Islam category: 2999 books
From Babel to Dragomans
Interpreting the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2004
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal), as "a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world" (Baltimore Sun), and as "the doyen of Middle Eastern...
Muslim Rebels
Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved. Their influence in the political and theological life of the nascent faith...
Islamic Radicalism and Multicultural Politics
The British Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The expression of an Islamic political radicalism in Britain has been one of the most dramatic developments in recent decades. Islamic Radicalism and Multicultural Politics explores the nature of this phenomenon by analysing the origins of Islam and its historical contact with Western Europe and Britain,...
Introduction To Sufism
The Inner Path of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
In this introductory, yet comprehensive book, Éric Geoffroy explains that Sufism is the inner dimension of Islam and has its source in the Koran and in the life and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. Geoffroy discusses how Sufism was formed and how great masters have adapted its initiatic doctrines and...
Pointing the Finger
Islam and Muslims in the British Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Ever since 9/11, Muslims and Islam have dominated the headlines in the UK. With one leading newspaper describing the Muslim community as a troublesome minority”, the media has often been accused of hostility. In this illuminating study, several leading commentators examine the phenomenon of Islamophobia”...
Preaching Islamic Renewal
Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Preaching Islamic Renewal examines the life and work of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi, one of Egypt's most beloved and successful Islamic preachers. His wildly popular TV program aired every Friday for years until his death in 1998. At the height of his career, it was estimated that up to 30 million...
Schools of Qur'anic Exegesis
Genesis and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Qur’anic exegesis has become the battleground of political Islam and theological conflict among various Muslim schools of thought. Using comparative and contrastive methodology, examples from the Qur'an are investigated in the light of various theological views to delineate the birth, development...
Authenticity And Islamic Liberalism
A Mature Vision Of Islamic Liberalism Grounded In The Quran
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
"Authenticity and Islamic Liberalism" is a collection of four original and highly stimulating papers on the liberal existentialist approach to religion with special reference to Islam in India. Each paper deals with an independent theme; yet, a consistent analytical existentialist approach...
The Gülen Movement
Transformative Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This book presents findings from research into one of the world's most influential Islamic movements, the Gülen Movement, from the perspective of social transformation through adult education. At the core of research questions lies how the movement enrolls volunteers from all walks of life and transforms...
Religion and Extremism
Rejecting Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Focusing on the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Douglas Pratt argues that despite a popular focus on Islam, extremist Jews and Christians can also enact terror and destruction. Religion and Extremism stresses that the ideological rejection of diversity underlies religious...
by Hüseyn Hilmi Işık
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In this precious book written by Imâm-ı Rabbânî Ahmed Fârûkî Serhendi, one of the greatest savants of Islam, explained are the proof of Prophethood, the special features of a Prophet that distinguish him from other men, a miracle, the Prophethood of Muhammad ׳alayhissalâm. In addition to...
by A. J. Arberry
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1963, this work puts into clear and rhythmical English one hundred stories and apologues of the Masnavi of Rumi.
Composed over a period of many years during the thirteenth century, as a manual of instruction and initiation into spiritual life, the Masnavi has long been acclaimed...
Muslims Talking Politics
Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have debated Islam’s compatibility with democratic government, usually with few solid conclusions. But where—Brandon Kendhammer asks in this book—have the voices of ordinary, working-class Muslims been in this conversation? Doesn’t...
Spiritual Quest
Reflections on Quranic Prayer According to the Teachings of Imam Ali
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The Qur?an is the sacramental foundation of prayer in Islam. Its inspirational power is perpetually renewed through being recited and meditated upon by Muslims on a daily basis throughout their lives. This succinct monograph provides a unique contemporary insight into the spiritual, intellectual and...