Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
Early Orientalism
Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under particularly...
by Omar L Rashed
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
History repeats. Looking at ours, that's a tragedy. But it doesn't have to. It doesn't have to if we, as individuals, don't let it. A Unique Elegy is about a man who stopped history in its tracks. Across the sands of time, the prince stood up to the tyrant of his time. He paid, and got the greatest return...
by H.A.R. Gibb
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Originally published in 1962, this book presents important studies on the history, literature and religion of the Islamic peoples as well as an appraisal of contemporary intellectual currents in the Middle East.
Part I interprets the basic political and cultural development in medieval Islam,...
by John Witcombe
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
An ancient Bible prophecy reveals the agenda of today’s determined Islam.
Islam—the world’s second-largest religion—has big plans. Its goal? Nothing less than to bring the nations of this world under the influence of Islam and the rule of its sharia law.
Beginning in A.D....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Islam has become a potent political force around the world since it reemerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a religio-political alternative to failed nationalist ideologies. In countries throughout the world, individuals and movements have attempted to reconstruct the political, economic, and social...
The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt
Democracy Redefined or Confined?
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest and most influential Islamist movements. As the party ascends to power in Egypt, it is poised to adopt a new system of governance and state–society relations, the effects of which are likely to extend well beyond Egypt’s national borders. This book examines...
by Shireen T. Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This compelling volume introduces the current generation of moderate reformist thinkers and activists within Islam, the intellectual traditions they carry on, and the reasons why reformist movements have been overshadowed by fundamentalist, revolutionary, and jihadist movements in the Islamic world today.
Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam
Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim...
Lebanon
A History, 600 - 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from...
No God but God
Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Shrouded in mystery, the Islamic presence in the Middle East evokes longstanding Western fears of terrorism and holy war. Our media have consistently focused on these extremes of Islam, overlooking a quiet yet pervasive religious movement that is now transforming the nation of Egypt. Drawing on hundreds...
The Road to Martyrs' Square
A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Don't expect to find here the usual clichés about suicide bombers and what drives them. In this unique study, Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg render the story of two intertwining, often clashing journeys. The authors lived for six months with a Palestinian refugee family in Gaza at the beginning...
The Muslim Brotherhood
Hasan al-Hudaybi and ideology
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most influential Islamist organisations today. Based in Egypt, its network includes branches in many countries of the Near and Middle East. Although the organisation has been linked to political violence in the past, it now proposes a politically moderate ideology.
The...
Reading the Qur'an
The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"I grew up reading the Qur'an on my mother's lap," writes Ziauddin Sardar. "It's an experience I share with most Muslim children. And so it is that our connection to the Qur'an is infused with associations of the warmest and most enduring of human bonds." In Reading the Qur'an, Sardar--one of Europe's...
Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers
The Concept of Evil in Early Iran
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Early Iranians believed evil had to have a source outside of God, which led to the concept of an entity as powerful and utterly evil as God is potent and good. These two forces, good and evil, which have always vied for superiority, needed helpers in this struggle. According to the Zoroastrians, every...