Essays about: "Muslim empire"

Found 4 essays containing the words Muslim empire.

  1. 1. Nikāḥ as precondition for paradise? Spiritual corporeality and al-Ghazālī’s theology of marriage in the Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Mariette Frieda Anita Minnemann; [2021]
    Keywords : al-Ghazali marriage asceticism Medieval theology history of religion Islamic theology Soteriology cosmogony eschatology embodiment Sufism Sufi tasawwuf spiritual corporeality mysticism Ibn Arabi Islamic mysticism jihad body Ihya kitab nikah intercourse sex celibacy embodied resurrection din Medieval Islamic studies religious studies; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : With the 11th century text Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ, the “Book on the Proper Conduct of Marriage”, the Islamic thinker al-Ghazālī (1056 –1111/447–504) replies to a contemporaneous debate within Sufi asceticism with a theology of nikāḥ. The text is part of his opus magnum, the “Renaissance of the Knowledge of dīn”, which aims at a renewal of Muslim piety and provides practical guidance to the male audience addressed. READ MORE

  3. 2. Populism in Turkey and Hungary: A Search for Security and Belonging

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Viktor Tagesson; [2020]
    Keywords : Ontological In Security; Populism; Turkey; Hungary; Identity; Minorities; Elites; Religion; Chosen Glories; Chosen Traumas; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to gain an understanding of the potential relationship between populism and a population’s search for security and belonging. Furthermore, how this is expressed through the rhetoric and policies of a country’s leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, this is examined through conducting a qualitative content analysis. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Terrible Turk : Anti-Ottoman Representations in the 19th Century Swedish Rural Press

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV

    Author : Per M. Gjörloff; Robert Gustafsson; [2013]
    Keywords : Ottomans; islamophobia; 19th century; rural press;

    Abstract : Islamophobia has been pack and parcel in the Western civilisation from the days of Charlemagne via the Crusades and the rise of Orientalism, as opposed to Occidentalism, to the modern day reporting of Islamic terrorist threat. Many were fascinated by the degree of civilisation and the exoticism of the Ottomans, especially the sexual virtues (or lack thereof) were of particular interest of the travellers into the Ottoman Empire. READ MORE

  5. 4. Secularization in a strong religious society: the case of Turkey

    University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Taleh Tahirli; [2006]
    Keywords : Secularization; Modernization; Religion; Ataturk; Turkey;

    Abstract : There is a widespread belief among many researchers that Islam and secularization is incompatible. Obviously, in the Eastern world and in Muslim countries in particular, the problematic relationship between religion and democracy is still shows itself intensively. READ MORE