Islam: sacred texts and revered writings

An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scriptureThis book provides detailed and multidisciplinary coverage of a wealth of key Qur'anic terms, with incisive entries on crucial expressions ranging from the divine names allah ("e;God"e;) and al-rahman ("e;the Merciful"e;) to the Qur'anic understanding of belief and self-surrender to God.

Assuming no prior knowledge, The Qur'an: A Philosophical Guide is an introduction to the Qur'an from a philosophical point of view.

This book investigates the manner in which the Qur'an and sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature.

Find out how the Koran resembles the Bibleand the drastic ways in which it differs.

This book presents an intellectual history of today's Muslim world, surveying contemporary Muslim thinking in its various manifestations, addressing a variety of themes that impact on the lives of present-day Muslims.

The teachings, style and impact of the Qur'an have always been matters of controversy, among both Muslims and non-Muslims.

This book sets out how contemporary Iranian scholars have approached the Qur?

This book continues the work of The Qur'an in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur'an and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur'an's own conversation with the religions and literatures of its day.

Offering an analysis of Christian-Muslim dialogue across four centuries, this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur'an for drawing the two faiths together rather than pushing them apart, and amplifies the voice of the Qur'an itself.

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Originally published in 1973, this volume consists of a sequence of essays in religious thinking, responsive to the impact of Quranic style and emphasis.

Over the course of six sections, this rich reference book explores the various areas of Qur'anic studies:its language,the history of its documentation,its many disciplines,the methods of interpretation,its inimitability,and finally, as a work of art.

The Qur'an: Modern Muslim Interpretations offers a lucid guide to how Muslims have read the Qur'an in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Originally published in 1966, this was the first of Muhammad 'Abduh's works to be translated into English.

This book examines in detail the concept of "e;abrogation"e; in the Qur'an, which has played a major role in the development of Islamic law and has implications for understanding the history and integrity of the Qur'anic text.

This volume explores the relationship between the Qur'an and the Jewish and Christian traditions, considering aspects of continuity and reform.

In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship.

In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam.

The Qur'an is God's verbatim speech for most traditional Muslims.

What was the name of Noah's son who did not survive the Flood?

Qur'anic Studies Today brings together specialists in the field of Islamic studies to provide a range of essays that reflect the depth and breadth of scholarship on the Qur'an.

This volume brings together the work of a group of Islamic studies scholars from across the globe.

Providing an analysis of the complete story of Mary in its liturgical, narrative and rhetorical contexts, this literary reading is a prerequisite to any textual reading of the Qur'an whether juristic, theological, or otherwise.

The timeless insight of Islam's sacred writings can enrich your own spiritual journey.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur' n offers an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur' n as a text and as a vital component of Muslim life.

This new work presents a concise and accessible introduction to the Qur'an.

Iconoclastic and fiercely rational, the European Enlightenment witnessed the birth of modern Western society and thought.

This book explores the development of interpretations of Qur''ānic verses on gender roles in testimony, human creation and marriage.

A compelling book that casts the Qur'anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new lightIn this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia.

This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today.

Written by a celebrated Islamic scholar to his students in Turkey after his political exile in 1925, these letters follow the long-established traditions of correspondence between spiritual masters and their students in remote lands.

This book challenges the dominant scholarly notion that the Qur'an must be interpreted through the medieval commentaries shaped by the biography of the prophet Muhammad, arguing instead that the text is best read in light of Christian and Jewish scripture.

This book, suitably titled 'The Kingdom of God' delves into the profound meanings and guidance found in Surah al-Mulk, the 67th chapter of the Qur'an.

Al-Adab al-Mufrad, an anthology of 1329 hadiths, is a treasured work in Muslim history by one of its most respected scholars, Imam Bukhari.

This modern and readable translation of the Qur'an also includes an insightful commentary.

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As the world becomes increasingly globalised Islam faces some important choices.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur' n offers an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur' n as a text and as a vital component of Muslim life.

The Kit b-i-Aqdas is considered the most important and sacred text of the Bah ' Faith, a religion with some eight million adherents, found in nearly every country of the world.

An up-close and up-to-date look at an often misunderstood faith.

Post 9/11, sales of translations of the Qur'an have greatly increased.

In the current political and social climate, there is increasing demand for a deeper understanding of Muslims, the Qur'an and Islam, as well as a keen demand among Muslim scholars to explore ways of engaging with Christians theologically, culturally, and socially.

From disagreement over an Islamic Center in New York to clashes between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, tension between the three Abrahamic faiths often runs high.