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Islam is one of the world's major religions, and in ancient times, the Islamic world was one of the world's major societies. This title provides a sweeping look at the important contributions people of the Islamic world made to learning, architecture, trade, the military, and religion. Readers will learn about the "birth" of Islam through the height of Islamic rule, life in the Ottoman Empire, and the culture's decline. Coverage of architecture, education, class structure, trade, and the role of men and women supports elementary social studies curricula. Readers will walk away with an understanding of daily life in the culture, as well as its long-standing legacy

Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps, Graphs and Tables -- Foreword -- Part I: At Issue -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Focus on the United States -- 3: Global Perspectives -- Part II: Primary Sources -- 4: United States Documents -- 5: International Documents -- Part III: Research Tools -- 6: How to Research the Muslim World -- 7: Facts and Figures -- 8: Key Players: A to Z -- 9: Organizations and Agencies -- 10: Annotated Bibliography -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Index.

This course of one semester for undergraduates samples the literature—broadly defined—of the Arab, Persian and Turkish peoples and a time span of from just before the rise of Muhammad to modern times. It is literature-centered, i.e., the attention is on the reading and discussion of certain works or selections from works, rather than on literary history. Conceived more on the style of a Great Books course, its aim is to give the student as much direct acquaintance as possible in a few weeks with the thought, and the literary sensibilities of a great civilization. An alternative title would be Islamic Humanities, taking a cue from the more inclusive Oriental Humanities courses and the successful Western Humanities courses which led the way for them.

Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fatal of these currents-the imperial expansion of the West into Muslim lands and the blast of modernity that accompanied it-are now compounded by a third giant wave, globalization.These forces have increasingly tested Islam and Islamic civilization for validity, adaptability, and the ability to hold on to the loyalty of Muslims, says Ali A. Allawi in his provocative new book. While the faith has proved resilient in the face of these challenges, other aspects of Islamic civilization have atrophied or died, Allawi contends, and Islamic civilization is now undergoing its last crisis.The book explores how Islamic civilization began to unravel under colonial rule, as its institutions, laws, and economies were often replaced by inadequate modern equivalents. Allawi also examines the backlash expressed through the increasing religiosity of Muslim societies and the spectacular rise of political Islam and its terrorist offshoots. Assessing the status of each of the building blocks of Islamic civilization, the author concludes that Islamic civilization cannot survive without the vital spirituality that underpinned it in the past. He identifies a key set of principles for moving forward, principles that will surprise some and anger others, yet clearly must be considered

The 'woman question' in Islamic discourse and history is perhaps one of the most emotive and contested issues for Muslims and non-Muslims. In the western imaginary, nourished by vivid media images of shadowed, black-cloaked silent women coupled with sensational stories about honor killings and stoning, domestic oppression, political and legal disenfranchisement, women are symbols of the east-west civilizational conflict. In international politics, the idea of culture has gained prominence and Muslims are presented as a homogenized and troubled culture and Muslim women represent how alien this civilization is. For some Muslims, a patriarchal interpretation of the 'rib of Adam' narrative asserts that a woman is secondary to a man as a human being. Yet, in the course of Muslim civilizational history and tradition, women were heads of states in Muslim societies, philosophers, preachers, intellectuals and freedom fighters. This paper examines this disjuncture and argues that one needs to re-think the 'woman question' not only in the Quran and hadith literature but to re-visit Islamic history and civilization to reclaim the place of women in contemporary Islam and its imaginaries.

Maryam Jameelah was an American convert to Islam. Born to a non-observant Jewish family in New York, she travelled to Pakistan on the invitation of Abul A"la Maududi where she spent more than fifty years and never returned to America. Her various writings on the comparative study of Western and Islamic culture, civilization, and history encouraged her readers to consider her as a fervent critic of Western civilization and as a staunch supporter of Muslim cause in the modern world. However, scant consideration has been given to the fact that while pointing out the reasons for the downfall of Islamic civilization, she also criticizes Muslim scholarship. Therefore, it is worthy to explore how a person trained in the Western thought understands the problems of Muslim civilization and what she suggests as countermeasures to take in this regard. By analyzing her published writings as well as the unpublished works found in her personal library, the current paper highlights her view of Islamic civilization and attempts to present the major problems faced by Muslims in the modern age according to her. Afterwards, it describes her understanding of these problems and shows that she proposes a thorough study of tradition, internal coherence, adoption of modern sciences, democracy and advancement in education for the revival of Islamic civilization without providing any model for the practical implementations of these suggestions

The current study provides the contextual background of the multifaceted and ever-evolving concept of civilization, tracing its origins and evolution in the field of social sciences along with its use in the Islamic context as well as its application in the pre-partition Indian subcontinent. The focus remains on the perspectives of Pakistani scholars regarding the notion of Islamic civilization with a specific emphasis on the ideas of Siraj Munir. The author classified the diverse perspectives of Pakistani scholars into three distinct categories namely materialists, fundamentalists, and idealists. Siraj Munir's views are situated within the idealist category. Through an in-depth analysis, the author provides a comprehensive examination of Munir's ideas regarding the definition, formation, components, evolution, differences, and rise and fall of civilizations, as well as his articulation of Islamic and Pakistani civilizations. The current study offers a nuanced and critical understanding of the concept of civilization, providing valuable insights for scholars and researchers in the field.

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Tearing the fabric -- The break with the past -- The counter-revolt of Islam -- Disenchanting the world -- The reformations of Islam -- Territory and power -- Where next for the Islamic state? -- The rights of man: the duties of man -- Wealth and poverty -- The decline of creativity -- The last crisis