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Islam
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 9.99Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Islam.Malise Ruthven's Very Short Introduction contains essential insights into issues such as why Islam has such major divisions between movements such as the Shi'ites, the Sunnis, and the Wahhabis,... more...
Allah, Liberty and Love
Atria Books 2011; US$ 16.00In Allah, Liberty and Love, Irshad Manji paves a path for Muslims and non-Muslims to transcend the fears that stop so many of us from living with honest-to- God integrity: the fear of offending others in a multicultural world as well as the fear of questioning our own communities. Since publishing her international bestseller, The Trouble with... more...
In The Shadow Of The Sword
Little, Brown Book Group 2012; Not AvailableTom Holland, author of Rubicon and Persian Fire , gives a thrilling panoramic account of the rise of Islam more...
New Perspectives on the Qur'an
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 150.00This book continues the work of The Qur??n in its Historical Context , in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur??n and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur??n?s own conversation with the religions and literatures of its day. Particular attention is paid... more...
The World's Religions, Revised and Updated
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99Huston Smith's masterpiece explores the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the native traditions of Australia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Emphasizing the inner?rather than the institutional?dimension of these religions, Smith... more...
The Al Qaeda Reader
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95The global war on terror is not just a military conflict but a war of ideas. Indeed it is in some respects primarily an ideological struggle. Yet it is a war we cannot win without a broader understanding of al-Qaeda's goals and motives. What do our enemies believe? What motivates their war against the West? What is their vision of the ideal Islamic... more...
Heavy Metal Islam
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00?We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.? ?Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene ?Music is the weapon of the future.? ?Fela Kuti An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley?s ?Redemption Song.? They... more...
The Highest Poverty
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 17.95What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism... more...
Becoming Muslim
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 34.00While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. more...
After the Prophet
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic nation had begun, beginning a succession crisis marked... more...









