Islam category: 2999 books
by IDP Research Division
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
This book starts by describing the beginning of creation - from the Arsh (Throne) and the Kursi (Chair), the Pen, the Universe and all that is in it, such as the earth, mountains, oceans and rivers, the angels, the jinn, etc. Wherever necessary, the views and opinions of other notable scholars of...
God's War on Terror
Islam, Prophecy and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
God's War on Terror is one of the most important books ever to be written on End-TImes prophecy. As Walid says, I wasted my college days taking courses on Psychology 101, English 101, and Sociology 101 but I never imagined Futurology 101! The Bible, as I found it, is not simply a book on personal...
No Peace Without Prayer
Encouraging Muslims and Christians to Pray Together; A Benedictine Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Abbot Timothy Wright proposes sowing a small seed from which might grow a greater respect between the world's two largest religions, Christianity and Islam. Indeed, he believes that the seed has already been planted. Christians give unique value to their revealed Scriptures as the "Word of God."...
Chinggis Khan
Selected Readings
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this novel perspective on a much-maligned figure, Michal Biran explains the monumental impact Chinggis Khan has had upon the Islamic World, both positive and negative. Often criticized as a mass-slaughterer, pillager, and arch-enemy of the faith, Biran shows that his constructive influence upon...
The Way of the Strangers
Encounters with the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
What does ISIS really want? This is the definitive account of the strategy, psychology, and fundamentalism driving the Islamic State.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS •“Worthy of Joseph Conrad . . . gripping, sobering and revelatory.”—Tom Holland, New Statesman
The...
Salah A Unique Meeting
Muslim Guide to Perfect the Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book began as a series of speeches by the renowned Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani. These hugely beneficial works were them put to the written form due to insightful and scholarly nature. The text covers the following and more:1.Importance of Salah And The Correct Way to Offer it2.The Sunnah Method of...
Mecca and Main Street
Muslim Life in America after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
Islam is Americas fastest growing religion, with more than six million Muslims in the United States, all living in the shadow of 9/11. Who are our Muslim neighbors? What are their beliefs and desires? How are they coping with life under the War on Terror? In Mecca and Main Street, noted author and...
by Michael Muhammad Knight
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
When Michael Muhammad Knight sets out to write the definitive biography of his Anarcho-Sufi” hero and mentor, writer Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey), he makes a startling discovery that changes everything. At the same time that he grows disillusioned with his idol, Knight finds that his own...
How to Be a Muslim
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A young Muslim leader’s memoir of his struggles to forge an American Muslim identity
Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, becoming an undergraduate leader at New York University’s Islamic Center forced into appearances everywhere: on TV, before interfaith audiences, in...
Stranger to History
A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
"Indispensable reading for anyone who wants a wider understanding of the Islamic world, of its history and its politics." —Financial Times
Aatish Taseer's fractured upbringing left him with many questions about his own identity. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his father, a...
by Mary Laurel Ross
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Veiled Honor gives us a glimpse into an American’s encounter with the radically changing Arab world, particularly Saudi Arabia, before and after 9/11. From the shock of seeing how women (and non-Muslims) are treated to the fears and suspicions she and we all have come to feel regarding that part...
Price of Honor
Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
ANEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Explains powerfully how Muslim women are affected by the rise of fundamentalism.”—Dan Rather
In recent years, the expanding movement of militant Islam has changed the way millions think, behave, dress, and live, but nowhere has its impact been more...
by Paul Berman
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie—and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie’s defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, “Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class”—an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued...
Europe's Angry Muslims
The Revolt of The Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe. It guides readers through Islamic nomenclature, chronicles...