The Crusaders
There is no shortage of stories about the crusades, or of biographies of those who played the leading roles in this, the greatest epic of the Middle Ages. But there has been no book in which we could ...
Untold: A History Of The Wives Of Prophet Muhammad
"Finally, we get to meet the first women of Islam. Thank you for this brave book."--Coleman Barks "Brilliant and illuminating . . . awesome in the depth of its research, the grace of its prose, and ...
Varieties Of Religious Authority: Changes And Challenges In 20th Century Indonesian Islam
Purchase Books Similar To Varieties Of Religious Authority: Changes And Challenges In 20th Century Indonesian Islam Mu?ammad's Birthday... by N. J. G. Kaptein Rs. 5881 Rs. 5352 The Ca...
Lost In The Sacred: Why The Muslim World Stood Still
"A controversial but refreshingly un-Anglo-Saxon search for answers to some outsized questions."--Michael Cook, Princeton University ""Lost in the Sacred" offers a broad synthesis on a key problem o...
Islam And Social Change In French West Africa: History Of An Emancipatory Community
Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics who came largely from socially marginal backgrounds in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship be...
The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling The Myths That Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism
A liberal Muslim and critically acclaimed author explores the historical, political, and theological basis for centuries of Muslim animosity towards Jews, debunking long-held myths and tracing a histo...
Before Homosexuality In The Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
Attitudes toward male homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as inconsistent. On the one hand, Arabic love poetry, biographical works, and bawdy satires suggest that h...
Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique In Comparative Perspective
The disastrous outcome of the Six-Day War led to a major shift in Arab intellectual and popular thought. Movements to liberalize and decolonize several Arab nations had failed, leading to further occu...
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale
The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island w...
Ceramics From Islamic Lands
"This splendid catalog serves as the most current and magnificently illustrated introduction to Islamic ceramics now available. Essential."--"Choice" Islamic pottery--the fine ceramics made in the l...
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