The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by…
"Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationalism held sway as the dominant political ideology, but since the 1990s its structures have weakened and Islamic institutions have gained strength. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interview data, Palestinian Chicago charts the origins of these cha…
Sejarah dan Aliran Psikologi merupakan salah satu mata kuliah wajib bagi mahasiswa yang menempuh program sarjana psikologi. Mata kuliah ini memberikan penjelasan historis tentang kemunculan psikologi modern dan perkembangan aliran-aliran psikologi. Antusias mahasiswa terhadap mata kuliah yang terklasifikasi sebagai wajib ini mendorong penulis untuk menghadirkan Buku Ajar Sejarah dan Aliran Psi…
Buku ini membahas pemikiran dan karya ilmiah Taqi al-Din al-Rashid, seorang ilmuwan Muslim abad ke-16 yang dikenal sebagai pionir dalam bidang mekanika dan astronomi. Fokus utama buku ini adalah analisis terhadap mekanisme jam astronomi yang dijelaskan dalam karya klasiknya, Al-Kawakib al-Durriyya fi Wadh' al-Bankamat al-Dawriyya. Melalui pendekatan filologis dan kajian historis-teknologis, buk…
Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis in 1332 and died in Cairo in 1406. In 1995 a thoroughly annotated Hungarian translation of his masterpiece al-Muqaddima (Introduction to History) was published. Simon then capped his 25 years of studying Ibn Khaldun by describing his construction of history as a scientific endeavor, and his elaboration of patrimonial empires, using his own society as a model. Ibn K…