139 books (7 pages) in this category
Muslims in Britain since 1800
by Humayun Ansari
<p>Muslims constitute Britain's second largest religious grouping, and writing about their experiences has found a new audience in recent years-though not always through a positive lens. But a proper historical treatment of their arrival, ...
ISBN: 9780190935023
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eBook"We Love Death As You Love Life"
Britain's Suburban Terrorists
by Raffaello Pantucci
<p>As Mohammed Siddique Khan led his group of fellow-believers into London on the morning of July 7, 2005 it is unlikely that they were thinking much beyond the immediate impact of their actions. Driven by anger at the West's treatment of ...
ISBN: 9781849046008
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eBookWhy Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America
by Anouar Majid
<DIV><P>A Call for Heresy</I> discovers unexpected common ground in one of the most inflammatory issues of the twenty-first century: the deepening conflict between the Islamic world and the United States. Moving beyond simplistic answers, Anouar
ISBN: 9780816673940
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eBookGulen's Philosophy for a Global Revival of Civilization
by Sulayman Ashrati
<p>Ashrati's book is a study of intellectual framework laid out by Fethullah Gulen in his call for the revival of humanity's changing power. Gulen, a prominent scholar of Islam and a social activist, is the inspiration behind the global network ...
ISBN: 9781682065082
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eBookA Genealogy of Islamic Feminism
Pattern and Change in Indonesia
by Etin Anwar
<p><em>A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism</em> offers a new insight on the changing relationship between Islam and feminism from the colonial era in the 1900s to the early 1990s in Indonesia.</p> <p>The book juxtaposes both colonial and ...
ISBN: 9781351757041
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eBookSaid Nursi on the Theodicy
by Tubanur Yesilhark Ozkan
<p>While Christian approaches to the problem of evil have been much discussed, the issue of theodicy in Islam is relatively neglected. A Muslim Response to Evil explores new insights and viewpoints and discusses possible solutions to theodicy ...
ISBN: 9781317187530
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eBookFethullah Gulen in Dialogue with Christians
by John D. Barton
<p>This volume puts Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet movement in dialogue with Christian theologians, philosophers and organizations concerning areas of shared interest. The Christian voices represented in these constructed dialogues are diverse: ...
ISBN: 9781682065228
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eBookNarrative of a Naturalist Imam's Message
by Khalid A. Wasi
One of the markers of globalization is that most Western societies have become diverse, and pluralism is the new challenge. With Islam and Muslims receiving so much media coverage, it begs the question of nativity and the evolution of Islam, as ...
ISBN: 9781681811765
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eBookA Commentary on Islamic Legal Principles
by Shahrul Hussain
<p>This beautiful collection discusses the legal and moral implications of some fundamental Islamic principles. With an emphasis upon concision and concentration of meaning each aphorism, and its accompanying commentary, is full of value and ...
ISBN: 9781847741080
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eBookBuilding Canadian Muslim Communities
by Earle H. Waugh
<p>Front Flap: Forty years ago, as a young scholar in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta, Al Rashid’s Muslims welcomed my queries, tolerated my ignorance, and joyfully opened their homes and their hearts. —Earle H. Waugh Back Flap: ...
ISBN: 9781772124804
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eBookThe History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group
by Stig Jarle Hansen
<p>Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri
ISBN: 9780199365302
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eBookLife, Thought, and Writings
by Ian S. Markham & Suendam Birinci Pirim
<p>Contemporary Islamic thinkers are often studied sociologically rather than as theologians. There are many accessible introductions to Christian theologians, but very few such studies of Islamic thinkers. This book, and this series, seeks to ...
ISBN: 9781317181590
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eBookThe Muslim Brotherhood in Syria
by Raphael Lefevre
<p>When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates." But who are these
ISBN: 9780199365333
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eBookby Shahab Ahmed
<p>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 ...
ISBN: 9780674977310
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eBookA Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam
by Sylvia Chan-Malik
<p><strong>An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color</strong></p> <p>For Sylvia Chan-Malik, Muslim womanhood is constructed through everyday and embodied acts ...
ISBN: 9781479804290
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eBookby Ousmane Oumar Kane
<p>Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to
ISBN: 9780674969353
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eBookMajor Concepts for Understanding Transactions under Islamic law
by Joe Bradford
<p>A short text on the major concepts needed to understand transactions and contracts under Islamic law. This text acts as a foundation and stepping stone for students of Islamic law to begin their studies in this important and sometimes ...
ISBN: 9780996519236
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eBookBooks on Asia from the Near East to the Far East
by Eleazar Birnbaum
<p>This is a selected, annotated list of some 2,000 books on Asia in English and French currently in print, chosen with the aim of providing a long-term historical perspective for the general reader. The list is presented in four main parts: ...
ISBN: 9781442633674
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eBookThe Spiritual Journey of a Modern Muslim Woman
by Daisy Khan
<p><strong>The dramatic, spiritual memoir of a prominent Muslim woman working to empower women and girls across the world—for readers of Malala Yousafzai and Azar Nafisi.</strong></p> <p>Raised in a progressive Muslim family in the shadows of ...
ISBN: 9780812995275
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eBookBodies Between State, Territory, and Identity
by Riva Kastoryano
<p>What should states do with the bodies of suicide bombers and other jihadists who die while perpetrating terrorist attacks? This original and unsettling book explores the host of ethical and political questions raised by this dilemma, from ...
ISBN: 9780190934866
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