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A fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an 'Islamic Enlightenment' today. In Reopening Muslim Minds, Mustafa Akyol frankly diagnoses 'the crisis of Islam' in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941610169Author Khalid WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Fons Vitae,USPublisher Fons Vitae,USWeight(grams) 525g

This book traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najaf, Lebanon, Iran and the Iranian Revolution to today. Alastair Crooke presents a compelling account of the ideas and energy which are mobilising the Islamic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142196359Author Neil Douglas-KlotzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S...

In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Muslim and Muslim sources in tandem can breathe new life into the historical study of Muhammad and how his message transformed the world. By placing these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308943Author Kabir HelminskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This book empathizes with Muslim mothers nurturing their families within a faith framework. It canters her experience. Doubts and insecurities are gently replaced with understanding and support in the candid exchanges from one mother to another.Dear...

This book makes the Qur'an accessible to the English-speaking student who lacks the linguistic background to read it in the original Arabic by offering accessible translations of, and commentary on, a series of selected passages that are representative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094563Author Simon Van den BerghFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust

This book is a comprehensive historical overview of the formative period of Sufism, the major mystical tradition in Islam, from the ninth to the twelfth century CE. Based on a fresh reading of the primary sources and integrating the findings of recent...

The 8th century heralded the start of a golden age in the history of the Islamic world. At this time, the Sunni Muslim 'Abbasid Caliphate, with its capital at Baghdad, ruled virtually the entire Islamic world. Islamic military power peaked in the 9th...

In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies, opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history; the ships were...

More than one hundred years ago Western scholars began to investigate the origins of Islam, using the highest standards of objective historical scholarship of the time. Their aim was to determine what could be known about Muhammad and the rise of early...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Creating the Qur'an presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur'an's origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other...

This book examines the events of September 11th 2001, Osama bin Laden's role and the complex working of the Al Qa'ida terror network. This is the classic book on the history of the USA's involvement with Afghanistan that explains the devastating...

The truths of every religion are typically challenged and re-written, serving as potent grounds for some of history’s most enduring debates and conflicts. Perhaps no other religious tradition suffers as much from the dualistic fallacy of good and evil...

The emancipation of women cannot be complete unless it is coupled with the emancipation of men. This can only be accomplished by drawing our social values from the Qur'an and the sunnah. In this volume, the author shows that mixed social life was the...

The teachings, style and impact of the Qur'an have always been matters of controversy, among both Muslims and non-Muslims. But in a modern context of intercultural sensitivity, what the Qur'an says and means are perhaps more urgent questions than ever...

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works,...

This volume presents the original Arabic text of Epistle 9 of the Brethren of Purity, with a clear English translation, introduction, and notes. This epistle is a major medieval treatise on ethics and character traits, which drinks from two sources: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570622090Author Hazrat Inayat KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

One of the earliest surviving biographies of Prophet Muhammad, translated into readable, modern English for the first time The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author,...

How do old ideas continue to appear relevant in a modern world? A sociological approach to Islam allow us to approach an answer to this question. In Lifeworlds of Islam, Mohammed A. Bamyeh shows that Islam has typically operated not in the form of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538192245Author Qamar Ul-HudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928329084Author Shaykh Fadhlalla HaeriFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Zahra PublicationsPublisher Zahra PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902350042Author Al-Asqalani Ibn HajarFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Muslim Academic TrustPublisher Muslim Academic Trust

This new edition for the New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 1000 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening...

'A History of Jerusalem should be read, not only by travellers and potential travellers in Jerusalem, but by all of us.' Stephen Tummin, Daily Telegraph Jerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784798963Author Idries ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint ISF PublishingPublisher ISF PublishingWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm *...

Islamic gardens are enchanting places. Just the names of some of the most beautiful gardens in the world - the Alhambra, the Generalife, the Shalimar - conjure up images of calm and even divine beauty. No visitor is left untouched by their magic. This...

'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.' General David Petraeus, former Commander U.S. Central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983751762Author Akram AlmajidFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Sage PressPublisher Sage PressWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 18mm

This book is an English version of Sayyid Mawdudi's Urdu Khutubat. Originally delivered to ordinary, almost illiterate, farmers and servicemen, it met the real and great spiritual and cultural needs of Muslims, particularly in Southeast Asia, in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621453Author Claude AddasFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 545g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926800066Author Sujit DasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Felibri.comPublisher Felibri.comWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a more complex picture, showing...

This beautiful collection discusses the legal and moral implication of some fundamental Islamic principles. With an emphasis upon literary quality, concision, and concentration of meaning, each aphorism is full of value and significance and typifies the...

During the Golden Age of Islam (seventh through seventeenth centuries A.D.), Muslim philosophers and poets, artists and scientists, princes and laborers created a unique culture that has influenced societies on every continent. This book offers a fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999299036Author Saadia MianFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Daybreak PressPublisher Daybreak PressWeight(grams) 207g