Islam category: 2999 books

This book showcases the first man on earth, altercations between Cain and Abel and the first bloodshed on earth, details of Noah’s Ark, Moses’s struggle to free the Israelis, passionate love between Jacob and Joseph, Lot’s struggle to establish virtues on earth, Job’s endurance of life’s...

This anthology of 365 quotations from the Quran, with brief explanatory notes, enables readers to gain a clear idea as to what the Quran says on:• the purpose behind the creation of man and the universe • concept and attributes of God in Islam• man’s obligations toward God• man’s obligations...

Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are...

It seems to me that the more important study at this time is that of the religious system which has grown out of the Prophet's teaching, and of its effect upon the individual and the community. What the Church in her missionary enterprise has to deal with, what European Governments in the political...

"Gunny, a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period, offers a survey of over 350 years, which is both a cross cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on...

Le Coran (arabe : القرآن ; al Qur'ān, « récitation ») est le livre sacré de l'islam. Sa tradition le présente comme le premier ouvrage rédigé en langue arabe claire, affirmation dépendante de la notion d'inimitabilité du Coran. Le...

An extensive manual describing the Hajj?a journey that enlightens the significance of human existence and submission?this guidebook offers advice for those undertaking the holy voyage and gives the meanings behind its rituals. With special attention to the people who make the journey?approximately...

A book which stirred more hearts and impelled more lives to change their course than any of Mawlana Mawdudi's more erudite works. It contains Friday congregational addresses of Mawlana, which expound such familiar themes as Iman, Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving, Pilgrimage, and Jihad, bringing them to life and revolutionary zeal through his trademark reasoning and simple, lucid style.

Commemorating the Battle of Karbala, in which the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hosayn and seventy-two of his family members and supporters were martyred in 680 CE, is the central religious observance of Shi'i Islam. Though much has been written about the rituals that reenact and venerate Karbala, until...

Bismillah Hirrahman Nirraheem ( In the name of God the most Merciful and the most Gracious ) ***  Dedicated to all victims of terrorist attacks (Muslims, Non Muslims) *** A Fiction Novel on World Power Politics. Dedicated to all victims of terrorist attacks (Muslims, Non...

Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and...

Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complicate it, weaken it, or perhaps even abandon it altogether by speaking of the Trinity. In this book, Muslim and Christian scholars challenge that opinion....

This book does not champion some of the popular misconceptions surrounding Islamic law. It does not advocate stoning to death; amputating the hands of thieves; call for the death penalty for those who leave the fold of Islam; or urge Muslims to save their souls from Hellfire by shunning bank loans...

This book explores Christian origins by examining a key New Testament epistle, Paul’s letter to the Galatian churches, seen by Christians as the charter of Christian liberty from the inherited Jewish law. The New Testament in Muslim Eyes provides a close textual commentary on perhaps the...