Sökning: "normative Islam"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden normative Islam.
1. Ramadan in Java : The Joy and Jihad of Ritual Fasting
Sammanfattning : FASTING DURING THE holy month of Ramadan is both a joy and a jihad for the Islamic community in Java, and it is arguably the most highly esteemed Muslim ritual in Indonesia (and beyond). To be given the opportunity to abstain from food, drink and sexual relations from the early morning hours until sunset during an entire month in a tropical climate - only to fill the nights with additional and supererogatory Ramadanic rituals - is thus waited upon each year and seen as a true blessing. LÄS MER
2. Sharia och livet : Islamisk retorik om makt, moral och medelvägen (wasatiyya) på al-Jazira
Sammanfattning : Claiming a 40 million viewer population, with 97% of viewers Muslims (www.allied-media.com), Jazeera Satellite Channel (JSC) stands out within the sphere of influence among the Arab world. This thesis will examine whether Islam within JSC programming is open to progressive ideas that challenge the intellectual and material lives of its adherents. LÄS MER
3. Deciphering the Meaning of Revealed Law : The Sur´shian Paradigm in Shi’i Epistemology
Sammanfattning : This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occuring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary positions are initially set against the established normative repertory of Islamic tradition. LÄS MER
4. Gayted Communities : Marginalized Sexualities in Lebanon
Sammanfattning : This dissertation offers a unique examination of Muslim masculinities and marginalized sexualities in Lebanon, and is a contribution to the growing body of gay and lesbian studies with a focus on Muslims living in The Middle East. It contributes to the theoretical and methodological development of Islamic studies by introducing and using a queer approach to study marginalized sexualities in relation to Islam. LÄS MER
5. F�r�ndring och kontinuitet : Al-Ghaz�l�s politiska omsv�ngning
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation ia an analysis in the history of ideas of the 12th-century Persian-Islamic thinker Ab� Hamid Muhammad al-Ghaz�l�'s political ideas and his political reversal, ie. his abandonment of a religiously-influenced political theory in favour of a Persian-influenced political theory. LÄS MER
