Tag: Muslim

January 8, 2024

Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil Condensed Version

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Free Download Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Condensed Version By Katherine Bullock
2010 | 35 Pages | ISBN: 1565643585 | PDF | 1 MB
The need to challenge the negative stereotype of the veil as oppressive is urgent. It is on many people’s minds and the debate on whether to wear or not to wear is becoming ever more heated. This work focuses on the popular Western cultural view that the veil is oppressive for Muslim women and highlights the underlying patterns of power behind this constructed image of the veil. It examines the colonial roots of this negative stereotype and challenges the arguments of liberal feminists such as Mernissi to assert that in a culture of consumerism, the veil can be experienced as a liberation from the tyranny of the beauty myth and the thin ideal of woman

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January 8, 2024

Muslim Merit-making in Thailand’s Far-South

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Free Download Muslim Merit-making in Thailand’s Far-South By Christopher M. Joll (auth.)
2012 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 9400724845 | PDF | 4 MB
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 Thai and Islamic influences over the last hundred years. The volume describes religious rhetoric related to merit-making being conducted in both Thai and Malay, that the spiritual currency of merit is generated through the performance of locally occurring Malay adat, and globally normative amal ‘ibadat. Concerning the rationale for merit-making, merit-makers are motivated by both a desire to ensure their own comfort in the grave and personal vindication at judgment, as well as to transfer merit for those already in the grave, who are known to the merit-maker. While the rhetoric elements of Muslim merit-making reveal Thai influence, its ritual elements confirm the local impact of reformist activism.

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January 5, 2024

Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations

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Free Download Katy P. Sian, "Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations"
English | ISBN: 0739178741 | 2013 | 148 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book provides a critical investigation into Sikh and Muslim conflict in the postcolonial setting. Being Sikh in a diasporic context creates challenges that require complex negotiations between other ethnic minorities as well as the national majority. Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations maps in theoretically informed and empirically rich detail the trope of Sikh-Muslim antagonism as it circulates throughout the diaspora. While focusing on contemporary manifestations of Sikh-Muslim hostility, the book also draws upon historical examples of such conflict to explore the way in which the past has been mobilized to tell a story about the future of Sikhs. This book uses critical race theory to understand the performance of postcolonial subjectivity in the heart of the metropolis.

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January 5, 2024

On the Other A Muslim View

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Free Download Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, Desmond Maurer, "On the Other: A Muslim View"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0823231119 | PDF | pages: 199 | 1.0 mb
An exceptionally timely book by a leading European exponent of Muslim intellectual tradition, On the Other: A Muslim View is a concise and accessible exploration of the foundations of Islamic thought on human nature, our place in the cosmos, and our proper relationship to the divine, based on peace, knowledge, love, beauty, humility, and respect for and acceptance of others and difference.

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