Sufi Responses to the Russian Advance in the North Caucasus
After the first war in Chechnya in 1994 the world discovered the warlike Muslim peoples intent on liberating themselves from domination by a distant Russian government. This work focuses on the impact of the Sufi brotherhoods to analyze the formation of resistance in Chechnya and Daghestan.
Beneath the battle cries of the jihad and an Islamic politics that draws attention to a religion of rigid rules and obsessive devotion, lies the mystical Islam, known as Sufism. This work offers a critical, secular perspective on Sufism and concludes that mystical experience is not a trustworthy validation of religion.
Explores the relation between Malcolm, the Nation of Islam, and Christianity. After revealing the religious roots of the Nation of Islam in relation to Christianity, this title examines Malcolm's development and contributions as an activist, journalist, orator, and revolutionist against the backdrop of his familial religious heritage.
Provides an overview of Islam. To place Islam in perspective, the author discusses the problems raised by Western perceptions of Islam and provides a brief account of Islamic history down to the present. He also explains major topics in Islamic worship to help readers understand it as a living faith.
The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident
On 21 February 1994, a woman entered a crowded public square in Tehran and lit herself on fire. The media reported that the martyr was Dr Homa Darabi, an advocate of civil rights. This book attempts to recreate her childhood in Iran in the '50s and '60s - a time of limited resources, tensions, and religiously sanctioned child abuse.
Explores the relation between Malcolm, the Nation of Islam, and Christianity. This title reveals the religious roots of the Nation of Islam in relation to Christianity. It also examines Malcolm's development and contributions as an activist, journalist, orator, and revolutionist against the backdrop of his familial religious heritage.
Insists that the Koran and those who live under its rule must re-examine this religious text and place it under the microscope of critical intelligence. This book explains how Arab tribal society degenerated from a polytheistic, pre-Islamic culture in which women enjoyed positions of relative prestige to one in which men dominate.
The mythic figure of Malcolm X conjures up a variety of images - black nationalist, extremist, civil rights leader, hero. But how often is Malcolm X understood as a religious leader, a man profoundly affected by his relationship with Allah? This title offers the book length religious treatment of Malcolm X.
A collection of four unconventional essays presented by Islamic art and architecture expert Michael Meinecke in lecture form at New York University before his sudden death in 1995. The case studies, representing years of field experience, do not follow the traditional periodic, linear approach of m