Islam category: 2999 books

Islam is one of the biggest religion in the world. In fact, it's the second most popular religion. So what makes millions of people following this religion? This ebook compiles everything you need to know about Islam, from the history and beginning to the current practices. By having an open...

First published in 1992, this book focuses on the Muslim community and how it has developed in North America. Divided into eight sections, it traces the history of the Muslim community in North America from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth-century and examines different aspects of...

First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection...

Islam memandang wanita  memiliki banyak keistimewaan dan lebih unggul dibandingkan laki-laki. Di dalam Al-Qur’an telah banyak memberitahukan kepada kita semua tentang kedudukan wanita dan emansipasinya dengan kaum laki-laki. Wanita memiliki esensi dan identitas yang sama dengan laki-laki....

In Islam and Sustainable Development, Odeh Al-Jayyousi addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of sustainability from an Islamic perspective. Islam is sometimes viewed as a challenge, threat and risk to the West, but here we are reminded that the celebration of cultural diversity is a...

Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in forty-seven Muslim-majority countries today and offers an honest, clear-eyed answer...

This cutting edge book considers the question of Islam and commercialisation in Indonesia, a majority Muslim, non-Arab country. Revealing the cultural heterogeneity behind rising Islamism in a democratizing society, it highlights the case of television production and the identity of its viewers. Drawing...

Muhammad Rashid Rida is among the most influential Muslim thinkers of the modern period and yet, until this book, his writings on religious reform remained unpublished in English. In this paperback version of the flagship English edition, esteemed academic Simon A. Wood rights this wrong by translating...

This is the first comprehensive and comparative examination of Islamic radicalisation in the Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union since the end of Communism. Since the 1990s, the ex-Soviet Muslim Volga-Urals, Caucasus and Central Asia have been among the most volatile and dynamic zones of Islamic...

Muslim communities throughout the Indian Ocean have long questioned what it means to be a “good Muslim.” Much recent scholarship on Islam in the Indian Ocean considers debates among Muslims about authenticity, authority, and propriety. Despite the centrality of this topic within studies of Indian...

This volume provides an objective analysis of current trends and developments in the beliefs and practices of Sufis in Britain. Sufism is a dynamic and substantial presence within British Muslim communities and is influencing both religious and political discourses concerning the formation of Islam...

What do you know about the Islamic religion? This book provides a non-technical overview of the religion.  It also provides some insights into the tensions and conflicts between Islam and the Judo-Christian religion.  Who was Muhammad?  Who is Allah?  Is Islam a religion of peace?  Does Jihad...

Those who falsely tell us Islam is a religion of peace, must also be the ones who claim any disagreement is an insult to the Prophet.   Rooster Bradford knows the Quran (Allah’s words) does not say either.   A history of Islam at war.

The author graduated from the University of Strasbourg III. He practiced for nearly twenty years as an academic teacher in public law and international relations.He is also specialist in Islamic Studies.« .. Thus, there has become established in the collective mentality of the West,...