History

Despite Muhammad's exalted place in Islam, even today there is still surpisingly little actually known about this shadowy figure and the origins of the Qur'an because of an astounding lack of verifiable biographical material. Furthermore, most of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791472521Author Alex V. PopovkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Not since the Crusades of the Middle Ages has Islam evoked the degree of fear, hostility, and ethnic and religious stereotyping that is evident throughout Western culture today. As conflicts continue to proliferate around the globe, the perception of a...

In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the...

To Be a European Muslim addresses some of the fundamental issues born of the several million strong Muslim presence in Europe in our times. Based on a thorough study of Islamic sources, it seeks to answer basic questions about European Muslims' social,...

Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God's Crucible is a bold portrait of Islamic Spain and the birth of modern Europe from one of our greatest historians. David Levering Lewis's...

How was violence justified in early Islam? What role did violent actions play in the formation and maintenance of the Muslim political order? How did Muslim thinkers view the origins and acceptability of violence?This volume examines how violence was...

The London and Madrid bombings, the French riots, the uproar over the Danish Muhammad cartoons, foiled plots at Heathrow Airport, in Frankfurt Germany and Copenhagen--these events all underscore the volatile relationship between Muslims and their...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and...

The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century onward,...

The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English Koran For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab...

An expert in the study of Islam answers thirty important questions about Muhammad, offering a clear and concise guide to his life and religious significance. This companion volume to the author's A Concise Guide to the Quran answers many of the key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956276077Author Ali KhameneiFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Al-BurāqPublisher Al-BurāqWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861549009Author Rkia Elaroui CornellFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint ONEWorld PublicationsPublisher ONEWorld PublicationsWeight(grams) 630g

Every now and then some great people have come along to protect and revive Islam. This short and well-presented book highlights a small selection of specific personalities from our rich tradition who served as foundational hallmarks for the progress of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915570079Author Khalid Muhammed KhalidFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Light PublishingPublisher Light PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597849326Author Resit HaylamazFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 456g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967852Author Bernard LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915570055Author Khalid Muhammed KhalidFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Light PublishingPublisher Light PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and...

This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest. "Harvey not only examines the politics of the Nasrids, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593680756Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Washington Summit PublishersPublisher Washington Summit PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914397141Author Ibraheem SulaimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Diwan PressPublisher Diwan PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

The history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History of Islam in Africa presents a detailed historic mapping of the cultural, political, geographic, and religious past of...

By the beginning of the 1970s, the modernizing political and cultural movements that had dominated the postwar Arab world were collapsing. The postcolonial project they had fashioned, which sought to create a decolonized order and a new Arab man, had...

The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762407Author Michael Muhammad KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 298g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943393145Author Muhammad Mahdi ChamseddineFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Mainstay FoundationPublisher Mainstay FoundationWeight(grams)...

We live in a world polarized by the ongoing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but - in an extraordinary narrative spanning fourteen centuries - Zachary Karabell argues that the relationship between Islam and the West has never been simply...

Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions tells the story of the Nurbakhshiya, an Islamic messianic movement that originated in fifteenth-century central Asia and Iran and survives to the present in Pakistan and India. In the first full-length study of the...

Is journalism dead? This age-old question followed the emergence of the internet and 24-hour broadcast news, both threatening to change the game entirely. Yet nothing compares to the changes we have experienced since the mid- 2010s. Money is always a...

Beyond African Orality offers the first English translation and interpretation of sixty Wolof Ajami poems (Wolof written with an enriched form of the Arabic script) by Serin Mbay Jaxate (c. 1876-1947), a follower of the Senegalese Muridiyya Sufi order...

Scholars have come to recognize the importance of classical Islamic philosophy both in its own right and in its preservation of and engagement with Greek philosophical ideas. At the same time, the period immediately following the so-called classical era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226011004Author Muzaffar AlamFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Only about a century old, fascism—bogeyman of ideologies—has been both over- and under-attributed to various political phenomena. While the baseline cases of Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy are generally agreed upon, once these two forces were...

The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many...

When revolutionary hero Gamal Abdel Nasser dismantled and suppressed Egypt's largest social movement organization during the 1950s, few could have imagined that the Muslim Brotherhood would not only reemerge, but could one day compete for the presidency...

Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur. Composed in 1503 as an introduction...

The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many...