Islam category: 2999 books
by Abraham Kuyper
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
At the beginning of the twentieth century, famed theologian Abraham Kuyper toured the Mediterranean world and encountered Islam for the first time.
Part travelogue, part cultural critique, On Islam presents a European imperialist seeing firsthand the damage colonialism had caused and the value...
by Maria Elisabeth Louw
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2007
Providing a wealth of empirical research on the everyday practise of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia, this book gives a detailed account of how Islam is understood and practised among ordinary Muslims in the region, focusing in particular on Uzbekistan. It shows how individuals negotiate understandings...
Islam on the Street
Religion in Modern Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and manuals written by Sufi shaykhs and Islamist thinkers from among the more militant groups in Islam, but also in writings by other, more secular thinkers who have also influenced public opinion. A scholar...
by Phillip Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Thoroughly revised in the light of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent climate of fear and hostility towards Muslims, this new edition of the acclaimed "Unfolding Islam" sets out to present Islam to non-Muslim readers, and to describe for the general reader - whether Muslim...
by W. Cole Durham, Rik Torfs
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues brings together vital analysis of the challenges that Europe poses for an expanding Islam and that Islam poses for Europe, within their ever-evolving religious, legal, and social environments. This book gathers some of the best thinking on Islam and the law...
Islam And Terrorism
What the Quran really teaches about Christianity, violence and the goals of the Islamic jihad.
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The Western media declares that "at its core, Islam is moderate and tolerant of others" (New York Times Magazine).Author Mark A. Gabriel, former professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, disagrees. He says that terrorists are practicing Islam just as Muhammad intended....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Since the 1970s, Islam has been undergoing a tremendous resurgence throughout the world. This resurgence has often been labeled "Islamic fundamentalism" by the media, but it includes believers of every persuasion, from the most conservative to the most liberal.Given this fact, it is vital for...
by Brent Waterbury
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This is a politically-incorrect view of Islam from historians and other critics in a narrative form. Today very few in the West would care about Islam at all if it wasn't for jihadi's making things miserable for millions of people. In this year alone Western Europe will take in 500,000 refugees alone...
Désamorcer l'islam radical
Ces dérives sectaires qui défigurent l'islam
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2014
L’hostilité envers l’islam et les musulmans grandit. Cette attitude n’est plus l’apanage du Front National. Un amalgame dangereux se crée entre les musulmans pratiquants respectant les principes républicains et ceux qui prônent un « islam pur » coupé de la société. Les repères se...
by Hüseyn Hilmi Işık
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
This work, Belief and Islam, originally was written in Persian under the title I’tiqâd-nâma by Hadrât Mawlânâ Khâlid al-Baghdâdî, a profound ‘âlim of Islam and a specialist in ma’ârif of tasawwuf. Hâji Faydullah Effendi of Kemah, a khalîfa of great walî Mavlânâ Mahmûd Sâhib,...
A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism
Pattern and Change in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism offers a new insight on the changing relationship between Islam and feminism from the colonial era in the 1900s to the early 1990s in Indonesia.
The book juxtaposes both colonial and postcolonial sites to show the changes and the patterns of the encounters between...
Women, Islam and Modernity
Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original fieldwork...
From Belonging to Belief
Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern Kyrgyzstan. Opening with the juxtaposition of a statue of Lenin and a mosque in the town square, Julie McBrien proceeds to peel...
by Blaque Hough
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
In English it takes two words to say “law” and “religion” and those two words carry two different bundles of meaning. In Arabic and Turkish, traditionally one word, din, meant both.Splitting or uniting the ideas and assumptions behind those words makes an enormous difference in the...