All ebooks in the collection "Muslims in Global Societies Series" - Springer

Between Jabal ?Amil, Karbala and Jerusalem

Gidon Windecker

This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi’a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East. It...

South Asian American Stories of Self

Tasneem Mandviwala

This book acknowledges and discusses the now politically infamous aspects of an American Muslim woman’s life such as Islamophobia and hijab, but it more importantly examines how women actually deal with these obstacles, intentionally shifting the lens to capture a more...

Exploring Islamic Social Work

Hansjörg Schmid , Amir Sheikhzadegan

This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious...

Religious Freedom at Risk

Melanie Adrian

This book examines matters of religious freedom in Europe, considers the work of the European Court of Human Rights in this area, explores issues of multiculturalism and secularism in France, of women in Islam, and of Muslims in the West. The work presents legal...

Muslims and the New Information and Communication Technologies

Thomas Hoffmann , Göran Larsson

This volume deals with the so-called new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interrelationship with Muslims and the interpretation of Islam.This volume taps into what has been labelled Media Studies 2.0, which has been characterized by an...

Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds

Magnus Marsden , Konstantinos Retsikas

This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to...

Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities

Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun , Günther Jikeli

The way people think about the Holocaust is changing.The particular nature of the transformation depends on people’s historical perspectives and how they position themselves and their nation or community vis-à-vis the tragedy. Understandably, European Muslims perceive...

Muslim Merit-making in Thailand's Far-South

Christopher M. Joll

This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand’s Malay far-south.This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani’s oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of...

Java, Indonesia and Islam

Mark Woodward

Mark R. Woodward’s Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta (1989) was one of the most important work on Indonesian Islam of the era. This new volume, Java, Indonesia, and Islam, builds on the earlier study, but also goes beyond it in...

Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Gabriele Marranci

Scholars from various disciplines worked together to present the first interdisciplinary book to address the issue of Islam, secularism and globalization. The book has a clear structure which represents its interdisciplinary approach: the first section addresses the...

Shadows of the Prophet

Douglas S. Farrer