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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 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..
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..
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 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..
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..
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..
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 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 ..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Rethinking Secularism
Craig Calhoun , Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan Van AntwerpenRecent decades have brought increasing awareness of the role religious commitments play in the cultural, social, and p..
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 ..
Islam : A Short History
Karen ArmstrongKaren Armstrong’s book cuts through the cliché to reveal a faith which has inspired as many scholars, mystics and poets as soldiers. Islam, she makes clear, has not ..
Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought : Texts and Contexts from al - Banna to Bin Laden
Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim ZamanThis anthology of key primary texts provides an unmatched introduction to Islamist political thought from the early twentieth century to th..
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
Beverley Milton - Edwards and Stepen FarrelDeclared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in ..
On Taqlid- Ibn Al Qayyims Critique Of Authority In Islamic Law
Abdul-Rahman MustafaAbdul-Rahman Mustafa offers a deft new translation of a large extract from the book I'lam al Muwaqqi'in 'An Rabb al 'Alamin, by the thirteenth-century Islamic s..
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,..
Fifty Key Figures in Islam
Roy JacksonIf you would like to learn more about Muslim culture, people and its teachings, then this is the perfect resource for you. Roy Jackson explores the lives and thoughts of..
Muhammad - Prophet for our time
Karen ArmstrongThe Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing Religion Muhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course ..
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..
Contemporary Politics in The Middle East
Beverley Milton - EdwardsThis dynamic book has been fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Purposefully empl..
Misquoting Muhammad
Jonathan A .C Brown Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Prophet Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marri..
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..
Al - Qaeda
Jason Burke‘A MUST-READ… JASON BURKE’S BOOK IS THE ONE THAT WILL LAST IT’S TRIUMPH’ GURDIAN THE THREAT OF TERRIORISM IS SOMETHING WE ALL LIVE WITH. BUT HOW DOES THE IDEA OF ‘AL-QA..
Making the future
Noam Chomsky‘The fate of democracy is at stake in Madison, Wisconsin, no less than it is in Tahrir Square’ Making the Future is the latest collection of essays from Noam Chomsky, ..
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 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..
Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy
Nader Hashemislam's relationship to liberal-democratic politics has emerged as one of the most pressing and contentious issues in international affairs. Nader Hashemi challenges th..
Rachid Ghannouchi : A Democrat within Islamism
Azzam S. Tamimi"The face of nonviolent Islamic democracy has long been associated with the writing of the Tunisian political philosopher and activist Rachid Ghannouchi. Yet, not un..