1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459291703321

Autore

Akhtar Shabbir <1960-, >

Titolo

Islam as political religion : the future of an imperial faith / / Shabbir Akhtar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-90143-4

1-282-93005-2

9786612930058

0-203-84182-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

297.2/72

297.272

Soggetti

Islam and culture

Islam and politics

Islam and secularism

Religion and politics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; A note on Arabic transliteration and on Islamic dates; Introduction; Part I The prophetic consummation: Islam as original and final religion; 1 A prophetic religion; 2 A literary religion; 3 A universal religion; Part II The twin birth: Islam as empowered religion; 4 A political religion: Muhammad as statesman; 5 A secular religion: Faith or ideology?; 6 A legal religion; 7 An imperial religion; Part III The crucible of reason: Islam as contemporary religion; 8 A rational religion; 9 An ethical religion; 10 A private religion; Part IV Epilogue

11 The future scope of an imperial faithNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This comprehensive survey of contemporary Islam provides a philosophical and theological approach to the issues faced by Muslims and the question of global secularisation. Engaging with critics of modern Islam, Shabbir Akhtar sets out an agenda of what his religion is



and could be as a political entity. Exploring the views and arguments of philosophical, religious and political thinkers, the author covers a raft of issues faced by Muslims in an increasingly secular society. Chapters are devoted to the Qur'an and Islamic literature; the history of Islam; Sharia law; political Islam; I

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780973403321

Titolo

Medieval education / / edited by Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2005

ISBN

0-8232-4736-8

1-282-69843-5

9786612698439

0-8232-3791-5

0-8232-2427-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages)

Collana

Fordham series in medieval studies ; ; no. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

BegleyRonald B

KoterskiJoseph W

Disciplina

370/.94/0902

Soggetti

Education, Medieval - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The essays that make up this volume were originally delivered as lectures at the twentieth annual Medieval Studies Conference at Fordham University, held in March 2000, on 'Education in the Middle Ages'."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bishops, barbarians, and the "Dark Ages": the fate of late Roman educational institutions in early medieval Gaul / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Liturgy as education in the Middle Ages / Evelyn Birge Vitz -- Revisiting ancient practices: priestly training before / Trent Christopher M. Bellitto -- Interpreting Medieval literacy: learning and education in Slavia Orthodoxa (Bulgaria) and Byzantium in the ninth to the twelfth centuries / Tania D. Ivanova-Sullivan -- Reason, rhetoric, and redemption: the teaching of law and the Planctus Mariae in the late



Middle Ages / Scott L. Taylor -- Sermons and preaching in/and the Medieval university / Phyllis B. Roberts -- The formation of a thirteenth-century ecclesiastical reformer at the Franciscan Studium in Paris: the case of Eudes Rigaud / Adam J. Davis -- Educational communities in German convents of the Franciscan and Dominican provinces before 1350 / Andreas Rüther -- Aquinas's Summa theologiae as pedagogy / Mark F. Johnson -- Education in Dante's Florence revisited: Remigio de' Girolami and the Schools of Santa Maria Novella / M. Michèle Mulchahey -- Moral philosophy and Dominican education: Bartolomeo da San Concordio's compendium moralis philosophiae / Charles F. Briggs.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume offers original studies on the subject of medieval education, not only in the formal academicsense typical of schools and universities but also in a broader cultural sense that includes law, liturgy, and the new religious orders of the high Middle Ages. Its essays explore the transmission of knowledge during the middle ages in various kinds of educational communities, including schools, scriptoria, universities, and workshops.