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Inside an Honor Killing: A Father and a Daughter Tell Their Story by Lene Wold 9781771644372
RRP: £19.99£13.56A shockingly intimate look at the world of honor killings, as seen through the eyes of both the perpetrators and the victims. What drives a person to murder their sister, mother, or daughter? What is life like in a society in which women are... -
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
RRP: £14.99£10.95THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES POLITICS PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR, 2018 The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and... -
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past by Firas Alkhateeb
RRP: £12.99£11.67Islam 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... -
Lessons from Surah Yusuf by Yasir Qadhi
RRP: £14.99£9.88Surah Yusuf, a chapter of the Qur'an (Koran), was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad at a critical juncture of his life. This was the time when he had gone through ten to eleven years of ridicule and rejection in Makkah, a time when he lost his wife and... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition by Ibn Khaldun
RRP: £20.00£15.54The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the... -
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam by Fred M. Donner
RRP: £20.95£16.52The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The traditional view, which presents Islam as a self-consciously distinct religion tied to the life and revelations of the prophet Muhammad in western Arabia, has since... -
Blessed Names and Attributes of Allah by Abdur Raheem Kidwai
RRP: £9.99£6.75Remembering the Names of Allah is a sacred tradition in Islam. Both the Qur'an and sayings of the Prophet (ahadith) state the importance of learning them and promise reward for reciting them in supplications and prayers. "Allah's are the names most... -
Nine Lives: My Time As MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda by Aimen Dean
RRP: £10.99£7.77As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on... -
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West by Christopher Caldwell
RRP: £15.99£11.61'We need books like this' Literary Review'Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind.'Taking us from English suburbs to Parisian housing estates, this provocative, unflinching and engrossing book tackles uncomfortable... -
What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic by Shahab Ahmed 9780691178318
RRP: £25.00£19.58What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the... -
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia by Rosie Bsheer 9781503612570
RRP: £25.99£22.44The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of... -
Islamist Terrorism in Europe by Petter Nesser
RRP: £17.99£15.79Islamist terrorism is on the rise in Europe, and we are witnessing new methods of attack on an all-too-regular basis. While the death of Osama bin Laden and the advent of the `Arab Spring' fed expectations that international jihadism was a spent force,... -
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason by Christopher de Bellaigue
RRP: £14.99£10.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017'An eye-opening, well-written and very timely book' Yuval Noah Harari'The best sort of book for our disordered days: timely, urgent and illuminating' Pankaj Mishra'It strikes a blow...for common humanity'... -
A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of secrets, lies and family love by Mohsin Zaidi
RRP: £9.99£7.11WINNER of the Polari First Book Prize 2021WINNER of the LAMBDA 2021 Literary Award for Best Gay Memoir/BiographyA Dutiful Boy is Mohsin's personal journey from denial to acceptance: a revelatory memoir about the power of love, belonging, and living every... -
The Heart of the Qur'an: Commentary on Surah Yasin with Diagrams and Illustrations by Asim Khan
RRP: £9.99£6.75With the current paradoxical climate of increasing secularization and the rise of fundamentalism across the world, there is no better time to search for fresh insight and guidance from the Qur'an. The Heart of The Qur'an is a well-researched... -
The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain by Sayeeda Warsi
RRP: £12.99£9.09Now with a new paperback introduction'Vital reading' Daily Telegraph'It turns conventional wisdom on its head' Peter Oborne'Uniquely insightful' Sunday Times'Eloquent, calm and clever' Andrew MarrBritain has often found groups within its borders whom it... -
Groomed to be a Bride by Maggie Hartley
RRP: £8.99£5.91'Mama is gone and I cry every night.'When a terrified young girl is discovered hiding in the back of a lorry, she is quickly taken into the care of social services. Arriving on the doorstep of foster carer Maggie Hartley, she is painfully thin, bruised... -
Travelling Home: Essays on Islam in Europe by Abdal Hakim Murad
RRP: £17.95£14.53In our age of globalisation, how should we react to the new Islamophobic movements now spreading in the West? Everywhere the far right is on the march, with nationalist and populist parties thriving on the back of popular anxieties about Islam and the... -
It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race by Mariam Khan
RRP: £10.99£7.51It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of frank and insightful essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.'Passionate, angry, self-effacing, nuanced and utterly compelling in every single way' - Nikesh Shukla, editor of The... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun
RRP: £23.00£18.12"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation, 1800-2000 by Callum G. Brown
RRP: £37.99£34.94The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation's dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he... -
Islamic Philosophy by Oliver Leaman 9780745645995
RRP: £17.99£16.80Although Islamic philosophy represents one of the leading philosophical traditions in the world, it has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves in the non-Islamic world. This important text provides a concise and accessible introduction... -
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray 9781472942241
RRP: £18.99£14.01THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES POLITICS PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR, 2018 The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and... -
Al-Adab al-Mufrad with Full Commentary: A Perfect Code of Manners and Morality by Imam Bukhari
RRP: £30.00£20.88Al-Adab al-Mufrad, an anthology of 1329 hadiths (recorded actions and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad), is a treasured work in Muslim history by one of its most respected scholars, Imam Bukhari (809-870), whose role in presenting the most trust-worthy... -
The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State by Abdulbasit Kassim
RRP: £30.00£26.83Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if any attempts have been made... -
Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward by Nabeel Qureshi 9780310531388
RRP: £11.99£8.43From New York Times bestselling author of Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Nabeel Qureshi-a former Muslim-comes his deeply personal, challenging, and respectful answer book to the many questions surrounding jihad, the rise of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism.San... -
The Great Exegesis: Volume I: The Fatiha by Fakhr al-Din Razi 9781911141211
RRP: £30.99£22.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911141211Author Fakhr al-Din al-RaziFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 780g -
The Torah by Rodney Mariner 9781857333800
RRP: £29.99£22.56Bound in blue cloth with illuminated front cover, bears all the hallmarks of a classic work. This edition brings together one of the most beautiful renderings of the Hebrew Bible in the English language with a wealth of Jewish art and imagery... -
The Proof of God: Shi'i Mysticism in the Work of al-Kulayni (9th-10th centuries) by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi 9780755651917
£27.46This book is an English translation of the award-winning book by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi on the Book of the Proof (Kitab al-Hujja) part of the Sufficient Book (Kitab al-Kafi), authored by one of the most celebrated religious authorities and a... -
Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash
RRP: £10.99£7.71'A powerful celebration of common humanity and compassion . . . deserves to be read widely by people of all faiths and none' - Sunday TimesIn a series of personal and insightful letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a vital manifesto that tackles... -
The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr 9780061125874
RRP: £35.00£23.62An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the... -
Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church by Kenda Creasy Dean 9780195314847
RRP: £27.49£21.67Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American... -
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell
RRP: £14.99£11.47'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.' General David Petraeus, former Commander U.S. Central... -
The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel by Ilan Pappe
RRP: £12.99£11.99A vivid and incisive analysis of the complex relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens written by an acclaimed Israeli historian For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the... -
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
RRP: £12.99£9.09**WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the... -
Understanding the Qur'an: Themes and Style by Muhammad Abdel Haleem
RRP: £25.99£19.18The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this important new introduction, Muhammad Haleem examines its recurrent themes - life and eternity, marriage and divorce, peace and war, water and nourishment - and... -
The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement - Updated Edition by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
RRP: £22.00£17.39Following the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood achieved a level of influence previously unimaginable. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's rise and dramatic fall for the future of democratic governance, peace, and stability in the region are... -
Hitler's Jihadis: Muslim Volunteers of the Waffen-SS by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: £12.99£11.01By the end of the Second World War there were soldiers of more than thirty different nationalities in the Waffen-SS, and Reich Germans themselves were in the minority. How did a regime that believed so completely in the racial superiority of its... -
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan
RRP: £35.00£27.61In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun 9780520402690
RRP: £20.00£15.59"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call...