Islam

Islam, as a philosophy, a way of life and of course as a faith, has served like a lighthouse for the whole world.

This is the first biography of Lord Headley, who made international headlines in 1913 when he defied convention by publicly converting to Islam.

Spanning a thousand years of history - and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania - Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities.

Islam, as a philosophy, a way of life and of course as a faith, has served like a lighthouse for the whole world.

This book, first published in 1979, was the first political and social history of Qatar.

The Republic of Indonesia is a rising great power in the Asia-Pacific, set to become the eighth largest economy in the world in the coming decades.

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.

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.

Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt addresses the extraordinary rise and inner life of the Egyptian pietist movement in the first half of the thirteenth century.

This book explores the unfolding of world history in a remote corner of Central Asia: the region of Badakhshan.

Nuclear weapons are the elusive 'toys' of modern warfare and are hankered after by every Middle Eastern government.

This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur'an-a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger.

Traditionally revered as the literal word of God, the Qur'an serves as Islam's sacred book of revelation.

With the decision to provide of a scholarly edition of the Works of John Wesley in the 1950s, Methodist Studies emerged as a fresh academic venture.

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

In Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, Mohammad Kamali considers problems associated with and proposals for reform of the hudud punishments prescribed by Islamic criminal law, and other topics related to crime and punishment in Shariah.

Presenting a political history and sociology of Moroccan Sufism from colonialism to the modern day, this book studies the Sufi model of Master and Disciple in relation to social and political life, comparing the different eras of acquiescent versus dissident Sufism.

Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden.

This book explores the idea of Muslim diaspora in context of Muslim communities in the United Kingdom.

This book follows the life of Ivan Agu li, the artist, anarchist, and esotericist, notable as one of the earliest Western intellectuals to convert to Islam and to explore Sufism.

A fundamental reassessment of Christian/Islamic relations during the First Crusade, combating its representation as an inter-faith clash of civilizations.

The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today.

The Muslim school embraces all branches of human knowledge and research theology, medicine, history, astronomy, grammar, economics, physics, racial philosophy and racial psychology and ethics.

Perceptions of Muslim women in Western society have been shaped by historical and sociological conditions such as colonialism, patriarchy and Orientalism.

Over the last twenty years, the rise of Qur'anic studies has been one of the most remarkable developments within the wider framework of Islamic scholarship.

This book reveals the secret US agenda behind the 'war on terror' in Africa and the shocking methods used to perpetuate the myth that the region is a hotbed of Islamic terrorism.

Though known to specialists, Comte de Gobineau's vital if idiosyncratic contribution to Orientalism has only been accessible to the English reader through secondary sources.

A history of the Western Islamic lands from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries.

Was sagt die Bibel?

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles, for agreeing to enter the Crown's service.

True to its ideology and philosophy, Islam as a Faith and religion stands for total submission to Almighty, who is the creator of universe and supreme authority for all the worlds.

This in-depth examination of the life, history, and influence of Muhammad as discussed by leading scholars provides a wide-ranging look at the prophet's legacy unlike any other in the field of Islamic and culture studies.

Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Conflict in Pakistan demonstrates how international law can be applied in Muslim states in a way that is compatible with Islamic law.

Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qadiriyya Budshishiyya, today, this book evidences a wide array of religious identities, from those more typical of Berber culture, to those characterised by a 'sober' approach to Sufism, as well as those that denote New Age eclecticism.

It has been argued that Islam liberated Muslim women by granting them full rights as citizens.

This is a new and engaging examination of the emergence of a Muslim women's movement in India.

Spanning a thousand years of history - and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania - Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is one of the greatest threats to world peace today.

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "e;the doyen of Middle Eastern studies,"e; Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe.

German-Turkish relations, which have a long history and generally unrecognized depth, have rarely been examined as mutually formative processes.

This book engages with the work of Miskawayh, a formative Islamic Philosopher in the 11th century, who is acknowledged as the founder of Islamic Moral Philosophy.

Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished?

Islam, as a philosophy, a way of life and of course as a faith, has served like a lighthouse for the whole world.

The first comparative work to explore how humankind seek out the meaning of life amid suffering and struggle.

Raising awareness of what Islam is, as well as deepening understanding about the lived realities of Muslim people, this book explores the contemporary Muslim experience through first-hand interviews with over a hundred Muslims.

This Variorum volume is a collection of articles dealing with Egypt under the Fatimids, originally published in diverse journals and books between 1984 and 2013.