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  • Infamies of The Soul And Their Treatments

    by Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, Musa Furber ...
    Infamies of the Soul (ʿUyūb al-nafs) is one of Islam’s earliest comprehensive theories for the purification of the soul. In this short guide, the hadith narrator, Shāfiʿī legist, and historian of the early sufis, Imam Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, presents sixty-nine wicked traits and habits of the soul, including anger, laziness, negligence, self-pity, envy, avarice, lying, and pride. Each infamy ... Read more

    $5.89 CAD

  • Infamies of The Soul And Their Treatments

    by Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, Musa Furber ...
    Infamies of the Soul (ʿUyūb al-nafs) is one of Islam’s earliest comprehensive theories for the purification of the soul. In this short guide, the hadith narrator, Shāfiʿī legist, and historian of the early sufis, Imam Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, presents sixty-nine wicked traits and habits of the soul, including anger, laziness, negligence, self-pity, envy, avarice, lying, and pride. Each infamy ... Read more

    $5.89 CAD

  • The West and Islam

    Western Liberal Democracy versus the System of Shura

    by Mishal Fahm al-Sulami ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    This book analyzes the relationship between Western and Islamic political ideas. The focus is on the similarities and differences between Western liberal democracy and shura - often seen as the Islamic counterpart to Western democracy. This is the first work to provide a direct and detailed comparison between the two systems of ideas, as given expression in the concrete political systems which ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Egypt after Mubarak

    Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World

    by Bruce K. Rutherford ...
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  • Contemporary Politics in the Middle East

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  • India, Pakistan, and Democracy

    Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths

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    The Parallel State

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    Manama since 1800

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