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The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam beyond Borders by Bruce B. Lawrence
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.66Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more than two dozen of Lawrence's key... -
The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam beyond Borders by Bruce B. Lawrence 9781478010241
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $163.15Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more than two dozen of Lawrence's key... -
Who Is Allah? by Bruce B. Lawrence 9781469654676
Booksplease Price: $59.72This vivid introduction to the heart of Islam offers a unique approach to understanding Allah, the central focus of Muslim religious expression. Drawing on history, culture, theology, politics, and... -
On Violence: A Reader by Bruce B. Lawrence 9780822337690
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.17This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F... -
The Koran in English: A Biography by Bruce B. Lawrence
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.78The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English KoranFor millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in... -
Who is Allah? by Bruce B. Lawrence 9781474401784
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.54Allah is the most common and contested name in the Islamic tradition - but who is he? Engaging with the age old question of who is the God of Islam, Bruce B. Lawrence stakes out the historical nuance... -
The Koran in English: A Biography by Bruce B. Lawrence 9780691155586
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94The 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... -
Shahrastani on the Indian Religions by Bruce B. Lawrence 9789027976819
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $143.93No detailed description available for "Shahrastani on the Indian Religions".Book InformationISBN 9789027976819Author Bruce B. LawrenceFormat HardbackPage Count 297Imprint Mouton de GruyterPublisher... -
Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop by Bruce B. Lawrence 9780807855881
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage,... -
New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life by Bruce B. Lawrence 9780231115209
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $164.87As a result of immigration from Asia in the wake of the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, the fastest-growing religions in America-faster than all Christian groups combined-are Islam,... -
Islamicate Cosmopolitan: Myth or Movement by Bruce Lawrence
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $77.95Discover the essence of the Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit and what it has contributed to societies across the ages In Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit, author and expert, Bruce B. Lawrence, delivers... -
Sacred Sound: Music in Religious Thought and Practice by Joyce L. Irwin 9780891306559
RRP: $283.50Booksplease Price: $226.63Whether music's appeal to the senses detracts from or contributes to devotion is an important question for all religious traditions. This interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection is intended as a... -
The Qur'an: A Verse Translation by M.A.R. Habib 9780871404992
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.82The product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of literature (M.A.R. Habib), The Qur'an: A Verse... -
Islam and Revolution in the Middle East (Revised) by Henry Munson 9780300046045
Booksplease Price: $57.69Why did an Islamic revolution occur only in Iran? Why have most Muslim fundamentalists elsewhere been incapable of mobilizing mass support? In this compellingly argued book, Henry Munson, Jr.,... -
Prophecy and Power: Muhammad and the Qur'an in the Light of Comparison by Marilyn Robinson Waldman 9781845539870
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $67.14By the end of the ninth century the Prophet Muhammad had emerged as an incomparable exemplar shared by all Muslim communities. Prophecy and Power offers a rigorous comparative study of both the... -
Was Greek Thought Religious?: On the Use and Abuse of Hellenism, from Rome to Romanticism by Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. 9780312295639
Booksplease Price: $97.19The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the First century, to Romanticism in the Nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university... -
Applying Ibn Khaldun: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology Syed Farid Alatas 9781138125964
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $79.78The writings of Ibn Khaldun, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldun has been widely regarded as the... -
Critical Muslim 38: Humour by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65Hassan Mahamdallie remembers the comedy and comedians of his youth, Hussein Abdulsater explores the Islamic approach to humour, Bruce B Lawrence is enthralled by Sufi satire, Gilbert Ramsey and... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition by Ibn Khaldun
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.50The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d... -
Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center by Carl W. Ernst 9780791408841
Booksplease Price: $59.28Ernst's research, based on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major center of pilgrimage in the Indian Deccan, reveals the mystical teachings and... -
Islam and New Directions in World Literature by Sarah bin Tyeer
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $190.26Brings forth the Islamicate as an aesthetic and critical force in World Literature Disrupts the one-way traffic in the field of World Literature studies by regarding Islam as both an alternative... -
Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend by Andrew Shryock
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03"Islamophobia" is a term that has been widely applied to anti-Muslim ideas and actions, especially since 9/11. The contributors to this provocative volume explore and critique the usefulness of the... -
All Religion Is Inter-Religion: Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 9781350236851
Booksplease Price: $72.39All Religion Is Inter-Religion analyses the ways inter-religious relations have contributed both historically and philosophically to the constructions of the category of "religion" as a distinct... -
Rethinking Ourselves: Justice, Reform and Ignorance in Postnormal Times Anwar Ibrahim 9781805264194
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $40.40A groundbreaking exploration of justice, democracy and Islamophobia, inviting us to reconsider our assumptions and build a more equitable future. Change has run amok! Technology advances by the... -
Religion and Cultural Studies by Susan L. Mizruchi 9780691005034
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $88.12Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx... -
Peace Movements in Islam: History, Religion and Politics by Juan Cole 9780755643172
Booksplease Price: $150.26Contrary to the distorted and in many places all-too prevalent view of Islam as somehow inherently or uniquely violent, there is a dazzling array of Muslim organizations and individuals that have... -
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History And 9/11 by Joanne Meyerowitz 9781592132027 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.10Booksplease Price: $21.46The contributors to this landmark collection set the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. They reject the simplistic notion of an age-old "clash of civilizations" and instead... -
Peace Movements in Islam: History, Religion and Politics by Juan Cole
Booksplease Price: $52.25Contrary to the distorted and in many places all-too prevalent view of Islam as somehow inherently or uniquely violent, there is a dazzling array of Muslim organizations and individuals that have... -
Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity by Khurram Hussain 9781350248861
Booksplease Price: $72.39What would it mean to imagine Islam as an immanent critique of the West? Sayyid Ahmad Khan lived in a time of great tribulation for Muslim India under British rule. By examining Khan's work as a... -
Islam and Asia: A History by Chiara Formichi 9781107513976
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.66Chiara Formichi explores the ways in which Islam and Asia have shaped each other's histories, societies and cultures from the seventh century to today. Challenging the assumed dominance of the Middle... -
History And 9/11 by Joanne Meyerowitz 9781592132034
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94The contributors to this landmark collection set the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. They reject the simplistic notion of an age-old "clash of civilizations" and instead... -
Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion by Thomas A. Tweed 9780674027640
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $47.25Beginning with a Cuban Catholic ritual in Miami, this book takes readers on a momentous theoretical journey toward a new understanding of religion. At this historical moment, when movement across... -
Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam by Shahzad Bashir 9780231144902
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $204.86Between 1300 and 1500 C.E. a new form of Sufi Islam took hold among central Islamic peoples, joining individuals through widespread networks resembling today's prominent paths and orders... -
Demystifying the Caliphate: Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts by Madawi Al-Rasheed 9781849042284
RRP: $57.75Booksplease Price: $54.75In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of... -
Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam by Shahzad Bashir 9780231144919
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $56.13Between 1300 and 1500 C.E. a new form of Sufi Islam took hold among central Islamic peoples, joining individuals through widespread networks resembling today's prominent paths and orders... -
Tears from the Mother of the Sun: A Secret History of the World Pir Zia Inayat Khan 9798888501825
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.68Esoteric legends that track history across multiple continents and planes of existence* Synthesizes ancient mythologies across time, space, and cultures to resacralize the human experience* Written... -
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire by SherAli Tareen 9780231210317
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94Friendship-particularly interreligious friendship-offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities... -
The Qur'an: A New Annotated Translation by Arthur J. Droge
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $66.23This new translation of the Qur'an is specifically designed for use in the college classroom, and offers students and instructors, as well as general readers, a one-volume resource comparable to what... -
The Qur'an: A New Annotated Translation by Arthur J. Droge 9781845539443
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $160.08This new translation of the Qur'an is specifically designed for use in the college classroom, and offers students and instructors, as well as general readers, a one-volume resource comparable to what... -
Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast by Sebastian R. Prange 9781108438148
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $78.62Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this...