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With the current turmoil in the Middle East, there is a growing interest about Islam-the world's second largest religion and one of the fastest growing-and its holy book, the Koran (or Qur'an). Now, with this easy-to-follow, plain-English guide, you can...

Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. The other is acclaimed as the first true Arab nationalist. Her uncle was Prime Minister for nearly forty years, her mother an important politician. When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621217Author Gai EatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 285g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938058493Author Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-HaqqaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Institute for Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (Isca)Publisher...

Across the Islamic world, illuminating Korans from Morocco to Malaysia, and adorning mosques, mausoleums and palaces, are hidden some of the most exquisite geometrical devices ever conceived by man. In this excellent little book, geometer Daud Sutton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985884062Author Ibn HajarFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint IslamosaicPublisher IslamosaicWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Per-Erik Nilsson takes a religious studies approach to analyse the intersections of secularism, nationhood and populism in contemporary France. This book provides insight into the French and European radical-nationalist ideology and activism, and...

"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition...Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism for the West, but also to defend the principal Western...

Coercive control is the most common and devastating means used to subjugate women in personal and family life. Drawing on FBI statistics, health records, interviews with victims and perpetrators, and forensic analysis of dramatic cases from the author's...

Multiple traditions of Jewish origins in Morocco emphasize the distinctiveness of Moroccan Jewry as indigenous to the area, rooted in its earliest settlements and possessing deep connections and associations with the historic peoples of the region. The...

Much has been written about the role and presence of the Arabs in the world at the beginning of this millennium, and their ability to meet the challenges overwhelming our planet, bristling as it is with science, technology and latest lethal weapons. Now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932099768Author Ismail BuyukcelebiFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Tughra BooksPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 574g

"In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two...

This book highlights a number of the major Sufi figures whose writings on legal theory were strongly shaped by their Sufism, showing how they belonged to the same tradition and developed each other's ideas. The book focuses in particular on Ibn ?Arab?,...

The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expertHardly a day goes by without mention of Islam. And yet, for most people, and in much of the world, Islam remains a little-known religion. Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912356195Author Mohammed Basil AltaieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media LtdWeight(grams)...

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Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Islam. Malise Ruthven's Very Short Introduction contains essential insights into issues such as why Islam...

Current developments in Iran are forcing a fundamentalreassessment of the relationship between Islam and democracyand the processes of democratization in the Muslim world.While some scholars have argued that 'Islam' and 'democracy'are essentially...

In the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, citizenship,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963457455Author Irina TweedieFormat PaperbackPage Count 870Imprint Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Publisher Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Weight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949123067Author Ibn WarraqFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Think & TellPublisher Think & TellWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989602027Author Nurjan MirahmadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Naqshbandi Center of VancouverPublisher Naqshbandi Center of VancouverWeight(grams)...

A magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world. According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of earth; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural,...

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621224Author Ibn Qayyim al-JawziyyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 530g

Said Nursi (1876-1960) was the most influential figure in twentieth century Muslim scholarship. He was the founder of what is arguably Turkey's most important popular religious grouping, the Nur Movement ('Nurculuk'), which sought - and seeks - to foster...

'Bold, addictive and brilliant.' Stylist, best fiction 2021 A Times Bestseller A Times & Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021 A Waterstones Thriller of The Month Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. Jia Khan...

This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Qur'an, and in particular how they can be interrogated and understood through Western analytical philosophy. It also explores how Islam can successfully engage with...

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muhammad 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 9781622455225Author Dan WickwireFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Aneko PressPublisher Aneko PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

This beautiful presentation of a selection from the Holy Qur'an engages the reader in a moment of daily reflection. Edited for ease of comprehension, English-speaking readers will find this compilation both spiritually enriching and easy to understand...

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In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were...

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Malmonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621842Author Gai EatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 380g

A major study of environmentalism and Islam in practice and theory, with an historical overview that sets out future challenges, including reformulating the fiqh or Islamic legal tradition to take the ecological dimension seriously. In addressing this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930409118Author Hajjah Amina AdilFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Islamic Supreme Council of AmericaPublisher Islamic Supreme Council of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980722307Author Mark DurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Deror PressPublisher Deror PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm