Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
The Journey of the Self
A Sufi Guide to Personality
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 1989
This groundbreaking and seminal work is the first to travel into the very center of that uncharted meeting-place of science and spirituality. It presents for the Western reader a concept of the self from the Islamic view, the same concept as revealed in the teachings of several world religions, in...
The Islamist Phoenix
The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
An updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix is now available as ISIS: The Terror Nation (978-1-60980-725-2)
From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq)...
Spies, Scandals, and Sultans
Istanbul in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Spies, Scandals, and Sultans is the first English translation of a fascinating and acidly critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid. This is the first time that the text, written by an Egyptian journalist and politician, has been available since...
The Qur'an
A Chronological Modern English Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
I wrote this book because I want to help people understand Islam. This is not an attempt to spread a religion or to denigrate it. I offer it as a gift to anyone seeking to bridge the gap in their understanding of Islam. In the end, education and understanding—and acceptance of other cultures—will...
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1994
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The...
The Near East
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilization in the fourth millennium BCE until modern times. It provides an historical outline...
by Mahmood Ibrahim
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The rise of merchant capital in Mecca conditioned the development of Meccan social, economic, religious, and political structure. Mahmood Ibrahim traces the roots of capitalism from the emergence of merchants as the main force in Mecca through the first civil war in Islam (656–661). Through a rereading...
Halal Food
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Food trucks announcing "halal" proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle Eastern historians Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene provide an accessible introduction to halal (permissible) food in the Islamic tradition, exploring what...
Muhammad
A Prophet for Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing Religion
Muhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course of world history. Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly...
Islam for Nerds
500 Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
500 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE WORLD'S MOST MISINTERPRETED RELIGION
Fully revised first edition.
Islamic history and anecdotes are part of everyday conversation in the Arab world. This book provides a fascinating journey into one of the biggest and probably most misinterpreted religions...
by R. C. Sproul, Abdul Saleeb
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2003
Is Islam a religion of peace or of violence?
Islam is a religion we can no longer afford to ignore. It is one of the fastest-growing religions in the world. Newspapers and television news regularly bring stories from the Middle East, but more importantly, the Muslim world has come to us. Between...
Muslim Identities
An Introduction to Islam
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Rather than focus solely on theological concerns, this well-rounded introduction takes an expansive view of Islamic ideology, culture, and tradition, sourcing a range of historical, sociological, and literary perspectives. Neither overly critical nor apologetic, this book reflects the rich diversity...
The Literature of Islam
A Guide to the Primary Sources in English Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
This book introduces the literature of Islam as it is presented in English translation. For scholars in other fields who need to understand the vast and complex literary heritage of this erudite and vigorous faith community (but are unable to devote years of their lives to achieving a reading proficiency...
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant
The Holiest Cities of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the holiest cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).
This...