Preaching in the modern world

The book offers an in-depth, broad-based examination of the "da'wa", the "call to Islam" and the "call to God" respectively. As a term that is difficult to translate, "da'wa" covers a semantic field ranging from the call or invitation to Islam, religious preaching and conversion to the mission and message of Islam. The contributions in the new publication analyze the most important discourses of the da'wa, its embodiment in the major Islamic movements of the 20th century and its transformation into new forms of activism by the media, the state and Jihadi groups - including al-Qaeda and ISIS - in the 21st century.

The publishers
Itzchak Weismann is associate professor of Islamic Studies and former director of the Jewish-Arab Center at the University of Haifa. He has published extensively on modern Islamic thought, Islamic movements, Sufism and interreligious dialogue. Jamal Malik holds the professorship for Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt. He has published extensively on Islamic education and religious pluralism, Sufism and the mobilization of religion.