One Islam, many Muslim worlds : spirituality, identity, and resistance across Islamic lands / Raymon...
One Islam, many Muslim worlds : spirituality, identity, and resistance across Islamic lands / Raymon...
One Islam, many Muslim worlds : spirituality, identity, and resistance across Islamic lands / Raymond William Baker.
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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G 2016/2282
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English
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xiii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The mystery of Islam's strength -- Oases of resistance and reform -- Guidance from the center -- Heralds of renewal -- Medieval pathways and Ibn Battuta -- Contemporary networks and Fahmi Huwaidi -- God's "signs" and democracy in Islam -- The Islamist imaginary -- The epochal story of Islam and the...
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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[2015]
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By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented material vulnerability, Islam has emerged as a civiliza...
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One Islam, many Muslim worlds : spirituality, identity, and resistance across Islamic lands / Raymond William Baker.
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Religion and global politics
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/2282
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74VKz4ORlOvA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKz4ORlOvA
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9780199846474
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991023578739702626
