Middle East Religions category: 3324 books

This pioneering modern classic examines the Islamic principles of kindness and compassion toward animals. It compares animal sacrifice as practiced by the world's major religions and highlights the ethical issues that the mass production of meat raises, advocating alternative ways to produce halal...

We are living in an era in which the world is in need of peace, friendship, and solidarity more than ever. The conflicts and tensions which left their mark on the 20th century, are continuing on full speed in this century as well. Innocent people all around the world are suffering because of these...

تاثیر زردشت بر افکار و دین های جهان در این اثر نویسنده ضمن بررسی ادین ایران باستان و به ویژه دین زردشتی به تاثیر زردشت بر افکار و دین های جهان پرداخته است . سهم ایران...

When asked which religion was most loved by God, the Prophet of Islam refrained from naming a specific religion, and instead referred to a quality which should infuse the faith of all believers: 'The primordial, generously tolerant faith'. Through compelling historical illustration and careful theological...

Christian-Muslim dialogue, going on in America for many decades, has become more intentional and serious since the events of September 11, 2001. This volume looks at the history of encounter between the two religions, the types of dialogue that are taking place both locally and nationally, and the...

This book explores Christian origins by examining a key New Testament epistle, Paul’s letter to the Galatian churches, seen by Christians as the charter of Christian liberty from the inherited Jewish law. The New Testament in Muslim Eyes provides a close textual commentary on perhaps the...

Ismailism, one of the three major branches of Shiism, is best known for taʾwῑl, an esoteric, allegorizing scriptural exegesis. Beyond the Qurʾān: Early Ismaili taʾwῑl and the Secrets of the Prophets is the first book-length study of this interpretive genre. Analyzing sources composed by tenth-century...

Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize "us" and "them" through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious...

The fruit of a thesis for a doctoral degree in comparative religions and mysticism, A Journey To Self-Peace is Dr. Abdelfattah Mohsen Badawi's gift to the spiritual seekers of contemporary society. Bringing together faith that walks different roads and signifying that all roads lead to the same...

The title of the book ''Islam Discourages Polygamy and Divorce-A Reality, Not a Myth'' is self-explanatory. It is generally believed that Muslims are a polygamous community and Islam grants unfettered liberty for practicing polygamy. Fact of the matter is that prior to the manifestation of Islam,...

The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously...

Translations of letters from Imam-i Rabbani's Maktubat and Sayyid Abdulhakim Arwasi's books. Subjects include kinds of hadiths, justice, qada, qadar, madhhabs, bid'ats, fiqh, shafa'at, corrupt religions, Islam&Science and various aspects of sufism.The Turkish original of...

Un enseignant apporte des réponses aux questions que tout le monde se poseIl était temps que l’on cède la place et que l’on donne la parole aux jeunes. Dans tout ce qui se lit aujourd’hui dans les médias, dans les analyses des experts de tous bords, il était temps de remonter le courant et...

Qu’est-ce que le soufisme ? « C’est que Dieu te fasse mourir à toi-même afin de te ressusciter en Lui », répondait l’un de ses maîtres, Junayd… Les soufis, mystiques de l’islam, regroupés autour de cheikhs au sein de multiples confréries, cherchent l’union avec Dieu. Souvent poètes...