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  • Damascus after the Muslim Conquest

    Text and Image in Early Islam

    by Nancy Khalek ...
    Before it fell to Muslim armies in AD 635-6 Damascus had a long and prestigious history as a center of Christianity. How did this city, which became the capitol of the Islamic Empire and its people, negotiate the transition from a late antique or early Byzantine world to an Islamic culture? In Damascus after the Muslim Conquest, Nancy Khalek demonstrates that the changes that took place in Syria ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

    A Philosophical Tale

    by Ibn Tufayl, Lenn Evan Goodman ...
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    The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided—but also unimpeded—by society, language, or tradition. Hayy’s discoveries about God, nature, and man challenge the ... Read more

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  • What You Need to Know About ISIS - Terror Religion War & the Caliphate

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    I decided to write this book – much to the affable chagrin of some friends and colleagues who wondered why I would tackle a topic so complex – because the story of ISIS continues as one of the more important narratives now occupying our thoughts and our media. I wanted to go deeper than the restrictions of tonight’s newscasts would allow. As a career journalist and broadcaster, I have nothing but ... Read more

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  • Reading the Qur'an

    The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam

    by Ziauddin Sardar ...
    "I grew up reading the Qur'an on my mother's lap," writes Ziauddin Sardar. "It's an experience I share with most Muslim children. And so it is that our connection to the Qur'an is infused with associations of the warmest and most enduring of human bonds." In Reading the Qur'an, Sardar--one of Europe's leading public intellectuals--laments that for far too many Muslims, the Qur'an he had learned in ... Read more

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  • When God Spoke to Moses: Biography of a Mighty Prophet

    by Ibn Iftikhar ...
    Was Moses darker-skinned and could the Bible testify to this? Who is Fir'aun of the Qur'an? Was Pharaoh actually a single individual? Did the Red Sea split into one road or twelve? How did Balaam who was given divine knowledge turn to evil? Who was Haman? What happened to Zimri (Samiri)? Was the staff just a regular stick or did it come from somewhere special?'When God Spoke to Moses' is an ... Read more

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  • The Shia

    Identity. Persecution. Horizons.

    by Riyadh Al-Hakeem ...
    "As the world grapples with religious extremism and consequent violence in the world of Islam, Sayyid Riyadh Al-Hakeem provides us a valuable opportunity to understand the political dynamics and theological debates within Islam. I had the privilege to have a long conversation with Sayyid in 2014 in Najaf focusing on the developments in the Muslim world. I was struck by his scholarly demeanor, ... Read more

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  • Allah, The 'God' of Islam, Exposed

    by Evang. Promise Baker ...
    Allah, the 'God' Of Islam ExposedAlmost all Muslims unrepentantly believe that they are worshipping the same God the Christians worship only in a different way.But is Allah, the 'God' the Muslims worship, the Almighty God?This book reveals the answer to this burning question and unveils one of the greatest deceptions ever conceived in the history of the existence of mankind. ... Read more

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  • Muhammad the Liberator of Women

    by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ...
    Throughout history, women have been powerless and weak. Before the Holy Prophet Muhammad's arrival, a woman was regarded as man's slave and property, and no religion or nation could offer the woman rights and freedom. When their husbands died, they were forced to marry relatives or sold for money. There was no law that could protect them.Prophet Muhammad proclaimed in the name of God that men and ... Read more

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  • The Missing Peace

    The Role of Religion in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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    Egypt in the sixties and seventies for the Salem family was a balance between keeping Islamic tradition at home and attending the secular system of public schools, which would provide us with the best of opportunities, and form us into what my parents considered model Muslims. Both traditional Islamic practice and a breadth of scholarship were to be revered, in line with the great Islamic thinkers ... Read more

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  • The Missing Martyrs

    Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists

    by Charles Kurzman ...
    Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on Islamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughly marginal in the Muslim world. ... Read more

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  • Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace

    Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century

    by Anne Marie Wolf ...
    Series series History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds
    Juan de Segovia (d. 1458), theologian, translator of the Qur'ān, and lifelong advocate for the forging of peaceful relations between Christians and Muslims, was one of Europe's leading intellectuals. Today, however, few scholars are familiar with this important fifteenth-century figure. In this well-documented study, Anne Marie Wolf presents a clear, chronological narrative that follows the ... Read more

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