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The Islamic World by Professor Andrew Rippin
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.78The Islamic World is an outstanding guide to Islamic faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished international team of scholars, it elucidates the... -
Defining Islam: A Reader Andrew Rippin 9781845530600
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13Ever since a group of people came into existence who called themselves Muslims and followed Islam, questions of what it means to be a member of this group - who is to be included/excluded and what... -
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an by Professor Andrew Rippin 9781118964804
RRP: £128.95Booksplease Price: £115.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an Andrew Rippin (University of Victoria, Canada) 9781405188203
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £41.67The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an is a reader's guide, a true companion for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'an as a text and as a vital piece of Muslim life. Comprises over 30... -
Textual Sources for the Study of Islam Andrew Rippin (University of Victoria, Canada) 9780226720630
Booksplease Price: £28.55"[This collection] is distinguished by its wide range and the care which has clearly gone into the selection of texts for inclusion. . . . Attention has understandably been focused on what might be... -
Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices Teresa Bernheimer 9781138219687
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to the contemporary period. It examines the unique elements... -
Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an: Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century Majid Daneshgar (University of Otago) 9780367281052
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Shaykh Tantawi Jawhari was an Egyptian exegete known for having produced a scientific interpretation of the Qur'an. A pioneering scholar in terms of familiarising the people of his time with many... -
Controversies in Contemporary Islam by Oliver Leaman
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £36.99This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today. Oliver Leaman explores some of the controversies and... -
Biking to Blissville: A Cycling Guide to the Maritimes and the Magdalen Islands by Kent Thompson 9780864921543
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Over highways and byways and converted railway roadbeds, Biking to Blissville gives maps and precise directions for about forty bicycle rides through the most scenic areas of Maritime Canada. Most of... -
The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab al-Maghazi Rizwi Faizer 9780415864855
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.69Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Waqidi was a Muslim scholar, born in Medina in the 1st Century. Of his several writings the most significant is the Kitab al-Maghazi, one of the earliest standard histories of... -
Interpretation and Jurisprudence in Medieval Islam Norman Calder 9781138382312
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63At the time of his death in 1998, at the age of 47, Norman Calder had become the most widely-discussed scholar in his field. This was largely focused on his monograph, Studies in Early Muslim... -
Islam in the Eyes of the West: Images and Realities in an Age of Terror Tareq Y. Ismael 9780415697910
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63From the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York to the Madrid and London bombings of 2004 and 2005, the presence of Muslim communities in the West has generated security issues and major... -
The Qur'an: An Introduction Abdullah Saeed (University of Melbourne, Australia) 9780415421256
Booksplease Price: £44.31There is much more to the Qur'an than the selective quotations favoured by Islamic fundamentalists. This book provides a student-friendly guide to the many ways in which the Qur'an can be read... -
Major Themes of the Qur'an by Fazlur Rahman 9780226702865
Booksplease Price: £26.68Fazlur Rahman (1919-88), one of the most important Muslim scholars of the twentieth century, devoted his career to helping students understand the Qur'an's teachings about God, man, and society. Back... -
The Qur'an: Modern Muslim Interpretations Massimo Campanini (Formerly Oriental University, Naples, Italy) 9780415558303
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83The Qur'an: Modern Muslim Interpretations offers a lucid guide to how Muslims have read the Qur'an in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Massimo Campanini explores early approaches to the... -
Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet by David S. Powers 9780812221497
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91The Islamic claim to supersede Judaism and Christianity is embodied in the theological assertion that the office of prophecy is hereditary but that the line of descent ends with Muhammad, who is the... -
The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Qur'anic Exegesis by S. R. Burge 9780198724131
Booksplease Price: £71.19The basic intention of Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) is to understand what the text of the Qur'an means. Before attempting to understand anything of the Qur'anic worldview, its theology and ethical... -
The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life by Ingrid Mattson 9781405122573
RRP: £91.95Booksplease Price: £84.71An essential introductory text for the study of the Qur'an, its content, and its place in Muslim society. An insightful and authoritative introduction to the book at the heart of Muslim life,... -
The Qur'an's Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam's Scripture by Daniel Madigan 9780691059501
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.32Islam is frequently characterized as a "religion of the book," and yet Muslims take an almost entirely oral approach to their scripture. Qur'an means "recitation" and refers to the actual words... -
Interpreting the Qur'an: Towards a Contemporary Approach Abdullah Saeed (University of Melbourne, Australia) 9780415365383
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08How is the Qur'an - central to all Muslim societies - to be understood today in order to meet the needs of these societies? Abdullah Saeed, a distinguished Muslim scholar, explores the interpretation... -
Conservative Islam: A Cultural Anthropology by Erich Kolig 9780739188316
Booksplease Price: £56.96Conservative Islam: A Cultural Anthropology by Erich Kolig analyzes the salient characteristics of Islam and contemporary Muslim society from the perspective of traditional cultural anthropology... -
The Qur'an and its Readers Worldwide: Contemporary Commentaries and Translations by Suha Taji-Farouki 9780198754770
Booksplease Price: £61.35Some eighty per cent of Muslims in the contemporary world speak languages other than Arabic, the language of the Qur'an. To respond to the needs of their communities, Muslim scholars and laypersons... -
A Companion to Muslim Cultures by Amyn B. Sajoo 9781780761275
Booksplease Price: £42.36I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Culture shapes every aspect of the relationship between God and the believer in Islam - as well as among believers, and with those... -
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation by Majid Daneshgar 9780367281090
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The largely Arabo-centric approach to the academic study of tafsir has resulted in a lack of literature exploring the diversity of Qur'anic interpretation in other areas of the Muslim-majority world... -
Gender Hierarchy in the Qur'an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses by Karen Bauer 9781107613935
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book explores how medieval and modern Muslim religious scholars ('ulama') interpret gender roles in Qur'anic verses on legal testimony, marriage, and human creation. Citing these verses,... -
Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations (third edition) by Michael Sells 9780861546787
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Approaching the Qur'an presents brilliant translations of the short, hymnic chapters, or Suras, associated with the first revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. These early Suras contain some of the...