Muslims

Muslims (Arabic: مسلم‎, romanized: Muslim) are people who follow or practice Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion. The derivation of "Muslim" is from an Arabic word meaning "submitter (to God)". Muslims consider the Quran, their holy book, to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad. The majority of Muslims also follow the teachings and practices of Muhammad (sunnah) as recorded in traditional accounts (hadith).The beliefs of Muslims include: that God (Arabic: الله‎ Allah) is eternal, transcendent and absolutely one (tawhid); that God is incomparable, self-sustaining and neither begets nor was begotten; that Islam …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …

Dahmān.33 26 They wreaked havoc upon Qayrawan’s Muslims, heedless of God’s wrath in sacred Ramadan 27 reckless abandon, revealing hidden rancour. 30 Muslims, divided and humiliated, suffering at the hands for eternal honour. It is the base of Islam and Muslims in the West as well as their most majestic metropolis


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 5 November 2024 English

Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents …

foreskin depend largely on civilisation and culture. Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for re- ligious distinguishing gentiles from Jews (as well as Muslims), and this has played, as we well know, a profound


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by …

Canada is no excep- tion, and hostility towards Muslims and Islam has been growing since at least 9/11 and Concepts 41 on the Internet – of stereotypes about Muslims. This special context has helped make some far-right parties maintain an intentional ambiguity towards Muslims, although some of their members occa- sionally monly used to leverage hostile attitudes towards Muslims in order to affect voting preferences in many


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the …

United Church (8,575); and seven times as many Muslims (17,910) as Pentecostals (2,465).Examining West


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …

Irish Catholics, then eastern European Jews, now Muslims from Bangladesh. Poor, rough, close- knit. Very world boast fraternity with Palestine but gov- ern Muslims in their own states as cruel despots. Anti- Semitism


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …

in the rivers of Rwanda, and the genocide of Muslims in Kosovo. To a depressing extent, we live in


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

national view, one that can encompass Christians, Muslims, and countless others in its sense of a group


FRHD: Freehand Books · 17 September 2024 English

A powerful debut novel about four young soldiers serving in Afghanistan, and the devastating aftermath of war. "An unvarnished, intimately informed dissection of war's physical and emotional derangements." – Omar …

and holding out a can. “Whoops. I forgot that Muslims don’t drink beer.” “Shut up,” Walsh said.J U I The End of the World, I’ll give you my house. Muslims believe in God, right? So, if you jump, Allah’s


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 September 2024 English

At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it …

often, these adverts and postcards represented Muslims – in the cases of Fig. I.1 and Fig. I.2 Muslim


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English

Pakistan has been a priority country for international development assistance since the early years of its creation. Though Pakistan celebrates National Women’s Day on 12 February each year to commemorate …

events fueled a religious fervor that affected Muslims on a broad plane … leading to a new vision being


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