Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
Mehmed Ali
From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Kavalali Mehmed Ali Pasha (c. 1770 1849), often dubbed "the founder of modern Egypt", was one of the most important figures in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Born in what is now Greece, and seemingly headed for an everyday existence as a married tobacco trader, he joined the Ottoman...
The Longest Journey
Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five...
by F. A. Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
A history and Marxist analysis of the institutions of the Persian/Syrian Ismaeli sect founded by Hassan-ibn-Sabah ('The Old Man of the Mountain') known as 'The Assassins'. In Ridley's view the Assassin's unique claim to distinction in the eyes of history is that "they represent a sect that evolved...
Sufism and Society
Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200–1800
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In recent years, many historians of Islamic mysticism have been grappling in sophisticated ways with the difficulties of essentialism. Reconceptualising the study of Islamic mysticism during an under-researched period of its history, this book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in...
Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam
Authority and the Islamic state
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Mawlana Mawdudi was one of the most influential and important Islamic thinkers of the modern world, whose brand of political Islam has won widespread acceptance in South and South East Asia as well as the Middle East. He was not only an Islamic scholar, but also a journalist and political activist...
On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution
Power and Resistance Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution: Power and Resistance Today is the first comparative analysis of two central political events that have altered our world forever: the Arab uprisings which started in Tunisia, and the Iranian revolution in 1979. Adib-Moghaddam demonstrates how contemporary...
Journey into Islam
The Crisis of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Globalization, the war on terror, and Islamic fundamentalism-followed closely by a rise in Islamophobia-have escalated tensions between Western nations and the Muslim world. Yet internationally renowned Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed believes that through dialogue and understanding, these cultures can...
by Brent Waterbury
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This is a politically-incorrect view of Islam from historians and other critics in a narrative form. Today very few in the West would care about Islam at all if it wasn't for jihadi's making things miserable for millions of people. In this year alone Western Europe will take in 500,000 refugees alone...
Islam and Sustainable Development
New Worldviews
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
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...
The Mind of a Terrorist
David Headley, the Mumbai Massacre, and His European Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
With the Pacing of a Thriller, a Veteran Journalist’s Account of the Terrorist behind the Mumbai Attacks and a Planned Attack in Europe
David Headley, the American-Pakistani also known as Daood Gilani, lived a double life. One day he would stroll through Central Park in his tailored Armani...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
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...
Islam and China's Hong Kong
Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and...
by Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1995
These inspired aphorisms are remedies for hearts that seek the truth. They provide keys to the doors of inner knowledge, as well as antidotes to distraction and confusion.
ABOUT SHAYKH FADHLALLA HAERI
Acknowledged as a master of self-knowledge and a spiritual philosopher,...
by Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 1998
These inspired aphorisms and poems are remedies for hearts that seek the truth. They provide keys to the doors of inner knowledge, as well as antidotes to distraction and confusion.
ABOUT SHAYKH FADHLALLA HAERI
Acknowledged as a master of self-knowledge and a spiritual...