Islam category: 2999 books

This concise reference guide is designed specifically for readers and students who wish to learn more about the world's fastest-growing religion. Fully illustrated, the encyclopedia contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries which give succinct yet authoritative information on everything from the Qur'an and its origins to the role of Islam in the USA.

Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience. Contributors explore...

This book is made primarily to present the Islamic faith at the elementary level, but particularly to illustrate why some Muslim youth may be “pruned” to see the path to “faith-extremism” as lit by bright light and planted with flowers. In order to see that, Islam should firstly be presented...

Academic, theological and cultural discussions on fundamentalism are overwhelmingly dominated by a discourse on the need for ‘modernization and development’ in the Muslim world. Yet, the crude distinction between East and West, religious and non-religious, Muslim and modern frequently fails to...

Shalat lima waktu adalah salah satu kewajiban bagi umat Islam. Shalat ternyata tidak hanya menjadi amalan utama di akhirat nanti, tetapi ternyata gerakan–gerakan shalat adalah gerakan paling proporsional bagi anatomi tubuh manusia. Bahkan dari sisi medis, shalat adalah gudangnya obat dari berbagai...

This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. It explores the role of Islam in society and politics generally, and its influence on gender equality in particular. The work focuses on the situation of married women....

The role of women in Islam is very different than in our civilization. According to the will of Allah, women are to be subjugated to men in all things. They must lead their lives according to a doctrine that is based on the dictates of the Koran and how Mohammed treated his wives and the other women...

Morals and Manners in Islam is a brief yet comprehensive handbook for Muslims and those non-Muslims interested in acquiring a broad knowledge of the Muslim way of life. The book’s contents, derived mainly from the Qur’an and the Sunnah, the main sources of jurisprudence, are listed in points format.

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: 1.00, , course: Islam & Politics in the Gulf, language: English, abstract: The Muslim Brotherhood has been a source of fear to many Arab regimes, especially Gulf monarchies. Growing from a small society...

Originally published in 1985. Beginning with the Qur’an, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba confronts the question of male supremacy in Islam, and the strict separation of the masculine and the feminine. He gives an account of purification practices, of Islamic attitudes towards homosexuality, concubinage, legal...

Emphasizing the character of the religion of Islam as consisting of faith and practice, this book analyzes thoroughly the five most important “pillars of Islam” that form the core of Islamic life, namely the profession of faith, the prayer, which is the first practical manifestation of faith,...

This Booklet is a compilation of some of the Quotations from eminent international scholars on Islam, Quran, Religion and ScienceIf we analyze all the sayings by all these international scholars we find the compatibility between religion and science. And science is only a tool created by the almighty...

This book - continuation of the volume 1 - is about the failure of the OIC, the need of Muslim countries in the Southeast Asia to form a new association vis--vis ASEAN, jihad, the attributes of disbelievers vis-a-vis believers, the ungrateful people, the wrath of Allah, the victory of the Muslims...

Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved...