History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908892218Author Abu Bakr Ibn Al-'arabiFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Diwan PressPublisher Diwan PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad's sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told. Joel Blecher...

Uncovers what Christian seminaries taught about Islam in their formative years Throughout the nineteenth century, Islam appeared regularly in the curricula of American Protestant seminaries. Islam was not only the focus of Christian missions, but was...

In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators,...

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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. This encounter began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India would be established at the end of the 12th century. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789642190898Author Muhammad Al-TijaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Al-BurāqPublisher Al-BurāqWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Followers of Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam's Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement he...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503560908Author Roy ViloznyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 15mm

The Ikhwan Al- Safa' or Brethren of Purity were a highly secretive group of tenth-century Shi'ite thinkers, their identities remaining unclear even today. Renowned for creating the legendary Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa, an encyclopedia of philosophical...

The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648313229Author Townsend PeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Petertownsend.InfoPublisher Petertownsend.InfoWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Many scholars of Islam are interested in creating a liberal, inclusive, pluralistic, feminist, and modern version of the religion that they believe to be explicit in the pages of the Qur'an, but missed by earlier interpreters. In so doing, they create...

Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identityMuslim modernism was a political and intellectual movement that sought to redefine the relationship between Islam and the colonial West in the late nineteenth and early...

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This book documents an Islamic-Confucian school of scholarship that flourished, mostly in the Yangzi Delta, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unstudied materials, it reconstructs the network of Muslim scholars responsible...

This is the first social history of the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islam. The 'Alids are the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, the elite family of Islam. The respect and veneration they are accorded is unparalleled in Islamic...

Scholars, saints, and the state The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia, ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great...

Although Muhammad had no natural sons who reached the age of maturity, Islamic sources report that he adopted a man named Zayd shortly before receiving his first revelation. This "son of Muhammad" was the Prophet's heir for the next fifteen or twenty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930409934Author Shaykh Muhammad Hisham KabbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Islamic Supreme Council of AmericaPublisher Islamic Supreme Council...

This is a single-volume history of Islam. The opening chapters briefly discuss the historical background of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century, through the rise of the Islam in 18th through 20th centuries. The final two chapters cover the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648313212Author Townsend PeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint various Australia publishersPublisher various Australia publishersWeight(grams)...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and...

Why did non-Muslims convert to Islam during Muhammad's life and under his immediate successors? How did Muslim historians portray these conversions? Why did their portrayals differ significantly? To what extent were their portrayals influenced by their...

Explores the relationship between monastic communities and Muslim society in the early centuries of Islam Presents a survey of Christian monastic life under Muslim political hegemony Explores the reasons behind Muslim latitude towards, and support...

The experience of being a Muslim in Scotland today is shaped by the global and national post-9/11 shift in public attitudes towards Muslims, and is infused by the particular social, cultural and political Scottish ways of dealing with minorities,...

We have rapidly grown used to the idea, particularly since the declaration of a world-wide war on terrorism, that between Islam and the West there exists a deep historical and ideological gulf. Christopher Walker's book turns such accepted views on their...

Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both...

Medieval interpretations of the Qur'an often serve as points of reference for Muslim thought; yet Qur'an commentaries were shaped not only by the Qur'an itself, but also by their authors' ideological viewpoints, their theories of interpretation, their...

Combining international and domestic perspectives, this book analyzes the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It views privatization of state lands and the increase of domestic and foreign trade as key...

Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.Finalist for the 2014 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, textual studies category presented by the...

Long before September 11, 2001, Daniel Pipes publicly warned Americans that militant Islam had declared war on America-yet sadly, Americans failed to take heed. The publication of Militant Islam Reaches America finally brought Pipes the attention he...

The coronavirus has upended the post-World War II narrative in global affairs, as the United States and the European Union struggle to contain what may well become the deadliest pandemic in a century. Countries with some of the world's most advanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848808560Author Raqeem PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Islam International Publications Ltd.Publisher Islam International Publications Ltd...

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic - it was visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues that this apparent paradox is based on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641890854Author Camilo Gomez-RivasFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094532Author Teresa BernheimerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981984835Author Gerald DrissnerFormat HardbackPage Count 754Imprint Gerald DrinerPublisher Gerald DrinerWeight(grams) 1152gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This collection of seven essays offers wide-ranging and in-depth studies of locations sacred to Muslims, of the histories of these sites (real or imagined), and of the ways in which Muslims and members of other religions have interacted peaceably in...