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Democratic transition in the Middle East
Sadiki , Wimmen , Al - ZubaidiPopular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that ..
The Oxford Handbook: European Islam
Jocelyne CesariFor centuries, Muslim countries and Europe have engaged one another through theological dialogues, diplomatic missions, political rivalries, and power struggles. In ..
Tafsir And Islamic Intellectual History- exploring the boundaries of a genre
Andreas Gorke & Johanna PinkHow and when did Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) emerge as a literary genre of its own? To what extent was it influenced by other disciplines, such as law, t..
Islamist Politics in The Middle East
Samer S. ShehataFor over three decades, Islamist politics, or political Islam, has been one of the most dynamic and contentious political forces in the Middle East. Although there ..
Dictionary of Islam
Azim NanjiIslam is a truly global faith, with millions of followers all over the world, yet to many it remains on enigma. The Penguin Dictionary of Islam provides a comprehensive o..
The First Islamic Reviver- Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali And His Revival Of The Religeous Sciences
Kenneth GardenBuilding on recent revisionist scholarship, this book offers a new overview of the last two decades of the life of the seminal eleventh-century Islamic thinker Abu Ha..
Rethinking Arab Democratization : Elections without Democracy
Larbi SadikiRethinking Arab Democratization unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East. It..
Economic Development in the Middle East
Rodney WilsonBy examining economic development in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this textbook introduces undergraduate and postgraduate students to the most ..
The Middle East in the World Economy
Roger OwenExamines the growth and transformation of the Middle East economy during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The text looks at how the region's economic structures were fu..
Routledge Handbook of Political Islam
Shahram AkbarzadehThe Routledge Handbook of Political Islam provides a multidisciplinary overview of the phenomenon of political Islam, one of the key political movements of our ti..
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
Khaled Abou El FadlThe events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism have provoked widespread discussion about the possibility of democracy in the Islamic world. Such ..
The Quran : Large Hard Copy ; Abdel Haleem
Transalation : M.A.S Abdel HaleemProfessor Abdel Haleem's transalation of the Quran. An accurate, sensitive, well-annotated English translation of the Quran. (9780199570713/8979)..
The Quran - A New Translation
Tarif Khalidi“an eloquent and eminently readable translation... much closer to the way the first Muslims experienced the Qur’an” – Reza Aslan, author of No god but God “While being..
Understanding the Quran Today
Mahmoud Husseinn Islam, there is a long tradition of interpretation regarding the meaning and significance of Divine revelation, reflecting a plurality of views. Mahmoud Hussein a..
Black Muslims in the US : History , Politics and the struggle of a Community
Samory RashidSamory Rashids Black Muslims in the US is the most comprehensive attempt to show that Islamic practices survived among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the U..
Mawlana Mawdudi & Political Islam : Authority and the Islamic State
Roy JacksonMawlana Mawdudi was one of the most influential and important Islamic thinkers of the modern world, whose brand of political Islam has won widespread acceptance in South..
Science and Islam : A history
Ehsan MasoodFrom Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and..
The Quest for Meaning
Tariq Ramadan‘This book is a journey and an initiation’ In a world so full of different beliefs and viewpoint, how can we find peace in our shared humanity? The Quest of Meaning ..
Islamic History - A Very Short Introduction
Adam J. SilversteinDoes history matter? This book argues not that history matters, but that Islamic history does. This Very Short Introduction introduces the story of Islamic histo..
Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation
Tariq RamadanTariq Ramadan has emerged as one of the foremost voices of reformist Islam in the West. In one of his previous books, 'Western Muslims and the Future of Islam'he urged..
The Muslim BrotherHood : Evolution Movement
Carrie Rosefsky WickhamGiven the profound political changes taking place in Egypt today, Wickham’s in-depth, richly composed, and intimate analysis of the Muslim brotherhood has ne..
Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza : Engaging the Islamist Social Sector
Sara RoyMany in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its ..
Political Islam in the Age of Democratization
Kamran Bokhari , Farid SenzaiAs a wave of popular unrest toppled autocratic rulers across the Middle East and North Africa, many in the West watched with growing concern as Islamis..
The House of Wisdom : How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
Jonathan LyonsFor centuries following the fall of Rome. Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Arab cultures,..
Hadith : Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World
Jonathan A. C. BrownContrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Qur’an but rather from hadith, first-hand reports of the prophet Muhammad’s words an..
Obama and the Middle East (Soft Copy)
Fawaz A. GergesPublished to widespread media acclaim, Fawaz Gerges's work takes on the past, present, and future of the United States' relationship with the Middle East. Gerges, on..
The Future of Islam
John L. Esposito ; Foreword by Karen ArmstrongJohn L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. Now, in this brilliant portrait of Islam today-- and tomorrow-- he ..
What I Believe
Tariq RamadanTariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine's most important innovators of the twenty-first century. He is among the leading Islamic thinker..
Egypt on the Brink : From Nasser to The Muslim Brotherhood
Tarek OsmanIn February 2011, following an extraordinary eighteen days of continual protest by the Egyptian people. President Mubarak agreed to resign, bringing thirty years of repr..
Muhammad - A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan A. C. BrownAs the founder of Islam, a religion with over one billion followers, Muhammad is beyond all doubt one of the most influential figures in world history. But lear..
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley'This extraordinary auto-biography is a brilliant painful, important book' The New York Times Malcolm X's blazing, legendary auto-biography, completed shortly before his..
Voices of Resurgents Islam
John L. EspositoThe Muslim world extends from North Africa to Southeast Asia. In addition to some forty-three Muslim (majority) countries, Muslims constitute a significant minority..
Brokers of Deceit
Rashid KhalidiAn examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven de..
Medina In Birmingham Najaf In Brent- Inside British Islam
Innes BowenMuslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too..
Temptation Of Power - Islamist & illiberal democracy in a new Middle East
Shadi HamidIn Temptations of Power, Shadi Hamid draws on hundreds of interviews with leaders and activists from across the region to advance a new understanding of how Islamist mov..
The Rise and Fall of Al - Qaeda
Fawaz A. GergesIn The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, Gerges, a leading authority on Islamic extremism, argues that the West has become mired in a "terrorism narrative," stemming from t..
1001 Inventions : The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization
Salim T.S al - Hassani1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization takes readers on a journey through years of forgotten Islamic history to discover one thousand fas..
Islamophobia : The Challenge of Pluralism in The 21st Century
John L. Esposito and Ibrahim KalinIslamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and a..
Reflections on the revolution in europe
Christopher Caldwell‘We need books like this’ Literary Review ‘He is right to argue that immigration on the scale that Europe has experienced constitutes a risky experiment. He is..
The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
John L. EspositoThe Dictionary focuses primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries, stressing topics of most interest to Westerners. What emerges is a highly informative look at the r..