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Modern Turkey is the site of a powerful Islamic revival, with a strong intellectual elite dedicated to the overthrow of secular modernism. Why have modern Muslim intellectuals turned against the ideals of Kemalism on which the modern Turkish nation-state is founded This book analyses this phenomenon.

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Offers not only rigourous accounts of current difficulties, but also new thinking and deeper understanding about race relations and intercultural engagement in multicultural societies.

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Creates a community profile which looks at Muslims as an entire faith community from a sociological and social policy perspective. This work reveals the social position of Muslims as a group compared to other faith communities in terms of educational qualifications, economic activity and housing conditions.

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This, the first volume from the Muslims in the American Public Square research project, gives theoretical and demographic portraits of Muslims in the American civil landscape.

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This is an account of survival against all odds, but it is more than that - an account of one man's search for the answers to the questions that in one way or other face us all.

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Mapping the diverse images of Islam and Muslims in educational texts as reproduced in national contexts across Europe and neighbouring regions, this title explores both historical perceptions and contemporary representations of Islam and Muslims as projected through instructional media.

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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws atten

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Based on in-depth research with divorced Muslim women, community leaders and local religious authorities, this book reveals the complexities facing Muslim women in negotiating family expectations, cultural norms and traditional Islamic laws.

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Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response

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On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on sharia councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in other Western nations. Why Taking a historical and ethnographic look at British Islam, John Bow

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J. Dawson Williams writes with both authority and compassion - a unique combination. He emphasizes that the only way to move past discrimination and prejudice is through positivity and optimism, rather than anger and frustration. Readers are reminded that it is through ethics that we achieve a more productive system.

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Nasir al-din Tusi, the Shi'i scholar of the 13th century, produced a range of writings in different fields of learning under Ismaili patronage and later under the Mongols. This is a new edition and English translation of his Rawda-yi-taslim - the single most important Ismaili text from the Alamut period.

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The purpose of this book is to present a survey of Jewish music to illuminate its special role as a mirror of history, tradition, and cultural heritage. The 27 topical chapters have been placed within a modified chronological perspective to present a historic picture of virtually every important development in Jewish music.

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Analyses about perceptions of Islam in the West. This book contains case studies from Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and other parts of the European Union.

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This volume will introduce students of Yiddish and Jewish Studies to some of the researchers, issues, and methodological and stylistic approaches in the field and will be an introductory text for language and culture courses.