Islamic Studies

Two veteran journalists tell the inside story of convicted hate-monger Abu Hamza, his infamous Finsbury Park Mosque and how it turned out a generation of militants willing to die - and kill - for their cause... In the heightened atmosphere...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Arab American Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143115410Author Moustafa BayoumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam...

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...

The Prophet (PBUH) established complete equality between men and women as he said, "Women are full sisters of men". Yet both have their respective special functions. This volume draws out the features of the Muslim woman's character as outlined in the...

This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban. Nathan Lean takes us through a world of conservative bloggers, right-wing talk show...

Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 1996 from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. In a dazzling display of erudition,...

Investigates the emerging phenomenon of militant fundamentalist Islam of a global nature and without links to a particular country or culture. Olivier Roy investigates here the emergence of a militant 'de-territorialised' Islam that has fewer and fewer...

The Arab revolutions of 2011 were a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to call for 'bread, freedom and dignity'. With the passage of time, results have...

The level of noise about the Arab world is increasing. Security and energy are major concerns. Wars and globalisation are pushing the Arabs and Westerners into closer contact. Understanding the Arabs has never been more important, never so critical to...

'We will change things from within' Sherin Khankan is a pioneer, founding the first mosque for women in Europe and leading the way for a more progressive form of Islam. In this remarkable work, she shares her journey growing up between east and west to...

The fourth volume in a new translation of Sahih Muslim, the second most authentic collection of Prophetic traditions, with Imam Nawawi's commentary. Imam Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim is one of the most highly regarded works in Islamic thought and...

Here is a highly informative yet accessibly-written introduction to the life and works of the writer and political thinker Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), who as President of the Muslim League played a vital role in the birth of Pakistan, and is revered...

The Arab Spring heralded a profound shift in the Middle East, bringing to power Islamist movements which had previously been operating in the shadows. The Muslim Brotherhood stormed to victory in Egypt and emerged as a key player in Libya's nascent...

Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus is a gripping account of the developmental dynamics involved in the collapse of Soviet socialism. Fusing a narrative of human agency to his critical discussion of structural forces, Georgi M. Derluguian...

Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways...

A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groupsBoko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in...

Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put...

This book explores tazkiya therapy, a holistic psychological approach based on Qur'anic guidance and rooted in the understanding of human beings as multidimensional -that is, physical, psychological, social and spiritual beings.The book starts with a...

In 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...

Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans...

Building on his successful book, The First Islamist Republic, Abdullahi A. Gallab's Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan from Disintegration to Oblivion deals with Islamism, its representations, history, and transformations in the region. ...

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...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394740676Author Edward W. SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new...

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare's canon. While many of Shakespeare's plays were set in the Mediterranean, a geography occupied by Muslim empires and cultures, his work eschews...