White Press imprint: 911 books

Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation

A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam's Holy Text

by Raymond Farrin
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014

The Qur'an, Islam's holy book, is widely misunderstood because it is a difficult book to engage. The Qur'an is not written as a straightforward narrative like the Christian Gospels but is composed of discontinuous revelations that are often unclear in placing in an overall context. Structure and Qur’anic...

Sportsman's Legacy

A Rich Memoir of a Man's Life with His Great Sportsman Father, His Beloved Family, and His Adored Brittany.

by William G. Tapply
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2011

First published in 1993, SPORTSMAN'S LEGACY was the a story of a remarkable relationship between father and son. It could have been the tale of any father and son whose lifelong bond was forged in the outdoors, except that the father was H.G. "Tap" Tapply, who for half a century stood tall among the...

Embrace Your Inner Wild

52 Reflections for an Eco-Centric World

by Mary Reynolds Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Embrace Your Inner Wild: 52 Reflections for an Eco-Centric World is a brilliant, full-color book of photographs and reflections that invite you to seek out wildness wherever you find it – within or without. Don Moseman’s spectacular photographs feature the wildlife and terrain of Marin County,...

Borderland Roads

The Selected Poems of Ho Kyun

by Ho Kyun, Ian Haight, T'ae-yong Ho
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

As writer, Kyun was an inheritor of the Chinese Tang style, becoming one of its first and foremost promulgators in Korea. The poems in this book portray issues of social justice, artistic legacy and purpose, and the daily life of a Korean nobleman in the middle years of Korea's Choson Dynasty. A selection...

A Hindu Primer

YAKSHA PRASHNA

by Dr. A. V. Srinivasan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

In this episode from the Indian epic, the Mahabharata, a prince placed in a perilous life-or-death situation must answer a series of riddles. His responses lay out the core Hindu values which will be explored in depth later in the Bhagavad Gita (Song of God).

The Muslim Next Door

The Qur'an, the Media, and That Veil Thing

by Sumbul Ali-Karamali
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

- Bronze Medal Winner of the Independent Publishers Award 2009 - Since 9/11, stories about Muslims and the Islamic world have flooded headlines, politics, and water-cooler conversations all across the country. And, although Americans hear about Islam on a daily basis, there remains no clear...

The Language of Tears

My Journey into the World of Shi'i Muslim Women

by Bridget Blomfield
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2015

The Language of Tears details the engaging five-year experience of a gifted American scholar throughout her journey teaching and participating in a Shi’a Muslim community in Southern California. As a teacher in a Muslim school, she participates in the lives of Iranian, Iraqi, and Pakistani women...

Talking Taboo

American Christian Women Get Frank About Faith

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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013

American Christian Women under 40 are being theologically trained in unprecedented numbers, accessing leadership in their communities through both orthodox and unorthodox avenues, and balancing the roles of professional, wife, mother, girlfriend, and friend. With all of the perceived progress, why...

Father Factor

American Christian Men on Fatherhood and Faith

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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

Father Factor explores the intersection between faith and fatherhood, probing the resonance and dissonance created when men examine fatherhood in all its permutations, and how it is informed by and informs their faith. There are a wide variety of Christian faith perspectives represented in...

Quarreling with God

Mystic Rebel Poems of the Dervishes of Turkey

by Jennifer Ferraro
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010

This collection presents, for the first time in English, a compilation of seven centuries of the mystic hymns of Turkey’s rebellious Sufi poets. At the time Rumi was writing in ancient Anatolia, many other great mystics in the region were also composing wild, ecstatic, and controversial poems that...

I Speak for Myself

American Women on Being Muslim

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Muslim American women are the subject of endless discussions regarding their role in society, their veils as symbols of oppression or of freedom, their identity, their patriotism, their womanhood. Yet the voices and life experiences of Muslim American women themselves are rarely heard in the loud...

Everything Starts from Prayer

Mother Teresa's Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths

by Mother Teresa, M.D. Anthony Stern
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

At the Home for the Dying in Calcutta, Mother Teresa often cared for the residents as they approached the end. As she was ministering to one illness-ravaged man, a visitor overheard her whisper a few words to him. These few words embody some of Mother Teresa’s most wonderful wisdom. This is what...

Did Islam Change? Or Did the Muslims Change?: Book XI - Islam

The Harmony Between Men and Nations and Book XII - La Convivencia, "The Working Together"

by Ghani
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016

Islam: The Harmony Between Men and Nations is the first installment of a projected series titled Did Islam Change? Or Did the Muslims Change? The books were written by Ghani, an American Muslim who has lived with his family in Pakistan for over thirty years to learn about Islam and his cultural roots....
by Ghani
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018

The Meaning of Punishment in Islam and The Meaning of Blasphemy in Islam are the fifth and sixth installments of a projected series titled Did Islam Change? Or Did the Muslims Change? The books were written by Ghani, an American Muslim who has lived with his family in Pakistan for over thirty years...
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