Islamic Studies

This book provides comprehensive analysis in the areas Islamic financial institutions and society. It starts off with the integration of the Islamic socio-economic and socio-political systems with the Islamic financial sector; with a view to help in...

This book, covering the entire spectrum of Arabic manuscripts, and especially the handwritten book, consists of a glossary of technical terms and a bibliography. The technical terms, collected from a variety of sources embrace a vast range of topics...

This is the first systematic study of Polish women's conversion to Islam in English. Through interviews with Polish female converts to Islam and ethnographic observation, we learn about their journey to Islam in a country where Muslims constitute less...

Sunni-Shia relations in Iran offer an analytical guide for the interpretation of inequality, securitization, and immigration. This book reorients our understanding of contemporary Iran by answering still unacknowledged questions: how is the relationship,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600215360Author Arno TauschFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers Inc

What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims' intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy...

Rooted in the world historical methodology of John O. Voll, this collection brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the ongoing impact of revival and reform movements beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing through to the...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic title I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Why is the term shari?a-the mention of which conjures up images of a politicised religion in many parts of the world-understood in the ways that...

The Shariah is one of the most misunderstood and maligned Islamic terms in the West. The word conjures up images of uncivilised Muslims whipping criminals, stoning adulterers and confining women within their homes in the minds of many people. Yet,...

Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism focuses on Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East. The reader will apprehend that Islam is not the monolithic religion so often depicted in the media. The Islamic world is more...

This book takes into view a large variety of Muslim actors who, in recent years, made their entry into the European public sphere. Without excluding the phenomenon of terrorists, it maps the whole field of Muslim visibility. The nine contributions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682060087Author Sulayman AshratiFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 270g

Policing Egyptian Women delineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and ""policed"" the bodies of subaltern women. Some of these women were runaway slaves, others were deflowered outside of marriage, and...

The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna's historical and philosophical context as a means to determining his philosophical project and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447105514Author Reinhold F GleiFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 175mm *...

This volume focuses on Muslims in Finland, Greece, Ireland and Portugal. It highlights how Muslim experiences can be understood in relation to country's particular historical routes, political economies, and post-colonial legacies. It also reveals that...

This book invites to rethink certain aspects of halal, and in particular the issue of the halal market and halal certification in Muslim-minority contexts. Rather than limiting itself to elucidating the doctrinal traditions relating to halal/haram, or on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978818620Author Ahmed KhananiFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such necessities? These were some of the vital religious and...

Within the broad contours of Islamic traditions, Muslims are enjoined to fast during the month of Ramadan, they are invited to a disciplined practice of prayer, and they are offered the Quran as the divine revelation in the most beautiful verbal form...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970949649Author SihaFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (Siha)Publisher Strategic Initiative for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807002827Author Sumbul Ali-KaramaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Throughout the Middle East, the clash between Islamic forces and authoritarian states has undermined many democratization efforts. But in Turkey, Islamic actors-from the Gulen movement to the pro-Islamist Justice and Development Party-have been able to...

The presence of Muslim communities in Europe is a politically charged issue. Sporadic attacks by radical Muslims have further highlighted the problem of a deep cultural divide between the Muslims and their host countries. There is, however, no one...

As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a seemingly contradictory fashion - at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and...

A major work of mystical literature, this account focuses on 14 visions in the form of dramatic conversations with the divine, interspersed with dazzling visionary episodes regarding the nature of existence, humans' relationship with reality, and the way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560054Author SamerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 137mm * 23mm

Analyses the narrative function of Kh?rijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography The first book-length literary study of Kh?rijism Sheds new light on the creation of historical memory in early Islamic historiography Emphasises the...

According to the Qur'an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture and religion, and have a constant presence in legends, myths,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597840767Author Bediuzzaman Said NursiFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 744g

The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an...

Imam Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim is one of the most highly regarded works in Islamic thought and literature. Accepted by every sunni school of thought, and foundational in the Shaafi school, this text, available for the first time in...

Despite its pervasive reputation as a place of religious extremes and war, Afghanistan has a complex and varied religious landscape where elements from a broad spectrum of religious belief vie for a place in society. It is also one of the birthplaces of...

Islam has become the new spectre haunting Europe. All too often, even well-meaning liberals portray the modern resurgence of Islam as the new "Green Menace"-intolerant, medieval and barbaric-which has replaced Communism as the main threat to Western...

The religion of Islam and the mainstream Muslim majority have been conflated with the beliefs and actions of an extremist minority. The result was reflected in a USA Today/Gallup Poll which found substantial minorities of Americans admitting to negative...

After formally announcing his conversion to Islam in the late 1880s, the Liverpool lawyer William Henry Abdullah Quilliam publicly propagated his new faith and established the first community of Muslim converts in Victorian Britain. Despite decades of...

Since September 11 the term Islamophobia has entered common parlance across the globe. Widely used but diversely and inconsistently defined and deployed, Islamophobia remains hotly disputed and frequently disavowed both as word and concept. To its...

In this volume of his work, the author starts a debate taking two full volumes to answer the objections that are often raised concerning social mixing and keeping a woman's face uncovered in Muslim society. This is a tradition in Islamic studies, when...

The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) established complete equality between men and women, with both having their respective special functions. This volume draws on the features of the Muslim Woman pertaining to marriage in accordance to the Qur'an and Sunnah...

The Bourj in central Beirut is one of the world's oldest and most vibrant public squares. Named after the mediaeval lookout tower that once soared above the city's imposing ramparts, the square has also been known as Place des Canons (after a Russian...