ISBN13: 9781439157312 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description“This woman is a major hero of our time.” —Richard Dawkins Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of…
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Product Description Fazlur Rahman’s Islam is aptly titled, in that this slim volume constitutes an incisive and surprisingly comprehensive history and analysis of Islam—its history, its conflicts, its legacy—and its prospects. From Mohammed to the late twentieth century, Rahman traces the development of Islam as a religion and, more importantly, as an intellectual tradition, offering…
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam
Product Description The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars were waged against Muslims and other enemies…
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam
Product Description The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars were waged against Muslims and other enemies…
Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism: Spiritual and Ethical Affinities
Product Description Forging an interfaith dialog between traditions that typically stand at odds, this groundbreaking book explores the scriptural and spiritual tenets of Islam and Buddhism in relation to one another, creating a basis for comparison and analysis of the two traditions. The discussion juxtaposes foundational principles and practices by linking underlying principles and fostering…
Understanding Islam: An Introduction to the Muslim World, Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780452011601 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionLippman’s study of the Muslim world–from its earliest roots to today’s global power politics–includes crucial new material on the Islamic community today. There are also updated descriptions of internal politics in Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and other Islamic nations. Essential reading for both…
The Destiny of Islam in the End Times
ISBN13: 9780768425932 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFaisal Malick knows how Muslims think, why they act, and what they feel. He was one of them until he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. Understanding Ishmael and his descendants is the only way to realize their important role in…
Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out
Product DescriptionGiven that I am rather skeptical of the very possibility of a scientific survey of apostates, it is rather difficult for me to make any psychological, sociological, or anthropological generalizations based on fewer than fifty personal testimonies that would be valid outside this particular group. No quick portrait of the typical apostate is likely…
The Dar ul Islam Movement: An American Odyssey Revisited
Product DescriptionIn the pages of this book, Dar ul Islam, an American Odyssey, discover the journey a young 16 year old African American high school student whose interests are music, race and religious philosophy as he becomes totally absorbed in his new found faith Islam. Follow his adventure into the largest American Muslim fundamentalist organization…
Islam: Past, Present and Future
ISBN13: 9781851686124 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn books which have inspired millions, Kung has worked tirelessly towards a new dialogue between cultures. Following bestselling volumes on Christianity and Judaism, Kung’s critically acclaimed guide to Islam is now available in paperback. A masterful overview of Islam’s 1,400-year history, Kung…
The Prophet & the Messiah : An Arab Christian’s Perspective on Islam & Christianity
Product DescriptionIn an age of media distortion and widespread stereotypes, Christians and Muslims both need a greater understanding of each other’s faith. What do Christians believe about the Bible? What do Muslims believe about the Qur’an? And what do both Christianity and Islam have to say about Jesus and Muhammad? In this evenhanded and conciliatory…
Islam in the End Times
Product DescriptionSince the beginning of modern history, experts have been trying to predict when the end of the world will come. They have created terms such as the antiChrist, the 666 Mark of the Beast, End Times, and Rapture common in society, but they may have overlooked the most important ancient prophecy that ties Islam,…
The Vision of Islam
Product DescriptionCovering the four dimensions of Islam as outlined in the Hadith of Gabriel–practice, faith, spirituality, and the Islamic view of history–The Vision of Islam draws on the Koran, the sayings of the Prophet and the great authorities of the tradition. This clearly written book introduces the essentials of each dimension and then shows how…
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
ISBN13: 9780061567599 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. Upon a tumultuous reception, she survived a suicide-bomb attack that killed nearly two hundred of her compatriots. But she…
An Introduction to Islam for Jews
Product DescriptionMuslim-Jewish relations in the United States, Israel, and Europe are tenuous. Jews and Muslims struggle to understand one another and know little about each other’s traditions and beliefs. Firestone explains the remarkable similarities and profound differences between Judaism and Islam, the complex history of Jihad, the legal and religious positions of Jews in the…