Islam (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)
by Professor Tamara Sonn
This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Ahlulbayt Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world. Ahlulbayt Organization is a registered Organisation that operates and is sustained through collaborative efforts of volunteers in many countries around the world, and it welcomes your involvement and support. Its objectives are numerous, yet its main goal is to spread the truth about the Isla...
Al-Ghazali on Conduct in Travel (The Islamic Texts Society's al-Ghazali)
by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
The first textbook to focus on the history of lived Shi'ism in South Asia Everyday Shi'ism in South Asia is an introduction to the everyday life and cultural memory of Shi'i women and men, focusing on the religious worlds of both individuals and communities at particular historical moments and places in the Indian subcontinent. Author Karen Ruffle draws upon an array primary sources, images, and ethnographic data to present topical case studies offering broad snapshots Shi'i life as well as micr...
Political and Legal Status of Apostles in Islam
by Maryam Namazie, Nuala Mahmoud, and Atoosa Khatiri
Il Corano e un libro che riflette l'inesistenza del dio-luna, Allah
by Mike Sierra
Daughters of Eve - Womanhood in Islam
by Fisa Authenticate Ulama's Organization
Irshad Manji's message of moral courage, with stories about contemporary reformers such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and Islam's own Gandhi, inspire and show the way to practicing faith without fear. Irshad addresses all people, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, in this universal message about the importance of independent thought and internal strength, of love, liberty, free speech, and the pursuit of happiness. Allah, Liberty, and Love is about creating choices beyond conforming or leaving...
The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence
by Late Professor of Arabic and Islamics Joseph Schacht
Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'aanic Exegesis
by Massimo Campanini
This book explores the possibility of a hermeneutics of the Qur'an. It starts from the presupposition that the Qur'an can be studied as a philosophical book. Thus the analysis is theoretical more than historical. Many philosophers commented the Qur'an and many supported their theories by resorting to the Qur'an. Thinkers like Fakhr al-Din al-Razi connected traditional theology and philosophy in their Qur'anic commentary. Others like Nasr Abu Zayd used philosophy to deconstruct the Qur'an paving...
The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia
This volume examines the major cultural, religious, political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods. One of the major civilizations of the first millennium was that of the Iranian linguistic and cultural world, which stretched from today's Iraq to what is now the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. No other region of the world underwent such radical transformation, which fundamentally alter...
A Monumental Manifestation of the Shi'ite Faith in Late Twelfth-century Iran (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, #11)
by Raya Shani
This text looks at the medieval monument of the Gunbad-i `Alawiyan in Hamadan, which is a unique and intriguing architectural phenomenon, with an amazing richness of brick and stucco decoration both within and without. The book contains a complete recording of the Gunbad-i `Alawiyan, based on regular visits to the site conducted by Professor Shani during the years 1974-1978. In this book Profesor Shani succeeds in solving many controversial issues by tracing the person who built the monument and...