Islam category: 2999 books
The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam
Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia, ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great portion of that time. In a far-reaching analysis that combines social, cultural,...
Islam in History
Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous...
The Venture of Islam, Volume 2
The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods
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...
Islam and the Everyday World
Public Policy Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is a new examination of how Shari’a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.
The process by which public policy is decided - through elections, debates, political processes,...
Women in Islam
The Western Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Women in Islam investigates the ongoing debate across the Muslim world and the West on the position of women in Islam.
Anne-Sofie Roald focuses on how Islamic perceptions of women and gender change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns such as gender...
Radical Islam Rising
Muslim Extremism in the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Although the West denounces the spread of radical Islam in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, it tends to overlook the development of Islamic extremism in its own societies. Over the past several decades, groups like al-Qaeda have been supported by thousands of citizens of...
The Call of Modernity and Islam
A Muslim's Journey Into the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
The Call Of Modernity And Islam is a timely and welcome anthology of ten scholarly essays that focus creatively on the urgent need to re-energize Islamic culture and institutions. The essays span an enormous disciplinary range. Professor Khwaja moves back and forth with consummate ease between religion,...
Understanding Islam: A New Translation with Selected Letters
A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With over one billion believers throughout the globe, Islam remains one of the most misunderstood of the world's great Revelations. In this fully revised and amended translation of his masterpiece, philosopher Frithjof Schuon offers readers a deeper understanding of Islam, the world's second largest...
Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam
Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Of the several works on the rise and development of the Babi movement, especially those dealing with the life and work of its founder, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, few deal directly with the compelling and complex web of mysticism, theology and philosophy found in his earliest compositions.
This...
Islam and Christianity Today
A Contribution to Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In this volume, originally published in 1983, W Montgomery Watt looks at the meeting of Christianity and Islam, how they see and have seen each other, and considers how they can aid each other in dealing with the problems of the world today. He emphasizes those beliefs which Christianity and Islam have in common, and shows how they may be justified intellectually.
The Sociology of Islam
Collected Essays of Bryan S. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Taking a thematic approach, Bryan S. Turner draws together his writings which explore the relationship between Islam and the ideas of Western social thinkers. Turner engages with the broad categories of capitalism, orientalism, modernity, gender, and citizenship among others, as he examines how Muslims adapt to changing times and how Islam has come to be managed by those in power.
Green Deen
What Islam Teaches about Protecting the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
“The Earth is a mosque.” Muslims are compelled by their religion to praise the Creator and to care for their community. But what is not widely known is that there are deep and long-standing connections between Islamic teachings and environmentalism. In this groundbreaking book, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin...
by FSA Majeed
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A book on the principles of which Islam is based. A moderate Islam book that states islam as a peaceful and calm religion. A book that the word need to know about in a chaotic world that has wrong preconceptions of islam as a result of world events. It speaks of the six principles of faith: Belief in God, His angels, His books, His prophets, life after death and fate and judgement passed.
Islam
To Reform or to Subvert?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
At a time when Islam is the focus of attention, vilified by some and a source of inspiration for others, Arkoun's is one of few voices that seek to go against the stream. His radical review of mainstream historiography of Islam draws on interdisciplinary analysis - historical, social, psychological...