Islam category: 2999 books
Saracens
Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they...
Islam and America
Building a Future without Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Islam and America argues that the current animosity between the U.S. and Muslim world should be understood through the often-overlooked history between the two. Tracing the genealogy of this conflicted relationship from the Pilgrims to the present, author Anouar Majid weaves personal stories with...
by Oliver Leaman
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today. Oliver Leaman explores some of the controversies and debates that exist within Islam and between Islam and other religions. He considers how the religion can...
Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age
Islamic Extremism and Western Islamophobia
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
How can Islam be understood in the context of internal struggles for unity and identity, a rise in anti-Muslim hate crime and continued media portrayals of violence, extremism, warfare and oppression? Looking at Islam as a faith, a whole system with political dimensions and through the lens of Western...
Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape
Religious Pluralism and Secularism in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Public manifestations of Islam remain fiercely contested across the Global West. Studies to date have focused on the visual presence of Islam – the construction of mosques or the veiling of Muslim women. Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape is the first book to add a sonic dimension to analyses...
Islam and the Fate of Others
The Salvation Question
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Can non-Muslims be saved? And can those who are damned to Hell ever be redeemed? In Islam and the Fate of Others, Mohammad Hassan Khalil examines the writings of influential medieval and modern Muslim scholars on the controversial and consequential question of non-Muslim salvation. This is an illuminating...
by Abdulaziz Sachedina
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations. Since then, the...
Islamic Law and Governance in Contemporary Iran
Transcending Islam for Social, Economic, and Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The current rise of Islamism throughout the Muslim world, Islamists’ demand for the establishment of Islamic states, and their destabilizing impact on regional and global orders have raised important questions about the origins of Islamism and the nature of an Islamic state. Beginning with the Iranian...
Islam and Other Religions
Pathways to Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection of essays assesses various dimensions of dialogue between Islam and other religions, especially Christianity. This book celebrates the work of Professor Mahmoud Ayoub and reflects the themes that are central in his scholarship spanned over the last three decades and which are more...
Great Muslims of the West
Makers of Western Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
“[A] work of great synthesis. . . . [It] argues that the ‘makers of Western Islam’ have not only enriched Islam, but also humanity in general. This book is an important and timely contribution.”—Dr. Enes Karic, Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, and former...
by Abdelwahab Meddeb
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Abdelwahab Meddeb makes an urgent case for an Islamic reformation, located squarely in Western Europe, now home to millions of Muslims, where Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with secular humanism and positivist law. He is not advocating “moderate” Islam, which he characterizes as...
by Taqi Usmani
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The following book began as a part of what is now a collection, translated as "Discourses on Individual Spiritual Perfection" - Islaahi Khutbaat.The collection of addresses and sermons was a compendium of assorted subjects in Islam, like elementary deeds, rights of Allah and of fellow men, current Issues,...
Reflections on Reason, Religion, and Tolerance
Engaging with Fethullah Gulen's Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
This is an attempt to reflect on Islam as it appears in the context of Fethullah Gulen's teachings, an influential Turkish-Muslim scholar who inspired a movement of education and interfaith dialogue. Grinell's extensive study of Islam and of Gulen allows him to pinpoint a unique expression of values...
Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey
The Making of the Justice and Development Party
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Turkey is ninty-nine per cent Muslim, its ruling party, Justice and Development Party (JDP), comes from but denies its Islamist pedigree and has a very secular feel. However, the deeply secular regime distrusts the JDP with regard to its 'true' colours. This book makes sense of these paradoxical...