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1 online resource |
| Series |
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 123 |
| Contents |
1 Self-defining through faith the walaya and bara'a dynamics among the early Ibadis / Ersilia Francesca -- Were the Umayyad-era Qadarites kafirs? / Steven Judd -- Denouncing the damned zindiq! Struggle and Interaction between monotheism and dualism / Istvan T. Kristo-Nagy -- Kufr et takfir dans l'ismaelisme fatimide Le Kitab Tanbih al-hadi de 'Amid al-Din al-Kirmani / Daniel De Smet -- The vocabulary of "unbelief" in three biographical dictionaries and two historical chronicles of the 7th/13th and 8th/14th centuries / Sonja Brentjes -- Takfir in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Period / Amalia Levanoni -- Takfir and messianism the Hurufi case / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov -- The Qaizadeli Movement and the revival of takfir in the Ottoman Age / Simeon Evstatiev -- The takfir of the philosophers (and sufis) in Safavid Iran / Sajjad Rizvi Section -- The Cost of condemnation heresy and takfir in a South Indian community / Brian J. Didier -- The Sum of its parts: the state as apostate in Contemporary Saudi militant Islamism / Justyna Nedza -- "The Kafir Religion of the West" takfir of democracy and democrats by radical Islamists / Joas Wagemakers -- On the takfir of Arab women's rights advocates in recent times / Roswitha Badry -- Apostasy in the West: a Swedish Case Study / Goran Larsson -- Essential Islam: the minimum that a Muslim is Required to acknowledge / Hossein Modarressi -- Abandoning prayer and the declaration of unbelief in Imami jurisprudence / Robert Gleave -- Society and propriety: the cultural construction of defamation and blasphemy as crimes in Islamic law / Intisar A. Rabb -- Literary Works as Evidence of Unbelief / Zoltan Szombathy -- "Religions, opinions and beliefs are nothing but roads and paths ... while the goal is one": between unity and diversity in Islamic mysticism / Michael Ebstein |
| Summary |
The present volume-the first of its kind-deals with takfīr : accusing onés opponents of unbelief ( kufr ). Originating in the first decades of Islam, this practice has been applied intermittently ever since. The nineteen studies included here deal with cases, covering different periods and parts of the Muslim world, of individuals or groups that used the instrument of takfīr to brand their opponents-either persons, groups or even institutions-as unbelievers who should be condemned, anathematized or even persecuted. Each case presented is placed in its sociopolitical and religious context. Together the contributions show the multifariousness that has always characterized Islam and the various ways in which Muslims either sought to suppress or to come to terms with this diversity. With contributions by: Roswitha Badry, Sonja Brentjes, Brian J. Didier, Michael Ebstein, Simeon Evstatiev, Ersilia Francesca, Robert Gleave, Steven Judd, István T. Kristó-Nagy, Göran Larsson, Amalia Levanoni, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Hossein Modarressi, Justyna Nedza, Intisar A. Rabb, Sajjad Rizvi, Daniel de Smet, Zoltan Szombathy, Joas Wagemakers |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kufr (Islam)
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Islam -- Doctrines -- History
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Islam -- Doctrines
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Kufr (Islam)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Adang, Camilla, editor
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Anṣārī, Ḥasan, 1970 or 1971- editor
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Fierro, Ma. Isabel (María Isabel), editor.
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Schmidtke, Sabine, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004307834 |
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9004307834 |
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