Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
by Ronald L. Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies analyses the role of religion in past and present understandings of Asia. Religion, and the history of its study in the modern academy, has exercised massive influence over Asian Studies fields in the past century. Asian Studies has in turn affected, and is...
Understanding Jesus and Muhammad
What the ancient texts say about them
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Jesus and Muhammad are arguably the two most influential individuals who have ever lived. Over half of the world today claims to follow them and the religions they founded: Christianity and Islam.
But who were these two men? Where did they come from? What did they do and teach? And what was their...
Of Promises and Previews
Urgent Old Messages for a New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2001
This unprecedented book unites the essential messages delivered by the Prophets of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Their combined teachings reveal a single, harmonious story that has been smothered by the doctrines severely dividing the individual organized religions. In this era when hatreds can...
by Oliver Leaman
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today. Oliver Leaman explores some of the controversies and debates that exist within Islam and between Islam and other religions. He considers how the religion can...
Islam in Indonesia
The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest...
Christianity or Islam
The Contrast
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
If you want to know what is in Sharia Law, this book quotes it. Sharia Law comes from the Quran.
“Christianity or Islam: The Contrast” was written to help Christians understand Islam, and Muslims understand Christianity. It is not ABOUT the two religions but quotes DIRECTLY from the...
Shared Identities
Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Received opinion imagines Judaism and Islam as two distinct religions interacting in the centuries following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes the relations between the two groups using such tropes as "symbiosis." In this revisionist work, Aaron W. Hughes instead...
by Michael Muhammad Knight
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The progenitor of "Muslim punk rock" and one of today's freshest spiritual voices pushes back against the common assumption that the historic faiths have no occult or magical tradition in this richly learned historical and personal journey through the practice of magic in Islam.
Magic in Islam...
Reclaiming Jihad
A Qur'anic Critique of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
"This book is a scholarly and necessary critique of why the crime of terrorism is inconsistent with the ethical outlook of the Qur'an. Anyone who wants to understand the Qur'an and its relationship to violence must read this book."—Khaled Abou El Fadl, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor...
Muslims in Singapore
Piety, politics and policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian. Singapore...
The Qur'an
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
A RUSA 2007 Outstanding Reference Title
The Qur'an is the source of inspiration for one of the world's major religions, followed today by over a billion people. It plays a central role in Islam and ever since it appeared fourteen hundred years ago has been the subject of intense debate. Some...
Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam
Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Of the several works on the rise and development of the Babi movement, especially those dealing with the life and work of its founder, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, few deal directly with the compelling and complex web of mysticism, theology and philosophy found in his earliest compositions.
This...