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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Beyers Naudé Centre series on public theology ; volume 13
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Beyers Naudé Centre series on public theology ; volume 13.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Active participation in the reconstruction and development programme -- Muslim schooling patterns in the new South Africa -- Breaking from Abū Jahl's shadow: South African Muslims' search for a 'theology of softness' -- Addressing the blighted Muslim psyche in the context of the current world crisis -- Muslim community schools in Cape Town: exemplifying adaptation to the democratic landscape -- Educational reflexivity in the age of discursive closure -- Developing a critical Muslim political engagement with South African realities -- Educational adaptation in a changing city -- Muslim elites, the 'ulamā and ambiguous accommodation in democratic South Africa -- The Hikmah (wisdom) of advocate Thuli Madonsela, Public Protector, Republic of South Africa -- Discovering the purpose of Ramadän in the time of load shedding -- Cultivating recognition to advance environmental justice -- Living in fidelity to the constitution -- From responding to the water crisis to actively addressing poverty and hardship -- My Iran trip reveals cultural complexities: impressions of the country and its people -- Responding to the decolonisation imperative: imagining Islam from the perspective of the 'wretched of the earth' -- Gratitude (shukr) and friendship (şadaqah) in transacting a 'metaphysics of active presence' in the city -- After the Verulam Mosque attack we need to urgently counter sectarian discourse in our communities -- Rereading the legacy of Imam Haron in the 50th year of commemorating his martyrdom -- Searching for Imam Haron: reflections on recent intra-Muslim polemics in South African Muslim civil society space -- The living role of those who died for us to be free -- From abstinence (imsāk) to elevation (rif'ah): reimagining Imam Abdullah Haron's path of shahādah (bearing witness) in the quest for justice and dignity. |
| Summary |
"The compositions brought together in this book began a quarter of a century ago in 1994, with the onset of South Africa⁰́₉s non-racial democracy, and in one way it may be viewed as the critical observations of an organic intellectual⁰́₉ engaging the exigencies of life during the first 25 years of South Africa⁰́₉s democracy."--Publisher's description. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Muslims -- South Africa -- Cape Town.
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Islam -- Moral and ethical aspects -- South Africa -- Cape Town.
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Islam. |
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Muslims. |
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South Africa. |
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South Africa -- Cape Town. |
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South Africa -- 1994-
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1994- |
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RELIGION / Islam / Theology. |
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Since 1994 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Fataar, Aslam Searching for Islamic Ethical Agency in Post-Apartheid Cape Town : An Anthology Stellenbosch : African Sun Media,c2019 9781928314615 |
| ISBN |
1928314627 |
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9781928314622 (electronic book) |
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