Shi'a

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927930120Author Arifa HuddaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Islamic Publishing HousePublisher Islamic Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Of the few surviving Nizari Ismaili texts from the Alamut period, the Haft bab (Seven Chapters), which outlines the basic tenets of Ismaili philosophical theology, has proved to be the...

One of the most prominent Muslim scholars and scientists of the medieval era, the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274) joined the Shi'a Nizari Ismaili community at a young age, as the armies of Genghis Khan poured across his homeland. In the...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The world's 200 million Shi'i Muslims express their faith in a multiplicity of ways, united by reverence for the ahl al-bayt, the family of the Prophet. In embracing a pluralistic ethic,...

For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi'ism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of Shi'ism as a religion of protest-successful only when in a warring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943393398Author Ali NajiFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Mainstay FoundationPublisher Mainstay FoundationWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A new edition of Heinz Halm's comprehensive survey of all the Shi'ite groups. It traces the development of all the individual branches from their common origins to their current status in the modern world. The dogmatic and organisational development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692228043Author Ibn E Quluya Al QummiFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Wilayat Mission PublicationsPublisher Wilayat Mission...

This book argues that ever since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, which established a Shia Islamic government in Iran, that country's religious and political leaders have used Shia Islam as a crucial way of expanding Iran's objectives in the Middle...

Charts the history and development of Twelver Shi'ism. As many as 40 different Shi'i groups existed in the ninth and tenth centuries yet only 3 forms have survived. Why is Twelver Shi'ism one of them? As the established faith in modern Iran, the majority...

The Saudi "ulama" are known for their strong opposition to Shi'a theology, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia, and external Shi'a influences such as Iran and Hezbollah. Their potent hostility, combined with the influence of the 'ulama' within...

The Making of Shia Ayatollahs offers both insider and outsider views of how a scholar becomes an Ayatollah in Shia Islam, how ayatollahs suggest diverse perspectives on faith, and how the grand ayatollahs are recognized by a balance of many factors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943393367Author Ali NajiFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Mainstay FoundationPublisher Mainstay FoundationWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This book investigates the manner in which the Qur'an and sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature.Providing a comprehensive study of all the female personalities mentioned in the Qur'an, the book is selective in the personalities...

The values of traditionalist Islam are often portrayed as inherently hostile to those of a modern, pluralistic society. This book shatters many of these stereotypes. Jonah Blank provides a first-hand account of the Daudi Bohra community, a Shi'a...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943393503Author Muhammad Mahdi ChamseddineFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Mainstay FoundationPublisher Mainstay FoundationWeight(grams)...

Following the Islamic revolution of 1978-79 in Iran, the new Islamic regime justified the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeni, and of the Shi'ite imams in general, on the basis of the doctrine that righteous jurist is best suited to establish the ideal public...

In Twelver Shi'a Islam, the wait for the return of the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi, at the end of time, overshadowed the value of actively seeking martyrdom. However, what is the place of martyrdom in Twelver Shi'ism today? This book...

"Fundamentalism" and "authoritarian secularism" are commonly perceived as the two mutually exclusive paradigms available to Muslim majority countries. Naser Ghobadzadeh highlights the recent political developments that have challenged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956276480Author Ruhollah KhomeiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Al-BurāqPublisher Al-BurāqWeight(grams) 213g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955725293Author Ali Quli QaraiFormat PaperbackPage Count 802Imprint Ali Gholi GharaeiPublisher Ali Gholi GharaeiWeight(grams) 1365g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793621351Author Jon ArmajaniFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956276183Author Munir Al-KhabbazFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Al-Burāq PublicationsPublisher Al-Burāq PublicationsWeight(grams) 163g

In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localised cultural values shape gender roles. Ruffle focuses on the annual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956276084Author Murtadha MutahhariFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Al-BurāqPublisher Al-BurāqWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558761940Author DaftaryFormat PaperbackImprint Markus Wiener Publishing IncPublisher Markus Wiener Publishing Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684190331Author Mu'addib Ibn Walid ShakirFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Jade Media GroupPublisher Jade Media GroupWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991430819Author Muhammad SarwarFormat PaperbackPage Count 722Imprint Islamic Seminary IncorporatedPublisher Islamic Seminary IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991430840Author Muhammad SarwarFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Islamic Seminary IncorporatedPublisher Islamic Seminary IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692386262Author Wilayat MissionFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Wilayat Mission PublicationsPublisher Wilayat Mission PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Reflects on women participating in Islamic scholarly traditions from the classical period to the presentWhen we dissect Islamic religious authority into its various manifestations - leading prayer, preaching, issuing fatwas, transmitting hadith, judging...

Renewed authoritarianism, national disintegration, sectarian violence, and the increasing radicalization of Jihadi-Salafism since the Arab uprisings have significantly blurred visions for constructive religion-state-society relations in the MENA region...

In 680 CE, the prophet Muhammad's grandson, Husain, led a small band of followers in rebellion against the caliph, Yazid. Husain and his followers were slain at Karbala, in modern-day Iraq, leading to the split between Sunni and Shiite Muslims that...

Drawing on five years of field studies in pragmatic- and dogmatic-inclined mosques across Europe, Shariʿa and Life explores how Muslims engage with shariʿa norms in general, and specifically with the challenges they face as Muslims living in majority...

The devotional and mystical literature of the Ismailis in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent is a little known but rich seam of creativity in the cultural heritage of Islam. This book focuses on the ginans - a large corpus of hymns and poems composed in a...

The devotional literature of the Ismailis in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent is a rich seam of creativity in the cultural heritage of Islam. This book looks at the "ginans", a large corpus of hymns and poems composed in a variety of Indic languages and...

Focused on Shi’ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walāya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide range of relationships with other theological ideas, chiefly in relation to...