Islam

In a comprehensive study of early Islamic history, Wilferd Madelung examines the conflict which developed after Muhammad's death for the leadership of the Muslim community. He pursues the history of this conflict through the reign of the four 'Rightly...

Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts, Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet Timbuktu is not unique. It was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930872915Author Pir Zia Inayat KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Omega Publications,U.S.Publisher Omega Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597842266Author M. Fethullah GulenFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991381326Author Abdur-Rahman Al-AkhdariFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Fayda Books, LLC.Publisher Fayda Books, LLC.Weight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911141334Author Abu Hamid al-GhazaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 350g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597840002Author Ali UEnalFormat HardbackPage Count 1365Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 1612g

A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balanced...

The text of the Qur'an appears to many to be desperately muddled and lacking any coherence. The Composition of the Qur'an provides a systematic presentation of the writing processes (or rhetoric) and argues that there is indeed a coherence to the...

Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) of Damascus was one of the most prominent and controversial religious scholars of medieval Islam. He called for jihad against the Mongol invaders of Syria, appealed to the foundational sources of Islam for reform, and battled...

The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Universe is an authoritative book and a guideline on practical Sufism ('irfan-i 'amali). It is also a mirror to the soul of its author. In this book Ghazzali speaks not only as a scholar but also...

In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890350147Author Llewellyn Vaughan-LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Publisher Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990625971Author Hiba MasoodFormat HardbackPage Count 38Imprint Daybreak PressPublisher Daybreak PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 299mm * 4mm

In this book Mohammad Akram reviews the life and legacy of Abu Hanifa, and surveys the evolution of the Hanafi school in different regions of the Islamic world. His argument is based on the traditional sources and faithfully reports both history and...

Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the need to understand the group's history and ideology has only increased. Jan-Peter Hartung's timely study examines the phenomenon of the Taliban through a topographically, ethnically and...

It is commonly claimed that Islam is antiblack, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Africans. Western and African critics alike have contended that antiblack racism is in the faith's very scriptural foundations and its traditions of law,...

In this controversial exploration of the early history of Islam, archaeologist Yehuda D. Nevo and researcher Judith Koren present a revolutionary theory of the origins and development of the Islamic state and religion. Whereas most works on this subject...

On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621279Author Ibn Ata Allah al-IskandariFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams)...

This book is an introduction to Islamic Philosophy, beginning with its Medieval inception, right through to its more contemporary incarnations. Using the language and conceptual apparatus of contemporary Anglo-American 'Analytic' philosophy, this book...

Engaging with contemporary debates about the sources that shape our understanding of the early Muslim world, Najam Haider proposes a new model for Muslim historical writing that draws on Late Antique historiography to challenge the imposition of modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626984226Author David Steindl-RastFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900588259Author Rene GuenonFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams) 325g

State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the Iraqi Ba'th regime's (r. 1968-2003) entanglement with Sufis and of Sunni Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman period until 2003 and beyond.For far too long, the secular and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901383225Author Mahmud ibn 'Abd al-Karim ShabistariFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint ArchetypePublisher ArchetypeDimensions(mm) 195mm * 126mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927581223Author Gibson DanFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Independent Scholar's PressPublisher Independent Scholar's PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996046930Author F W BurleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 558Imprint Zenga Books LLCPublisher Zenga Books LLCWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author 'Ayn al-Qudat, is remarkable for many reasons, not least...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642970463Author HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908892515Author Uthman Dan FodioFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Diwan PressPublisher Diwan PressWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

In sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding contemporary...

Abdul Zaeef describes growing up in poverty in rural Kandahar province, which he fled for Pakistan after the Russian invasion of 1979. Zaeef joined the jihad in 1983, was seriously wounded in several encounters and met many leading figures of the...

In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908892751Author Abu 'abdullah Muhammad Al-QurtubiFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Diwan PressPublisher Diwan PressWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm)...

Nasir al-Din Tusi, the renowned Shi'i scholar of the 13th century, produced a range of writings in different fields of learning under Ismaili patronage and later under the Mongols. This is a new English translation of his Rawda-yi taslim - the single...

Maristans and Islamic Psychology outlines how the novel methods, tools, and approaches for treating psychological illnesses developed in the maristans (hospitals) of the Muslim world can be utilized today in formulating a practical implementation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913321010Author Maulana Muhammad AliFormat HardbackPage Count 1322Imprint Ahmadiyyah Anjuman Isha'at Islam Lahore Inc.,U.S.Publisher Ahmadiyyah Anjuman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995870963Author Nurjan MirahmadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Sufi Meditation Center SocietyPublisher Sufi Meditation Center SocietyWeight(grams)...

Providing a precious glimpse into the practice of the mystical life within the Sufi tradition, this volume marks the first time that a complete edition of Ibn ' Arabi's prayers has been made available. The Arabic is based on the best...