupations of ordinary Muslims--how to imagine a global society; how to guide life in the manner of a total philosophy; and how to relate to the world of daily struggles in forums and social movements--are neither unique to the present period nor to religious life. But the career of a particular religion offers a focused empirical lens through which we may offer meaningful propositions about the more general form of these concerns