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Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
A Boston Review Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism have provoked widespread discussion about the possibility of democracy in the Islamic world. Such topics as the meaning of jihad, the role of clerics as authoritative interpreters, and the place of human rights and toleration in Islam...
Classical Islam
A History, 600 A.D. to 1258 A.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter, the author opens by reminding us that the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history. Classical Islam also serves as a reminder that in the case of Islam, despite its triumphs on the fields of battle,...
Minority Jurisprudence in Islam
Muslim Communities in the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
According to many Islamic jurists, the world is divided between dar al-Islam (the abode of Islam) and dar al-harb (the abode of war). This dual division of the world has led to a great amount of juridical discussion concerning what makes a territory part of dar al-Islam, what the status of Muslims...
by Ludwig W. Adamec
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Muslims believe that the Koran is God’s message in Arabic, revealed through the medium of the Prophet Muhammad for the guidance of the Arabs and subsequently for all humanity. There is both unity and variety in the Islamic world. Muslims are not a homogeneous people who can be explained solely by...
The Qur'an Discussions: What Would a Muslim Say (Volume 2)
What Would a Muslim Say, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
With Dialogue Comes UNDERSTANDING
These days, Islam is no stranger to controversy. It seems everyone has an opinion about Islam or Muslims. Have you ever wondered what a regular, practicing Muslim would say? Have you ever wondered how Muslims living in the West explain their holy book to their...
The Muslim Doctrine of God
An Essay on the Character and Attributes of Allah according to the Koran and Orthodox Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Jews, Christians and Mohammedans believe in one God and yet differ widely in their interpretation of this idea. Unless we know the Moslem’s idea of God we cannot understand his creed nor judge his philosophy, nor intelligently communicate our idea of God to him. The strength of Islam is not in its...
What Are the Sacred Roots of Islam?
And the Planned Modern Islamic Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Historians agree that Nazarenes or Al-Nassarah in Arabic, similar to Judaism, was a source for knowledge and religious thoughts for the Arabs of Hijaz. The Arab of Hijaz and specially Arab of Mecca had a tremendous knowledge in the Nazarene doctrines and sect and their opinion of Christs Birth, His...
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 M. Sıddık Gümüş
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The book Why Did They Become Muslims consists of 3 sections. Section I is a book of Islam and Christianity. Information about Prophets, books, religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) is given, conditions of being a true Muslim are explained, the words of those filled with admiration for Islam...
Muslim Studies
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is the first volume of Goldziher's Muslim Studies, which ranks highly among the classics of the scholarly literature on Islam. Indeed, the two volumes, originally published in German in 1889-1890, can justly be counted among those that laid the foundations of the modern study of Islam as a religion...
Islam Today
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This new introduction aims to present Islam through the lens of contemporary issues. Informed by research taken from lived religion, each chapter looks at Islam in a modern context, and explores issues relevant to the religion today.
After an initial chapter providing an overview of the Islamic...
Islam
An American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense—first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith.
Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam...
The Politics of Writing Islam
Voicing Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The Politics of Writing Islam provides a much-needed critique of existing forms of studying, writing and representing Islam in the West. Through critiquing ethnographic, literary, critical, psychoanalytic and theological discourses, the author reveals the problematic underlying cultural and theoretical...
Punching Above Its Weight
The Story of the Call of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The Call of Islam, in many ways, was my youth. The year 1984, when the organization was founded, was also my matric year. Some of the first recruits for the organization came from my very own matric class; others were then recruited from my fellow first-year students at the University of Cape Town.
Besides...