Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
Longing for the Lost Caliphate
A Transregional History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims around...
Islam and America
Building a Future without Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Islam and America argues that the current animosity between the U.S. and Muslim world should be understood through the often-overlooked history between the two. Tracing the genealogy of this conflicted relationship from the Pilgrims to the present, author Anouar Majid weaves personal stories with...
Isma'ili Modern
Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan...
Understanding Islam and Christianity
Beliefs That Separate Us and How to Talk About Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
For years, international apologist Josh McDowell has been alert to the challenge of Islam—and how Muslims’ objections to Christianity can raise deep doubts in believers’ minds. His recent on-the-ground research with Muslims in the Middle East has crystallized into this practical resource focusing...
by Paul E. Lovejoy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihād movement in...
Questioning the Veil
Open Letters to Muslim Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Across much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising piety or a way of asserting Muslim pride? And does the veil really provide women freedom from sexual harassment? Written in the form of letters addressing all those interested...
Abu Hanifah
His Life, Legal Method & Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Abu Hanifah Nu'man ibn Thabit was one of the greatest pioneers in the history of Islamic Law, particularly in legal reasoning. The Hanafi Legal School that he founded has become the most widely followed among the world's Muslims. Based on primary sources, this study of the life and legacy of Abu Hanifah...
The Other Islam
Shi’Ism: from Idol-Breaking to Apocalyptic Mahdism
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
The reputation of Shiism in the Islamic world, as elsewhere, has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this new study, The author moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Prophet Muhammed and his cousin, Ali, together with...
Islam in the Modern World
Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today’s hot button issues—including holy wars, women’s rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East—in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world....
Shi'i Islam
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muhammad's death, two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shi'ism. Sunni Muslims endorsed the historical caliphate, while Shi'i Muslims, supporters of 'Ali, cousin of the Prophet and the fourth caliph, articulated...
Druze, The
Culture, History, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The Druze, a much-misunderstood Muslim sect primarily inhabiting the Levant, have endured centuries of persecution by orthodox elements hostile to Islam's rich sectarian diversity on account of their esoteric divergence from mainstream Islam. As a result, they have become a 'fighting minority', as...
God and Man in Tehran
Contending Visions of the Divine from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In God and Man in Tehran, Hossein Kamaly explores the historical processes that have made and unmade contending visions of God in Iran’s capital throughout the past two hundred years. Kamaly examines how ideas of God have been mobilized, contested, and transformed, emphasizing how notions of the...
The Making of Salafism
Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Some Islamic scholars hold that Salafism is an innovative and rationalist effort at Islamic reform that emerged in the late nineteenth century but gradually disappeared in the mid twentieth. Others argue Salafism is an anti-innovative and antirationalist movement of Islamic purism that dates back...
A Social History of Education in the Muslim World
From the Prophetic Era to Ottoman Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
A Social History of Education in the Muslim World: From the Prophetic Era to Ottoman Times provides a comprehensive view of education and society in the Muslim world throughout the five key historic periods. The book asks intriguing questions such as, how has the Muslim quest for knowledge defined...