Middle Eastern category: 410 books

The Great Turks charts the military and other accomplishments by men of Turkish origins during the Crusades (1095-1291), in Medieval India, during the great Ottoman apogee, and finally looks at the role of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Amongst these figures, some are very well known, Othman,...

The hagiographic materials from the world's religions can tell us much about the beliefs and practices of the people, yet the limited degree to which hagiography has been used as an instrument for understanding diverse religious traditions is surprising. Hagiography and Religious Truth provides a...

Niyazi Berkes (1908–1988) was among the most prominent figures in Turkish political thought in the Republican period. He was the author of several masterpieces that broke fresh ground in the fields of Turkish politics and history. Berkes not only witnessed political history, on several occasions...

In Reaching the Minds of Young Muslim Women, the author investigates traditional intuitions of Islamic learning for Muslim girls. While a lot is known or thought to be known about madras's for boys.

Buddhism is the religion of more than 500 million people around the globe. The majority of those people live in Asia but there are substantial Buddhist communities in other continents. There are two main Buddhist traditions, Theravada (The School of the Elders) and Mahayana (The Great Vehicle). Buddhism...

Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity—that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West—by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s...

"... Ce combat d'anéantissement mené contre le sang juif n'est-il pas un outrage à la très sainte humanité de notre Rédempteur, de la Vierge Marie et des Apôtres ? Tout cela n'est-il pas en radicale opposition avec le comportement de notre Seigneur et Sauveur, qui sur la croix, continuait...

This book is an introduction to Islamic Philosophy, beginning with its Medieval inception, right through to its more contemporary incarnations. Using the language and conceptual apparatus of contemporary Anglo-American ‘Analytic’ philosophy, this book represents a novel and creative attempt to...

It is every Muslim's duty to read the Koran and try to understand it, which can be a problematic task for those unacquainted with Arabic. The study and appreciation of Arabic literature likewise demands a thorough familiarity with the Koran; the majority of works by Muslim writers abound in allusions...

The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously...

I turchi sono stati uno dei popoli più importanti della storia del Medio Oriente, dell'Europa meridionale e del bacino del Mediterraneo. Fino al Seicento l'impero ottomano è stato la più grande potenza musulmana sunnita, ma dal XVIII secolo è iniziata una lenta decadenza, di cui, nel corso dei...

Verso Est è il primo libro di Matthias Canapini. Appunti di viaggio, scritti come un diario, di getto, durante le pause del giorno o della notte, seguendo con la penna i pensieri mentre si stanno formando e stanno iniziando a dare una forma più stabile e completa alle frasi ascoltate...

Questo volume raccoglie una serie di discorsi di Inayat Khan, essi abbracciano riflessioni di tipo mistico, filosofico, religioso e vogliono essere una guida per chiunque ricerchi la verità dentro se stesso.  

For almost two centuries, followers of the Baha’i faith, Iran’s largest religious minority, have been persecuted by the state. They have been made scapegoats for the nation’s ills, branded enemies of Islam and denounced as foreign agents. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Baha’is have been...