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Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess-whether...

For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman...

The state of race relations in Islamic societies has often been the subject of optimistic descriptions. Sources as various as Toynbee and Malcolm X refer to a racial Utopia, a colour-blind society. This society is seen as the direct result of the tenets...

How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in...

Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the Muslim world. Gambling with the currency of cultural...

The principal text translated in this volume is the Ta'rikh Al-sudan of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar 'Abd al-Rah man al-Sa'di. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political...

By examining a wide range of Arabic and Persian literature from the eighth to the thirteenth century, Louise Marlow shows the tension that existed between the traditional egalitarian ideal of early Islam, and the hierarchical impulses of the classical...

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This book is important because it is:Unique. Heaven on Earth offers a critique of extremism that is human rights-based and entertaining - combining the comparative approach of Karen Armstrong and the immediacy of Ed Husain (The Islamist) with...

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...

What was the significance of the Ottoman Empire? What kind of lives did people live? What lessons can be learnt from the civilization that the Ottomans created? What does the Ottoman Empire mean to us today? One of Turkey's leading historians, Ilber...

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...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire has been acclaimed as one of the most intellectually exciting books about late antique Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a...

A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had...

Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670096947Author M. Hamid AnsariFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm

A new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500–750 CE that includes hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English To interpret the Quran’s Arabic, early medieval Muslims turned to pre-Islamic poetry, a corpus that the Prophet...

Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today After September 11, 2001, the global War on Terror has made clear that Islam and Muslims are central to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938058691Author Gibril Fouad HaddadFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Institute for Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (Isca)Publisher Institute for...

A comprehensive account of two of the most important empires in medieval North Africa whose rule fostered the emergence of the Islamic society which endured, in Morocco especially, until the early 20th century. Amira K. Bennison focuses on these...

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Jonathan Berkey's 2003 book surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from roughly 600 to 1800 CE. The opening chapter examines the religious scene in the Near East in late antiquity, and the religious traditions which preceded Islam...

We live in a world polarized by the ongoing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but - in an extraordinary narrative spanning fourteen centuries - Zachary Karabell argues that the relationship between Islam and the West has never been simply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908110831Author Taher AdelFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Sun Behind the Cloud Publications LtdPublisher Sun Behind the Cloud Publications...

The French Medersa explores how the French state pursued a century-long project of bicultural "Franco-Muslim" education in its northwest African colonies, resulting in a new type of school, the medersa, that combined French and Islamic curricula. French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639369737Author Justin MarozziFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm *...

By exploring the influence of the Andalusian philosopher, Averroes or Ibn Rushd (1126-1198 AD) on European philosophy from the 13th to the 18th century, Koert Debeuf sheds light on a neglected side of the history of philosophy: the influence of Arabic...

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...

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Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957773384Author Mufti Sayyid Abdul Samad Al-QadiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Muslim DreamersPublisher Muslim DreamersWeight(grams)...

The Future Is Feminist by Sara Rahnama offers a closer look at a pivotal moment in Algerian history when Algerians looked to feminism as a path out of the stifling realities of French colonial rule. Algerian people focused outward to developments in the...

The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil. In this important as well as fascinating study, Watt traces Islam's influence upon Spain and European civilization - from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643544724Author Imam Hafiz Ibn KathirFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Al-Azhar (Cairo, Egypt)Publisher Al-Azhar (Cairo, Egypt)Weight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786255888792Author Yakoob AhmedFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Ketebe PublishingPublisher Ketebe Publishing

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern eraThis book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922583673Author Murtadha MutahhariFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Shia BooksPublisher Shia BooksWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645037982Author Majid Irsan Al-KeylaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Dhikr.Publisher Dhikr.Weight(grams) 295g