Tag: Sunni

Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies Sunni and Shia Perspectives


Free Download Marcia C. Inhorn, "Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Sunni and Shia Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0857454900 | 2012 | 346 pages | PDF | 958 KB
How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issues that are raised in the process of attempting to conceive life in the face of infertility? This path-breaking volume explores the influence of Islamic attitudes on Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and reveals the variations in both the Islamic jurisprudence and the cultural responses to ARTs.

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The House Divided Islam’s Sunni-Shia Conflict


Free Download The House Divided: Islam’s Sunni-Shia Conflict by Barnaby Rogerson
English | January 4th, 2024 | ISBN: 1781257256 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 3.40 MB
Rogerson’s timely book begins with the contemporary Middle East and the proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies and Shiite Iran. To understand these, he suggests, we must understand the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, the accidental coup that set aside the claims of Ali, and the slaughter of Ali’s son Husayn at Kerbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender fault line in the Middle East.

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And Then We Work for God Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey


Free Download Kimberly Hart, "And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey"
English | 2013 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0804786607, 0804783306 | EPUB | 7,6 mb
Turkey’s contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two villages, this book considers rural spiritual practices and describes a living, evolving Sunni Islam, influenced and transformed by local and national sources of religious orthodoxy.

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