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A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999871956Author Azhar MajothiFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Affa HousePublisher Affa HouseWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 3mm

This is a passionate defense of Islam against the encroaching tide of fundamentalists corrupting the true faith. In "The Great Theft", Khaled Abou El Fadl, one of the world's preeminent Islamic scholars argues that Islam is currently passing...

Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns. The 2006 Danish cartoon crisis and the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786059901765Author Dilek GuldutunaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Love Is Something BeautifulPublisher Love Is Something BeautifulWeight(grams)...

The Islamic world--defined as those regions in which Islam is the dominant or single most important religion--covers territories as far apart as Morocco and Indonesia, Somalia, and Bosnia and includes an extraordinary range of societies and cultures. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938058639Author Gibril Fouad HaddadFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Institute for Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (Isca)Publisher Institute for...

In The Last Ta'ifa, Anthony H. Minnema shows how the Banu Hud, an Arab dynasty from Zaragoza, created and recreated their vision of an autonomous city-state (ta'ifa) in ways that reveal changes to legitimating strategies in al-Andalus and across the...

'The book covers every side of Muslim life . . . a remarkable collection of new information, which will be of deep interest to students of European history' R.W. Southern, NEW YORK REVIEWTurning the traditional focus of western scholarship on its head,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930409651Author Hajjah Amina AdilFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Islamic Supreme Council of AmericaPublisher Islamic Supreme Council of...

Ibn Sina - Avicenna in Latin - (980-1037) played a considerable role in the development of both eastern and western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics and theology and even medicine...

Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands brings into conversation the distinct fields of tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) studies and women's studies by exploring significant shifts in modern Qur'anic commentaries on the subject of women. Hadia Mubarak places...

In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine in search of opportunity. In the process, he reveals a...

Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has...

Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Quran but from hadith, first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds, passed from generation to generation. However, with varying accounts often only committed to...

"As Zadeh concludes, reformers and modernists have closed the rich and varied archive revealed in Wonders and Rarities...In this beautifully written and engaging text, Zadeh takes his readers back to the world of surprise and enchantment that preceded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390804740Author Ibn KhaldunFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint Dar UL ThaqafahPublisher Dar UL ThaqafahWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989163009Author Dr Tauseef Ahmad KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat CanadaPublisher Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat...

This book investigates Muslim narratives on Qur?anic distortion through a meticulous analysis of hadith. Using isn?d-cum-matn analysis, Seyfeddin Kara discovers the historical origins of this disputed claim and illuminates the dynamic interplay between...

Usama Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188) was a Syrian poet and warrior whose life coincided with some of the most dramatic moments in Islamic history: the invasion of the Turks into the Middle East, the collapse of the Shi'ite political power, and above all, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908110008Author Jaffer LadakFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Sun Behind the Cloud PublicationsPublisher Sun Behind the Cloud Publications

Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious...

Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908892027Author Abdalhaqq BewleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Diwan PressPublisher Diwan PressWeight(grams) 109g

A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading communities, whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history of capitalism, Islam, and empire in South Asia.During the nineteenth century, three Gujarati Muslim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310369Author Howard BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

The basic contention of this study is that the colonial rule had far more serious consequence than it has been realized. It radically transformed the nature of the Islamic societies of Egypt and Muslim India to that of an 'Islamicate'societies. This...

Why are Muslim men portrayed as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam stopping Muslims from integrating?Across western societies, Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority. But what does it mean to believe in...

The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Muslims leave Islam and become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915025166Author Nisar ShaikhFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media LtdWeight(grams)...

Based on epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional literary sources and critical review of the extensive relevant scholarship, this book presents a comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the rise of Islam as a religion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618613356Author Bat Ye'orFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Rvp PressPublisher Rvp PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910220153Author HempherFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Omnia Veritas LtdPublisher Omnia Veritas Ltd

Contemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages became a contested heritage during the process of modern nation-building...

What was the significance of the Ottoman Empire? What kind of lives did people live? What lessons can be learnt from the civilization that the Ottomans created? What does the Ottoman Empire mean to us today? One of Turkey's leading historians, Ilber...

While in the West 'the Caliphate' evokes overwhelmingly negative images, throughout Islamic history it has been regarded as the ideal Islamic polity. In the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and the removal of long-standing dictators in the Middle East, in which...

A dynamic vision of medieval Castilian culture and the Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin strands that are woven into its fabric Named a Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement, this lavishly illustrated work explores the vibrant interaction among...

In this groundbreaking book, Selina O'Grady examines how and why the post-Christian and the Islamic worlds came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are. She asks whether tolerance can be expected to heal today's festering wound between these two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949586763Author Daniel JanosikFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Christian Publishing HousePublisher Christian Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Ali b. Abi Talib, son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, first Shi'i imam and fourth caliph, is a monumental figure within the Islamic tradition. But despite the immense importance of Imam Ali, there is a dearth of literature in Western languages...