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Rumi: A Life in Pictures by John Renard
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €108.02Picturing the life story of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a premier Muslim mystic and the original Whirling Dervish, John Renard studies the images in three extant manuscripts of Aflaki's Wondrous Feats of the... -
The A to Z of Sufism by John Renard 9780810868274
Booksplease Price: €61.52With more than 3,000 entries and cross-references on the history, main figures, institutions, theory, and literary works associated with Islam's mystical tradition, Sufism, this dictionary brings... -
The Handy Islam Answer Book by John Renard
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €30.67The Handy Islam Answer Book is clearly and eloquently written by John Renard, Ph.D., a scholar of Islam with more than 40 years of research and teaching experience. He provides detailed descriptions... -
The Handy Religon Answer Book: Second Edition John Renard 9781578593798
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €32.99The Handy Religion Answer Book provides solid descriptions of major beliefs and rituals worldwide, affording the reader an understanding of contemporary religion. Providing detailed descriptions of... -
All the King's Falcons: Rumi on Prophets and Revelation by John Renard 9780791422229
Booksplease Price: €30.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader by John Renard 9780520281899
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €33.83Comprised of primary sources assembled from a broad chronological and geographic spectrum, Islamic Theological Themes is a comprehensive anthology of primary Islamic sacred texts in translation. The... -
Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective by John Renard 9780520266780
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.85In light of the widespread public perception of incompatibility between Islam and Christianity, this book provides a much-needed straightforward comparison of these two great faith traditions from a... -
Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader by John Renard 9780520281882
Booksplease Price: €99.07Comprised of primary sources assembled from a broad chronological and geographic spectrum, Islamic Theological Themes is a comprehensive anthology of primary Islamic sacred texts in translation. The... -
Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective by John Renard 9780520255081
Booksplease Price: €99.07In light of the widespread public perception of incompatibility between Islam and Christianity, this book provides a much-needed straightforward comparison of these two great faith traditions from a... -
Tales of God s Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation by John Renard 9780520258969
Booksplease Price: €38.95This remarkable collection gathers a breathtakingly diverse selection of primary texts from the vast repertoire of Islamic stories about holy men and women - also known as Friends of God - who were... -
Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims by John Renard 9780520204171
Booksplease Price: €34.99Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book... -
Fighting Words: Religion, Violence, and the Interpretation of Sacred Texts by John Renard 9780520258310
Booksplease Price: €78.28One of the critical issues in interreligious relations today is the connection, both actual and perceived, between sacred sources and the justification of violent acts as divinely mandated. Fighting... -
Fighting Words: Religion, Violence, and the Interpretation of Sacred Texts by John Renard 9780520274198
Booksplease Price: €38.59One of the critical issues in interreligious relations today is the connection, both actual and perceived, between sacred sources and the justification of violent acts as divinely mandated. Fighting... -
Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood by John Renard 9780520251984
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.97Prophets, saints, martyrs, sages, and seers - one of the richest repositories of lore about such exemplary religious figures belongs to the world's approximately 1.3 billion Muslims. Illuminating... -
Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life by John Renard 9780520210868
Booksplease Price: €37.76Over the centuries and across the globe, Muslim authors and artists have given moving testimony to their experience of being members of the Islamic community. Their many vantage points come together... -
Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions by John Renard 9780520287921
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.85Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another's communities... -
Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions by John Renard 9780520287914
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.36Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another's communities... -
Concilium 1994/3 by Hans Kueng 9780334030263
Booksplease Price: €19.11Bosnia / Smail Balic? -- Africa / Patrick D. Gaffney -- Women in Islam and Christianity / Riffat Hassan -- Indonesia / Judo Poerwowidagdo -- Islam, the one and the many / John Renard -- The threat of... -
Word of God, Art of Man: The Qur'an and its Creative Expressions: Selected Proceedings from the International Colloquium, London, 18-21 October 2003 by Fahmida Suleman 9780199591497
Booksplease Price: €44.89Muslim reverence for the Qur'an as the Word of God has manifested itself in various artistic forms throughout history and up to the present day. This innovative collection of essays explores creative... -
Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rumi by Amin Banani 9780521454766
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €102.51Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi was one of the greatest poets and mystics of the Islamic world. He was born in Balkh (Korasan) in AD 1207 and died in Konya (Turkey) in AD 1273. This book is an examination... -
Islamic Mysticism and Abu Talib Al-Makki: The Role of the Heart Saeko Yazaki 9781138118706
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29Both 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... -
Art of the Court of Bijapur by Deborah Hutton
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.40"[A]n impressive and original work of synthetic scholarship that one hopes will be emulated by others." -Phillip B. Wagoner, Wesleyan University"[A]n excellent and important work . . . [with] a... -
The Prophet al-Khidr: Between the Qur'anic Text and the Islamic Tradition by Irfan A. Omar 9781498595919
Booksplease Price: €96.95The Qur'anic verses 18:60-82 in Surat al-Kahf present the story of Khidr and Moses as a lesson on the modalities of being and of knowing. Traditionally, the story is seen from a variety of vantage... -
Shiblī: His Life and Thought in the Sufi Tradition by Kenneth Avery 9781438451800
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.11Considers what is known of acclaimed early Sufi master Abu Bakr al-Shibli and how he was characterized in various times and places.Early Sufi master Abu Bakr al-Shibli (d. 946) is both famous and... -
Sufi Warrior Saints: Stories of Sufi Jihad from Muslim Hagiography by Harry S. Neale 9780755643417
Booksplease Price: €37.91This book presents a thematic collection of hagiographical stories of Sufi saints, often referred to as friends of Gods. Despite the diverse wealth of Sufi works, much of the rich, global and... -
Sufi Warrior Saints: Stories of Sufi Jihad from Muslim Hagiography by Harry S. Neale 9780755643370
Booksplease Price: €114.66This book presents a thematic collection of hagiographical stories of Sufi saints, often referred to as friends of Gods. Despite the diverse wealth of Sufi works, much of the rich, global and... -
Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives by Lucinda Mosher 9781626162846
RRP: €31.54Booksplease Price: €29.85Launched in 2002 by the Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Building Bridges Seminar has been under the stewardship of Georgetown University since 2012. The seminar gathers distinguished... -
The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations by Ahmed Al-Dawoody 9781137540744
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €107.77Al-Dawoody examines the justifications and regulations for going to war in both international and domestic armed conflicts under Islamic law. He studies the various kinds of use of force by both... -
The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations by Ahmed Al-Dawoody 9780230111608
Booksplease Price: €107.77Al-Dawoody examines the justifications and regulations for going to war in both international and domestic armed conflicts under Islamic law. He studies the various kinds of use of force by both... -
An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries: Volume 1: On the Nature of the Divine by Feras Hamza
Booksplease Price: €97.02This pioneering volume, the first in a series, presents a plurality of voices, methods and concerns in Qur'anic interpretation ranging from the 8th century to the present day. No previous work has... -
Prophet Al-Khidr: Between the Qur'anic Text and Islamic Contexts by Irfan A Omar 9781498595933
Booksplease Price: €40.27The Qur'anic verses 18:60-82 in Surat al-Kahf present the story of Khidr and Moses as a lesson on the modalities of being and of knowing. Traditionally, the story is seen from a variety of vantage... -
The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr 9780061125874
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €33.80An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive...