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The Coptic Martyrdom of John of Phanijōit : assimilation and conversion to Islam in thirteenth-century Egypt
This study provides an edition, English translation, and analysis of the thirteenth-century Coptic Martyrdom of John of Phanijōit. Sociological and philological approaches to the text explain its significance to the study of Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt at the time of the Crusades.
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Mon Fils S'est Converti a L'islam: Le Temoignage D'une Mere
Quand vous decouvrez un beau jour que votre fils aine s'est converti a l'islam Que faire quand un tsunami debarque dans votre vie bien tranquille ? Je suis la maman de deux grands garcons equilibres. Je suis une cadre epanouie, une jeune quinqua en bonne sante a qui la vie sourit. Tout va bien, tout allait bien jusqu'a ce fameux 15 mai, 5 h 21 du matin, quand j'ai compris que mon fils Simon s'etait converti a l'islam.Avant que je ne comprenne ce qu'il se passe, la panique s'est emparee de moi, la peur m'a plaquee contre mon lit, les larmes se sont ecoulees le long de mes joues. Pourquoi cette terreur ? Pourquoi cette envie de fuir la realite ? Pourquoi cette perte totale de serenite face au choix religieux de mon garcon ?Il devint vite evident que je ne connaissais rien de l'islam ni des musulmans. La peur naissait de ma meconnaissance, des amalgames que je faisais entre islam et terrorisme, entre musulmans et non-respect des femmes. Pour dompter ma terreur et respecter le choix de mon fils, je me suis ouverte a un monde que je ne connaissais pas.Ce livre raconte l'evolution de ma perception de l'islam et la metamorphose de mon fils.A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR :Clara Sabinne vit avec ses deux fils. Economiste de formation, elle represente la fondation caritative d'une grande multinationale en Europe. Depuis son adolescence, dans ses temps libres, Clara ecrit des livres. Cet ouvrage est le premier qu'elle publie.EXTRAIT : Dimanche 15 mai 2011, 5 h 21 du matin.Cette date, cette heure precise, sont ancrees a jamais dans ma memoire. Tout comme un traumatisme vous marque a vie, tout comme certaines amours vous collent a la peau ou comme une chanson vous obsede la journee durant ; le 15 mai - 5 h 21 du matin s'est engouffre dans mon existence sans que je ne le voie arriver, sans que je ne devine sa venue imminente. C'est mon tsunami a moi, mon Katrina et mon Tchernobyl a la fois, c'est la vie qui me joue un tour de tordu. Quels demons souhaite-telle soudain me voir combattre ? Sont-ils en moi ou en dehors de moi ? Ce matin-la, je ne le sais pas.Quand je pense que la nuit precedente, je revais que le plafond me tombait sur la tete... Moi qui me souhaite des nuits douces, emplies d'images positives, je n'ai pas aime le reveil.Heureusement la journee du 14 s'annoncait belle, mon grand garcon Simon nous avait rejoints pour feter les 17 ans de Thibaut, son cadet. Juste un aller-retour d'Istanbul ou Simon passait 6 mois, avant de commencer l'universite en septembre. Je suis allee le chercher a l'aeroport. Lorsque Thibaut nous ouvrit la porte, il mit trois secondes a comprendre, son cerveau avait besoin de temps pour digerer ce que ses yeux contemplaient : son grand frere, son grand frere tout cheri etait la, devant lui.
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Memories of Muhammad : why the Prophet matters
Presents a portrait of Muhammad that reveals his centrality in the devotions of modern Muslims, exploring the role of women in Islam, tensions with other religions, and the role of cyberspace in Islam's evolution.
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A Man of Three Worlds
In the late fifteenth century, many of the Jews expelled from Spain made their way to Morocco and established a dynamic community in Fez. A number of Jewish families became prominent in commerce and public life there. Among the Jews of Fez of Hispanic origin was Samuel Pallache, who served the Moroccan sultan as a commercial and diplomatic agent in Holland until Pallache's death in 1616. Before that, he had tried to return with his family to Spain, and to this end he tried to convert to Catholicism and worked as an informer, intermediary, and spy in Moroccan affairs for the Spanish court. Later he became a privateer against Spanish ships and was tried in London for that reason. His religious identity proved to be as mutable as his political allegiances: when in Amsterdam, he was devoutly Jewish; when in Spain, a loyal converso (a baptized Jew).
In A Man of Three Worlds, Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers view Samuel Pallache's world as a microcosm of early modern society, one far more interconnected, cosmopolitan, and fluid than is often portrayed. Pallache's missions and misadventures took him from Islamic Fez and Catholic Spain to Protestant England and Holland. Through these travels, the authors explore the workings of the Moroccan sultanate and the Spanish court, the Jewish communities of Fez and Amsterdam, and details of the Atlantic-Mediterranean trade. At once a sweeping view of two continents, three faiths, and five nation-states and an intimate story of one man's remarkable life, A Man of Three Worlds is history at its most compelling.
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Fighting the greater jihad : Amadu Bamba and the founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913
In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French, and Wolof, Fighting the Greater Jihad offers an astute analysis of the founding and development of the order and a biographical study of its founder, Cheikh Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke.
Cheikh Anta Babou explores the forging of Murid identity and pedagogy around the person and initiative of Amadu Bamba as well as the continuing reconstruction of this identity by more recent followers. He makes a compelling case for reexamining the history of Muslim institutions in Africa and elsewhere in order to appreciate believers' motivation and initiatives, especially religious culture and education, beyond the narrow confines of political collaboration and resistance. Fighting the Greater Jihad also reveals how religious power is built at the intersection of genealogy, knowledge, and spiritual force, and how this power in turn affected colonial policy.
Fighting the Greater Jihad will dramatically alter the perspective from which anthropologists, historians, and political scientists study Muslim mystical orders.
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