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Discovering Islamby Akbar S. Ahmed
Routledge 1989; US$ 51.95This accessible work balances the image of Islam as aggressive and fanatical with an objective picture of the main features of Muslim history and the compulsions of Muslim society. more...
The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islamby G. R. Hawting; David Morgan
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 34.00Hawting challenges the traditional view that Islam developed in opposition to idolatry in pre-Islamic Arabia arguing that Islam arose in opposition to other forms of monotheism. The author is adept at unravelling the complexities of his material, and readers will find the argument engaging and persuasive. more...
Method and theory in the study of Islamic originsby H. Berg
BRILL 2003; US$ 216.00Literary scholars and Arabists from Europe, Israel, and the US set out their various, divergent, and often mutually exclusive theories about how Islam began. The dozen studies, all but one written for the anthology, are arranged in sections according to their primary source and focus: history and Sirah , Sunnah and Hadith , Qur'an and Tafsir , and more...
Interpreting Islamby Tamara Sonn
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 110.00This work presents in English a seminal text of Arab modernism. Jawzi's book "The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam" offered a Marxist interpretation of the development of Islamic thought, arguing that Muslim society in the industrial age must adopt a socialist economic system. more...
Muslims in the Westby Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 44.99Muslims are the second largest religious group in much of Europe and northern America. The essays in this collection look both at the impact of the growing Muslim population on Western societies, and how Muslims are adpating to life in the west. more...
Social Origins of Islamby Mohammed A. Bamyeh
University of Minnesota Press 1999; US$ 72.00The story of the origins of Islam provides a rich and suggestive example of sweeping cultural transformation. Incorporating both innovation and continuity, Islam built upon the existing cultural patterns among the peoples of the Arabian peninsula even as it threatened to eradicate these same patterns. In this provocative interdisciplinary study, Mohammed A. Bamyehcombines perspectives from sociology, literary studies, anthropology, and economic history to examine the cultural ecology that fostered Islam. more...
After the Prophetby Lesley Hazleton
Doubleday Publishing 2009; US$ 11.99In 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 by power grabs, assassination, political intrigue, and passionate faith. Soon Islam was embroiled in civil war, pitting its founder's controversial wife Aisha against his son-in-law Ali, and shattering Muhammad’s ideal of unity. Combining meticulous research with compelling storytelling, After the Prophet explores the volatile intersection of religion and politics,... more...
Esoteric Christianityby Annie Besant
The Floating Press 1905; US$ 5.99The object of this book is to suggest certain lines of thought as to the deep truths underlying Christianity, truths generally overlooked, and only too often denied. The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect... more...
Death - and After?by Annie Besant
The Floating Press 1906; US$ 4.99Death consists in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. Now it is the fact that this escape from the body, and this dwelling of the conscious entity either in the vehicle called the body of desire, the kâmic or astral body... more...
A Textbook of Theosophyby C. W. Leadbeater
The Floating Press 1912; US$ 5.99We often speak of Theosophy as not in itself a religion, but the truth which lies behind all religions alike. That is so; yet, from another point of view, we may surely say that it is at once a philosophy, a religion and a science. It is a philosophy, because it puts plainly before us an explanation of the scheme of evolution of both the souls and the bodies contained in our solar system. It is a religion in so far as, having shown us the course of ordinary evolution... more...









