Mary The Blessed Virgin Of Islam
The reasons for the importance of Mary as a spiritual figure in Islam are detailed in this volume, providing traditional scholarly discussions about Mary's life and her characteristics of devotion and...
Islamic And Middle Eastern Travellers And Geographers: Critical Concepts In Islamic Thought
This collection examines Islamic and Arab geographers who studied the regions and routes of the Islamic empires as well as the great Islamic Arab travellers of the day. The writings of two travellers ...
Muhammad Ali, The People's Champ
ognized by Sports Illustrated as still the best known athlete in the world, Muhammad Ali has played a fascinating role in American culture, with an influence that has reached far beyond sports. As the...
Conversion To Islam In The Balkans: Kisve Bahas? Petitions And Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730
This volume offers a new approach to the subject of conversion to Islam in the Balkans. It reconstructs the stages of the Islamization process from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries and examin...
Al-Ghaz?l?'s Unspeakable Doctrine Of The Soul: Unveiling The Esoteric Psychology And Eschatology Of The I?y
This text marks a radical rethinking of the soul and the afterlife in the writings of al-Ghaz?l? (d. 505/1111), particularly within his magnum opus, "Reviving Religious Knowledge (Ihy?'ul?m al-d?n). A...
Excellence And Precedence Excellence And Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse On Legitimate Leadership Medieval Islamic Discourse On Legitimate Lead
This volume focuses on how legitimate leadership came to be defined in the formative period of Islam in terms of two key Qur'anic concepts: moral excellence ("fa?l/fa??la) and precedence ("s?biqa). Th...
A Muslim Theologian In The Sectarian Milieu: ?Abd Al-Jabb?r And The Critique Of Christian Origins
In 385 AH/AD 995 the Q??? 'Abd al-Jabb?r, well known for his Mu'tazil? theological writings, wrote the "Confirmation of the Proofs of Prophecy, a work that includes a creative polemic against Christia...
Islam And Ideology In The Emerging Indonesian State: The Persatuan Islam (Persis), 1923 To 1957
The Persatuan Islam (Islamic-Union) was a small group of Indonesian Muslim activists during the period from 1923-1957. Their efforts involved them in the great disputes of the time, namely the shape o...
The Feats Of The Knowers Of God: Man?qeb Al-'?Ref?n
This is a 14th-century biography of the famous Persian mystic poet and 'Knower of God', Jall al-Dn-e Rm, in the form of a large compendium of Su fi-style teaching stories. It was commissioned by a gra...
Islamic Ecumenism In The 20th Century: The Azhar And Shiism Between Rapprochement And Restraint
The present volume describes the various phases of the inner-Islamic ecumenical dialogue in the 20th century between Sunnis and Shiites, the short-lived periods of success it achieved, but also the fi...
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