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Examines Syria's religious, intellectual and political history during a period of transformation before World War I, focusing on an attempt to reform Islamic belief and practice at the turn of the century.
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This book examines Syria's religious, intellectual, and political history during the period of transformation before World War I. Focusing on an attempt to reform Islamic belief and practice at the turn of the century, Commins shows how the reformers used debates over the religious law of Islam to advance their visions of a progressive Islamic state. Based on a wide variety of previously unpublished sources, the book will shed new light on a period that is of considerable importance for the modern history of the Middle East.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Quotations and Spelling List of Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. "Islam in Danger": Reactions to Mughal Decline and Loss of Power
• 3. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the Ahmadiyya Movement
• 4. Ahmadiyya Reactions to the British: Taking Islam to the West
• 5. Muslim Mobilization in Britain
• 6. Ahmadiyya Relations with Early Converts to Islam
• 7. Islamic Mission to Britain: Woking
• 8. Islamic Mission to Britain: London
• 9. A Mosque in London: Transformations to the LMM
• 10. Final Reflections Endnotes Bibliography Index.
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Based on hitherto untapped source materials, this book charts the history of Muslim missionary activity in London from 1912, when the first Indian Muslim missionaries arrived in London, until 1944. During this period a unique community was forged out of British converts and native Muslims from various parts of the world, which focused itself around a purpose built mosque in Woking and later the first mosque to open in London in 1924. Arguing that an understanding of Muslim mission in this period needs to place such activity in the context of colonial encounter, Islam and Britain provides a background narrative into why Muslim missionary activity in London was part of a variety of strategies to engage with European expansion and overzealous Christian missionary activity in India. Ron Geaves draws on research undertaken in India and Pakistan, where the Ahmadiya missionaries have kept extensive archives of this period which until now have been unavailable to scholars. Unique in providing an account of Islamic missionary work in Britain from the Islamic perspective, Islam and Britain adds to our knowledge and understanding of British Muslim history and makes an important contribution to the literature concerned with Islamic missiology.
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In this first-ever biography of Alexander Russell Webb, Umar F. Abd-Allah examines Webb's life and uses it as a window through which to explore the early history of Islam in America. Except for his adopted faith, every aspect of Webb's life was, as Abd-Allah shows, quintessentially characteristic of his place and time. It was because he was so typically American that he was able to serve as Islam's ambassador to America (and vice versa). As America's Muslim community grows and becomes more visible, Webb's life and the virtues he championed - pluralism, liberalism, universal humanity, and a sense of civic and political responsibility - exemplify what it means to be an American Muslim.
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An account of the internal dynamics of Islam in Wallo, Ethiopia, with particular emphasis on the modes of its introduction and dissemination, and on its relationship with the Ethiopian state and regional power structure. The book also describes the background to, and manifestations of, the revival and consolidation of Islam in the region. The study is based upon oral and written indigenous sources and supplemented by external archival and documentary evidence.
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• Introduction
• The growth of the Muslim Maghreb
• The French invasion of Algeria
• The Maghreb becomes French, 1850-1912
• The protectorates and nationalism
• Armed resistance
• Independence : authority and modernity
• States and ideologies : Algeria and Libya
• North Africa towards a new age?

The Maghreb - the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya - is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world. Today the focus of popular uprisings for democracy and participation, it underwent long periods of colonisation and anti-colonial nationalist resistance, both peaceful and militant. To understand the nature of today's developments in North Africa we need fully to appreciate the tumultuous history of the region and how its four discrete countries followed different trajectories, some marked by a continuity of social and political structures in both the colonial era and as independent states, while others were marked by sharp ruptures and violent struggles. These historical differences are still visible in the current era and tell us much about the societies in question. This short history of the Maghreb surveys its development from the coming of Islam to the present day, but with greatest emphasis on the modern period from the early nineteenth century onwards. It follows the French protectorates, Morocco and Tunisia, and how their nationalist movements forged the independent states that followed; and it chronicles the wars of resistance and liberation in Algeria and Libya, and how these conflicts also marked their independence, with a long-running civil war in the former and the recent uprising against the Gaddafi regime in the latter.
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Indian Muslims in the 19th century lived in an era of great political, social and economic change brought about by colonial rule. North Indian scholars of the Islamic sciences attributed the Muslim loss of political power to moral weaknesses within their own community. This study examines the ways in which one important school of theologians attempted to shape the renewal of their community, and is based on a close examination of the works of its leading scholar, Ahmed Riza Khan Barelwi.
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• Introduction
• I. ISLAM AND IMPERIAL RULE
• 1. The Russian Worlds of Islam
• 2. British Imperial Rule and the Hajj
• 3. The Dutch Empire and the Hajj
• 4. Islam and the French Empire in North Africa
• 5. Islam and Imperialism in East Africa
• II. ISLAM AND ANTI-COLONIAL RESISTANCE
• 6. Anti-Imperialism and the Pan-Islamic Movement
• 7. Islam and Resistance in the British Empire
• 8. Religious Revolts in Colonial North Africa
• 9. Mobilisation of Muslims in the Caucasus
• 10. Islamic Resistance in the Dutch Colonial Empire
• III. ISLAM AND COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE
• 11. Debates on Islam in Imperial Germany
• 12. Islam in British Imperial Thought
• 13. French Colonial Knowledge of Maraboutism
• 14. Islam and the European Empires in Japanese Imperial Thought.
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At the height of the imperial age, European powers ruled over most parts of the Islamic world. The British, French, Russian, and Dutch empires each governed more Muslims than any independent Muslim state. European officials believed Islam to be of great political significance, and were quite cautious when it came to matters of the religious life of their Muslim subjects. In the colonies, they regularly employed Islamic religious leaders and institutions to bolster imperial rule. At the same time, the European presence in Muslim lands was confronted by religious resistance movements and Islamic insurgency. Across the globe, from the West African savanna to the shores of Southeast Asia, Muslim rebels called for holy war against non-Muslim intruders. Islam and the European Empires presents the first comparative account of the engagement of all major European empires with Islam. Bringing together fifteen of the world's leading scholars in the field, the volume explores a wide array of themes, ranging from the accommodation of Islam under imperial rule to Islamic anti-colonial resistance. A truly global history of empire, the volume makes a major contribution not only to our knowledge of the intersection of Islam and imperialism, but also more generally to our understanding of religion and power in the modern world.
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How did the Victorians perceive Muslims in the British Empire and beyond? How were these perceptions propagated by historians and scholars, poets, dramatists and fiction writers of the period? For the first time, Shahin Kuli Khan Khattak brings to life Victorian Britain's conceptions and misconceptions of the Muslim World using a thorough investigation of varied cultural sources of the period. She discovers the prevailing representation of Muslims and Islam in the two major spheres of British influence - India and the Ottoman Empire - was reinforced by reoccurring themes: through literature and entertainment the public saw 'the Mahomedan' as the 'noble savage', a perception reinforced through travel writing and fiction of the 'exotic east' and the 'Arabian Nights'. "Islam and the Victorians" will be an important contribution to understanding the apprehensions and misapprehensions about Islam in the nineteenth century, providing a fascinating historical backdrop to many of today's concerns.
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