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100 1 _aEnde, Werner.
245 1 0 _aIslam in the World Today :
_bA Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aIthaca :
_bCornell University Press,
_c2010.
264 4 _c©2011.
300 _a1 online resource (1135 pages)
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505 0 _aCover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Historical Expansion, Political and Religious History -- I. The World of Islam: A Brief Historical Survey -- 1. The Prophet Muhammad and the Emergence of Islam -- 2. The Four "Rightly Guided" Caliphs: The First Wave of Conquests -- 3. The Arabian Dynasty of the Umayyads: The Second Wave of Conquests -- 4. The Abbasid Empire and Islam as a World Religion: Political Divisions Based on Religious Dissent -- 5. The Turks: Assertion of Sunni Orthodoxy -- 6. The Mongols and the Timurids: The End of the Caliphate -- 7. The Islamic World from the Sixteenth Century to the Present -- II. Sunni Islam -- 1. Historical Outline -- 2. Theology -- 3. Law -- 4. Mysticism -- III. Shi'i Islam -- 1. Twelver Shi'a -- a. The Shi' i View of History -- b. The Imamate Doctrine -- c. Hadith and Theology -- d. Orthodoxy and Popular Faith -- e. The Twelvers, the Mahdi, and Secular Power -- 2. The Zaydis -- IV. Revivalist Movements in Islam from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century and the Role of Islam in Modern History -- 1. Revivalist Movements from the Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 2. Islam and the West: Religious Developments during and after the Colonial Era -- 3. The Twentieth Century: Battle for the Islamic State -- V. The Distribution of Muslims throughout the World -- Part Two: The Political Role of Islam in the Present -- I. The Intra-Islamic Discussion on a Modern Economic and Social System -- 1. Social Problems and the Term "Socialism" -- 2. The Ideology of Cooperation -- 3. "Islamic Socialism" -- 4. Basic Theological Positions and Societal Ideals -- 5. The Doctrine of Property -- 6. Tax for the Poor and Alms -- 7. The Role of the State -- 8. Theory and New Practices -- II. Islamic Economics in Practice Interest-Free Financial Management -- 1. Basic Concepts.
505 8 _aa. Prohibition of Riba (Interest Ban) -- b. Interest-Free Banking Practices -- c. Interest-Free Securities -- d. Takaful: Islamic Alternatives to Insurance -- 2. The Practice of Islamic Banks -- a. Origin and Development -- b. Quantitative Dimens -- c. Business Practice -- 3. Institutional Infrastructure of the Islamic Finance Sector -- a. The Accounting and Auditing Organization of Islamic Financial Institutions -- b. Islamic Financial Services Board -- c. International Islamic Financial Market -- d. Liquidity Management Center -- e. International Islamic Rating Agency -- f. Dubai International Financial Centre -- g. Islamic Stock Exchange Indexes -- h. Legal and Corporate Consultancies, Rating Agencies, Media -- i. Training, Education, and Research -- 4. The Islamic Finance Sector in Selected Countries -- a. Pakistan -- b. Iran -- c. Sudan -- d. Bahrain and Dubai -- e. Malaysia -- 5. Closing Remarks -- III. Developments in Law -- 1. The Law of Islamic Countries: Sources and Methods -- a. Islamic Law -- b. "Western" Law -- c. Customary Law -- d. Methods of Lawmaking -- 2. Constitutional Law -- a. Legal History and Legal Situation -- b. Shari¨a-Relevant Characteristics of Constitutions of Islamic Countries -- 3. Criminal Law -- a. Criminal Law in the Context of Shari¨a -- b. Legal History and Legal Situation -- c. Problematic Areas for Criminal Law in the Islamic World -- 4. Personal Status Laws -- a. Legal History and Legal Situation -- b. Marriage and Its Effects -- c. Divorce -- d. Kinship and Guardianship -- e. Inheritance and Bequests -- 5. Civil, Commercial, and Economic Law -- a. Legal History and Legal Situation -- b. Civil Law -- c. Commercial and Economic Law -- IV: The Status of Islam and Islamic Law in Selected Countries -- 1. Turkey -- a. The Current Situation -- b. The Historical Background -- c. Religion and Politics -- e. The Alevis.
505 8 _af. Outlook -- 2. Iran -- a. Early Historical Background -- b. The Role of the Clergy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- c. The Basis of Clerical Power -- d. Islam in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- e. Friction and Differences within the Clerical Establishment -- 3. Afghanistan -- a. The Islamization of Afghanistan -- b. Islam in the Afghan Nation-State -- c. The Role of Islam in the Afghanistan Conflict -- d. The Position of Islam in Afghanistan's Constitutions -- e. Closing Remarks -- 4. Russia, the Islamic Republics of the Caucasus, and Central Asia -- a. Historical Background up to the Soviet Period -- b. Islam in the Soviet Union -- c. Islamic "Rebirth" in Central Asia -- d. Islam in the Caucasus and Russia -- e. Extremist Infl uences and "Wahhabism" -- f. Islamist Organizations in Central Asia -- g. Government Islamic Policies -- 5. The People's Republic of China -- a. Islamic Ethnic Groups in China -- b. History of Islam in China -- c. Special Characteristics of Islam in China -- d. East Turkistan (Xinjiang): Main Region of Conflict -- e. The Renaissance of Islam and the Growing Sense of Ethnicity in Xinjian -- f. Beijing and Islam -- g. Conclusion -- 6. India -- a. Distrust of Muslims -- c. State Law and Shari¨a -- d. Changed Social Conditions -- e. Muslim Political Organizations -- f. The Special Case of Kashmir -- g. Sects and Currents in Indian Islam -- 7. Pakistan -- a. The Question of Muslim Self-Ima -- b. The Variety of Islamic Movements and Sects -- c. "Islamization" as an Objective of the State -- 8. Bangladesh -- a. Overview -- b. The Islamization of Bengal -- c. Folk Islam and Sufi Traditions -- d. Islamic Reform and Islamism -- e. Islam and National Identity -- 9. Southeast Asia -- a. Indonesia -- b. Malaysia -- c. The Philippines -- d. Brunei -- e. Singapore -- f. Thailand -- 10. Maghreb.
505 8 _aa. The Maghreb as a Geographical and Cultural Unity -- b. The Infl uence of the Salafi yya Movement on Islam in the Maghreb -- c. Islam in the Constitutions of the Maghreb States -- d. State Islamic Structures -- e. Islamism in the Maghreb -- 11. The Independent States of Sub-Saharan Africa -- a. Introduction -- b. Islam and National Consciousness -- c. Islam and the New State System in Sub-Saharan Africa -- d. The Revival of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 12. The Islamization of Sub-Saharan Africa -- a. West Africa -- b. Eastern Sudan -- c. Northeast Africa -- d. East Africa -- 13. Horn of Africa -- a. Somalia -- b. Ethiopia -- c. Eritrea -- d. Djibouti -- 14. Libya -- a. The Sanusiyya Brotherhood and the Founding of the Kingdom -- b. Muammar el-Qaddafi 's Religious Revolution -- c. The Confl ict with Islamists -- 15. Egypt -- a. A Paradigm Change -- b. Legal Anchoring of Islam -- c. The Shari¨a Debate -- d. The Political Debate -- f. A New Secularism -- g. Recent Developments -- 16. Sudan -- a. The Origins of the Ta© ifi yya in Sudan -- b. The Third Political Factor: The Muslim Brotherhood -- c. The Republican Brothers -- d. Forced Islamization under al-Bashir -- 17. Israel and the Occupied Territories -- 18. Syria -- a. Official Law and Shari'a -- b. The Ifta' System and Awqaf Administration -- c. The Place of Islam in Ba¨ th Ideology and Policy -- d. Official "State Islam" -- e. Liberal Islam of Muslim Intellectuals -- 19. Iraq -- a. Islam as a Factor in the Birth of Modern Iraq -- b. Political Islam under the Primacy of Nationalism -- c. Saddam Hussein's Dictatorship: The Carrot and the Stick -- d. New Constellations after the Fall of the Ba¨ th Regime -- 20. Jordan -- a. Religion -- b. The Religious Legitimation of Hashemite Rule -- c. The Relationship among the State, Islamic Clergy, and Islamist Opposition -- d. The Status of Islamic Law.
505 8 _a21. Lebanon -- a. Population and Religious Communities -- b. The Sunnites -- c. The Shi'ites -- d. The Druzes -- e. Future Prospects -- 22. Saudi Arabia -- a. The Wahhabiyya and the Creation of the Saudi State -- b. Politics and Religion in the Infancy of the Third Saudi State -- c. Religion and the Political System -- d. The Legal and Justice Systems -- e. Islamism in an Islamist State? -- 23. The Small Gulf States -- a. Legal Schools and Confessional Affiliations of the Ruling Families and the Societies -- b. Judiciary -- c. Currents of Political Islam -- 24. Yemen -- a. North Yemen -- b. South Yemen -- c. The Republic of Yemen -- d. Conclusion -- V. The Islamic Diaspora: Europe and America -- 1. Western Europe -- a. Introduction -- b. Demographics: The Muslim Population in Western Europe -- c. Creating an Islamic Infrastructure -- d. Integration and Assimilation: The Response of the Majority Society -- e. From Foreign Element to European Religion? -- 2. France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany -- a. France -- b. Great Britain -- c. The Netherlands -- d. Germany -- 3. Eastern and Southeastern Europe -- a. Mixed Religious Spatial Entities -- b. States in the Process of Nation Building -- c. Established States with Ethnic Religious Minorities -- d. States with an Assimilated or Hardly Visible Muslim Culture -- 4. The Americas -- VI. The Discussion within Islam on Secularism, Democracy, and Human Rights -- 1. The Context -- 2. Important Stages in the Debate -- 3. Arguments -- 4. Democracy -- 5. Human Rights -- VII. The Situation of Women in Islamic Countries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reevaluation: The Revival of Traditions and Modernization since the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Educational Opportunities -- 4. Working Women -- 5. Women's Organizations and Magazines: Voting Rights and Politics.
505 8 _a6. A Headscarf or Veil: Clothing as an Indication of an Individual's Attitude.
520 _aThe most authoritative single-volume reference work on Islam in the contemporary world--now available in English.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aIslam -- 20th century.
650 0 _aIslam -- 21st century.
650 0 _aIslam -- History.
650 0 _aIslam and state.
650 0 _aIslamic civilization.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aSteinbach, Udo.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
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