Islam category: 2999 books

The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies is a comprehensive one volume reference guide to Islam and study in this area. A team of leading international scholars - Muslim and non-Muslim - cover important aspects of study in the field, providing readers with a complete and accessible source of information...

This book is not a typical biography of Hasan al-Turabi. It is a project in the study of a Sudanese human experience at the heart of which Hasan al-Turabi was an actor, a victim and a victimizer. Hasan al-Turabi, the rise and fall of his Islamism, and the dramatic life of generations of the Sudanese...

HEALTH SCIENCES IN EARLY ISLAM is a pioneering study of Islamic medicine that opens up new chapters of knowledge in the history of the healing sciences. This two volume work covers the development of Islamic medicine between the 6th and 12th centuries A.D. Transcending mere medical historiography,...

The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of...

Church History reveals that Christianity has its roots in Palestine during the first century and was spread throughout the Mediterranean countries by the Apostles. However, despite sharing the same ancestry, Muslims and Christians have been living in a challenging symbiotic co-existence for more than...

Written by a Muslim convert and mother of three, Welcome to Islam captures the occasionally poignant but often humorous reality of being a Muslim in the current climate: as a convert, a working woman, a mother, and as an active member of the local community. Discover what it's really like living...

À l'aube du VIIe siècle, l'Arabie a été réveillée de sa torpeur millénaire par un souffl e puissant et jusque-là inconnu, l'islam. Son émergence fut particulièrement rapide car il n'a fallu à Mohammed, le nouveau prophète, qu'un peu plus d'une vingtaine d'années, de 610 à 632, pour imposer...

Questions have always been a key to the treasures of human knowledge, and individuals and nations who tend to question less come to acquire a reduced share from this vast treasure. Basically, it is the right of every person to ask questions and obtain their answers, and none can be deprived of this...

Ein weltweit geführter Karikaturen-Streit, gewaltsame Proteste von Muslimen, ein Urteil einer Richterin unter Berufung auf die Sharia - immer wieder meldet sich der Islam deutlich zu Wort. Sind wir mit einer schleichenden Islamisierung konfrontiert?Ist der Islam noch eine Religion des Friedens -...

L'islam, on l'a dit souvent, est tout ensemble religion et communauté (.). Les prières prescrites, l'aumône légale, le jeûne du mois de ramaḍān, le pèlerinage à La Mekke sont des obligations individuelles, mais qui revêtent une valeur sociale (.). Elles sont les temps forts d'un « vouloir...

Comme le souligne Claudio Mutti, il existerait une affinité singu­lière entre certains aspects fondamen­taux de la pensée nietzschéenne et l’Islam. En lisant les œuvres de Mohammad Iqbal, cité abondam­ment dans cet essai, on ne peut effectivement qu’être frappé par la convergence des...

L’argomento “Donne con il velo” occupa intere pagine di giornali, copertine di riviste, con i soliti luoghi comuni: “Donna con il velo”, “Donna tutta burka, casa e figli”, “L’infibulazione della donna”, “La donna segregata in casa”, “Giovani occidentali libere e donne musulmane...

In questo libro l’autore spiega il vero significato di “jihad”, lo “sforzo” contro le tentazioni di Satana, vero nemico dell’uomo. Spesso quando si parla di “jihad” si pensa subito alla guerra con le armi e viene tradotto in Occidente come “guerra santa”, l’autore nel libro invece...

How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease? Rooted in the prophet’s experiences with medicine and healing, Muslim pietistic literature developed cosmologies in which physical suffering and medical interventions interacted with religious obligations and spiritual health. This book...