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Books on: islamic converts

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New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts

Book by Anne Sofie Roald; Brill, 2004

Subjects:

Islam--Scandinavia, Multiculturalism--Scandinavia, Muslim Converts From Christianity--Scandinavia, Scandinavia--Ethnic Relations

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...read, she states. Most converts presented similar views...orders her to disregard Islamic principle is one of the...does it mean to disregard Islamic principles? she says, who is to define what is Islamic and what is not Islamic...
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The Deonme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

Book by Marc David Baer; Stanford University Press, 2010

Subjects:

Deonmeh--History, Jews--Turkey--History, Muslim Converts From Judaism--Turkey--History, Turkey--Ethnic Relations, Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...for unlike the Donme, Christians married outsiders and accepted converts. 23. See Fred Donner, From Believers to Muslims: Confessional Self-Identity in the Early Islamic Community, Al-Abhath 50 51 (2002 2003): 9 53. 24. Hope had...
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Shaping the Current Islamic Reformation

Book by B. A.Roberson; Frank Cass, 2003

Subjects:

Islam And Politics--Middle East, Islamic Law--Middle East, Islamic Renewal--Middle East, Middle East--Politics And Government

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Islamic schools, etc. and of Islamic symbolism in the daily life...obstacle for the expansion of Islamic clerical networks beyond the...represented by migrants from Islamic countries or by European converts. The Turkish Sufi tradition...Shaykh Abdullah is a German convert who was trained in Turkey...
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Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World

Book by Katharine Scarfe Beckett; Cambridge University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Christianity And Other Religions, Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon Period, 449-1066, Great Britain--Relations--Islamic Countries, Islam--Relations--Christianity, Islamic Countries--Relations--Great Britain

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...and friends, making several converts but provoking hostility from...marks the first year of the Islamic calendar. Subsequently, Muhammad...Kaegi, Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests , pp. 67, 71 4...translation of the standard Islamic source on the Prophet. A recent...
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The Islamic World: Past and Present - Vol. 1

Book by John L. Esposito, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Tamara Sonn, John O. Voll; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Islam--Encyclopedias, Islamic Countries--Encyclopedias

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...his followers extended the Islamic empire to include Spain...their social structure, but Islamic society soon accommodated large numbers of converts. Two main groups existed within the early Islamic empire-the believers (Muslims...they were not pressured to convert to Is- lam. They were free...

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Journal Articles on: islamic converts

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Muslim Strategies to Convert Western Christians

Journal article by Uriya Shavit, Frederic Wiesenbach; Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 16, 2009

Subjects:

Christian Islamic relations, Muslims, Religious conversion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...convert to Islam. The number of converts significantly increased in...true; however, some Muslim converts reject the very liberal foundations...a very small percentage of converts to Islam turn fanatic, there...God actively. The call to convert, which increased along with...Arab world since the 1970s. Islamic scholars found that to ban...
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Civil and Religious Law in England: a Religious Perspective

Journal article; Islamic Studies, Vol. 47, 2008

Subjects:

Human subjects, Islam, Islamic law, Muslims, Religion, Society

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...it is already true that some Islamic societies have themselves proved...still: what about the historic Islamic prohibition against apostasy...to inflict punishment on a convert. We touch here on one of the...significant number of contemporary Islamic jurists and scholars would...
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Islamic Law in Iran: Can It Protect the International Legal Right of Freedom of Religion and Belief?

Journal article by Jennifer F. Cohen; Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 9, 2008

Subjects:

Human rights, Ideology, Iran, Islamic law, Moral education, Politics, Violations

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

Islamic Law in Iran: Can It Protect...extend to Muslims wishing to convert, such converts can be executed for apostasy...rights declarations of Islamic scholars may appear facially...THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN This Section...
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What Do Egypt's Islamists Want? Moderate Islam and the Rise of Islamic Constitutionalism

Journal article by Bruce K. Rutherford; The Middle East Journal, Vol. 60, 2006

Subjects:

Competition, Elections, Ideology, Islam, Islamic law, Political parties, Politics, Religion, Society

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...creating an atmosphere that converts the teachings of Islam into...its actions, "deepens the Islamic character of the people and...that the state creates the Islamic community by enforcing Islamic law. It gives the abstract...
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Blood, Sweat and Jihad: The Radicalization of the Political Discourse of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) from 1982 Onwards

Journal article by Farish A. Noor; Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 25, 2003

Subjects:

Anwar, Ibrahim, Elections--Analysis, Hezbollah, Islam and politics--Analysis, Islam--Analysis, Islamic Party (Malaysia), Mahathir, Mohamad, Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...by trying to boost its Islamic appeal and credentials...claimed had been trying to convert Malay-Muslims. Another...partys demands for an Islamic state governed by a supreme...have made the idea of an Islamic state even more unpalatable...of some Chinese Muslim converts (which began in the...

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Magazine Articles on: islamic converts

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The Crush of Civilizations: The Afghan Peasant Has a Faith That Has Tunnelled Mountains and Smashed Cities. Can Anyone Really Hope to Convert Him to Western Values?

Magazine article by John Lloyd; New Statesman, Vol. 131, September 9, 2002

Subjects:

Afghanistan--Political aspects, Afghanistan--Social aspects, Islamic countries--Political aspects, Islamic countries--Social aspects, Islamic law--Political aspects, Karimi, Abdul Rahim--Political activity

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...smashed cities. Can anyone really hope to convert him to western values? by John Lloyd...perfectly possible to have a modernising Islamic warlord; indeed, most warlords do have...called, to the modernisers distress, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Many more...
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Muslims at the Edges

Magazine article by Muneer Fareed; Islamic Horizons, Vol. 37, November 2008

Subjects:

Faith, History, Islamic culture, Muslims

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...worked at the edges of the Islamic empire. So, while revelation...drawn from the periphery of the Islamic world, from those who were either displaced Arabs or local converts. Even the Arabic language...Islam, Arab culture and the Islamic faith enjoyed a symbiotic relationship...
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Bolshevism in a Headdress: Islamic Fundamentalism Has More to Do with Hatred of the West Than with Religion

Magazine article by Mustafa Akyol; The American Enterprise, Vol. 16, April 2005

Subjects:

Islamic ethics--Analysis, Islamic fundamentalism--Analysis, Muslims--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...French scholar studying Islamic radicalism in Europe...another French expert on Islamic movements, notes, "To convert to Islam today is a...Israelites gone astray. Islamic radicals, however...even suspect Jewish converts to Islam. They demonstrate...
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Faith in the Market: The Champions of Islamic Finance-Banking and Investing Based on the Koran-Believe That If Islamic Principles Had Been Applied to Wall Street, the Global Economic Crisis Never Would Have Happened. the Handful of Men Who Decide Which Mortgages, Car Loans, and Credit Cards Are Spiritually Sound Are Cashing in. but Critics Smell a Con

Magazine article by Carla Power; Foreign Policy, January 2009

Subjects:

Financial crises--Management, Islamic religious practice--Economic aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...peace of mind. A slim convert who is the product of...the worlds Muslims. Islamic law, or sharia, forbids...the London-based Islamic financial consultant...may not win Islam more converts, but it could provide...Want to Know More? In Islamic Finance: Law, Economics...
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Heads on Hijab

Magazine article by Christine Amina Benlafquih; Islamic Horizons, Vol. 36, July 2007

Subjects:

Clothing, Islamic culture, Islamic law, Muslims, Prejudice, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...attention given to Islamic dress, one might...50-year-old convert of ten years...change is made." Converts like Sajedah...year old American convert, and her close...Muslim Americans are converts. Other reports...gravitating toward Islamic dress than abandoning...Conversely, some converts begin wearing the...the very day they convert; others obsess...

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Newspaper Articles on: islamic converts

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He Blames British Mosques for the 7/7 Bombings, Says Multiculturalism Is a Disaster and Would Throw Every Islamic Fanatic out of the Country. and, Guess What, He's a Muslim Cleric!

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 30, 2009

Subjects:

Islamic fundamentalism--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Laws, regulations and rules, Mosques--Laws, regulations and rules, Multiculturalism--Laws, regulations and rules, Muslims--Laws, regulations and rules, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...opposition towards the fashionable Islamic fundamentalists lies in his...of men and women, including converts. We are not fanatics and appeal...Wahhabi-backed Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies. It preaches the most...Professor Amina Wadud, a female Islamic academic, who gave a sermon...
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BRITAIN HAS 85 SHARIA COURTS; Revealed: The Astonishing Spread of Islamic Justice Behind Closed Doors

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 29, 2009

Subjects:

Islamic law, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Affairs Correspondent AT LEAST 85 Islamic sharia courts are operating...But the study by academic and Islamic specialist Denis MacEoin estimates...non-Muslim man unless he converts to Islam and that any children...they are linked to elements in Islamic law that are seriously out...
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Islamic Flag over the White House; Radical Muslims Want America Ruled by Shariah

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 5, 2010

Subjects:

Islamic law, Muslims, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Islamic Flag over the White House...the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the leading...cooperation with the American Islamic College in Chicago. OIC Secretary...and under Koranic law, converts from Islam face the death...
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Muslim Peril in a New Faith; New Converts Share Fervor

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 6, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...families for leaving the Islamic faith. The convention focused...circumstances. The number of converts from Islam to Christianity...number of Christians who convert to Islam. "Unfortunately...who, like other Christian converts at the conference, was concerned...killed. "For a Muslim to convert to Christianity is a very...Although it is rare for converts to be killed in America because...
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Unveiled, English Convert to Islam Who Broadcast Her Christmas Message on C4

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 30, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Atkinson, an English convert to Islam who travels...into mosques. At an Islamic conference in Sheffield...Since going through an Islamic marriage ceremony with...travelling the country making converts, and broadcasting on...countries and aims to convert the world to Islam...working to establish an Islamic state. Miss Atkinson...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: islamic converts

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Muhammad , Prophet of Islam

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...forbade usury. Enemies and Converts In his first years Muhammad made few converts but many enemies. His first...the Prophet (622), the Islamic calendar begins. Muhammad...contained in the Hadith ). Islamic dogma stresses his exclusively...
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Islam in Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the region of the E Sudan, Islamic penetration followed the route...kingdoms of the E Sudan, became Islamic. The other kingdom, Aloa...unsuccessfully attempted to convert Ethiopia to Islam. In the...brotherhoods also gained many new converts (see Sanusi ). European...incorporated tribal and pre-Islamic practices, and the Muslims...
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Spain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Jews and Moors, and even those who did convert were often persecuted. The expulsion...1492, a large population of Christian converts remained in Spain and, as members of...immense. Moorish architecture (see Islamic art and architecture ) has left a deep...linked to a largely Moroccan group of Islamic terrorists; 190 people died, and more...
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Manichaeism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...d. 272), Mani was free to travel about the realm making converts. However, the accession of Bahram I brought a reaction against...Egypt in 1933 and refutations of Manichaeism by Christian, Islamic, and Zoroastrian polemicists. See also F. C. Burkitt...

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