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 ..
Jocelyne CesariFor centuries, Muslim countries and Europe have engaged one another through theological dialogues, diplomatic missions, political rivalries, and power struggles. In ..
Jean - Pierre FiluThe democratic uprising throughout the Arab world is proving how wrong were the hitherto accepted political alternatives, either dictatorship or Islamism. Yet mor..
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..
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 ..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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 ..
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..
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..
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..
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 ..
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)..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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 ..
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 ..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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,..
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..
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..
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 ..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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 ..
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..