Islam category: 2999 books
Islam in Asia
Facts and Figures
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Many Westerners associate Islam primarily with the Middle East. But in fact, four countries have larger Muslim populations than Egypt, the largest Arab state. Those four countries-Indonesia, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh-all like within Asia. This volume presents a wealth of statistical and background...
The Islamic Threat
Myth or Reality?
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1999
Are Islam and the West on a collision course? From the Ayatollah Khomeini to Saddam Hussein, the image of Islam as a militant, expansionist, and rabidly anti-American religion has gripped the minds of Western governments and media. But these perceptions, John L. Esposito writes, stem from a long history...
Sayyid Qutb
The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden. But Qutb has too often been treated maliciously or reductively-"the Philosopher of Islamic Terror," as Paul Berman famously put it in the New York Times Magazine....
Understanding Islam and Christianity
Beliefs That Separate Us and How to Talk About Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
For years, international apologist Josh McDowell has been alert to the challenge of Islam—and how Muslims’ objections to Christianity can raise deep doubts in believers’ minds. His recent on-the-ground research with Muslims in the Middle East has crystallized into this practical resource focusing...
by Irfan Alli
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
From the kind of coverage Islam and Muslims receive in the media you would think it is an irrational and violent way of life, adopted by a bunch of lunatics. There are lunatics and terrorists in the Muslim community, but it is not possible that the more than one and a half billion Muslims around the...
Illuminating the Darkness
Blacks and North Africans in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Illuminating the Darkness is about the status of blacks and North Africans in Islam. The book is divided into two sections: Part l of the book explores the concept of race, 'blackness', slavery, interracial marriage and racism in Islam in the light of the Qur'an, Hadith and early historical sources....
Worship in Islam
An In-Depth Study of Ibadah, Salah and Sawm
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Mawdudi was a leading Islamic thinker in the twentieth century. His works are notable for their aim to offer an Islamic way for all areas of personal and social life.
This book present his thoughts on the central matter of worship’s role in Islam.
It also sets out his holistic view...
Interpreting Islam in China
Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
During the early modern period, Muslims in China began to embrace the Chinese characteristics of their heritage. Several scholar-teachers incorporated tenets from traditional Chinese education into their promotion of Islamic knowledge. As a result, some Sino-Muslims established an educational network...
Islamism
Contested Perspectives on Political Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
As America struggles to understand Islam and Muslims on the world stage, one concept in particular dominates public discourse: Islamism. References to Islamism and Islamists abound in the media, in think tanks, and in the general study of Islam, but opinions vary on the differences of degree and kind...
The Five Pillars of Islam
Laying the Foundations of Divine Love and Service to Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The Five Pillars of Islam is a comprehensive and practical manual on the fundamental beliefs and practices of a Muslim and provides an understanding of the true spirit of worship in Islam. Written by a noted Muslim scholar and educationist with a contemporary Muslim audience in mind, this is an invaluable...
Leisurely Islam
Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse...
The Political Traditions of Mohammed
The Hadith for the Unbelievers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
The words and deeds of Mohammed are the ideal pattern to be followed by all Muslims at all times. Mohammed¿s speech and actions are called the sunna and are recorded in the Traditions (the Hadith). The Traditions are more important in the daily practice and world-view of a Muslim than the Koran....
Christianity or Islam
The Contrast
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
If you want to know what is in Sharia Law, this book quotes it. Sharia Law comes from the Quran.
“Christianity or Islam: The Contrast” was written to help Christians understand Islam, and Muslims understand Christianity. It is not ABOUT the two religions but quotes DIRECTLY from the...
Islam in the Modern World
Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today’s hot button issues—including holy wars, women’s rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East—in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world....