Islamic Studies

In Volume 4, the author shows that Islam honours women in all that it makes permissible for a Muslim woman to wear and with what she may adorn herself. This Eight volume series is the author's abridged version of his longer work with the same Arabic...

Muslim women, symbols of honour for their men, speak out and take us into the volatile heartland of Islam, the world's fastest growing religion. Price of Honour recounts a wide range of telling, often horrific stories about the ways in which Muslim women...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621217Author Gai EatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 285g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737281627Author Amber HaqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Int'l Association of Islamic PsychologyPublisher Int'l Association of Islamic...

**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...

An 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...

In the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, citizenship,...

A magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world. According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of earth; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural,...

A 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...

"They Must Be Stopped" is "New York Times" bestselling author Brigitte Gabriel's warning to the world: We can no longer ignore the growth of radical Islam-we must act soon, and powerfully. Gabriel challenges our western and politically-correct notions...

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111) has been described by some scholars as the greatest Muslim in Islamic history. His prolific works, written over the duration of his relatively short lifetime, have deeply influenced Islamic thought for nearly a thousand...

Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060584702Author Terry McDermottFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 332g

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532642562Author J, Lewis, T, Rollison J M EllulFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock Publishers

This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948860747Author Hasan SpikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Tabah ResearchPublisher Tabah ResearchWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In the aftermath of the suicide bombings on London's transport infrastructure in July 2005, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair said that 'the rules of the game have changed'. He referred to how his government planned to respond to the attacks, but few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632462053Author Tara KangarlouFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing

A comprehensive survey of Muslim Spain from 711-1492. This introduction to Muslim Spain covers the period from 711 to1492, giving readers a substantial overview of what it was that made it a unique and successful society, and of its powerful legacy in...

Are most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness? Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the role that White Christian Nationalism plays in American society. As White Christian Nationalism has become a major...

How did the Ayatollah Khomeini create his Islamic state? What were the ideas which drove him and his movement? What organization and methods helped bring him to power? This book analyses the ideaological roots of an Islamic state as conceived by the...

An essential history of Wahhabism from its founding to the Islamic StateIn the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed the political landscape of the Arabian Peninsula and...

'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...

Muslims all over the world see Muhammad as God's last messenger to mankind, and, for every community that wants to live under God's guidance, the Prophet Muhammad's character and conduct is the light showing the way to God's pleasure. The Prophet's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683890423Author Lance LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lance Lambert Ministries, IncPublisher Lance Lambert Ministries, IncWeight(grams)...

Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516150Author George SalibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

On the basis of new evidence from the Ottoman archives in Istanbul, Karl Barbir challenges the current interpretation of Ottoman rule in Damascus during the eighteenth century. He argues that the prevailing themes of decline and stagnation--usually...

A fundamental challenge to the way we understand the history of the Middle East and the role of Islam in the region From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East...

Apologies 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

It is a widely held view that, since the end of the Cold War, attention has focused on Islam as a central force of disruption within a New World Order. Nothing has heightened this more than the assault on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the...

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and...

In the Western imagination, Islamic cultures are dominated by dogmatic religious norms that permit no nuance. Those fighting such stereotypes have countered with a portrait of Islam's medieval "Golden Age," marked by rationality, tolerance, and even...

On the fortieth anniversary of the Camp David Accords, a groundbreaking new history that shows how Egyptian-Israeli peace ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessFor seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Creating the Qur'an presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur'an's origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other...

The emancipation of women cannot be complete unless it is coupled with the emancipation of men. This can only be accomplished by drawing our social values from the Qur'an and the sunnah. In this volume, the author shows that mixed social life was the...

President Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the most...

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this...