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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957063027Author Khalou Abou El FadlFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Institute for Advanced Usuli StudiesPublisher Institute for Advanced Usuli...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780391041165Author GibbFormat PaperbackPage Count 686Imprint Brill Academic Publishers,USPublisher Brill Academic Publishers,USWeight(grams) 1052g

The importance of Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) for Islamic mysticism lies in the fact that he was a speculative thinker of the highest order, albeit diffuse and difficult to understand. His central doctrine is the unity of all existence. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733963121Author Shaykh Ibrahim NiasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Fayda Books, LLC.Publisher Fayda Books, LLC.Weight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)...

From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts for religious, political or nationalistic reasons is central to our cultural legacy. This book examines...

Brought up in a violent Muslim household, where family honour is all, Saira is watched 24 hours a day. However, an innocent friendship with a boy is uncovered and Saira is sent to Pakistan, punished for dishonouring her family. There, the nightmare...

One of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam in this "smart, clear and timely" book (The Washington Post). Still...

During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muhammad's death, two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shi'ism. Sunni Muslims endorsed the historical caliphate, while Shi'i Muslims, supporters of 'Ali, cousin of...

Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind is too often seen in the West in terms of...

Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind is too often seen in the West in terms of...

Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female Muslim ruler, Arwa of Yemen reigned alone for five decades. In nineteenth-century Russia, Mukhlisa Bubi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872038131Author Abdal-Khaliq Al-ShabrawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Quilliam Press LtdPublisher Quilliam Press Ltd

For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur'anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. In Qur'ans of the Umayyads, Francois Deroche...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953758227Author Abu Hamid al-GhazaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Claritas BooksPublisher Claritas BooksWeight(grams) 100g

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,...

The authoritative account of the sectarian division that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world. In 632, soon after the prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221224Author Suhaiymah Manzoor-KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press

In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes and villages where they had lived for generations. In...

In his controversial 1973 book, Is God a White Racist?, William R. Jones sharply criticized black theologians for their agnostic approach to black suffering, noting that the doctrine of an ominibenevolent God poses very significant problems for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781395860219Author Ubaid Ur Rahman MinimuallimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Peaceful PathsPublisher Peaceful PathsWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645037920Author Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan Al-BoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Dhikr.Publisher Dhikr.Weight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621415Author Martin LingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 180g

In this probing investigation of the phenomenon of suicidal terrorism, Abdal Hakim Murad finds not 'Jihad versus MacWorld,' but 'MacJihad versus MacWorld.' Today's terrorist movements have their roots in a very Western and very relativistic worldview,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062509581Author Coleman BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

At the height of the imperial age, European powers ruled over most parts of the Islamic world. The British, French, Russian, and Dutch empires each governed more Muslims than any independent Muslim state. European officials believed Islam to be of great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992633561Author Muhammad Ali Al-SabuniFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978308Author Reza AslanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908092182Author Reza Shah-KazemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint The Matheson TrustPublisher The Matheson Trust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903682814Author Abu Hamid al-GhazaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958313749Author The Sincere Seeker CollectionFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Sincere SeekerPublisher Sincere SeekerWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645037906Author Osman Nuri TopbasFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Dhikr.Publisher Dhikr.Weight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm

Paul Gilroy's After Empire - in many ways a sequel to his classic study of race and nation, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack - explores Britain's failure to come to terms with the loss of its empire and pre-eminent global standing.Drawing on texts...

As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition. In the case of Islam, there has been much recent confusion in the...

In "Geneologies of Religion", Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation-from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692710425Author Rashad JameerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Imam Ghazali InstitutePublisher Imam Ghazali InstituteWeight(grams) 159g

In this unsettling and innovative book, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo addresses the problematic of the subject through a dual examination of psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, reflecting on the unconscious maladies of the soul...

Surah Yusuf, a chapter of the Qur'an (Koran), was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad at a critical juncture of his life. This was the time when he had gone through ten to eleven years of ridicule and rejection in Makkah, a time when he lost his wife and...

This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. 1111). As is well known, Imam al-Ghazali,...

What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority...

'Magical. The most festive book you'll read this year' CARLEY FORTUNE, bestselling author of Every Summer AfterOne snowstorm.Two strangers.Three times the holiday magic . . .When strangers Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson are seated next to each other on a...