Islam category: 2999 books
by Darussalam Publishers, Feryad A. Hussain
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The re-emergence of Islamically - centred therapy has increased over the past few decades. This has been motivated by the need for a therapeutic approach to treating mental illness that is ideologically acceptable within the boundaries of Shari'ah. This has become a concern not only for Muslim therapists...
Reading the Qur'an
The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"I grew up reading the Qur'an on my mother's lap," writes Ziauddin Sardar. "It's an experience I share with most Muslim children. And so it is that our connection to the Qur'an is infused with associations of the warmest and most enduring of human bonds." In Reading the Qur'an, Sardar--one of Europe's...
Muslims in Britain
Making Social and Political Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The management of social, religious and ethnic diversity is a key social policy concern in Britain, and Muslims in particular have become a focus of attention in recent years. This timely and topical volume examines the position of Muslims in Britain and how they are changing and making social, political...
by Malik Ibn Anas
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
The first formulation of Islamic Law based on the behaviour of the people of Madinah during the time of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and the great Companions, Al-Muwatta is the blueprint for a just and radiant society: the earliest, clearest, cleanest record of salafi Islam....
by Passerino Editore
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
The Qur’an, which should be the primary source about the life of Mohammed (Muhammad), does not provide any detail about him, as opposed to the Torah or the Gospels which contain narratives about Moses or Jesus. In the Qur’an, biographical and narrative elements are uncommon. Muslims conceive it...
by IDP Research Division
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Bear in mind that what you view in this world is either good or bad, clear or vague, a lust followed by sorrow or sins followed by gloom. Therefore, you have to reject a perishable joy or lust, a binding condemnity, an inevitable sorrow, and a grievous affliction. Judge yourself before being judged...
Female Personalities in the Qur'an and Sunna
Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi'i Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
This book investigates the manner in which the Qur’an and sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature.
Providing a comprehensive study of all the female personalities mentioned in the Qur’an, the book is selective in the personalities of the sunna, examining the three...
In the Beginning: Hijacking of the Religion of God
Volume 3: Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Preface
It was shortly after I had graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1980, with a PhD Degree specializing in fracture mechanics and failure analysis of materials and structures, that I discovered the dire need for this book. This undertaking began to take shape in the early 1980s...
by Craig Markinsons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The Sharia Law are the rules and the belief structure that governs the complete body of Islam. The term refers to the way of operation or more specifically the framework that governs the public and private life of the citizens. This is particular to the individuals who practice Islam or who live in...
Refractions of Islam in India
Situating Sufism and Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The essays explore Sufism as it developed in the Indian subcontinent, including translations of previously unavailable texts, and revealing unexpected insights into the lives, practices, and teachings of Indian Muslims over nearly a thousand years. They also trace remarkable moments in the history...
Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh
The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Focusing on the Maijbhandari movement in Chittagong, south-eastern Bangladesh, which claims the status of the only Sufi order originated in Bengal and which has gained immense popularity in recent years, this book provides a comprehensive picture of an important aspect of contemporary Bengali Islam...
Egypt, Islam, and Democracy
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
These essays by one of Egypt's most influential intellectuals provide a fascinating perspective on the political, religious, economic, and social issues of contemporary Egypt. Written over a period of fifteen years, the essays cover a range of topics including civil society and the prospects for democratization...
The Apple of His Eye
Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with...
The "Forty Hadiths" of Imam al-Nawawi
A New Translation with Accompanying Commentary and Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Al-Arba‘in al-Nawawiyyah (“al-Nawawi’s Forty”) is a compilation of forty hadiths by Imam al-Nawawi, a thirteenth-century ce scholar and one of the most eminent and revered authorities in Islamic jurisprudence. These hadiths, or reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings, derive mainly from...