Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
The Crucifixion and the Qur'an
A Study in the History of Muslim Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
According to the majority of modern Muslims and Christians, the Qur’an denies the crucifixion of Jesus, and with it, one of the most sacred beliefs of Christianity. However, it is only mentioned in one verse and contrary to popular belief, its interpretation has been the subject of fierce debate...
Islam's Predicament with Modernity
Religious Reform and Cultural Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Islam's Predicament with Modernity presents an in-depth cultural and political analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved.
Looking at the issue of modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author examines...
Fire and Spice
Parsi Cookery
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The Parsis are descendants of the Zoroastrians who left Persia 1,300 years ago and settled along India's western coast. Their aromatic cuisine, which combines the sophistication of Persian and Middle Eastern cooking with the heat and spice of the subcontinent's, is one of Asia's last great culinary...
A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886
The Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well-established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca...
Sufis and Anti-Sufis
The Defence, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Despite its continuing appeal in the Muslim world, Sufism has faced fierce challenges in the last 250 years. This volume assesses the evolution of anti-Sufism since the middle of the eighteenth century and Sufi strategies for survival. It also considers the efforts of a few significant Muslim intellectuals...
Islam on the Street
Religion in Modern Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and manuals written by Sufi shaykhs and Islamist thinkers from among the more militant groups in Islam, but also in writings by other, more secular thinkers who have also influenced public opinion. A scholar...
A Matter of Fate
The Concept of Fate in the Arab World as Reflected in Modern Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
Dalya Cohen-Mor examines the evolution of the concept of fate in the Arab world through readings of religious texts, poetry, fiction, and folklore. She contends that belief in fate has retained its vitality and continues to play a pivotal role in the Arabs' outlook on life and their social psychology....
Schools of Qur'anic Exegesis
Genesis and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Qur’anic exegesis has become the battleground of political Islam and theological conflict among various Muslim schools of thought. Using comparative and contrastive methodology, examples from the Qur'an are investigated in the light of various theological views to delineate the birth, development...
by Lloyd Ridgeon
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī (d. 1238) was one of the greatest and most colourful Persian Sufis of the medieval period; he was celebrated in his own lifetime by a large number of like-minded followers and other Sufi masters. And yet his form of Sufism was the subject of much discussion within the Islamic...
by A. J. Arberry
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1963, this work puts into clear and rhythmical English one hundred stories and apologues of the Masnavi of Rumi.
Composed over a period of many years during the thirteenth century, as a manual of instruction and initiation into spiritual life, the Masnavi has long been acclaimed...
Democratic Transition in the Muslim World
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In early 2011, widespread protests ousted dictatorial regimes in both Tunisia and Egypt. Within a few years, Tunisia successfully held parliamentary and presidential elections and witnessed a peaceful transition of power, while the Egyptian military went on to seize power and institute authoritarian...
Faces of Muhammad
Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad
In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators...
by Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Some of those who believe, under the influence of materialist suggestion and propaganda, view the theory of evolution as scientific fact and look for a "middle way", in their own eyes, between it and belief in Allah.
However, the theory of evolution’s ideological framework consists of...
by Muhsin al-Musawi
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
In this fascinating study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi shows how deeply Islamic heritage and culture is embedded in the tales of The Thousand and One Nights (known to many as the Arabian Nights) and how this integration invites readers to make an Islamic milieu. Conservative Islam dismisses The Thousand and...