Islam category: 2999 books
by Farhad Daftary
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
The Ismailis represent an important Shiʿi Muslim community with rich intellectual and literary traditions. The complex history of the Ismailis dates back to the second/eighth century when they separated from other Shiʿi groups under the leadership of their own imams. Soon afterwards, the Ismailis...
by Bruce B. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
This vivid introduction to the heart of Islam offers a unique approach to understanding Allah, the central focus of Muslim religious expression. Drawing on history, culture, theology, politics, and the media, Bruce B. Lawrence identifies key religious practices by which Allah is revered and remembered,...
The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan
The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan
Toward a Resacralization of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Azerbaijan’s independence came after seven decades of militant atheism of Soviet modernization project and emerged into staunch secularism of Western modernity, two factors that, on a par with the country’s precarious neighborhood, promised a sustained indigenous effort towards the desacralization...
The Islam/West Debate
Documents from a Global Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate unlike any other, in which jihadists, journalists, liberal Muslims, and German pacifists engaged one another on the...
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims
The State's Role in Minority Integration
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany,...
Years of Upheaval
Axial Changes in Islam Since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Years of Upheaval discusses 'Axial periods' in history; years that witnessed such fundamental reversals in history as to make the world turn upside down and inaugurate a new era. Raphael Israeli sees the post-1989 period as such a period in Islam. He explores events in the Islamic world since the...
Transnational Islam and Regional Security
Cooperation and Diversity between Europe and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume investigates the impact of a new brand of transnational terrorism and political violence produced by radical Islamist groups from the Maghreb on the regional security dynamics. It describes the causes of the problems and the strategies devised by European and North African states in order...
Sufis in Western Society
Global networking and locality
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a number of issues relating to the dynamic tensions...
British, Muslims, Citizens
Introspection and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Muslims in Britain have experienced considerable changes in all walks of life over the last few decades. From a small beginning in post-War Britain the Muslim community has evolved to be a diverse section of the British population. With significantly higher proportion of youth within the community it...
Black Mecca
The African Muslims of Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The changes to U.S. immigration law that were instituted in 1965 have led to an influx of West African immigrants to New York, creating an enclave Harlem residents now call ''Little Africa.'' These immigrants are immediately recognizable as African in their wide-sleeved robes and tasseled hats, but...
by Massimo Campanini
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Non sono molti i libri seri sull'Islam che si possono trovare in libreria. Per questo al lettore non avvertito occorre segnalare con forza questo di Massimo Campanini: è un'ottima introduzione non solo al testo sacro dei musulmani, ma anche alla religione islamica stessa. Fabrizio Vecoli, "L'Indice"
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by Abdullah Suwaydî
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A collection of small books written by Sunni scholars for answering Shi'a claims.This book explains how the Hurûfîs, who infiltrated the Shi’î communities, attacked the Sunnîs, how the Iranian King Nâdir Shâh organized a debate between the Sunnî and the Shi’î scholars, which...
by Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
There are questions about religion that people seek answers to and hope to be enlightened in the best way. However in most cases, people base their opinions on hearsay rather than acquiring them from the real source of religion: the Qur’an. In these booklets, you will find the most accurate answers...
by Asghar Ali Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The book considers some of the stereotypes regarding Islamic and Quranic injunctions and re-examines them in the light of verses from the Quran and the Sharia. Some of these are Islamic views on non-muslim communities, tolerance, family planning, etc. For most of the seventy-one years of his life, Asghar...