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by Jennifer Heath
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
It is often said that two-thirds of the religion of Islam was handed down by women and one-third was shaped by women. "Of worldly things," the Prophet Muhammad said, "women and fragrance are made dear to me and the comfort of my eyes is made in prayer."Muhammad was born to a widowed mother,...
The Many Faces of Political Islam
Religion and Politics in the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern, Western-style democracy. Yet very few non-Muslims would be able to venture an accurate definition of political Islam. Mohammed Ayoob's The Many Faces of Political...
A Battle for the Soul of Islam
An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Among the unsettling social shifts in the wake of 9/11 was the global attention paid to Islam. Here in the United States, we became divided, often sadly along partisan lines, between those who believed every Muslim was a potential threat and those who believed no Muslim could do wrong.
For...
by Mehboob Desai
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A number of misunderstandings prevail by connecting violence with Islam. Ugly from of violence, even terrorism, has been connected with a peaceful and value based religion like Islam, due to misunderstandings spread in the name of Kurbani and Jihad. In this book the basic principles and the relation...
The Qur'an
A Chronological Modern English Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
I wrote this book because I want to help people understand Islam. This is not an attempt to spread a religion or to denigrate it. I offer it as a gift to anyone seeking to bridge the gap in their understanding of Islam. In the end, education and understanding—and acceptance of other cultures—will...
Islam and World History
The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative...
One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds
Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance across Islamic Lands
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented material...
Taking Back Islam
American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
“The thinking person's guide to Islam in a post-9/11 America” —Publisher’s Weekly
Islam, the least understood of the world's great religions, is balanced on a precipice between the past and the future, between fanatical fundamentalists and progressives advocating peace. Noted Islamic...
by Herbert Berg
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Elijah Muhammad is arguably the most significant figure in the history of Islam in the United States. Successor to W. D. Fard, the founder of the Nation of Islam, and a mentor to Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad led the Nation of Islam for over forty years.
In Elijah Muhammad and Islam, Herbert Berg focuses...
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara
Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society. Contributors explore the dramatic changes...
What is Shi'i Islam?
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
For the public at large Shi’ism often implies a host of confused representations, suggesting more often than not obscurantism, intolerance, political violence and other ignominies running hot or cold in response to world events. In fact for many people, Shi’ism stands for "radical Islam",...
The Sociology of Islam
Knowledge, Power and Civility
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The Sociology of Islam provides an accessible introduction to this emerging field of inquiry, teaching and debate. The study is located at the crucial intersection between a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. It discusses the long-term dynamics of Islam as both a religion...
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,...
by Maulana Muhammad Ali
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Dieses kleine Buch von Maulana Muhammad Ali, dem berühmten Ãbersetzer des Heiligen Korans, ist vielleicht eine der besten kurzen Präsentationen der Religion des Islam. Auf seinen fünfunddreiÃig Seiten gibt Maulana Muhammad Ali eine prägnante...