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Islam Author: Karen Armstrong
ISBN: 9781842125830 In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the world's fastest growing faith more than three-quarters of the world's refugees are Islamic it has produced government by authoritarian monarchies in Saudi Arabia and ultra-republicans in Iran. Whether we are reading about civil war in Algeria or Afghanistan ... |
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Sectarian Milieu Author: John Wansbrough
ISBN: 9781591023784 In this influential work originally published in 1978, the author, one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of Islamic Studies, analysed 'early Islamic historiography - or rather the interpretative myths underlying this historiography - as a late manifestation of Old Testament salvation history'. Continuing the ... |
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God's Unruly Friends Author: Ahmet T. Karamustafa
ISBN: 9781851684601 Wandering dervishes formed a prominent feature of most Muslim communities well into the modern period, surviving in some regions even today. Shocking in appearance, behaviour, and speech, these social misfits were revered by the public, yet denounced by cultural elites. God's Unruly Friends is the first in-depth and co ... |
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The Historical Muhammad Author: Irving M. Zeitlin
ISBN: 9780745639994 In his quest for the historical Muhammad, Zeitlin's chief aim is to catch glimpses of the birth of Islam and the role played by its extraordinary founder. Islam, as its Prophet came to conceive it, was a strict and absolute monotheism. How Muhammad had arrived at this view is not a problem for Muslims, who believe that ... |
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The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam Author: Omid Safi
ISBN: 9780807856574 Scholars, saints, and the state The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia, ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great portion of that time. In a far-reaching analysis that combines so ... |
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Understanding Jihad Author: David Cook
ISBN: 9780520244481 Jihad is one of the most loaded and misunderstood terms in the news today. Contrary to popular understanding, the term does not mean 'holy war'. Nor does it simply refer to the inner spiritual struggle. This book, judiciously balanced, accessibly written, and highly relevant to today's events, unravels the tangled hist ... |
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Al-Hidayah: v. 1 Author: Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
ISBN: 9780954054496 The Hidayah represents the refined, distilled and authentic version of a legal tradition developed over many centuries. It presents the corpus of Hanafi law in its approved and preferred form and forges an organic link with the other schools of law. There is no book that can match the power of al-Hidayah as a teaching ... |
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The Legacy of Jihad Author: Andrew G. Bostom
ISBN: 9781591023074 The Legacy of Jihad provides a comprehensive, meticulously documented corrective to the genre of ahistorical assessments decried by Ellul. This unique, extensive compilation includes Muslim theological and juridical texts, eyewitness historical accounts by both Muslim and non-Muslim chroniclers, and essays by pre-emine ... |
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The Knights of Islam Author: James Waterson
ISBN: 9781853677342 This title analyses the Mamluks-Mongol War and the reasons for the Mamluks' extended victory. It reveals their remarkable contribution to military theory and practice. It sheds light on the deadly conflict between Christendom and Islam. The Mamluks were, at one distinct point in history, the greatest body of fighting m ... |
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The Empire of the Great Mughals Author: Annemarie Schimmel
ISBN: 9781861892515 The Mughal empire (1526-1857) has long been viewed as a wonderland of unimaginable treasure it was in fact the mightiest Islamic empire in the history of India. In this comprehensive cultural history, Annemarie Schimmel describes the political, military and economic rise of the Mughals, their system of rule, the incred ... |
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Terror and Toleration Author: Paula Sutter Fichtner
ISBN: 9781861893406 From the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the armies of the Ottoman empire brought terror, in the name of Islam, to much of the Christian world. Intermittently, but relentlessly, the Sultans' forces raided, then conquered the Danube Valley as far as Budapest and beyond. Their inexorable progress westward eventua ... |
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Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 Author: L.P. Harvey
ISBN: 9780226319643 On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subsequent widespread rebellion provided the Christian government with an e ... |
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Mecca and Eden Author: Brannon Wheeler
ISBN: 9780226888040 Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature, but from their social character. Building upon this insight, this work uses Islamic legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with ... |
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Migrants and Militants Author: Oskar Verkaaik
ISBN: 9780691117096 Being part of a violent community in revolt can be addictive - it can be fun. This book offers a fascinating inside look at present-day political violence in Pakistan through a historical ethnography of the Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), one of the most remarkable and successful religious nationalist movements in postco ... |
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The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque Author: Sidney H. Griffith
ISBN: 9780691130156 Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a 'Christian-Muslim divide' - and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities - a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's C ... |
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Islamic Imperialism Author: Efraim Karsh
ISBN: 9780300122633 From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conv ... |
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Infidels Author: Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN: 9780140257380 This work traces the long history of this troubled relationship. It was a campaign without end, waged with the pen, through the printing press, by the power of the human voice and on subtle and insidious suggestions within paintings, drawings and engravings. We also see how and why a battle is still being waged today, ... |
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A History of Islamic Societies Author: Ira M. Lapidus
ISBN: 9780521779333 In the second edition of this classic work, Ira Lapidus explores the origins and evolution of Muslim societies. The book, now revised and updated, is divided into three parts. The first covers the formative era of Islamic civilization. The second traces the diffusion of worldwide Islamic societies, while the third expl ... |
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What Went Wrong? Author: Bernard Lewis
ISBN: 9780753816752 For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and in the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life ... |
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Islam 101: Principles and Practice Author: Arshad Khan
ISBN: 9780977283835 This primer on Islam addresses the information needs of non-Muslims interested in learning about the fastest-growing religion in the world and also guides young Muslims--especially those living in Western societies--who want to learn the basics of Islam. Reviewing the fundamental principles, beliefs, and practical aspe ... |
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