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The Essence of Islamist Extremism
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 125.00This book provides a critical and a conceptual analysis of radical Islamist rhetoric drawn from temporally and contextually varied Islamist extremist groups, challenging the popular understanding of Islamist extremism as a product of a ?clash-of-civilizations?. Arguing that the essence of Islamist extremism can only be accurately understood by... more...
Islam and Science
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not consider himself a scientist alone, being commissioned by his patrons to work in a variety of fields.... more...
Iranian Islam
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 185.00The author examines from different perspectives (theological and philosophical as well as socio-political and historical) the significance of the concept of the individual in the ways of thinking of Iranians. This book establishes that the mystical dimension of Islamic thought, the divine nature of Islamic law and, the mode of relationship between... more...
Practical Sufism
Quest Books 2012; US$ 15.95This wise, funny, and compassionate book follows Gowins apprenticeship with Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International. Until now, Pir Vilayat?s order has not had a strong, accessible introduction. This book not only provides that service but is more down-to-earth than most books on Sufism. It also has the advantage... more...
Sufism and the Way of Blame
Quest Books 2012; US$ 18.95This is a definitive book on the Sufi ?way of blame? that addresses the cultural life of Sufism in its entirety. Originating in ninth-century Persia, the ?way of blame? (Arab. malamatiyya) is a little-known tradition within larger Sufism that focused on the psychology of egoism and engaged in self-critique. Later, the term referred to those Sufis... more...
Sufi Talks
Quest Books 2012; US$ 19.95Once a woman brought her son to the thirteenth-century Turkish Sufi master Nasruddin complaining that the boy had an uncontrollable sweet tooth. She asked Nasruddin to tell the boy to stop eating sweets. He said to bring him back in four weeks. When they returned he said, ?Boy, I order you to stop eating sweets!? The mother asked, ?Couldn?t you have... more...
Oriental Mysticism
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 190.00This study of Persian theology utilizes a manuscript by "Aziz bin Mohammed Nafasi", first published in 1867. The book describes both the basic tenets of the sufis and the "Ahl i wahdat", formerly a branch of Sufism. more...
The Shade of Swords
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 30.95The Shade of Swords is the first cohesive history of Jihad, written by one of India's leading journalists and writers. In this paperback edition, updated to show how and why Saddam Hussein repositioned himself as a Jihadi against America, M.J. Akbar explains the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Placing recent events in a historical context,... more...
Psychology of Early Sufi Samâ`
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 44.95This book provides new insights into the work of five Sufi authors, and a fresh approach to the relation between historical accounts of altered states and current psychological thinking. more...









