Islamic Studies

Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ...

This is the first full account of the transformation of Ottoman Turkish into Modern Turkish. It is based on the author's knowledge and experience of the language, history, and people of Turkey. The transformation of the Turkish language is probably the...

The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250112644Author Fellow William McCantsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the...

This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing...

This comprehensive history of the Iranian Revolution views it in the context of an ongoing conflict between religious and political authorities dating back to the establishment of Shi'ism as the state religion of Iran in 1501. The historical context is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784799120Author Idries ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint ISF PublishingPublisher ISF Publishing

Ibn Babawayh - also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq - was a prominent Twelver Shi'i scholar of hadith. Writing within the first century after the vanishing of the twelfth imam, al-Saduq represents a pivotal moment in Twelver hadith literature, as this Shi'i...

A compelling book that casts the Qur'anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new lightIn this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context...

While in the West 'the Caliphate' evokes overwhelmingly negative images, throughout Islamic history it has been regarded as the ideal Islamic polity. In the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and the removal of long-standing dictators in the Middle East, in which...

This book invites Muslims and non-Muslims to acquaint themselves with the prophet's sunnah (practice and teachings) and inspires them to follow it with sincerity and devotion. The ahadith have been selected from well-known collections of...

A collection of essays, "Gulf Women" provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world, as well as the history of Muslim women. The result of a project aimed at finding sources and studying the history of women in the region,...

Transoxania, Khurasan, and Tukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905837298Author Shaykh Abdallah Bin BayyahFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Claritas BooksPublisher Claritas BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Among the various Muslim communities that were articulating their doctrinal positions in the early Islamic centuries, one in particular was known derisively as the Ghulat ('extremists')...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903682043Author Seyyed Hossein NasrFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 480g

"The Torah doesn't speak of Jesus at all!" "You're completely misinterpreting Isaiah!" "This verse has absolutely nothing to do with your Jesus! It's not even a messianic prophecy!" "As for the real messianic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903682838Author HRH Prince Ghazi bin MuhammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts...

Medina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place-not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures. In this searingly honest memoir, Whiteman contemplates...

"Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community's most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature...

The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of contradictions, where tourists sip cocktails on the beach while on nearby islands local women are flogged...

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The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy provides the advanced student or scholar a set of introductions to each of the world's major non-European philosophical traditions. It offers the non-specialist a way in to unfamiliar philosophical texts and...

Over the course of six sections, this rich reference book explores the various areas of Qur'anic studies: its language,the history of its documentation,its many disciplines,the methods of interpretation,its inimitability,and finally, as a work of art. ...

The Huthi rebels in Yemen are a resistance movement going back decades. Their coup against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2015 - and the subsequent Yemeni civil war and the intervention of the Arab coalition in support of Hadi - has brought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807080467Author Rafia ZakariaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm * 17mm

A Jewish believer in Jesus defends the Christian faith by providing answers to theological objections raised by the Jewish community.Book InformationISBN 9780801063343Author Michael L. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Baker Books, a division of...

This textbook surveys the major advances in the heavenly sciences from Isfahan, Maragha and Samarqand. It looks at the development of astronomy and astrology in the Islamic world from the 9th to the 17th century, and their influence on the...

The 1998 attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam attest to al-Qaeda's durable presence in Africa, yet Islamist-inspired radical organisations in the continent have gained much attention of late, the result of their campaigns of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732451100Author Anne Marie WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Something or Other Publishing LLCPublisher Something or Other Publishing...

Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi was born around 1154, probably in Northwestern Iran. Spurred by a dream in which Aristotle appeared to him, he rejected the Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy of his youth and undertook the task of reviving the philosophical...

The 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...

No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms, so-called jihadists seem opposed to universalism itself. In a...

Following 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948000938Author Karim LahhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Tabah FoundationPublisher Tabah FoundationWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy provides a lens through which to explore critical questions relating to contemporary religion in public life, and the institutionalisation of Islam in particular. Providing a rich description of the personnel, practice,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597314657Author John a MorrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 826gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *...

Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole;...

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 English, is...