Search results for “[subject: islamic]”

• 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): 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): Richard Brent Turner • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Islam - General"[Sure to become] a classic in the field. Highly recommended." --Library Journal". . . full ...

• 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): Nur Amali Ibrahim • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Islam - Rituals & Practice"In this landmark account, Nur Amali Ibrahim paints a nuanced, detailed portrait of students...

• Author(s): Muhsin Al-Musawi • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Middle EasternIslam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in trac...

• Author(s): Jan P. Hogendijk | Abdelhamid I. Sabra • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryRecent historical research and new perspectives on the Islamic scientific tradition.Between A.D. 800 and 1450, the most impo...

• 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): Abdel-Rahim Omran • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Islam - GeneralHow has the Islamic view of marriage, family formation and child rearing developed and adapted over the centuries? Is contrace...

• 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): Brian R. Farmer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book explores the challenge posed by the immersion of 15 million Muslims in Western democracies and the few, but ...

• Author(s): Karen Louise Jolly • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralThis text is designed to serve as a primary source reader. It addresses medieval Christendom in the context of world hi...

• Author(s): Jim Al-Khalili • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. ...

• Author(s): Merve Kayikçi | Leen D'Haenens • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Islamic StudiesEuropean Muslims and New Media offers perspectives on the various ways in which Muslims use new ...

• Author(s): Julian Millie • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHearing Allah's Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of ...

• Author(s): Laura U. Marks • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralTracing the connections--both visual and philosophical--between new media art and classical Islamic art.In both classical Is...

• Author(s): Khairudin Aljunied • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Islam - TheologySince the early twentieth century, Muslim reformers have been campaigning for a tot...

• Author(s): John Azumah • Publisher: Hippo Books • Publisher Imprint: Hippo Books • BISAC: Biblical Studies - History & CultureFrom the Back CoverNowhere else in the world have both Islam and Christianity been more instrumental in shaping th...

• Author(s): John Andrew Morrow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Herbal Medications An authoritative reference work for anyone interested in herbal medicine, this book provides unprecedent...

• Author(s): Farid Ud Attar • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Islam - SufiComposed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persia...

• Author(s): Michael Axworthy • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Middle East - IranThe definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic repub...

• 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): Richard F. Calichman • Publisher: Cornell Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell Press • BISAC: PhilosophersThis work focuses on the writings of the postwar Japanese thinker and sinologist Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977). It presents itself...

• Author(s): Andrew Jotischky • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see also Travel - Maps & Road AtThe Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World traces the development of ...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): Mike Bond • Publisher: Big City Press • Publisher Imprint: Big City Press • BISAC: Thrillers - TerrorismFrom its riveting start in the night skies of Afghanistan to its stunning end in the recent Paris terrorist attacks, Assassins is...

• 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): Ian Buruma • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Murder - GeneralA revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiec...

• Author(s): Usama Ibn Munqidh • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Military - MedievalThe Crusades as seen through the eyes of Muslims A significant contribution to the understanding of the medieval holy wars b...

• Author(s): Amara Lakhous • Publisher: Europa Editions • Publisher Imprint: Europa Editions • BISAC: LiterarySecret identities, criminal conspiracies, and forbidden love converge in this "whimsical and at times heartbreaking look" at the Muslim ...