Oneworld Publications: 450 books
by Max Charlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From the works of the Greek philosophers to the Postmodernist theories of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty, this authoritative survey encompasses over two thousand years of interaction between philosophical and religious though.Exploring the various ways in which philosophy can relate to the monotheistic...
Pascal's Fire
Scientific Faith and Religious Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Combining cutting edge-science with thought-provoking discourses about morality, religion and the meaning of life, Keith Ward provides a fascinating take on the science versus religion debate, offering 'a third way' which is guaranteed to spark debate for years to come.
Sexual Ethics and Islam
Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives’ sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument. In this groundbreaking, lucid, and carefully constructed work, feminist Muslim scholar Dr...
Men in Charge?
Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic law, though it varies considerably in...
The God Question
What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Does God Exist? Without doubt, the greatest question to face humanity in its history, the controversy rages on today with a recent spate of books on both sides of the divide. However, this debate is not a new phenomenon. For centuries, our greatest philosophers, from Aristotle to Nietzsche, have sought...
Ashraf `Ali Thanawi
Islam in Modern South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Ashraf Ali Thanawi (1863-1943) was one of the most prominent religious scholars in Islamic history. Author of over a thousand books on different aspects of Islam, his work sought to defend the Islamic scholarly tradition and to articulate its authority in an age of momentous religious and political...
by Michael Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (17031792) aroused great controversy in his lifetime. More than two centuries after his death, he still elicits strong views. For some he is the model of a pious religious activist who fought to establish a regime of Islamic godliness in the least promising of environments....
Speaking in God's Name
Islamic Law, Authority and Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This challenging new book reviews the ethics at the heart of the Islamic legal system, and suggests that these laws have been misinterpreted by certain sources in an attempt to control women.
Islam
Faith and History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Combining the personal with the scholarly, this innovative introduction gives the reader an insight into Islam and its rich history.
The Heritage of Sufism (Volume 1)
Classical Persian Sufism from Its Origins to Rumi (700-1300)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries. This collection of 24 essays covers the key achievements of the Muslim intellectual and cultural tradition in history, mysticism, philosophy...
by Christopher Melchert
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Christopher Melchert examines the forefather of the fourth of the four principal Sunni schools of jurisprudence, the Hanbali. Upholding the view that the Qur'an was uncreated and the direct word of God, Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780-855) thought that the holy text should be read literally, rejecting any possibility...
by Keith Ward
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In Morality, Autonomy, and God, acclaimed philosopher-theologian Keith Ward argues a strong controversial thesis: that morality is not autonomous, and that theistic morality is deeply rational and of critical importance, especially in modern societies. Referring in detail to contemporary work in moral...
God, Faith and the New Millennium
Christian Belief in an Age of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Keith Ward offers a new interpretation of Christianity, presenting a faith in harmony with the scientific worldview, while remaining true to its traditions.
by Keith Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In this, the paperback edition of the influential bestseller, Keith Ward dismantles the attacks on religion by scientists, sociologists, and psychologists, who claim that religion is nothing more than a host of naïve superstitions and delusions. Examining the work of thinkers from Sigmund Freud to...