Islam

This book challenges the widespread view that Islam is a reactionary religion defending tradition against modernity and individual freedom.

Islam came on the scene, with a message, philosophy and code of conduct, perfect by all means, with its advent, the new faith revolutionised the contemporary world in a very short span of time.

Ahmad bin Yahuya al-Baladhuri's History of the Arab Invasions is perhaps the most important single source for the history of the great Arab conquests of the Middle East in the sixth and early seventh centuries.

Emotions have moved center stage in many contemporary debates over religious diversity and multicultural recognition.

The book explains Sadra's theory of the nature of afterlife.

Alef Is for Allah is the first groundbreaking study of the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies.

This book provides a thorough and accessible guide to belief about the afterlife in the Sunni Muslim tradition.

Human rights abuses and violations in Saudi Arabia attract international condemnation.

This work compares medieval and modern Arabic sources relating to the Berber Empires (11th-13th centuries) with the way in which European studies have apprehended this topic against the backdrop of the emergence of orientalism and the expansion of France in the Maghreb.

A much anticipated new addition to the very popular and practical book series that answers real questions on key topics in contemporary ChristianityIslam is one of the most significant forces shaping the world today, but most Christians are confused about its key beliefs and practices.

For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice.

It is not only the holy cities of Mecca and Karbala to which Muslim pilgrims travel, but a wide variety of sacred sites around the world.

Most Christians worship on a regular basis on the Lord's Day.

This book, first published in 1984, examines the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and UAE.

In the first scholarly biography of Minister Farrakhan, leader of the controversial religious movement, the Nation of Islam (NOI), Dawn-Marie Gibson challenges popular portrayals of Farrakhan in American media.

Sufism is often understood to be the mystical dimension of Islam, and many works have focused on the nature of "e;mystical experiences"e; and the relationship between man and God.

This book provides an understanding of behavioural and substance disorders from an Islamic psychology perspective.

A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender - their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations - but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a 'Muslim' identity in selected Muslim-majority countries at this pivotal historical moment, characterized by transformative destabilizations in which national, ethnic, and religious boundaries are being re-imagined and re-made.

Cyber hate can take many different forms from online material which can lead to actual offline abuse and violence, cyber violence; cyber stalking, and online harassment with the use of visual images, videos, chat rooms, text and social media which are intended to cause harm.

An examination of the sources and evolution of personal authority in one Islamic societySufi Heirs of the Prophet explores the multifaceted development of personal authority in Islamic societies by tracing the transformation of one mystical sufi lineage in colonial India, the Naqshbandiyya.

Spirituality is, too often, subsumed under the heading of religion and treated as much the same kind of thing.

The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive in the midst of the Bosnian genocide-and the stray cat who protected her family through it all.

Concerns about the place of Islam in Palestinian politics are familiar to those studying the history of the modern Middle East.

Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the most holy cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan, when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).

Originally published in 1962, this book presents important studies on the history, literature and religion of the Islamic peoples as well as an appraisal of contemporary intellectual currents in the Middle East.

The Bahir is one of the oldest and most important of all classical Kabbalah texts.

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A revised and updated edition of Waines'' wide-ranging account of the history and theology of Islam.

The Islamic perception of the socio-economic process is dynamic and its insistence on social justice is uncompromising.

In these meditations on the lesser feasts and fasts of the church calendar Sam Portaro asks the question, "e;What do these saints and commemorations have to say to Christians today?

In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel treats the religions of the world under the rubric "e;the determinate religion.

In this work, first published in 1986, the author shows how the Zionists of the late Thirties related to the Arabs of Palestine and of the neighbouring countries, to what extent they perceived the existence of an 'Arab Question', how they defined it and how they dealt with it.

Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths.

Drawing on experience as an interreligious monk, Brother Wayne Teasdale reveals the power of spirituality and its practical elements.

Heinrich Von Treitschke was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century.

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John Milton's poetry and prose are central to our understanding of the aesthetic, political and religious upheavals of early modern England.

A number of misunderstandings prevail by connecting violence with Islam.

Islam is the complete code of life.

In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching.

Das vorliegende Handbuch ist eine Kompilation von Beiträgen überwiegend muslimischer Religionspädagog*innen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, die aktiv am Aufbau der islamischen Religionspädagogik an den deutschsprachigen Universitäten beteiligt sind bzw.

This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.

Islam came on the scene, with a message, philosophy and code of conduct, perfect by all means, with its advent, the new faith revolutionised the contemporary world in a very short span of time.

In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism, Manea argues against what she identifies as the growing tendency for people to be treated as 'homogenous groups' in Western academic discourse, rather than as individuals with authentic voices.

This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things.

It has been customary to see the Muslim theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d.

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature.