Islam category: 2999 books
Cubriendo el islam
Cómo los medios de comunicación y los expertos determinan nuestra visión del resto del mundo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Una obra más necesaria que nunca para reconsiderar la visión que recibimos del islam.
Desde la crisis de los rehenes en Irán hasta la guerra del Golfo y el primer atentado con bomba en el World Trade Center, la mayoría de los medios de comunicación estadounidenses han retratado el islam...
100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans
Clear, essential facts about the culture, customs, language, religion, origins and politics of the millions of Arab Americans living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“One Hundred Questions and Answers About Arab Americans” is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence.
This guide has sections culture, language, religions, social norms, politics, history, politics, families and food.
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Islam
A Guide for Jews and Christians
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam, came of age during an extraordinarily rich era of interaction among monotheists. Jews, Christians, and Muslims not only worshipped the same God, but shared aspirations,...
The Venture of Islam, Volume 1
The Classical Age of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle...
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1994
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The...
by Pauline Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
During the 1990s, there was a general consensus that Central Asia was witnessing an Islamic revival after independence, and that this occurrence would follow similar events throughout the Islamic world in the prior two decades, which had negative effects on both social and political development. Twenty...
Transformative Worship in Islam
Experiencing Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
'Transformative Worship in Islam – Experiencing Perfection' uniquely bridges the traditional practices and beliefs, culture and language of Islam with the transformative spiritual states described by the Sufis and Gnostics. In this collection of teachings on how the worship of Islam can transform...
by John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn, John O. Voll
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy. In Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring, John L. Esposito, John Voll, and Tamara Sonn examine the state of democracy in Muslim-majority societies today. Applying...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Islam has become a potent political force around the world since it reemerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a religio-political alternative to failed nationalist ideologies. In countries throughout the world, individuals and movements have attempted to reconstruct the political, economic, and social...
Honored by the Glory of Islam
Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
In Honored by the Glory of Islam Marc David Baer proposes a novel approach to the historical record of Islamic conversions during the Ottoman age and gathers fresh insights concerning the nature of religious conversion itself. Rather than explaining Ottoman Islamization in terms of the converts' motives,...
by Mahmood Ibrahim
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The rise of merchant capital in Mecca conditioned the development of Meccan social, economic, religious, and political structure. Mahmood Ibrahim traces the roots of capitalism from the emergence of merchants as the main force in Mecca through the first civil war in Islam (656–661). Through a rereading...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
This book, based on extensive original research in the field, analyses the political, social and cultural implications of the rise of Islam in post-Soviet Russia. Examining in particular the situation in Tatarstan and Dagestan, where there are large Muslim populations, the authors chart the long history...
by Adeyemi Dada
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
i. This book is not a comparative analysis;
ii. it explains the true meaning of Islam & its teachings as well as the Pillars of Islam;
iii. it narrates the propagation of Islam by the Prophets & Messengers of Allah;
iv. it defines the literal & operational meanings...
Feminizing the West
Neo-Islam’S Concepts of Renewal, War and the State
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This book utilizes the gender polemics of neo-Islams selective employment of a historical narrative which dwells disproportionately on the militant Islam of the post-immigration (hijra) period when the sword substituted the word for the spread of a spiritual faith. Given the fact that such neo-Islamists,...