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Discourses of Rumi
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 68.95Reprint of the 1961 classic study of the discourses of the founder of the order of Whirling Dervishes. 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...
Sufi Castigator
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95Sufi Castigator investigates the writings of Ahmad Kasravi, one of the foremost intellectuals in Iran. It studies his work within the context of Sufism in modern Iran and mystical Persian literature and includes translations of Kasravi?s writings. Kasravi provides a fascinating topic for those with interests in Sufism and Iranian studies as he... more...
The Crisis of Islam
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 15.00In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining... more...
Sufism in Europe and North America
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 194.00Today there is a substantial and rapidly growing Muslim population in Europe and North America. Here, as elsewhere, many of the Muslims are Sufis. This book focuses mainly on issues of inculturation or contextualization of Sufism in the West. It shows that, while more traditional forms of Sufism exist, many radical changes have taken place in this... more...
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 54.00Do we have a duty to stop others doing wrong? The question is intelligible in any civilization, but only in the Islamic tradition is 'commanding right and forbidding wrong' a central moral tenet. Michael Cook's analysis is the first to chart the history of Islamic reflection on this obligation. more...
Striving for Divine Union
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 56.95This book examines the theological, philosophical and Islamic mystical dimensions of the Suhrawardî sufi order from the 13th to 15th centuries. The Suhrawardîs were a legally grounded and intellectually vibrant sufi order whose mystical path was based on exchanges and debates on the Qur'an and on the Prophet's customs. The book analyses their interpretation... more...
Golden Roads
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 118.00Essays on themes (migration, pilgrimage and travel) as old as Islam itself and integral in the development of a cosmopolitan Islamic social order embracing much of Africa and Eurasia. more...
The Texture of the Divine
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 31.95The Texture of the Divine explores the central role of the imagination in the shared symbolic worlds of medieval Islam and Judaism. Aaron W. Hughes looks closely at three interrelated texts known as the Hayy ibn Yaqzan cycle (dating roughly from 1000--1200 CE) to reveal the interconnections not only... more...
Jihad
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 32.00Holy war ideas appear among Muslims during the earliest manifestations of the religion. This book locates the origin of Jihad and traces its evolution as an idea with the intellectual history of the concept of Jihad in Islam as well as how it has been misapplied by modern Islamic terrorists and suicide bombers. more...









