Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
A Philosophical Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided—but also unimpeded—by...
by Leila Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this work is more than historical scholarship; it argues for an understanding of the Islamic World, Islam's roots and how those roots explain the political challenges of today. This is essential reading for anyone...
The Two Faces of Islam
Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
Since its formation in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by two interdependent families. The Al Sa’uds control politics and the descendants of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab impose Wahhabism—a violent, fanatical perversion of the pluralistic Islam practiced by most Muslims. Stephen Schwartz argues that Wahhabism,...
Crusade and Jihad
The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North—China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America—and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa. William R. Polk draws on more than half a century of experience...
Consuming Desires
Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages. Partly in reaction to these dynamics, new types of marriage that evade the control of the state and religious authorities have emerged. These marriages allow for men and women...
Inviting Muslims to Christ
A Clear Path to Salvation Including Quotations/Commentary from the Bible and Quran
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The prupose and intent for this resouce book's focus is to extend the hand of peace, fellowship and mutual respect toward all humanity and especially all Muslims throughout the world. We commit to respect each other's sacred texts, the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran. Confirming that while we share...
Female Homosexuality in the Middle East
Histories and Representations
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality.
Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth...
Islam in Context
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
In recent months, much attention has been paid to Islam and the greater Muslim world. Some analysis has been openly hostile, while even more has been overly simplistic. Islam in Context goes behind the recent crisis to discuss the history of Islam, describe its basic structure and beliefs, explore...
by Robert G. Hoyland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book offers a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam. The first part discusses the nature of the Muslim and non-Muslim source material for the seventh- and eighth-century Middle East and argues that by lessening the divide between these two traditions,...
The Jihadist Threat
The Re-conquest of the west?
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This timely and controversial book examines the international and domestic threats to the West from Jihadism. It joins the dots in the Middle East, Asia and Africa and explains what it means for the home front, mainly Britain but also continental Europe and the USA. More Brits are trying to join the...
Beyond Sunni and Shia
The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict during a period of upheaval in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines how political economy, geopolitics, domestic governance,...
Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age
Religious Authority and Internal Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Among traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and how best to deal with them, and the debates have grown more urgent since 9/11. Through an analysis of the work of Muhammad Rashid Rida and Yusuf al-Qaradawi...
Between Dissent and Power
The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
This study examines the collective progression of Islamic politics between points of dissent and positions of power. It brings about a more a serious understanding of Islamic politics by critically tracing the pathways by which Islamic politics has been transformed in the Middle East and Asia.