Islam

Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague.

Islam is more than a system of rigid doctrines and normative principles.

The analysis of lunar crescent visibility criterion is vital in providing a comparative insight for predicting the visibility and suitability for Hijri calendar determination.

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.

Islamic philosophy has often been treated as being largely of historical interest, belonging to the history of ideas rather than to philosophical study.

This book is the first study to qualitatively explore the concepts of higher education in Muslim contexts.

The assault on Samarra, which was built in the period of the Abbasid caliphate in the ninth century CE, therefore came to represent for many a symbol of the destructive civil conflict which engulfed Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion.

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

This volume contains Crimean Tatar folklore texts that had been collected by the noted Hungarian Turkologist Ignac Kunos during World War I, specifically from Russian Muslim prisoners of war in Hungarian camps.

Islamic finance's phenomenal growth owes to the Shariah compliant nature of its financial instruments.

The ritual of eating and drinking together is one of the most important Christian events.

First published in 1928, Palestine Old and New is a historical travel guide providing a preliminary account of Palestine through the eye of a Zionist.

The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries.

Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations focuses on a groundbreaking theme.

The mythic figure Satya Pir has a wide following among Hindus and Muslims alike in the Bangla-speaking regions of South Asia.

This thematic introduction to classical Islamic philosophy focuses on the most prevalent philosophical debates of the medieval Islamic world and their importance within the history of philosophy.

Islamic philosophy has often been treated as being largely of historical interest, belonging to the history of ideas rather than to philosophical study.

Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues brings together vital analysis of the challenges that Europe poses for an expanding Islam and that Islam poses for Europe, within their ever-evolving religious, legal, and social environments.

This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco.

In 1991, Ahmed Ali Haile returned to the chaos of his native Somalia with a clear mission: to bring warring clans together to find new paths of peaceoften over a cup of tea.

In this unprecedented masterwork, The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions, Heinrich Guggenheimer presents the first Haggadah to treat the texts of all Jewish groups on an equal footing and to use their divergences and concurrences as a key to the history of the text and an understanding of its development.

The Protestant Reformation emphasized the centrality of scripture to Christian life; the twentieth-century liturgical movement emphasized the Bible‘s place at the heart of liturgy.

Delving deeper into the soul of Islam and the definition of spirituality, this third volume examines the mainstream path that seekers are expected to follow in order to learn the fundamental concepts of Sufism and the essentials of the Islamic faith.

The issue of Muslim reactions to the Franks has been an important part of studies of both the Crusades and Islamic History, but rarely the main focus.

Unlike many narratives about the Czech lands, which place them on the periphery of their own history, this study considers Czechs as central characters, looking both east and west to find their place in the early modern world.

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

A new historical framework integrating Islam into European and Asian historyIslam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it.

Conventionally the word sufi is considered synonymous with the word mystic.

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi.

Muslim preaching has been central in forming public opinion, building grassroots organizations, and developing leadership cadres for the wider Islamist agenda.

A timely exploration of balancing Islamic heritage with contemporary medical and health concernsMuslim Medical Ethics draws on the work of historians, health-care professionals, theologians, and social scientists to produce an interdisciplinary view of medical ethics in Muslim societies and of the impact of caring for Muslim patients in non-Muslim societies.

This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258.

Nasr examines the life and thought of Mawlana Mawdudi, one of the first and most important Islamic ideological thinkers.

Today the world is confronted with many religious wars and the migrations of millions of persons due to these conflicts.

In this book, Yulia Egorova explores how South Asian Jews and Muslims relate to each other outside of a Western and Christian context, and reveals that despite some important differences, the relationship is still intrinsically connected to global narratives about Jews and Muslims.

In this thought-provoking interdisciplinary work, Shaun Marmon describes how eunuchs, as a category of people who embodied ambiguity, both defined and mediated critical thresholds of moral and physical space in the household, in the palace and in the tomb of pre-modern Islamic society.

Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic, and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority.

Explores the emergence, florescence, decay, and rejuvenation of the Sunni saint cult and shrine-complex of Shaykh al-Islam Ahmad-i Jam over nine-hundred years.

This book addresses contemporary debates on civil disobedience in Islam within the rich Sunni tradition, especially during the height of the non-violent people revolution in various Arab countries, popularly known as the Arab Spring.

Keshavarizian''s book affords unusual insights into the politics, economics and society of Iran across four decades.

Presenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women, this book applies the techniques of narrative analysis to explore their changing worldviews and conversions to political engagement.

Religions of Beijing offers an intimate portrayal of lived religion in 17 different religious communities in greater Beijing.

Die Verantwortung für das eigene wie das fremde Leben gehört zu den Grundlagen von Christentum und Islam.

This work aims to distill the findings of a wide variety of scholarly disciplines into a coherent narrative of the Qur'an's history, from the first oral recitation to the four published Variants in active circulation today.