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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
As the architect of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini remains one of the most inspirational and enigmatic figures of the twentieth century. The revolution placed Iran at the forefront of Middle East politics and the Islamic revival. Twenty years after his death, Khomeini is revered...
Essential Arabic
Speak Arabic with Confidence! (Arabic Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
This portable, user–friendly Arabic language guide, phrasebook and dictionary is the easiest and most affordable way to learn Arabic before and during your trip.
If you only want to purchase one Arabic language book—Essential Arabic is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential...
Learned Patriots
Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the “Great Powers” of Europe. The Ottoman Empire was no exception: Ottomans from all walks of life—elite and non-elite, Muslim and non-Muslim—debated...
Reading Clocks, Alla Turca
Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during the nineteenth century, as the Ottoman Empire was increasingly assimilated into the European-dominated...
Questioning the Veil
Open Letters to Muslim Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Across much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising piety or a way of asserting Muslim pride? And does the veil really provide women freedom from sexual harassment? Written in the form of letters addressing all those interested...
Our Promised Land
Faith and Militant Zionism in Israeli Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Our Promised Land takes readers inside radical Israeli settlements to explore how they were formed, what the people in them believe, and their role in the Middle East today. Charles Selengut analyzes the emergence of the radical Israeli Messianic Zionist movement, which advocates Jewish settlement...
Abu Hanifah
His Life, Legal Method & Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Abu Hanifah Nu'man ibn Thabit was one of the greatest pioneers in the history of Islamic Law, particularly in legal reasoning. The Hanafi Legal School that he founded has become the most widely followed among the world's Muslims. Based on primary sources, this study of the life and legacy of Abu Hanifah...
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...
by John Renard, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
In an age of continued Middle East volatility, religious extremists, and terrorist threats, the mere mention of Islam and Muslims too often provokes misunderstanding and even rancor. Often overlooked are the important links between the Qur'an and the Bible. Also ignored are the significant historical...
Islam in the Modern World
Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today’s hot button issues—including holy wars, women’s rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East—in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world....
Shi'i Islam
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muhammad's death, two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shi'ism. Sunni Muslims endorsed the historical caliphate, while Shi'i Muslims, supporters of 'Ali, cousin of the Prophet and the fourth caliph, articulated...
Druze, The
Culture, History, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The Druze, a much-misunderstood Muslim sect primarily inhabiting the Levant, have endured centuries of persecution by orthodox elements hostile to Islam's rich sectarian diversity on account of their esoteric divergence from mainstream Islam. As a result, they have become a 'fighting minority', as...
God and Man in Tehran
Contending Visions of the Divine from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In God and Man in Tehran, Hossein Kamaly explores the historical processes that have made and unmade contending visions of God in Iran’s capital throughout the past two hundred years. Kamaly examines how ideas of God have been mobilized, contested, and transformed, emphasizing how notions of the...
The Making of Salafism
Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Some Islamic scholars hold that Salafism is an innovative and rationalist effort at Islamic reform that emerged in the late nineteenth century but gradually disappeared in the mid twentieth. Others argue Salafism is an anti-innovative and antirationalist movement of Islamic purism that dates back...