Search results for “[subject: islam-general]”

• Author(s): Hunt Janin | André Kahlmeyer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Islamic The sharia is a set of traditional laws that define a Muslim's obligations to God and his fellow human be...

• Author(s): Everett Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Islam - General This first volume covers the development of Islam in the period from the birth of Muhammad in C.E. 570 through...

• Author(s): Everett Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Islam - General This second volume details the continued spread of Muslim culture and peoples during the sixteenth, seventeent...

• Author(s): Hunt Janin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Islam scares the West. Militant conservatism and the horrific acts of violent fundamentalists evoke outrage, but th...

• Author(s): John Andrew Morrow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Islam - General These 24 studies on specific symbols, images and icons from the Muslim tradition are authored by scholars f...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Thomas J. Schoenbaum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book explores the modern relationship between religion and science, highlighting the public backlash over te...

• Author(s): Douglas E. Thomas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General African traditional religion encompasses a variety of non-dogmatic, spir...

• Author(s): Brenda Shaffer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralThe Azerbaijani people have been divided between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for more than 150 years, yet they h...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Wayne Fanebust • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook ...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Pete Postlethwaite • Publisher: Phoenix • Publisher Imprint: Phoenix • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralVibrant and candid memoirs of the late, great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite.After training as a ...

• Author(s): Thomas W. Lippman • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: Islam - HistoryFrom the Back CoverA little over thirteen centuries ago, the prophet Muhammad converted a few Arab desert tribes to the belief in a s...

• Author(s): Tarif Khalidi • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Islam - Koran & Sacred WritingsA landmark new translation of the sacred text of Islam in an elegant deluxe edition Literally "the recitation," T...

• Author(s): Idries Shah • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: EasternIn this wide-ranging anthology of Sufi writings, Idries Shah, who was one of Sufism's leading exponents, offers a broad selection of poetry, co...

• Author(s): Mahmood Jamal • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Middle EasternWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian ...

• Author(s): Joseph E. Harris • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: Africa - GeneralAfricans and Their History chronicles in fascinating detail African history from prehistoric times through the end of the 20th centur...

• Author(s): Stanislas Dehaene • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive NeuropsychologyWINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How W...

• Author(s): H. D. F. Kitto • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient - Greece"The best introduction I have ever read to Ancient Greece. The author's liveliness of mind and style has enabled him to make a mass...