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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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308844Author Carl W. ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

As the living scriptural heritage of more than a billion people, the Qur'an (Koran) speaks with a powerful voice. Just as other scriptural religions, Islam has produced a long tradition of interpretation for its holy book. Nevertheless, efforts to...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935295112Author Mustafa OEzcelikFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 162g

From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a...

This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology...

At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture-not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and...

The recent prominence of Islamic politics in the Middle East, has raised important questions about society, politics and culture. It has posed a challenge to the main theoretical approaches in the social sciences from Marxism to modernization theory and...

Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682065297Author Dr. Craig ConsidineFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 356g

This book by renowned scholar and recognised authority on Islam, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, is a discourse on the legal position of celebrating the Mawlid al-Nabi (birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)) within Islam. Most notably,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957063096Author Khaled Abou El FadlFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Institute for Advanced Usuli StudiesPublisher Institute for Advanced Usuli...

The only comprehensive introduction to al-Farabi - the first Islamic philosopher to translate the works of Plato and Aristotle. This new survey from a leading scholar documents the philosopher's life, writings and achievements.About the AuthorMajid...

Providing a precious glimpse into the real practice of the mystical life within the Sufi tradition, this volume marks the first time any of Ibn 'Arabi's prayers have been translated into another language. The 14 prayers include not only the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930409262Author As-Sayyid, Nurjan MirahmadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Islamic Supreme Council of AmericaPublisher Islamic Supreme Council of...

Why and under what circumstances did the religion of Islam emerge in a remote part of Arabia at the beginning of the seventh century? Traditional scholarship maintains that Islam developed in opposition to the idolatrous and polytheistic religion of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952306013Author Sayyid Muhammad Alawi Al-MalikiFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Imam Ghazali PublishingPublisher Imam Ghazali PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872038025Author Abdul Wadod ShalabiFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Quilliam Press LtdPublisher Quilliam Press Ltd

Developed in response to the events of September 11, 2001, these 14 articles from prominent Muslim thinkers offer a provocative reassessment of Islam's relationship with the modern world. Confronting issues such as racism, justice, sexuality and gender,...

Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been achieved over the past decades with respect both to discoveries of new materials and to scholarly approaches to the...

Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's absorbing tale of Islam and Politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one of the best records of that turbulent time ever written. This revised edition includes a new...

A collection of 40 Hadith (sayings) of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) focusing on the notion of social justice in Islam.Justice is the anchor for any civilisation to survive and flourish. This encompasses both the macro and micro level. God, through His...

Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur (1578-1603) was one of the most important rulers in the history of Morocco, which to this day bears the mark of his twenty-five year rule in the sixteenth century. Though famed for his cunning diplomacy in the power struggle over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906342203Author 'Abd Al-Qadir Al-JilaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Luna Plena PublishingPublisher Safis Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

This is a passionate defense of Islam against the encroaching tide of fundamentalists corrupting the true faith. In "The Great Theft", Khaled Abou El Fadl, one of the world's preeminent Islamic scholars argues that Islam is currently passing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957063065Author Khaled Abou El FadlFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Institute for Advanced Usuli StudiesPublisher Institute for Advanced Usuli...

How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this groundbreaking book, David Goldenberg seeks to discover how...

Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns. The 2006 Danish cartoon crisis and the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's...

Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history in this sophisticated analysis of the ways that Muslim societies in Central Asia have been transformed by the Soviet presence in the region. Arguing that the utopian Bolshevik...

Friendship-particularly interreligious friendship-offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities and dangers of Hindu-Muslim friendship? How did they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556438028Author Norman O. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...