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Carool Kersten provides comprehensive insight into the different roles played by Islam in Indonesia throughout history, including the importance of Indian Ocean networks for connecting Indonesians with the wider Islamic world, the religion's role as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199933730Author Tariq RamadanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University Press

Analyses the narrative function of Kh?rijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography The first book-length literary study of Kh?rijism Sheds new light on the creation of historical memory in early Islamic historiography Emphasises the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908892225Author Abu Bakr Ibn Al-'arabiFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Diwan PressPublisher Diwan PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981755145Author Ali GhandourFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Editio GryphusPublisher Editio GryphusWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 190mm * 120mm *...

A History of Arabic Astronomy is a comprehensive survey of Arabic planetary theories from the eleventh century to the fifteenth century based on recent manuscript discoveries. George Saliba argues that the medieval period, often called a period of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908110220Author Ayatollah Muhammad-Sadiq NajmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Sun Behind the Cloud PublicationsPublisher Sun Behind the Cloud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891785283Author Ahmad ibn 'AjibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Fons Vitae,USPublisher Fons Vitae,USWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982324653Author Tamam KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

There has never been a more important time for a study of the social, economic and political origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, three important world religions which share a common root. This book takes as its starting point the idea that gods,...

A translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida’s best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865–1935) was a prominent Muslim intellectual and reformer. Born in a village...

As a small sect that emerged from Islam over a thousand years ago, the Druze religion and society has long been cloaked in a tradition of secrecy. Veiled from the outside world, the religious tenets have been vulnerable to distortion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692390290Author Riyadh Al-HakeemFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Mainstay FoundationPublisher Mainstay FoundationWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Uncovering the hidden history of Islamophobia and its surprising connections to the long-standing hatred of Jews. Hatred of Jews and hatred of Muslims have been intertwined in Christian thought since the rise of Islam. In Jewish Muslims, David M...

A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations during late antiquity and the early Islamic eraHow did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this...

Investigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain...

Both in everyday language and religious metaphor, the heart often embodies the true self and is considered to be the seat of emotion in many cultures. Many Muslim thinkers have attempted to clarify the nature of Sufism using its metaphorical image,...

How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphateThe Imam of the Christians examines how Christian leaders adopted and adapted the political practices and ideas of their Muslim...

Since its first publication in 1969, this book continues to be routinely cited as the standard source for the history of the revivalist Egyptian movement, the Muslim Brethren, up to the time of Nasser. This classic work is now accessible to a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789670526850Author Muhammad IqbalFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Islamic Book TrustPublisher Islamic Book TrustWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034872Author Ian BurumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 131mm *...

In the Islamic tradition, fiqh (Islamic law) is generally regarded as the science of furu'al-din (matters complementary to the Islamic faith), as opposed to kalam (Islamic theology) which is known as the science of usul al-din (matters primary to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956276190Author Munir Al-KhabbazFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Al-Burāq PublicationsPublisher Al-Burāq PublicationsWeight(grams)...

In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the changing needs of society. Since the formative period of Islamic law, jurists have debated whether it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738859637Author Nazeer AhmedFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 155mm * 33mm

FEW BRITISH EXPLORERS IN ARABIA have produced books whose importance as travelogues is trans-cended by their literary quality. One such is The Holy Cities of Arabia, published to critical acclaim in 1928, with its author hailed as a worthy successor to...

In "Islam Unveiled," Robert Spencer dares to face the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches--and the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West. Going beyond the...

Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh century, Muslims constituted a tiny minority in most areas under their control. But by the beginning of the modern period, they...

The Templars and the Hospitallers were the two earliest and most famous of the major Military Orders of the Roman Catholic Church from the early twelfth to the middle of the thirteenth century. In this book, Jonathan Riley-Smith attends to the Templars'...

In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power. Originally...

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg examines how...

Polymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth. James Pickett demonstrates that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743233422Author WRIGHT ROBINFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 495gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles makes accessible to a wide public sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event...

Saints, their places, the rituals of their veneration - the heroes and martyrs they represent or to whom they are often connected with - and the beliefs in their powers have often been described as being counter-thematic to the constructive issues of...

In 680 C.E., a small band of the Prophet Muhammads family and their followers, led by his grandson, Husain, rose up in a rebellion against the ruling caliph, Yazid. The family and its supporters, hopelessly outnumbered, were massacred at Karbala, in...

Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories. Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011601Author Thomas W. LippmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

In Chapter 38:21-25, the Qur'an relates a very short narrative about the biblical King David's seeking and receiving God's forgiveness. The earliest Muslim exegetes interpreted the qur'anic verses as referring to the Hebrew Bible's story of David's...

In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly A. Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the center of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Revealing the little-known story of Japan's interest in Islam during its occupation of...