Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue
Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'. By challenging the assumption that 'world religions' operate as essential entities separate from the lived experiences of practitioners, he shows that interreligious dialogue is in turn problematic...
The Baha'is of Iran
Socio-Historical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Baha’i community of Iran is the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. This collection of essays presents a comprehensive study of the social and historical development of the Baha’i community, and its role in shaping modern Iran.
Central to this study is the pioneering...
Da'wa and Other Religions
Indian Muslims and the Modern Resurgence of Global Islamic Activism
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Da‘wa, a concept rooted in the scriptural and classical tradition of Islam, has been dramatically re-appropriated in modern times across the Muslim world. Championed by a variety of actors in diverse contexts, da‘wa –"inviting" to Islam, or Islamic missionary activity – has become...
by John Herlihy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Written by an American Muslim convert who has lived nearly 40 years among the Muslims, the author presents an insider’s account of Islam’s true place within the family of religions, what it means to be a Muslim living in the shadow of the modern world, and how to cultivate a life of spirituality...
by Henry Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
During his tenure as a college professor, Dr. Carrier taught political science and philosophy courses and travelled to over 30 different nations in Europe and East Asia. Now an author who has retired to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where he enjoys surf fishing and outrageous sunsets, Carrier also...
by Malcolm CLARK, Malek CHEBEL
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Découvrez les fondements historiques, les pratiques religieuses et la culture musulmane
Qui est le prophète Mahomet ? Quels sont les grands courants de l'islam ? Qu'est-ce que le ramadan, le soufisme, la circoncision? Qu'appelle-t-on les Cinq Piliers de l'islam ? Quelles relations l'islam...
by Malek CHEBEL, Malcolm CLARK
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Découvrez les fondements historiques de l'Islam, les pratiques religieuses et la culture musulmane
Qui est le prophète Mahomet ? Quels sont les grands courants de l'islam ? Qu'est-ce que le ramadan, le soufisme, la circoncision? Qu'appelle-t-on les Cinq Piliers de l'islam ? Quelles relations l'islam...
Le Fait religieux, tome 2
L'Islam
Language: French
Release Date: December 8, 2004
La religion de demain sera-t-elle l?agnosticisme ? Jamais, en Occident, la foi traditionnelle, n?a été tant remise en cause. La tendance au syncrétisme fait fortune, les sectes ont chaque jour de nouveaux adeptes et, partout, le repli sur des intégrismes agressifs semble s?accentuer. Ce sont là...
Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
Sufism and the Christian East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Despite the long and well-known history of conflict between Christians and Muslims, their mystical traditions especially in the Christian East and in Sufism, have shared for centuries many of the same spiritual methods and goals. The purpose of this book, the first major publication of its kind, is...
After the Prophet
The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever.
Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic...
Moving the Mountain
Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Muslims in America who reject extremist or fundamentalist expressions of Islam at home and abroad feel the urgent need for a voice that can represent them in the escalating irrationality of the current debate about Islam, America, and the West. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf—the so-called Ground Zero Imam—has...
by Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Cette œuvre érudite unique du Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi, entièrement révisée et remodelée, présente les prophéties à propos de l'avènement du Saint Prophète Muhammad dans les diverses Saintes Ecritures du monde. L'auteur prouve que les Ecritures de toutes...
The Missing Martyrs
Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on...
Islam
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. Karen Armstrong's short history offers a vital corrective to this narrow view....