Islam

In this work, Muhsin S. Mahdi - widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Islamic political thought - distills more than four decades of research to offer an authoritative analysis of the work of Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political philosophy...

This Norton Critical Edition is based on a revised and annotated version of the Pickthall translation of the Qur'an. Topics include the scholarly traditions of the study of qur'anic origins; the centuries of commentary, analysis and intellectual...

An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and 30...

The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity, imagination and future-oriented thought. However, even the most authoritarian Muslim-majority countries...

Get Your Child Super-Excited About Ramadan Would you like your child to eagerly await the coming of Ramadan? Do you feel frustrated because each year, Ramadan passes by without your child truly appreciating the blessings of the month? Do you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957756080Author Muhammad IqbalFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Ghazal Sara Dot OrgPublisher Ghazal Sara Dot OrgWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621323Author Roger PasquierFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 205g

Stories about gendered social relations permeate the Qur'an, and nearly three hundred verses involve specific women or girls. The Qur'an features these figures in accounts of human origins, in stories of the founding and destruction of nations, in...

An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scriptureThis book provides detailed and multidisciplinary coverage of a wealth of key Qur'anic terms, with incisive entries on crucial expressions ranging from the divine...

How do modern Muslims adapt their traditions to engage with today's world? Charles Tripp's erudite and incisive book considers one of the most significant challenges faced by Muslims over the last sixty years: the challenge of capitalism. By reference to...

This book explains the aspirations and concerns of Islamist actors in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings by looking at two sets of relationships between Turkey's ruling AKP and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060787295Author Thomas AsbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

As the Arab Spring threatens to give way to authoritarianism in Egypt and reports from Afghanistan detail widespread violence against U.S. troops and women, news from the Muslim world raises the question: Is Islam incompatible with freedom? In Islam...

Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam: the supposition that Mecca was a trading center. In addition, she seeks to elucidate sources on which we should reconstruct our picture...

'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' - gal-dem Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice it - in our education, how we travel, our healthcare,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911141136Author Abu Hamid al-GhazaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 395g

Al-Isharat wal-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happiness (the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944904180Author Salim Bin Abd Allah Al-HadramiFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint IslamosaicPublisher IslamosaicWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811828775Author Mahdi LockFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Nawa BooksPublisher Nawa BooksWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903682883Author HRH Prince Ghazi bin MuhammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784791087Author Idries ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint ISF PublishingPublisher ISF Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915025555Author Basil AltaieFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon BooksPublisher Beacon BooksWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887752145Author Imam 'Abdallah Ibn Alawi al-HaddadFormat PaperbackPage Count 97Imprint Fons Vitae,USPublisher Fons Vitae,USWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908110213Author Dr. Ali Al-HilliFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Sun Behind the Cloud PublicationsPublisher Sun Behind the Cloud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784791445Author Idries ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint ISF PublishingPublisher ISF Publishing

The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941610312Author Abu Hamid Al-GhazaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Fons Vitae,USPublisher Fons Vitae,USWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The traditional view, which presents Islam as a self-consciously distinct religion tied to the life and revelations of the prophet Muhammad in western Arabia, has since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594735479Author Imam Jamal RahmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint SkyLight Paths Publishing,USPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 0g

Muslims are required to pray five times a day, but for too many of us these are little more than physical movements devoid of any spirit or divine connection? In contrast, the Prophet characterised prayer as "the spiritual ascent (mi'raj) of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597849494Author Farah DualehFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 216g

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The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's...

In Jesus of Arabia, the Reverend Canon Andrew Thompson introduces an unfamiliar Jesus-Jesus in the context of his home in the Middle East. Whether readers believe Jesus to be a prophet or the messiah, Thompson enhances our understanding of his work and...

Abdolkarim Soroush has emerged as one of the leading moderate revisionist thinkers of the Muslim world. He and his contemporaries in other Muslim countries are shaping what may become Islam's equivalent of the Christian Reformation: a period of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877736110Author Annemarie SchimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...