Islam category: 2999 books
by M. Manazir Ahsan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This book is a clear and lucid book that will provide children with a firm grounding in the Five Pillars of Islam: the Shahadah, Prayer, Charity, Fasting and the Hajj.A workbook setting out questions on elements of each chapter is also included.
Cultures in Conflict : Christians Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1995
Hailed as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" in The New York Times Book Review Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "To read Mr. Lewis" wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal "is to be taken through a treacherous terrain by the coolest and most reassuring of guides. You are in...
The Two Faces of Islam
Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
Since its formation in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by two interdependent families. The Al Sa’uds control politics and the descendants of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab impose Wahhabism—a violent, fanatical perversion of the pluralistic Islam practiced by most Muslims. Stephen Schwartz argues that Wahhabism,...
by Sheikh Elnayyal Abu Groon
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The All-Embracing Message of Islam reflects a glimpse of the message of all prophets, from Adam till Muhammad, clarifying that its nature is mercy, its aim is morality, and its purpose is happiness of people in this world and the one after. This compelling insight emphasizes that the context of interpretation...
by Lorin Jenis
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The two manuscripts, "A New Kind of Muslim" and "Brief Thoughts about a New Islam", have been combined into one volume. The essays are very readable; they make it easy to understand the epigrams in "Brief Thoughts". Maybe the world will notice this work, and maybe not. If the Muslim clerical establishment...
by J. M. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
They are Americans, and they are mujahideen. Hundreds of men from every imaginable background have walked away from the traditional American dream to volunteer for battle in the name of Islam. Some have taken part in foreign wars that aligned with U.S. interests while others have carried out violence...
The Legacy of Arab-Islam In Africa
A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This new book reassess the presence of Islam in Africa.
Globalization and Islamism
Beyond Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Tensions between the West and the Islamic world have reached an all-time high, fueled by caricatures and misunderstandings on both sides. In contrast, as Nevzat Soguk shows, actual histories reveal profound connections across Islamic and Western civilizations. Moving beyond the usual focus on Wahhabi...
Islamism and Modernism
The Changing Discourse in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
While many previous books have probed the causes of Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979, few have focused on the power of religion in shaping a national identity over the decades leading up to it. Islamism and Modernism captures the metamorphosis of the Islamic movement in Iran, from encounters with Great...
Constructing a Religiously Ideal ',Believer', and ',Woman', in Islam
Neo-traditional Salafi and Progressive Muslims' Methods of Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
In this comprehensive study, Adis Duderija examines how Neo Traditional Salafi thought (NTS) and progressive Muslims interpret the normative concepts of 'Believer' and 'Muslim Woman' in contemporary Islam
Islam in Indonesia
The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest...
Islam and Liberal Citizenship
The Search for an Overlapping Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
How can Muslims be both good citizens of liberal democracies and good Muslims? This is among the most pressing questions of our time, particularly in contemporary Europe. Some argue that Muslims have no tradition of separation of church and state and therefore can't participate in secular, pluralist...
The Other Islam
Shi’Ism: from Idol-Breaking to Apocalyptic Mahdism
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
The reputation of Shiism in the Islamic world, as elsewhere, has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this new study, The author moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Prophet Muhammed and his cousin, Ali, together with...