Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
What the Qur'an Meant
And Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text
Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him...
The Quran: with or Against the Bible?
A Topic-By-Topic Review for the Investigative Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Too often we are tempted into thinking how wrong other peoples religions and scriptures are, rather than focusing on whats right about our own.
We act like some of our politicians during election campaigns rather than following the teachings of our own holy books. Breaking the trend, author...
Martyrdom and Terrorism
Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "bearing witness" to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian tradition, not only...
God's Generals
The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Examines how the military experience of three religious founders shaped their spiritual legacy.
It is one of the more startling facts of military history that the founders of three of the four great religions”-Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam-were also accomplished field generals with extensive...
by Waldemar Guenter
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Wally, a scenery photographer, stumbles upon a dead woman in the woods off the Bruce Trail, near Ball's Falls. The woman is the victim of an honour-killing committed by her own brother, Aamir. He escapes arrest by fleeing to Syria and becoming part of ISIS. Two detectives bring the parents to trial...
Islam
Religion, History, and Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The world's leading Islamicist offers a concise introduction to this rich and diverse tradition of 1.2 billion adherents.
In this informative and clear introduction to the world of Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr explores the following topics in depth:
•What Is Islam?
•The Doctrines...
Being Human in Islam
The Impact of the Evolutionary Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Islamic anthropology is relatively seldom treated as a particular concern even though much of the contemporary debate on the modernisation of Islam, its acceptance of human rights and democracy, makes implicit assumptions about the way Muslims conceive of the human being. This book explores how the...
Universal Dimensions of Islam
Studies in Comparative Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Islam's acceptance of other religions remains an enigma for many Westerners. The 16 essays in this volume, by renowned experts on Islam such as Frithjof Schuon, Rene Guenon, Titus Burckhardt, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, explore the fundamental universality of the world's second largest religion, presenting...
by David W Shenk
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Islam and Christianity seem to be at opposite and unbridgeable poles, both committed to world mission. Given the political tension and violent acts that sometimes surround these two major world religions, it is essential for both sides to understand the otherits history, beliefs, traditions, and vision...
Introducing Islam
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind is too often seen in the West in terms of fundamentalism, bigotry and violence- a perception...
Mecca the Blessed & Medina the Radiant (Bilingual)
The Holiest Cities of Islam (Bilingual Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
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).
This...
by Muhammad Vandestra
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Scientology has been called the world’s most significant new religion, and Scientologists themselves claim to draw on 50,000 years of wisdom. However apostates from Scientology claim it is a vicious, dangerous cult masquerading as a religion. No matter which description we choose, the fact remains...
by Olexandr Ptashkogray
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Jokes
Sufism - a mystical within Islam. However, Sufi Islam is only the outer shell - they accept all religions. Their goal is knowledge of the truth through love and union with God, regardless of religion.
A little story, an anecdote, a parable - a favorite genre of Sufi monks - dervishes. Their...
Taking Back Islam
American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
“The thinking person's guide to Islam in a post-9/11 America” —Publisher’s Weekly
Islam, the least understood of the world's great religions, is balanced on a precipice between the past and the future, between fanatical fundamentalists and progressives advocating peace. Noted Islamic...