Leslie F Wolf
Biographic Data
| ID | 6560841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie F Wolf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie F |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolf |
| SIGNATURE | WOLF L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of DuPage |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Practice of Islam in America: An Introduction
This book should be read by anyone with an interest in American Islam. After a brief introduction by the editor, Edward E. Curtis IV, twelve chapters explore various aspects of Islam as lived and experienced by American Muslims. All of the chapters are good, and several are truly outstanding. My favourites were as follows: ‘Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, and Eid al-Adha: Fasting and Feasting’ by Jackleen Salem; ‘Ashura: Commemorating Imam Husayn’ by Micha…
Finding Mecca in America: How Islam is Becoming an American Religion By Mucahit Bilici
American Muslim Studies—which Bilici describes as ‘new’ and ‘fragmentary’ (p. 19)—is a highly interdisciplinary field to which the social sciences have made important contributions. In this respect, American Muslim Studies is not unlike the fields of American Studies and Islamic Studies, though of course there are numerous differences among them. Bilici was trained in sociology at the University of Michigan, and he describes his book as ‘a work i…
Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure By Hina Azam
The field of Islamic studies has benefitted richly in recent years from the publication of numerous monographs on women in Islam. Books such as Judith Tucker’s Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law (2008), Kecia Ali’s Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (2010), and Marion Holmes Katz’s Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice (2014) have not only advanced our knowledge of Islamic civilization, but they have also impr…
Islam: An Introduction By Catharina Raudvere
In recent years, a number of scholars have published introductory books on Islam. These books differ from one another in various ways, but most can be usefully classified into three main types. First, there are books such as Frederick Denny’s Introduction to Islam (4th edn., 2011), which contain a wealth of detail on topics ranging from ritual purity and ṣalāḥ to dietary law and the ḥajj, but which take a largely uncritical approach to the source…
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Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure By Hina Azam
The field of Islamic studies has benefitted richly in recent years from the publication of numerous monographs on women in Islam. Books such as Judith Tucker’s Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law (2008), Kecia Ali’s Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (2010), and Marion Holmes Katz’s Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice (2014) have not only advanced our knowledge of Islamic civilization, but they have also impr…
Islam: An Introduction By Catharina Raudvere
In recent years, a number of scholars have published introductory books on Islam. These books differ from one another in various ways, but most can be usefully classified into three main types. First, there are books such as Frederick Denny’s Introduction to Islam (4th edn., 2011), which contain a wealth of detail on topics ranging from ritual purity and ṣalāḥ to dietary law and the ḥajj, but which take a largely uncritical approach to the source…
The Practice of Islam in America: An Introduction
This book should be read by anyone with an interest in American Islam. After a brief introduction by the editor, Edward E. Curtis IV, twelve chapters explore various aspects of Islam as lived and experienced by American Muslims. All of the chapters are good, and several are truly outstanding. My favourites were as follows: ‘Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, and Eid al-Adha: Fasting and Feasting’ by Jackleen Salem; ‘Ashura: Commemorating Imam Husayn’ by Micha…
Finding Mecca in America: How Islam is Becoming an American Religion By Mucahit Bilici
American Muslim Studies—which Bilici describes as ‘new’ and ‘fragmentary’ (p. 19)—is a highly interdisciplinary field to which the social sciences have made important contributions. In this respect, American Muslim Studies is not unlike the fields of American Studies and Islamic Studies, though of course there are numerous differences among them. Bilici was trained in sociology at the University of Michigan, and he describes his book as ‘a work i…
Islam (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Religious Studies (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works)