Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
by Kristina Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
For the Muslim faithful, the familiar sound of the Qur anic recitation is the predominant and most immediate means of contact with the Word of God. Heard day and night, on the street, in taxis, in shops, in mosques, and in homes, the sound of recitation is far more than the pervasive background music...
by ?Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn ?Ali al-Sha?rani
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern Egypt This guide to political behavior and expediency offers advice to Sufi shaykhs, or spiritual guides, on how to interact and negotiate with powerful secular officials, judges, and treasurers,...
Islam without Europe
Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal's pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being moribund,...
The Sword of Ambition
Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan’s court
The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry among elites in medieval Egypt. Written by the unemployed bureaucrat 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi, it contains a wealth of little-known historical anecdotes, unusual...
Hegel in the Arab World
Modernity, Colonialism, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Hegel's philosophy has been of fundamental importance for the development of contemporary thought and for the very representation of Western modernity. This book investigates Hegel’s influence in the Arab world, generally considered "other" and far from the West, focusing specifically...
Women in Sufism
Female Religiosities in a Transnational Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qādiriyya Būdshīshiyya, today, this book evidences a wide array of religious identities, from those more typical of Berber culture, to those characterised by a ‘sober’...
نگاهی نو به روزگار صفویه
A new look to the Safavid era
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
نگاهی نو به روزگار صفویه
در این کتاب نویسنده روزگار صفوی را از دیدگاه علمی بررسی کرده است . صفویان به عنوان سردمداران تفکر شیعی در ایران مطرح بودند اما شیخ صفی الدین...
"Off the Straight Path"
Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
The legal treatment of sexual behavior is a subject that receives little scholarly attention in the field of Middle East women’s studies. Important questions about the relationship between sexuality and the law and about the societies enforcing that relationship are rarely addressed in the current...
by Muddassir Khan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Unique book highlighting the attitude of Muslims towards paper and printing press, and how this attitudinal shift lead to their downfall. The lessons we can learn today from history. Only by seeing and learning from the forward looking attitude of the early Muslims based on the Quran And authentic...
by Maulana Muhammad Ali
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Historique minutieusement
Warum es kein islamisches Mittelalter gab
Das Erbe der Antike und der Orient
Language: German
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Der Islam ist im Mittelalter steckengeblieben, hat Renaissance, Reformation und Aufklärung verpasst. So lautet die gängige Diagnose. Was aber, wenn es gar kein islamisches Mittelalter gab? Thomas Bauer zeigt an zahlreichen Beispielen, wie in der islamischen Welt bis zum 11. Jahrhundert die Antike...
Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh
Al-Damanhuri’s "Clear Statement" on Anatomy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
In 1768, Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī became the rector (shaykh) of al-Azhar, which was one of the most authoritative and respected positions in the Ottoman Empire. He occupied this position until his death. Despite being a prolific author, whose writings are largely extant, al-Damanhūrī remains almost...
La Mecca rivelata
Avventure di esploratori europei nelle città sacre dell'Islam
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Il viaggio alla Mecca attraverso gli occhi di viaggiatori europei che hanno compiuto in incognito il pellegrinaggio, dal XVI secolo in poi. Narrazioni avventurose e descrizioni di straordinario valore documentario, 11 testimonianze mai raccolte e tradotte, in grado di fornire un quadro vario ed esaustivo...
Le croissant et le compas
Islam et franc-maçonnerie, de la fascination à la détestation.
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Les premières loges maçonniques en Orient musulman virent le jour à l'initiative de diplomates, de commerçants et de résidents étrangers. Du Maroc à l'Indonésie, elles furent nombreuses et prospères tant que le pouvoir en place - faible ou aux mains d'Européens - les tolérait ou les soutenait....