Category: Islam

Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali offers her personal account, discussing the many and varied questions she fielded from curious friends and schoolmates while growing up in Southern California--from diet, to dress, to prayer and holidays and everything in between. She also provides an academically reliable introduction to Islam, addressing its inception, development and current demographics. Through this engaging work, readers will gain a better understanding of the everyday aspects of Muslim American life, to dispel many of the misconceptions that still remain and open a dialogue for tolerance and a...
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Discourses of Rumi (Curzon Paperbacks)

By: Arberry, A.J

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Routledge : January 1995

Seller ID: 185696

ISBN-13: 9780700702749

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Reprint of the 1961 classic study of the discourses of the founder of the order of Whirling Dervishes.
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Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs

By: Caner, Ergun, Fethi, Emir Caner

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Kregel Publications : April 2009

Seller ID: 11628

ISBN-13: 9780825424281

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An updated and expanded edition of the bestselling and award-winning book

Raised as Sunni Muslims, brothers Ergun and Emir Caner converted from Islam to Christianity as teenagers. Now respected evangelical scholars and theologians, the Caner brothers are able to present an inside view of the Muslim life from a Christian perspective. In this updated edition of their bestselling book, the authors provide a sympathetic and realistic analysis of Islam's practices, ethics, and beliefs, and outline the principle differences between Islam and Christianity.
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Islam and the Muslim Community (Religious Traditions of the World)

By: Denny, Frederick M.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper San Francisco : March 1988

Seller ID: 137799

ISBN-13: 9780060618759

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Islam Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By: DK,

Price: $27.99

Publisher: DK : August 2020

Seller ID: 185866

ISBN-13: 9781465491480

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This comprehensive, accessible, and authenticated guide to Islam is essential to understanding the world's fastest-growing religion. This essential guide to Islam covers every aspect of the Muslim faith and its history - from the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the teachings of the Koran to Islam in the 21st century. Celebrating the scientific, literary, and artistic achievements of the Islamic Golden Age and the ideas of philosophers and theologians across the centuries, it opens a window on the Islamic world. Clear factual writing offers insight into terms like Sharia law, the Caliphate, an...
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Recognizing Islam (Religion and Society in the Modern Arab World)

By: Gilsenan, Michael

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Pantheon : January 1983

Seller ID: 137796

ISBN-13: 9780394713328

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Shi'ism (New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)

By: Halm, Heinz

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press : September 2004

Seller ID: 192662

ISBN-13: 9780231135870

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Heinz Halm's work presents a thorough and accessible discussion of the history, theology, and current state of this branch of Islam. Newly revised, Shi'ism includes updated information on the fate of the Shi'ite revolution in Iran as well as a new chapter on Iraq. Observing a tradition more than 1000 years old, Shi'ites represent 10 percent of the Muslim population, or 100 million people. Halm explores how Shi'ism differs from the rest of Islam, discussing the prominence of its authorities, the Imams, as well as its legal system, practices of worship, places of pilgrimages, and a religious eth...
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Revival and Reform in Islam: The Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkani (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

By: Haykel, Bernard

Price: $22.79

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : June 2003

Seller ID: 161348

ISBN-13: 9780521528900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This intellectual biography of Muhammad al-Shawkani, one of the founding fathers of modern Islamic reformism, is also a study of an important transitional period in Yemeni history which saw the shift from traditional Shi'ism to Sunni reformism. The transition propelled political, religious and social change. While Shawkani espoused a socio-religious order which echoed aspects of Western thinking, the book demonstrates that it was indigenous to Islamic thought. Shawkani's ideas remain vital to the intellectual debates happening in Islam today.
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Black gold & holy war: The religious secret behind the petrodollar

By: Ibraham, Ishak

Price: $2.50

Publisher: T. Nelson : January 1983

Seller ID: 3739

ISBN-13: 9780840758606

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - Good

Islamic Law: From Historical Foundations to Contemporary Practice

By: Izzi Dien, Mawil

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press : June 2005

Seller ID: 192661

ISBN-13: 9780268031749

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This survey of Islamic law combines Western and Islamic views and describes the relationship between the original theories of Islamic law and the views of contemporary Islamic writers. Covering the key topics in the area--including the history, sources and formation of Islamic law, the legal mechanisms, and the contemporary context--it is strong in its coverage of the modern perspective, which distinguishes this book from other texts in the field. The aim is to provide the student with a basic understanding of Islamic law and access to the complexity of the Islamic legal system. The language u...
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Abul Fazl and Akbar,

By: Jinara??jada??sa, Curuppumullage??

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Theosophical Pub. House : January 1934

Seller ID: 65094

ISBN: B0008A8YLY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Commentary on the Forty Hadith of Al-Nawawi (3-Volume Set)

By: M., Jamaal Al-Din Zarabozo

Price: $199.99

Publisher: Al-Basheer Company for Publications & Transla : May 1999

Seller ID: 12423

ISBN-13: 9781891540042

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Qur'an: What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: McAuliffe, Jane

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : March 2020

Seller ID: 170554

ISBN-13: 9780190867676

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Millions of non-Muslims know the name of the Muslim scripture, whether it is written as "Qur'an" or "Quran" or "Koran." But for most, that is all they know. Many have fallen victim to the mass of misinformation that circulates about the Qur'an. Others may have tried to read the Qur'an, but thetext itself is tough to decipher. With no sense of context, chronology, or interpretive history, many would-be readers of the Qur'an quickly give up the effort. As for those trying to find out what the Qur'an says about any particular subject or issue, they, too, soon discover that this is not asimple or ...
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