Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
by Henri Pirenne
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
The final work of the great Belgian historian Henri Pirenne, this remarkable classic — published after his death — offers a revolutionary perspective on how Europe under the influence of a Roman Empire centered in Constantinople evolved into the Europe of Charlemagne and the Middle Ages.Departing...
The New Crusades
Constructing the Muslim Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2003
Not since the Crusades of the Middle Ages has Islam evoked the degree of fear, hostility, and ethnic and religious stereotyping that is evident throughout Western culture today. As conflicts continue to proliferate around the globe, the perception of a colossal, unyielding, and unavoidable struggle...
The Venture of Islam, Volume 2
The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle...
by Edward William Lane
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
When Mr. Lane translated the "Thousand and One Nights," he was not content with producing a mere rendering of the Arabic text: he saw that the manners and ideas there described required a commentary if they were to become intelligible to an unlearned reader. At the end of each chapter of...
Holy Wars (Routledge Revivals)
The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
To some, Islamic Fundamentalism means the restoration of a true religion. To others, it is a politics that stands apart from capitalism and socialism. To many Westerners, it has come to constitute a threat to established order and international security. Holy Wars, first published in 1989, comprises...
A Modern History of the Ismailis
Continuity and Change in a Muslim Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
The Ismailis have enjoyed a long, eventful and complex history dating back to the 8th century CE and originating in the Shi'i tradition of Islam. During the medieval period, Ismailis of different regions - especially in central Asia, south Asia, Iran and Syria - developed and elaborated their own...
Islamism and the West
From "Cultural Attack" to "Missionary Migrant"
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Offering a unique analysis of Islamist ideology, Islamism and the West attempts to explain how- and why-mainstream Islamist leaders have, for the past century, developed and canonized theories which depict theWest as engaged in a sophisticated conspiracy to undermine Muslim identity by cultural means,...
Egypt in the Future Tense
Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense...
Muslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, 1850–1920
Mediations of Knowledge and Power in the Lower and Middle Senegal River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book investigates the lives and careers of Muslim African interpreters employed by the French colonial administration in Saint Louis, Senegal, from the 1850s to the early 1920s. It focuses on the lower and middle Senegal River valley in northern Senegal, where the French concentrated most of...
by Edward William Lane
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
When Mr. Lane translated the "Thousand and One Nights," he was not content with producing a mere rendering of the Arabic text: he saw that the manners and ideas there described required a commentary if they were to become intelligible to an unlearned reader. At the end of each chapter of...
by John Lord
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Beacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902. This collection of John Lord’s lectures spans 6,000 years of European and American history. The first 12 volumes are all Lord’s work; the 13th was completed from his notes and the 14th is follow-ups by other authors.
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by Khaleel Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In this exciting new series, a group of Muslim kids come together to clean up an old Jewish man's house before his wife returns home from a major operation. But with time running out and a bigger mess than they had imagined . . . can they succeed?Khaleel Muhammad is a well-known singer of nasheeds...
by Tarek Hegazy
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This book is a nice mix of logical explanations about faith and professionally made cartoon art. The main statement of the book is that belief should not be blind and that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are versions of one religion.Naturally, many difficult questions come to our minds about...
Christians and Muslims
From History to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
On the Sunday following September 11, 2001, Reverend Kenneth Cragg worshipped as usual in his sanctuary, located directly across the street from a Muslim mosque. In a gracious act of good faith, the Islamic congregation invited the Christian congregation to join them after worship for an introduction...