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A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society and chaotic minoritocracy; modern illiberal populism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621330Author Martin LingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 570g

Historically, women have been an integral part of spreading our Deen. They have contributed as mothers, wives, supporters, and defenders of our religion. This book allows the reader to take a glimpse into the lives of thirty-seven amazing women. Starting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385523943Author Lesley HazletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The TimesAn epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history's most venerated military and religious heroes...

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted , Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621477Author Gai EatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 530g

From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597842815Author Dr Resit HaylamazFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 146g

Learn about the history and traditions of the Islamic faith in The Islam Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Islam in this overview guide to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597841214Author Resit HaylamazFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 100g

The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.About the AuthorUsama ibn Munqidh was born on 4 July, 1095 in northern Syria. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903682876Author Abdul Rahman AzzamFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 435g

One of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world's most misunderstood religion.In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the world's fastest growing faith; more than three-quarters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506473888Author Gabriel Said ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

A magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in danger of being erased altogether. Another Europe. A Europe few people believe exists and many wish didn't. Muslim Europe. Londoner Tharik Hussain sets off...

Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire 'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart 'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating'...

This revisionist account of the history of Islamic political thought from the early to the late medieval period focuses on Ibn Taymiyya, one of the most brilliant theologians of his day. This original study demonstrates how his influence shed new light...

The West and Islam--the sword and the scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Byzantine emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a...

In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the...

Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality that animates other humanitarian interventions, such as environmentalism and pacifism. To the militant, victimized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908892270Author Qadi IyadFormat HardbackPage Count 534Imprint Diwan PressPublisher Diwan PressWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 29mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642938203Author Raymond IbrahimFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030255Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In honor of its 50th anniversary comes a special edition of Huston Smith's masterpiece "The World's Religions", the classic exploration of the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths. Emphasizing the inner - rather than the...

The life and legacy of one of Mohammad's closest confidants and Islam's patron saint: Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib is arguably the single most important spiritual and intellectual authority in Islam after prophet Mohammad. Through his teachings...

This book narrates the battles, conquests and diplomatic activities of the early Muslim fighters in Syria and Iraq vis-a-vis their Byzantine and Sasansian counterparts. It is the first English translation of one of the earliest Arabic sources on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789646177239Author Ibrahim AminiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Al-BurāqPublisher Al-BurāqWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061155772Author Karen ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

What really happened in the centuries of conflict between Europe, Russia, China, America, and the peoples of the Muslim world Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the...

The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint Louis by John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts of going to war in the service of God. In the first years of the thirteenth century Villehardouin served as an envoy in...

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...

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...

In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium.During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders,...

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...

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...

Text and Interpretation examines the main characteristics of the legal thought of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, preeminent religious scholar jurist of Medina in the first half of the second century of the Muslim calendar. This book presents an intellectual...

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...