Islam in the world today [[electronic resource] ] : a handbook of politics, religion, culture, and society / / edited by Werner Ende and Udo Steinbach

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781513403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0-8014-6489-7; 0-8014-6483-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1134 p.)
• Classificazione: 11.80
• Altri autori (Persone): EndeWerner <1937->; SteinbachUdo
• Disciplina: 297
• Soggetti: Islam - 20th century; Islam - 21st century; Islam - History; Islam and state; Islamic civilization
• 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 indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Historical Expansion, Political and Religious History -- I. The World of Islam: A Brief Historical Survey / Busse, Heribert -- II. Sunni Islam / Radtke, Bernd -- III. Shi'i Islam / Ende, Werner -- IV. Revivalist Movements in Islam from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century and the Role of Islam in Modern History: Anticolonialism and Nationalism / Peters, Rudolph -- V. The Distribution of Muslims throughout the World: Figures and Information on the Present Situation / Heine, Peter / Spielhaus, Riem -- Part Two: The Political Role of Islam in the Present -- I. The Intra-Islamic Discussion on a Modern Economic and Social System / Reissner, Johannes -- II. Islamic Economics in Practice: Interest-Free Financial Management / Nienhaus, Volker -- III. Developments in Law / Ebert, Hans-Georg -- IV. The Status of Islam and Islamic Law in Selected Countries -- 1. Turkey / Spuler-Stegemann, Ursula -- 2. Iran / Steinbach, Udo -- 3. Afghanistan / Poya, Abbas -- 4. Russia, the Islamic Republics of the Caucasus, and Central Asia / Freitag-; Wirmingshaus, Rainer -- 5. The People's Republic of China / Heberer, Thomas -- 6. India / Ahmed, Munir D. -- 7. Pakistan / Durán, Khálid / Ahmed, Munir D. -- 8. Bangladesh / Harder, Hans -- 9. Southeast Asia / Schumann, Olaf -- 10. Maghreb / Kogelmann, Franz -- 11. The Independent States of Sub-Saharan Africa / Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. / Loimeier, Roman -- 12. The Islamization of Sub-Saharan Africa / Müller, Hans -- 13. Horn of Africa / Müller, Hans -- 14. Libya / Mattes, Hanspeter -- 15. Egypt / Flores, Alexander -- 16. Sudan / Mattes, Hanspeter -- 17. Israel and the Occupied Territories / Philipp, Thomas -- 18. Syria / Christmann, Andreas -- 19. Iraq / Fürtig, Henner -- 20. Jordan / Dieterich, Renate -- 21. Lebanon / Havemann, Axel -- 22. Saudi Arabia / Steinberg, Guido -- 23. The Small Gulf States / Niethammer, Katja -- 24. Yemen / Glosemeyer, Iris -- V. The Islamic Diaspora: Europe and America -- 1. Western Europe / Landman, Nico -- 2. France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany / Landman, Nico -- 3. Eastern and Southeastern Europe / Kandler, Hermann -- 4. The Americas / Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika -- VI. The Discussion within Islam on Secularism, Democracy, and Human Rights / Flores, Alexander -- VII. The Situation of Women in Islamic Countries / Walther, Wiebke -- VIII. Islamist Groups and Movements / Steinberg, Guido / Hartung, Jan-Peter -- IX. Mystical Brotherhoods and Popular Islam / De Jong, Frederick -- X. Sects and Special Groups / Schmucker, Werner -- XI. Islam and Non-Islamic Minorities / Pink, Johanna -- XII. International Islamic Organizations / Reissner, Johannes -- Part Three: Present-Day Islamic Culture and Civilization -- I. "Orientalistics" and Orientalism / Schulze, Reinhard -- II. Islam and Cultural Self-Assertion / Wielandt, Rotraud -- III. Islam and Local Traditions / Schumann, Olaf / Brakel, Lode Frank -- IV. Is There an Islamic Linguistic Sphere? / Jastrow, Otto -- V. Islam Reflected in the Contemporary Literature of Muslim Peoples / Bürgel, Johann Christoph -- VI. Contemporary Painting and Graphic Art in the Islamic World / Heine, Peter -- VII. Contemporary "Islamic" Architecture and Representational Art / Scharabi, Mohamed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Name Index -- Subject index -- Geographical Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Considered the most authoritative single-volume reference work on Islam in the contemporary world, the German-language Der Islam in der Gegenwart, currently in its fifth edition, offers a wealth of authoritative information on the religious, political, social, and cultural life of Islamic nations and of Islamic immigrant communities elsewhere. Now, Cornell University Press is making this invaluable resource accessible to English-language readers.More current than the latest German edition on which it is based, Islam in the World Today covers a comprehensive array of topics in concise essays by some of the world's leading experts on Islam, including:• the history of Islam from the earliest years through the twentieth century, with particular attention to Sunni and Shi'i Islam and Islamic revival movements during the last three centuries;• data on the advance of Islam along with current population statistics;• Muslim ideas on modern economics, on social order, and on attempts to modernize Islamic law (shari'a) and apply it in contemporary Muslim societies;• Islam in diaspora, especially the situation in Europe and America;• secularism, democracy, and human rights; and• women in Islam Twenty-four essays are each devoted to a specific Muslim country or a country with significant Muslim minorities, spanning Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union.Additional essays illuminate Islamic culture, exploring local traditions; the languages and dialects of Muslim peoples; and art, architecture, and literature. Detailed bibliographies and indexes ensure the book's usefulness as a reference work.