Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
by Roberto Tottoli, Babak Rahimi
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
A theoretically rich, nuanced history of Islam and Islamic civilization with a unique sociological component
This major new reference work offers a complete historical and theoretically informed view of Islam as both a religion and a sociocultural force. Uniquely comprehensive, it surveys and...
by Shahab Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A controversial episode in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Muslims now universally deny that the Satanic verses incident took place. But Muslims did not always hold this view. Shahab Ahmed uses this case to explore how religions establish truth.
Women, Islam and Modernity
Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original fieldwork...
No god but God (Updated Edition)
The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
**A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer
FINALIST FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD**
In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins and evolution of the...
The Islamic State
Terror in the Name of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Islamic State in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the history of the Islamic State. The brutal terror attacks in Paris in 2015 sent shockwaves across Europe. The group...
1453
The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, sultan...
The Siege of Mecca
The 1979 Uprising at Islam's Holiest Shrine
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
In The Siege of Mecca, acclaimed journalist Yaroslav Trofimov pulls back the curtain on a thrilling, pivotal, and overlooked episode of modern history, examining its repercussions on the Middle East and the world.
On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian...
by Sheldon Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Militant Islamic believers represents a small, but significant percentage of those who embrace the Muslim religion, it is powerful, well financed, and according to their own statements, hopeful of destroying the United States who they see as the Great Satan, the usurper of Muslim lands, the pilferer...
The Way of the Strangers
Encounters with the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
What does ISIS really want? This is the definitive account of the strategy, psychology, and fundamentalism driving the Islamic State.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS •“Worthy of Joseph Conrad . . . gripping, sobering and revelatory.”—Tom Holland, New Statesman
The...
Hunting Bin Laden
How Al-Qaeda is Winning the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
An in-depth look at why America is losing the War on Terror and what we should do if we really want to defeat Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. "I first met al-Qaeda before there was an al-Qaeda, way back in the winter of 1984. It was an encounter that came within a split second of costing me my life."...
The Secret History of Iran
How Iran is the Key to both the Survival and the Destruction of the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Iran is an ancient place of extreme contrasts. It is both blessed and cursed. It is home to both Islam and anti-islam. This book attempts to trace out the Secret History of Iran, from 500 B.C. to present.
This book covers the largely unknown secret groups and cabals that continue to dominate...
Black Banners of ISIS
The Roots of the New Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A medieval Islam historian’s incisive portrait of ISIS, revealing the group’s deep ideological and intellectual roots in the earliest days of Islam With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to...
by Samuel Zwemer
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Samuel Zwemer (1867-1852) was an American missionary to the Middle East and an avid writer, speaker and teacher. He was known as the “Apostle to Islam” for his untiring efforts to reach them with the Good News of Jesus Christ.
ZIGZAG JOURNEYS was originally written in 1911...
by Tariq Ramadan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear....