Forget about global warming, population growth, alien invasion and asteroid strikes. Islamic prophetic traditions can predict the fate of 21st century civilisation. A History of Time: Volume One, based on Islamic Eschatology, displays a kaleidoscope of the world, offering an understanding of what is taking place around us. It unveils the meaning of the classic Islamic terms of Yajuj wa Majuj and Dajjal under the light of a comparative narrative of world history. It allows us to see where we stan...
Everything related to Islam and Muslims is covered by Islamic Studies. This research oriented book deals with the subject of Islamic Studies. It presents a simple introduction to Islam, the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad and the Spirituality etc. It includes the key aspects of the Quran. It gives an outline of Islamic ideology in a systematic way. It is a beautiful combination of reason and revelation. In this book the author focuses on continuing relevance of the Quran in the modern life. It has b...
The Distant Shrine (AMS Studies in Modern Society S., #22)
by Francis E. Peters
This work offers a serious unfolding of what Jerusalem, the holiest of holy cities, has meant to Muslims from their first settlement there, down to the beginning of modern times.
This book tells a surprising story. Many think of Christianity as a Western faith, which grew out of its origins in the Middle East towards Rome and into Europe, paving the way for the Enlightenment, science and modernity. However, Philip Jenkins reveals, the largest and most influential churches of Christianity's youth lay to the east of Rome, covered the world from China to North Africa, encountered a full spectrum of acceptance to persecution under Islamic rule and only expired after a thousa...
Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihaad)' (Al-Bukhari Authentic Hadiths, #52)
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History19 (CMR 19), covering Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 1800-1914, is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and a...
A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, #46)
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology (Oxford Handbooks)
Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been achieved over the past decades with respect both to discoveries of new materials and to scholarly approaches to the field. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field. It provides a variegated picture of the state of the art and at the same time suggests new directions for future res...
