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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)...

If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her long-time friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956276114Author Ali KhameneiFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Al-BurāqPublisher Al-BurāqWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite , Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community.About the AuthorFatema Mernissi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597843782Author Omer YilmazFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 90g

This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of the contemporary debates within political Islam, providing an in-depth analysis of the specific movements, countries and regions in the Arab world and Israel. The contributors contend that the evolution of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958313763Author The Sincere Seeker CollectionFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Sincere SeekerPublisher Sincere SeekerWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm)...

Sayings and aphorism of Inayat Khan. Flashes of inspiration contemplate daily life and divine consciousness.About the AuthorHazrat Inayat Kahn, founder of the Sufi order in the West, was born in India in 1882. A master of classical Indian music by the...

The Islamic world--defined as those regions in which Islam is the dominant or single most important religion--covers territories as far apart as Morocco and Indonesia, Somalia, and Bosnia and includes an extraordinary range of societies and cultures. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938058639Author Gibril Fouad HaddadFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Institute for Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (Isca)Publisher Institute for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957756066Author Muhammad IqbalFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint Ghazal Sara Dot OrgPublisher Ghazal Sara Dot OrgWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the...

In The Last Ta'ifa, Anthony H. Minnema shows how the Banu Hud, an Arab dynasty from Zaragoza, created and recreated their vision of an autonomous city-state (ta'ifa) in ways that reveal changes to legitimating strategies in al-Andalus and across the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645766622Author S HukrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Fajr NoorPublisher Fajr NoorWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901383379Author Algis UdavinysFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint ArchetypePublisher Archetype

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944904173Author Abu Abd Al-Rahman Al-SulamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint IslamosaicPublisher IslamosaicWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

One of the most prosperous and influential dynasties of the Muslim world, the Fatimids (909-1171) were distinguished by their Imam-caliphs, who asserted religious as well as political authority in direct descent from the family of the Prophet. Their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399176708Author Michael Muhammad KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944904203Author Muḥammad Nawawī Al-JāwīFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint IslamosaicPublisher IslamosaicWeight(grams)...

The modern political idea of jihad-a violent struggle against corrupt or anti-Islamic regimes-is essentially the brainchild of one man who turned traditional Islamic precepts inside out and created the modern radical political Islamist movement. Using...

This unique textbook enables social work practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of how Islamic principles inform and influence the lives of Muslim populations. Designed to support work with families and faith communities, this completely revised...

Ibn Sina - Avicenna in Latin - (980-1037) played a considerable role in the development of both eastern and western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics and theology and even medicine...

How do we judge whether we should be willing to follow the views of experts or whether we ought to try to come to our own, independent views? This book seeks the answer in medieval philosophical thought. In this engaging study into the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737281603Author Amber HaqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint International Association of Islamic PsychologyPublisher International Association of...

As the Messenger of God, Muhammad stands at the heart of the Islamic religion, revered by Muslims throughout the world. The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad comprises a collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field exploring...

Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands brings into conversation the distinct fields of tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) studies and women's studies by exploring significant shifts in modern Qur'anic commentaries on the subject of women. Hadia Mubarak places...

While used for centuries in Sufi circles, the prayer known as 'The Most Elevated Cycle' or 'The Prayer of Protection', had never before been available in English. This book provides a lucid English translation of this beautiful and powerful prayer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887752299Author Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-HalvetiFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Fons Vitae,USPublisher Fons Vitae,USWeight(grams)...

Within Muslim populations, debates about the compatibility between science and religion tend to be framed by the long-standing competition between modernizing reformers, particularly westernizers, and theological conservatives. Much like their liberal...

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...

A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theology Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merciful, powerful, and wise permits intense and profuse evil and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938058202Author Shaykh Nazim Adil HaqqaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Islamic Supreme Council of AmericaPublisher Islamic Supreme Council of...

Through close study of Avicenna's statements and major works, Dimitri Gutas traces Avicenna's own sense of his place in the Aristotelian tradition and the history of philosophy in Islam, and provides an introduction to reading his philosophical works by...

Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics is a powerful introduction to the scope of Islamophobia in the United States. Drawing on examples such as the legacy of Barack Obama, the mainstream media's portrayal of Muslims, and the justifications given for...

Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791416143Author Elmer H. DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it...

This book seeks to elucidate the concept of justice, not so much as it is expressed in law courts (retributive and procedural justice) or in state budgets (distributive justice), but as primary justice - what it means and how it can be grounded in the...

First published in 1989, just before the Gulf War broke out, "Republic of Fear" was the only book that explained the motives of the Saddam Hussein regime in invading and annexing Kuwait. This edition, updated in 1998, has a substantial introduction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390804740Author Ibn KhaldunFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint Dar UL ThaqafahPublisher Dar UL ThaqafahWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *...