This book provides an analytical study of the M%atur%idite school of theology. Affiliated with the Hanaf%ite school of jurisprudence, the M%atur%idites represented one of the most influential schools of scholastic theology (kalam) in Sunni Islam. Attempting to fill the historical gaps in the study of early and classical M%atur%idite thought and scholarship, this work explores not only the rise of the school, but also maps out seminal phases in its subsequent intellectual development. With a concern for context and relevance, it offers key insights into the literary legacy of the school, covering the work of its founder and later M%atur%idite theologians. The study includes a critical Arabic edition of the treatise entitled al-H%ad%i (The Guide), authored by one of the luminaries of the school, al-Imam al-Khabb%az%i (d. 691 AH/ 1292 AD). The work served as an important repository of M%atur%idite theological thought preserving significant discussions elaborated within the school and their impact upon later theological discourses.

Hanafi Maturidism: Trajectories of a Theological Legacy, with a Study and Critical Edition of al-Khabbāzī's Kitāb al-Hādī (Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies)

Religion & Spirituality

Aldosari, Ayedh S.

Islam

Equinox Publishing (UK)

Roots Of Wisdom, Branches Of Devotion

Fabrizio M. Ferrari

Thomas Dahnhardt

'Especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, family, professional, and community library Ethnic Cookbook collections.' Wisconsin Book Watch, Reviewer's choice This is an abbreviated version ofthe award-winning and highly acclaimed second edition, published in 2013. Luxuriouslyillustrated throughout with color photos, paintings, medieval miniatures, andsketches, offering more than 300 recipes, all tested and given in a clear anddetailed way so that they may be easily prepared with rewarding results. To better display the diversity of Iraq'sdelicious and enduring traditional culinary practices, the ingredients andcooking techniques indigenous to the region are fully explained throughout, inaddition to an extended glossary. The gastronomichistory and culture of Iraq are interwoven with the recipes, so that the regionand its cuisine may be better understood, and their role in the building ofhuman civilization acknowledged. It uniquely traces the genesis and developmentof the Iraqi cuisine over the centuries, starting with the ancient Mesopotamians,through medieval times and leading to the present, aided throughout by theauthor's intimate native knowledge of cookery. Of particular interest are thebook's numerous food-related folkloric stories, reminiscences, anecdotes,songs, poems, and much more. Delights from the Garden of Eden is a valuable addition to the shelves of specialized and generallibraries, and a cookbook to be cherished by food lovers everywhere. It offersa rewarding culinary experience that will stay long after the book is finishedand food cooked from it has been enjoyed.

Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and History of the Iraqi Cuisine (Abbreviated Version of the Second Edition)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Nawal Nasrallah

Cooking Education & Reference

Islamic religious education (IRE) in Europe has become a subject of intense debate during the past decade. There is concern that states are doing too little or too much to shape the spiritual beliefs of private citizens. State response to the concern ranges from sponsoring religious education in public schools to forgoing it entirely and policies vary according to national political culture. In some countries public schools teach Islam to Muslims as a subject within a broader religious curriculum that gives parents the right to choose their children's religious education. In the other countries public schools teach Islam to all pupils as a subject with a close relation to the academic study of religions. There are also countries where public schools do not teach religion at all, although there is an opportunity to teach about Islam in school subjects such as art, history, or literature. IRE taught outside publicly funded institutions, is of course also taught as a confessional subject in private Muslim schools, mosques and by Muslim organisations. Often students who attend these classes also attend a publicly funded "main stream school". This volume brings together a number of researchers for the first time to explore the interconnections between Islamic educations and public schooling in Europe. The relation between Islamic education and public schooling is analysed within the publicly and privately funded sectors. How is publicly funded education organised, why is it organised in this way, what is the history and what are the controversial issues? What are the similarities and differences between privately run Islamic education and "main stream" schooling? What are the experiences of teachers, parents and pupils? The volume will be of interest to scholars of Islam in Europe, policy makers of education and integration and teachers of religious education.

European Perspectives on Islamic Education and Public Schooling

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Identity, Politics and the Study of Islam: Current Dilemmas in the Study of Religions (Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation)

Based partly on a series of posts coming out of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, this volume includes greatly expanded essays by Ruth Mas, Sarah Imhoff and James Crossley as well as new pieces by Devin Stewart, Carlos Segovia, Alexandre Caeiro and Emmanuelle Stefanidis, Russell McCutcheon and Salman Sayyid. This volume, thus, brings together a variety of scholars both inside and outside of Islamic Studies in order to grapple with such questions as: what, if anything, is unique about Islamic Studies? How should Islamic studies as religious studies engage with postcolonial critique? What is the role of identity politics in such endeavors? What are the lines between descriptive (hermeneutic) work and theoretical explanations of Islamic texts? What can scholars in related areas, such as the study of Judaism and early Christianity, offer to this conversation by way of analogy? Can ethical, political, or theological concerns function critically to help theorize Islam? The volume is divided into four sections: Theory and Identity Politics in the Study of Islam, which looks at the role of identity, knowledge production, and political commitments among scholars of Islam; Critique and Identity in Qur'anic Studies, which deals with challenges in applying critical-historical methods to the study of the Qur'an and how these methods relate to some of the issues raised Omid Safi and Aaron Hughes; Comparative Views from Outside Islamic Studies, which provides a comparative view of how scholars have dealt with similar concerns in the study of Judaism and Christianity; and A Critical Appraisal, which offers a direct challenge to Safi and Hughes.

Identity, Politics and the Study of Islam: Current Dilemmas in the Study of Religions (Culture on the Edge)

Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures (Culture on the Edge) (Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation)

This volume presents a cultural history of Alex Haley's Roots as a case study in 'operational acts of identification.' It examines the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history. Where cultural studies scholars have critiqued notions of sacrosanct 'rootedness,' this book shows the fruit of critically identifying those claims. It reframes the concept of 'roots' as a theoretical vocabulary and grammar for the anthropology of scriptures - a way of parsing the cultural texts that seem to read us back. Identifying Roots invites scholars of religion to reimagine their place in the humans sciences. Theorizing from a tradition of African American interventions in the history of religion, Richard Newton registers the social dramas and dynamic rhetoric that render the cultural logic of scriptures powerful. Creatively marshaling intellectual history, ethnographic autobiography, Close Reading and discourse analysis, Newton enumerates the consequences for signifying people and cultural texts as intrinsically significant. More than an investigation into Alex Haley's legacy, Identifying Roots unearths the politics of beginnings and belongings.

Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures (Culture on the Edge)

History

Newton Jr, Richard W

Americas

Surviving the Induction Years of Language Teaching (Reflective Practice in Language Education)

Reference

Farrell, Thomas S.C.

English as a Second Language

The war in Sri Lanka was violent and costly in human and material terms. This was one of the longest wars in modern South Asia. Often referred to as an 'ethnic' conflict between the majority Sinhalas and the minority Tamils, the war had a profound religious dimension. The majority of Sinhala Buddhist monks (the Sangha) not only opposed any meaningful powersharing but latterly advocated an all-out military solution. Such a nexus between Buddhism and violence is paradoxical; nevertheless it has a historical continuity. In 2009 when the war ended amid serious questions of war crimes and crimes against humanity, monks defended the military and its Buddhist leadership. Taking the lives of three key Sangha activists as the modern framework of a Sinhala Buddhist worldview, this book examines the limitations of Western theories of peacebuilding and such solutions as federalism and multinationalism. It analyzes Sinhala Buddhist ethnoreligious nationalism and argues for the urgent need to engage Buddhist politics - in Lanka and elsewhere - with approaches and mechanisms that accommodate the Sangha as key actors in political reform. Sinhala Buddhism is often studied from a sociological or anthropological standpoint. This book fills a gap by examining the faith and practice of the Sinhala Sangha and their followers from a political science perspective.

Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka's Civil War: Ethnoreligious Nationalism of the Sinhala Saṅgha and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka, 1995-2010 (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs)

Raghaven, Suren

Asia

Sensing Sacred Texts (Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts)

All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through the senses of sight, touch, kiss, and taste, both directly and in the imagination. Ritualized display of books engages the sense of sight very differently than does reading. Touching gets associated with reading scriptures, but touching also enables using the scripture as an amulet. Eating and consuming texts is a ubiquitous analogy for internalizing the contents of texts by reading and memorization. The idea of textual consumption reflects a widespread tendency to equate humans and written texts by their interiority and exteriority: books and people both have material bodies, yet both seem to contain immaterial ideas. Books thus physically incarnate cultural and religious values, doctrines, beliefs, and ideas. These essays bring theories of comparative scriptures and affect theory to bear on the topic as well as rich ethnographic descriptions of scriptural practices with Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and modern art and historical accounts of changing practices with sacred texts in ancient and medieval China and Korea, and in ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures.

Religious Studies

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