Narratives of Jihadi-Salafi operations are often filled with praise for what are considered exemplary acts of self-renunciation in the vein of early Islamic tradition. While many studies sift through the biographies of these so-called martyrs for evidence of social, psychological, political, or economic strain in an effort to rationalize what are often labeled "suicide bombings," Nathan French argues that, through their legal arguments, Jihadi-Salafis craft a theodicy that is meant to address th...
-- With a foreword from Jan Jaap de Ruiter. Translation and Afterword by Adi S. Bharat. -- In Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam: A Study of Scripture Confronting the Politics of Gender and Sexuality, Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed systematically analyses the entirety of Islamic scriptural sources that relate to the question of gender and sexuality in relation to their historical contexts. Through an approach that is certainly more politically engaged than that of most Islamic thinkers of our time,...
Jewish-Christianity and the Origins of Islam (Judaisme Ancien Et Origines Du Christianisme, #13)
Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 (Material Texts)
by Thomas Burman
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Most of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West has been based on polemical treatises against Islam written by Christian scholars preoccupied with defending their own faith and attacking the doctrines of others. Christian readings of the Qur'an have in consequence typically been depicted as tedious and one-dimensional exercises in anti-Islamic hostility. In Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christend...
English Translation of the Qur'an, The Meaning of the Quran, The Message of the Quran, The Secrets of The Koran
by Saheeh Abdel, Multiple Authors, and Yusuf Ali
The History of the Quranic Text, from Revelation to Compilation
by Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami
Abu Hanifa's High Rank in Hadith
by Muhammed Abd Al-Rasheed Al-No'maani
