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(Dis)Locating Meaning: Toward A Hermeneutical Response In Education To Religiously Inspired Extremism, Farid Panjwani Jul 2023

(Dis)Locating Meaning: Toward A Hermeneutical Response In Education To Religiously Inspired Extremism, Farid Panjwani

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

A key epistemological assumption in the ideologies of many of the groups termed extremist is that there is an unmediated access to a Divine Will. Driven by this assumption, and facilitated by several other factors, a range of coercive actions (including violence) to force others into submission to the perceived Will of God are seen as justified by some of these groups. A consideration of how religion is discussed in various contexts, from seminaries and schools to media and policy discourses, shows that this assumption about unmediated access to Divine Will is widely shared and that most children grow up …


What Is Islamic Studies?: European And North American Approaches To A Contested Field, Leif Stenberg, Philip Wood Jan 2022

What Is Islamic Studies?: European And North American Approaches To A Contested Field, Leif Stenberg, Philip Wood

Books

Explores the vibrant, divided and evolving field of Islamic studies in Europe and North America
Covers topics ranging from gender and secularism to pop music and modern science

Discusses contemporary and historical approaches in Islamic Studies

Features contributions from leading scholars studying Islam and Muslims, including Shahzad Bashir, Hadi Enayat, Juliane Hammer, Aaron Hughes, Carool Kersten, Susanne Olsson and Jonas Otterbeck

Addresses the role of both Muslims and non-Muslims in the ongoing construction of Islam
The study of Islam and Muslims in Europe and North America has expanded greatly in recent decades, becoming a passionately debated and divided field. This …


The Awakening Of Islamic Pop Music, Jonas Otterbeck Aug 2021

The Awakening Of Islamic Pop Music, Jonas Otterbeck

Books

No abstract provided.


Efter Jobbet: En Inledande Diskussion Om Studiet Av Fritid, Leif Stenberg, Anders Ackfeldt Dec 2020

Efter Jobbet: En Inledande Diskussion Om Studiet Av Fritid, Leif Stenberg, Anders Ackfeldt

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Islam Enligt Den Islamiska Staten - En Islamologisk Kommentar, Leif Stenberg Dec 2015

Islam Enligt Den Islamiska Staten - En Islamologisk Kommentar, Leif Stenberg

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Engaging The History Of Religion - From An Islamic Studies Perspective, Leif Stenberg, Susanne Olsson Jun 2015

Engaging The History Of Religion - From An Islamic Studies Perspective, Leif Stenberg, Susanne Olsson

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Islam På Svenska : Tidskriften Salaam Och Islams Globalisering, Jonas Otterbeck Jan 2000

Islam På Svenska : Tidskriften Salaam Och Islams Globalisering, Jonas Otterbeck

Books

My PhD dissertation about Islamic discourse in Sweden. It resulted in a few English articles, see below (years around 2000).


Naqshbandiyya In Damascus: Strategies To Establish And Strengthen The Order In A Changing Society, Leif Stenberg Dec 1999

Naqshbandiyya In Damascus: Strategies To Establish And Strengthen The Order In A Changing Society, Leif Stenberg

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

No abstract provided.


The Revealed Word And The Struggle For Authority: Interpretation And Use Of Islamic Terminology Among Algerian Islamists, Leif Stenberg Dec 1996

The Revealed Word And The Struggle For Authority: Interpretation And Use Of Islamic Terminology Among Algerian Islamists, Leif Stenberg

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

No abstract provided.


The Islamization Of Science. Four Muslim Positions Developing An Islamic Modernity, Leif Stenberg Aug 1996

The Islamization Of Science. Four Muslim Positions Developing An Islamic Modernity, Leif Stenberg

Books

No abstract provided.