Brill Academic Pub, 2013. — 566 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra’y), dissent, and...
Djakarta: Penerbit N. V. Bulan Bintang, 1963. — 237 p. Abubakar H. History of the Kaaba and Hajj rites (in Indonesian) Isi Kitab: Kata Pembukaan. Sedjarah Ka'bah. Pembinaan Ka'bah Sebelum Islam. Pembinaan Ka'bah Sesudah Islam. Bangunan Sekitar Ka'bah. Ka'bah dan Ibadah Hadji. Lampiran-lampiran.
Scarecrow Press; 2 edition — 2009 — 520 p. — ISBN10: 0810861615 / ISBN13: 978-0810861619 There is both unity and variety in the Islamic world. Muslims are not a homogeneous people who can be explained solely by their normative texts: the Koran and the Sunnah. Muslims differ vastly in their interpretation of Islam: modernists want to reinterpret Islam to adapt to the...
Dar-us-Salam, Darus Salam Publishers, 2010. — 490 p. In it are events of consecutive days, months & years of major Islamic Conquests, starting from the period of first Caliph Abu Bakr Siddiq (RA) to the reign of Ottoman Caliph Murad 3, have been described, with full color maps and unique snaps, in such a manner that the reader goes along with them and comes across wonderful...
Dar-us-Salam, Darus Salam Publishers, 2010. — 490 p. In it are events of consecutive days, months & years of major Islamic Conquests, starting from the period of first Caliph Abu Bakr Siddiq (RA) to the reign of Ottoman Caliph Murad 3, have been described, with full color maps and unique snaps, in such a manner that the reader goes along with them and comes across wonderful...
Brill Academic Pub, 2011. — 386 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). The volume contains highly original articles on Islamic history, law, and thought, each either proposing new hypotheses or readjusting existing ones. The contributions range from studies in the formulation of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar to notes on the "blood-money group" in Islamic law, and to...
Routledge, 1988. — 262 p. Foreword by Lawrence Rosen Introduction: discovering Islam Part One The Pattern of Islamic History Muslim ideal: holy Book and Prophet A theory of Islamic history Ideal caliphs Arab dynasties: Umayyads and Abbasids The flowering of Islamic civilization Decline and fall Shias: revolution in the revolution Mahdism and millenarian movements The great...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 662 p. — ISBN10: 1107031877 / ISBN13: 978-1107031876. Based on epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional literary sources and critical review of the extensive relevant scholarship, this book presents a comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the rise of Islam as a religion and imperial polity. It reassesses the...
Columbia University Press, 1920. — 224 p. Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq is a book by the Shafi'i scholar Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (d. 1037 CE) outlining the doctrinal positions of various sects and schisms in Islam. Written as an explanation of the hadith regarding the division of the Muslim ummah into 73 sects, the book explains the hadith, lays out the various beliefs of 72 "misguided"...
Porcupine Press, 1955. — 259 p. — ISBN: 0-87991-450-5 Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq is a book by the Shafi'i scholar Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (d. 1037 CE) outlining the doctrinal positions of various sects and schisms in Islam. Written as an explanation of the hadith regarding the division of the Muslim ummah into 73 sects, the book explains the hadith, lays out the various beliefs of 72...
Referencepoint Pr Inc, 2014 — 96 p. — ISBN10: 1601527446 / ISBN13: 978-1601527448 Describes the ancient world and conditions in Arabia before the origin of Islam; recounts the early life of the Prophet Muhammad, the beginnings of the new faith, and his immediate successors; and describes life in early Islamic societies.
Egypt 2002. 376 p. Umm Al-Qura. We have rejected the traditional translation of fataha as "conquered" in favor of "opened". Thus the English title of this book is The Islamic Openings rather than The Islamic Conquests. In the military context, fataha is usually applied only to the actions of the Muslims in bringing Islamic rule to other lands. They opened those lands to Islam,...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 314 p. In a revisionist account of the history of Islamic political thought from the early to the late medieval period, this book focuses on the thought of Ibn Taymiyya, one of the most brilliant theologians of his day. The standard accounts of Sunni political history typically end with the classical period and thereby leave out Ibn...
Routledge, 2008. — 208 p. — (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History). The Ghazi Sultans were frontier holy-warrior kings of late medieval and early modern Islamic history. This book is a comparative study of three particular Ghazis in the Muslim world at that time, demonstrating the extent to which these men were influenced by the actions and writings of their predecessors...
Brill Academic Pub, 2011. — 368 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). This book is an examination of the traditions and legends concerning early Islam’s first and most infamous heretic, the Yemenite Jew known as ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabaʾ. Tracing the evolution and transformation of the many stories and narratives about Ibn Sabaʾ as adapted by Sunnī and Shīʿī scholars alike, this...
7e édition mise à jour. — Presses Universitaires de France, 2008. — 128 p. — (Collection « Que sais-je ? ») Présenter l'histoire de la pensée d'expression arabe depuis l'émergence du fait coranique (610-632) jusqu'à nos jours, tel est l'objet de cet ouvrage. Ce long parcours est marqué par une riche créativité (632-1300) puis des régressions, des renoncements, des...
Modern Library — Rev Upd Su edition (August 6, 2002) — 272 p. — ISBN10: 081296618X / ISBN13: 978-0812966183 No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a...
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited — 1913 — 467 p. Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (1864–1930) was an eminent British orientalist and historian of Islamic art who taught at MAO College, Aligarh Muslim University, then Aligarh College, and Government College University, Lahore. He was a friend of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, and wrote his famous book "The preaching of Islam" at the insistence of Sir...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 324 p. This book explores how medieval and modern Muslim religious scholars ('ulamā') interpret gender roles in Qur'ānic verses on legal testimony, marriage, and human creation. Citing these verses, medieval scholars developed increasingly complex laws and interpretations upholding a male-dominated gender hierarchy; aspects of their...
London: Cambridge University Press, 2003. - 307 p. ISBN: 0521582148 Jonathan Berkey’s book surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from roughly 600 to 1800 CE. The opening chapter examines the religious scene in the Near East in late antiquity, and the religious traditions which preceded Islam. Subsequent chapters investigate Islam’s first century and the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 232 p. — (The History of Oriental Studies 1). In The Wahhabis seen through European Eyes (1772-1830) Giovanni Bonacina offers an account of the early reactions in Europe to the rise of the Wahhabi movement in Arabia. Commonly pictured nowadays as a form of Muslim fundamentalism, the Wahhabis appeared to many European witnesses as the creators...
London: Bloomsbury, 2017. — 280 p. Based on substantial fieldwork and thorough knowledge of written sources, Xavier Bougarel offers an innovative analysis of the post-Ottoman and post-Communist history of Bosnian Muslims. Islam and Nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina explores little-known aspects of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, unravels the paradoxes of Bosniak national...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 289 p. On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shariʿa councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in other Western nations. Why? Taking a historical and ethnographic look at British...
USA, Washington, DC, Oct. 2012. — 53 p. Edited by Sayed Jawad Haider Syedain. Charboneau M. J. Christians who defended the Prophet Muhammad and his loved ones and died for them (In English) Verses in the Quran about a Group among the Christians. The Interaction of the Prophet and his Family with the Christians. Ashama ibn Abjar (Najashi), the Christian King of Ethiopia Defends...
Harvard University Press — 2009 — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0674032233 / ISBN13: 978-0674032231 Russia occupies a unique position in the Muslim world. Unlike any other non-Islamic state, it has ruled Muslim populations for over five hundred years. Though Russia today is plagued by its unrelenting war in Chechnya, Russia's approach toward Islam once yielded stability. In stark contrast...
Columbia University Press, 2005. — 472 p. Patricia Crone's God's Rule is a fundamental reconstruction and analysis of Islamic political thought focusing on its intellectual development during the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Based on a wide variety of primary sources -- including some not previously considered from the point of view of political...
Brill, 2016. — 281 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in...
Gorgias Press, 1987. — 301 p. "Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam is an extremely controversial but effectively argued and extensively documented work. The author presents a radical challenge to a number of standard assertions about the socio-economic milieu in which Islam arose." -R. Stephen Humphreys, University of Wisconsin, Madison Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 462 p. This book presents general readers and specialists alike with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol Invasions. Based on a wide variety of sources, it seeks to bring out the enormous scope and high level of historical (and, in some cases, contemporary) interest of medieval...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 316 p. Slave soldiers are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon. Though virtually unknown in the non-Muslim world, they have been a constant and pervasive feature of the Muslim Middle East from the ninth century AD into modern times. Why did Muslim rulers choose to place military and political power in the hands of imported slaves? It is this...
Brill, 2016. — 383 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 586 p. Patricia Crone's latest book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there, and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 586 p. Patricia Crone's latest book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there, and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated...
Brill, 2016. — 523 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious...
Cambridge University Press, 1977. — 273 p. This is a controversial study of the origins of Islamic civilisation, first published in 1977. By examining non-Muslim sources, the authors point out the intimate link between the Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam. As a serious, scholarly attempt to open up a new, exploratory path of Islamic history, the book has already...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 162 p. This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; the Sunni pattern represents the...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 422 p. The epistle ascribed to Salim Ibn Dhakwan, and written sometime before AD 800, was discovered in the early 1970s by the scholar, Amr Khalifa Ennami, who brought a xerox of the now lost manuscript to the attention of Islamic scholars. Edited, translated, and discussed here in full for the first time, the epistle is an early Islamic tract...
Cambridge University Press, 1977. — 261 p. Whence Islam Judeo-Hagarism Hagarism without Judaism The Prophet like Moses The Samaritan calques Babylonia Appendix I: The Kenite; Reason and custom Whither Antiquity The imperial civilizations The Near-Eastern provinces The Collision The preconditions for the formation of Islamic civilisation The fate of Antiquity: I. The...
Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2008. – 156 p. Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue is a project of the World Economic Forum Community of West and Islam Dialogue. The Forum, a not-for-profit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland, is the global community of the formost business, political, faith, media and thought leaders addressing global challenges. The...
Brill, 1999. — 198 p. — ISBN10: 9004100105 / ISBN13: 978-9004100107. Medieval Jerusalem and Islamic Worship treats of the holy sites of the Muslims in Jerusalem and the ceremonies and pilgrimage to these places during the early Muslim period. It is based primarily on primary Arabic sources, some of which have been used for the first time. Emphasis is given to the works of...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 126 p. Secularism, Christianity and Imperialism Violence, Governmentality and the ‘Othering’ of the Modern Nation-State Secular and Religious Reason and Islam as a ‘Discursive Tradition’ Secularization Theory and its Discontents The Body, Pain and Agency Genealogies of ‘Religious Freedom’ and ‘Minority Rights’ Conclusion: The Limits of...
Edinburg University Press, 2002. — 301 p. — ISBN: 0-7486-1620-9 Hailed as a concise survey of Islamic history and culture, An Introduction to Islam covers everything from Islamic theology and law to the development of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages, from social and economic life in the middle ages to the invention of the Muslim calendar. For the second edition, the...
Oxford University Press; 1 edition — 1999 — 749 p. — ISBN10: 0195107993 / ISBN13: 978-0195107999 Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L. Esposito, Editor-in-Chief of...
Oxford University Press; 1 edition — 1999 — 749 p. — ISBN10: 0195107993 / ISBN13: 978-0195107999 Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L. Esposito, Editor-in-Chief of...
Oxford University Press; 1 edition — 1999 — 749 p. — ISBN10: 0195107993 / ISBN13: 978-0195107999 Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L. Esposito, Editor-in-Chief of...
Brill, 2017. — 567 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies - the Near and Middle East). Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2010. — 226 p. — ISBN10: 161530021X / ISBN13: 978-1615300211. Islam predominates in over thirty countries around the world. The rich and diverse history of the Islamic world requires a broad perspective. This in-depth look at the history of the religion and culture of Islam and the Muslim people covers the extreme breadth of the topic while...
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002. — 420 p. Revised and Expanded edition of Historical Atlas of Islam. This atlas depicts the course of the expansion of Islam, in pictorial form, all over the world, from initial conquests to the present day. The drama of the events that brought a religion born in the Arabian Desert, and its vehicle, the Arabic language and script,...
Brill, 2007. — 570 p. — ISBN10: 9004153586 / ISBN13: 978-9004153585. This volume deals with the origins and evolution of the Islamic institution of pious endowments in al-Andalus and provide us with a complete review of relevant issues such as the structure of economic property, the idea of charity, the concept of general or common interest and the social and juridical role of...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. — 204 p. Garnet M. J. L. Magic and mysticism in Turkey (In English) The Dervish Orders and Their Tenets. The Spiritual Hierarchy. The Metaphors of the Poets. Monasteries and Shrines. Monastic Rule and Discipline. The Stages of Initiation. The Costumes, Musical Instruments, and Symbolic Objects of the Dervishes. The Various Religious...
The Central Islamic Lands from Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977, 544 s. First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization yet to appear in English. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful for both reference and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 212 p. This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position from which she could mediate between male authority in patriarchal society...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 345 p. As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism, and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration from the oceanic and continental hinterlands of Bombay in this period fueled demand for a wide...
The university of Chicago press, 1946. - 388 p. Islam in the medieval world The religious foundations The body politics The human ideal Self-expression: literature and history Creative borrowing Addenda
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 287 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 48). This study looks at the Islamic character of the Acehnese state in the seventeenth century. It examines not only its Islamic institutions but also its political culture and policies towards Islam. The discussion begins with a historical sketch of the rise of Aceh in the sixteenth century,...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 298 p. The Sunnī-Shi'a schism is often framed as a dispute over the identity of the successor to Muhammad. In reality, however, this fracture only materialized a century later in the important southern Iraqi city of Kūfa (present-day Najaf). This book explores the birth and development of Shī'i identity. Through a critical analysis of legal...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 184 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization ), Why and under what circumstances did the religion of Islam emerge in a remote part of Arabia at the beginning of the seventh century? Traditional scholarship maintains that Islam developed in opposition to the idolatrous and polytheistic religion of the Arabs of Mecca and the surrounding...
Routledge, 2015. — 162 p. — ISBN10: 1138101389 / ISBN13: 978-1138101388. The emergence of Islam in the seventh century AD still polarises scholars who seek to separate religious truth from the historical reality with which it is associated. However, history and prophecy are not solely defined by positive evidence or apocalyptic truth, but by human subjects, who consider them to...
Sussex Academic Press, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN13: 978-1845197933 / ISBN10: 1845197933. Contemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages became a contested heritage during the process of modern nation-building with its varied concepts and constructs...
Hagae Comitum: Mouton, 1955. — 335 p. — ISBN: 0812219163. The sect known as "the Assassins," a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the "Man in the Mountain" encountered by the Crusaders. But it was not defeat at the hands of Christians that ended more than a century of Assassin rule; it was the...
University Of Chicago Press, 1977. — 539 p. The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work...
University Of Chicago Press, 1977. — 618 p. In the second work of this three-volume set, Hodgson investigates the establishment of an international Islamic civilization through about 1500. This includes a theoretical discussion of cultural patterning in the Islamic world and the Occident.
University Of Chicago Press, 1977. — 476 p. In this concluding volume of The Venture of Islam, Hodgson describes the second flowering of Islam: the Safavi, Timuri, and Ottoman empires. The final part of the volume analyzes the widespread Islamic heritage in today's world.
Cambridge University Press, 1970. - 545 p. The aim of these volumes is to present the history of Islam as a cultural whole. It is hoped that in a single concise work the reader will be able to follow all the main threads: political, theological, philosophical, economic, scientific, military, artistic. But The Cambridge history of Islam is not a repository of facts, names and...
Cambridge University Press, 1970. - 306 p. The aim of these volumes is to present the history of Islam as a cultural whole. It is hoped that in a single concise work the reader will be able to follow all the main threads: political, theological, philosophical, economic, scientific, military, artistic. But The Cambridge history of Islam is not a repository of facts, names and...
Cambridge University Press, 1970. - 458 p. The aim of these volumes is to present the history of Islam as a cultural whole. It is hoped that in a single concise work the reader will be able to follow all the main threads: political, theological, philosophical, economic, scientific, military, artistic. But The Cambridge history of Islam is not a repository of facts, names and...
Cambridge University Press, 1970. - 581 p. The aim of these volumes is to present the history of Islam as a cultural whole. It is hoped that in a single concise work the reader will be able to follow all the main threads: political, theological, philosophical, economic, scientific, military, artistic. But The Cambridge history of Islam is not a repository of facts, names and...
Leiden: Brill und Leipzig : O. Harrassowitz, 1913. — 1136 S. Die erste Auflage Enzyklopaedie des Islam in vier Bänden (EI1) mit einem Ergänzungsband erschien in den Jahren 1913 bis 1938 in den drei Sprachen: Englisch, Französisch und Deutsch. 600 dpi, text layer.
Leiden: Brill und Leipzig : O. Harrassowitz. 1936. — VIII, 1285 S. Die erste Auflage Enzyklopaedie des Islam in vier Bänden (EI1) mit einem Ergänzungsband erschien in den Jahren 1913 bis 1938 in den drei Sprachen: Englisch, Französisch und Deutsch. 600 dpi, text layer.
Leiden: Brill und Leipzig : O. Harrassowitz, 1934. — 1382 S. Die erste Auflage Enzyklopaedie des Islam in vier Bänden (EI1) mit einem Ergänzungsband erschien in den Jahren 1913 bis 1938 in den drei Sprachen: Englisch, Französisch und Deutsch. 600 dpi, text layer.
Cambridge University Press (March 28, 2000) — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0521623502 / ISBN13: 978-0521623506 George Makdisi has brought together six of the most distinguished scholars in the field to explore the religion and culture of medieval Islam. This is an original and stimulating exchange. Makdisi's introductory essay focuses on the interaction between religion and culture in...
Paris. Albin Michel, 1960. 420 p. L'univers actuel ne se compose plus de la seule Europe. Et Phistoire de l’Europe ne constitue plus aujourd’hui à elle seule lPhistoire de l’univers. D’autres peuples, vivant sur d’autres continents, sont montés à leur tour sur la scène de l’actualité mondiale, Toutefois, et tandis que de nos jours toutes les par- ties du monde sans exception...
Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1985. — 408 p. Ibrahim A., Syddyk Sh., Hussain Y. Islam in Southeast Asia (In English) Early Islamization. Colonial Rule. Post-Independence Politics. The Institutionalization of Islam. Socio-Cultural Settings. Perspectives on Modernization. Southeast Asia is a home of all the major religions of the world — Islam, Buddhism,...
Brill, 2015. — 480 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). This volume contains a collection of articles focusing on the philosophical and theological exchanges between Muslim and Christian intellectuals living in Baghdad during the classical period of Islamic history, when this city was a vibrant center of philosophical, scientific, and literary activity. The philosophical...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 284 p. In Muslim Tradition G. H. A. Juynboll undertakes a broad-ranging review of the closely linked questions of date, authorship and origin of hadiths, i.e. the traditions of the prophet. Hadiths, which record the sayings and deeds of the prophet Muhammad, are central to Islamic teaching and beliefs and command a respect in the Islamic...
Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2014. — 298 p. In the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) was the site of a prolonged struggle between Russian Orthodoxy and Islam, each of which sought to solidify its influence among the frontier’s mix of Turkic, Finno-Ugric, and Slavic peoples. The immediate catalyst of the events that...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 316 p. For over four centuries the principal source of Christian European knowledge of Islam stemmed from a project sponsored by Peter the Venerable, ninth abbot of Cluny, in 1142. This consisted of Latin translations of five Arabic works, including the first translation of the Koran in a western language. Known as the Toledan Collection, it...
First Edition. — New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2005. — 226 p. — ISBN: 81-7625-476-2. Dr. Jaferhusein Laliwala is the Reader in Economics in the Postgraduate Department of Economics in the University School of Social Sciences, Gujarat Univercity, Ahmedabad. A number of students did their Ph. D. Studies in Economics under his guidance. He has written a number of books on the different...
Routledge, 2002. — 384 p. — (London Oriental Series (Book 36)). — ISBN10: 0197136001 / ISBN13: 978-0197136003. Religion and politics: the law The Community and the state Kharijis and Zaydis: Murji'is, Qadaris and Mu'tazila The use and abuse of sovereignity: Abu Yusuf, Ibn al-Muqaffa', al-Jahiz and Ibn al-Qutayba al-Baqillani and al-Baghdadi al-Mawardi: wizara and imara...
Columbia University Press, 2015. - 328 p. Some Islamic scholars hold that Salafism is an innovative and rationalist effort at Islamic reform that emerged in the late nineteenth century but disappeared in the mid twentieth. Others argue Salafism is an anti-innovative and antirationalist movement of Islamic purism that dates back to the medieval period yet persists today. Though...
University Press of Florida; 1st edition — 2005 — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0813028698/ ISBN13: 978-0813028699 In this first comparative treatment of charity and charitable institutions in Islam and Muslim societies of the Middle East, Yaacov Lev mines a variety of primary sources, including Arabic chronicles, dictionaries, waqf (pious endowment) deeds, and epigraphic evidence. The book...
Citadel Press ., — 2004 . — 191 p . — ISBN: 0-8065-2620-3 In this unique and astonishing book , Dr. Haha Lung not only traces the complete history of the hashishin , but explains the rules of Islamic warfare and the true concept of jihad . Also included in graphic detail are proven fighting and self-defense techniques, including : Fist and Fire , Assassin Unarmed Combat , The...
Ankara universiteso basimevi, 1981. — 256 s. İçindekiler Öncöz Bibliografıya Kronolojik tablosu Dervrin genel nitelikleri temel meselerinin Abbasiler islam imparatorluğu
The Wisdom Fund, 2010. — 366 p. — ISBN10: 0970001134; ISBN13: 978-0970001139. In this fifth edition of The War on Islam, Enver Masud -- recipient of the Human Rights Foundation, 2002 Gold Award -- provides valuable insights on the conflict between Islam and the West, beginning with the Gulf War of 1991 to America’s recent financial debacle stemming (in part) from America’s...
Georgetown University Press, 2017. — 346 p. The 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi'is is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran - with no apparent end in sight. But how did this conflict begin, and why is it now the focus of so much attention? Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad to...
Presses Universitaires de France, 2005. — 128 p. — (Que sais-je ?) Fondée sur l'enseignement du Prophète, en paroles et en actes, la tradition musulmane constitue à côté du Coran, l'autre source de la Foi et de la Loi en islam. Elle est ainsi le fondement des valeurs structurantes de l'identité islamique et l'une des composantes majeures du patrimoine religieux, historique et...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 240 p. This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the course of the first three Islamic centuries (the seventh to ninth centuries CE). This was a dynamic period that witnessed the evolution of many Islamic political, religious and legal...
Praeger, 2008. — 288 p. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking a broader foundation of knowledge about Islamic military history and traditions. Military history specialists will find the detailed discussion of the Quran (Koran) enlightening as the authors identify and explain the specific verses calling Muslims to arms. General readers and non-specialists will find...
Routledge, 1995. — 193 p. — ISBN10: 0700702431 / ISBN13: 978-0700702435. Essays 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.
Brill, 2015. — 578 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). In The Formation of the Islamic Understanding of kalāla in the Second Century AH (718-816 CE), Pavel Pavlovitch studies traditions (ḥadīth) about the lexical and terminological meaning of the Quranic vocable kalāla. Attempts to understand kalāla began with acknowledging its unintelligibility but ultimately brought into...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 300 p. — (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century onward, Syriac Christians wrote the...
Berlin und Leipzig: Verlag von Walter de Gruyter und Co., 1923. — 451 S. Das vorliegende Handbuch der Islam-Literatur verdankt seine Entstehung dem grossen Krieg, der uns durch unser Bündnis mit der Türkei in unmittelbare Berührung mit der Welt des Islams gebracht hat.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 376 p. — (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) The Islamic claim to supersede Judaism and Christianity is embodied in the theological assertion that the office of prophecy is hereditary but that the line of descent ends with Muhammad, who is the seal, or last, of the prophets. While Muhammad had no natural sons who reached the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 192 p. — (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) Although Muḥammad had no natural sons who reached the age of maturity, Islamic sources report that he adopted a man named Zayd shortly before receiving his first revelation. This "son of Muḥammad" was the Prophet's heir for the next fifteen or twenty years. He was the first adult...
Riyadh 1978. 37 p. World Assembly of Muslim Youth. The life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) has remained a source of inspiration for people of different races, colours and origins belonging to various layers of society. It has also led scores of persons to make a deeper study of his message and even fashion their lives on his pattern. There were others who could not go...
Leipzig: Adolf Klein, Verlag. Erscheinungsjahr nicht angegegeben. — 398 S. Einleitung. Geschichte der Ausbreitung des Islam im Ostan Afrikas. Die heute im Osten und Norden Afrikas vertretenen Religionsgemeinschaften der Schi a. Die Sunniten. Die Heiligenverehrung im afrikanischen Islam. Die Orden-Tariqa s. Die Eschatologie des Islam und ihre Wirkung. Die Ursachen des Einflusses...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 225 p. The study of early Islamic history has flourished in recent years. Chase Robinson's book takes full account of the latest research, interweaving history and historiography to interpret the political, social, and economic transformations in the Mesopotamian region after the Islamic conquests. Using Arabic and Syriac sources, the author...
Brill, 2014. — 1158 p. In Man versus Society in Medieval Islam, Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003) investigates the tensions and conflicts that existed between individuals and society as the focus of his study of Muslim social history. The book brings together works spanning fifty years: the monographs The Muslim Concept of Freedom, The Herb. Hashish versus Medieval Muslim Society...
Presses Universitaires de France, 2008. — 271 p. — ("proche Orient") Depuis plusieurs années on assiste, en Europe et dans le monde musulman, à l'affirmation d'une nouvelle identité religieuse communément désignée par le terme de "salafisme". Ce mouvement a acquis une forte visibilité en France à travers une série de faits dont certains ont occupé la une des médias. De même les...
Brill Academic Pub, 2014. — 372 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). Ulrich Rudolph, University of Zurich, translated by Rodrigo Adem, University of Chicago Al-Māturīdī (d. 944 CE), the prominent Hanafi scholar from Samarqand, succeeded in formulating a theological doctrine which is widely accepted in Sunni Islam to this day. The present volume which is a revised English...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. — 208 p. Among the great civilizations of the world, Islam remains an enigma to Western readers. Now, in a beautifully illustrated historical atlas, noted scholar of religion Malise Ruthven recounts the fascinating and important history of the Islamic world. From the birth of the prophet Muhammed to the independence of post-Soviet...
Chicago: A Bell & Howell Company. 1995. — 282 p. Sabi Y. Islam and social change: the role of the ulema in Acehnese society (In English) Aceh and Islam, a Brief Historical Account. The Ulama in Acehnese History: a Brief Overview. A Profile of the Ulama in Acehnese Society. Aceh in the Era of Change. The Role of the Ulama in the Changing Society.
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 304 p. How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperial, religious, and historiographical...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 234 p. Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period (seventh to the seventeenth centuries). Focusing on women's engagement with ḥadīth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's ḥadīth participation in terms of developments in Muslim...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 416 p. — (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead the conquest of Palestine,...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2014. — xiv, 313 p. Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate, difficult to access, and philologically...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 171 p. — (Very short introductions, 220). — ISBN 978–0–19–954572–8. Opening with a lucid overview of the rise and spread of Islam, from the seventh to the twenty-first century, this Very Short Introduction introduces the story of Islamic history, charting the evolution of what was originally a small, localized community of believers into an...
Routledge, 2015. — 112 p. — ISBN10: 1138821284 / ISBN13: 978-1138821286 This Atlas provides the main outlines of Islamic history from the immediate pre-Islamic period until the end of 1920, that is, before most parts of the Muslim world became sovereign nation states. Each map is accompanied by a text that contextualises, explains, and expands upon the map, and are fully...
Time Life Education, 1978. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0809403315 / ISBN13: 978-0809403318 Prepared and published by Time-Life and British author Desmond Stewart (Oxford 1948 Classics) in the happy days when this topic seemed rather academic (our problem in those days was Nasser, and, depending on your point of view, Israel), this book offers a readable and enlightening introduction to...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1922. — 306 p. Introduction: the decline and fall of the Old Islamic world The Mohammedan revival Pan-Islamism The influence of the west Political change Nationalism Nationalism in India Economic change Social change Social unrest and bolshevism
London: Cambridge University Press, 1996. - 121 p. Part I Islamic peoples account for one fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this, revealing the complex and sometimes contrary nature ofMuslim culture. As well as taking on the issues uppermost in...
London: Cambridge University Press, 1996. - 328 p. Part II Islamic peoples account for one fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this, revealing the complex and sometimes contrary nature ofMuslim culture. As well as taking on the issues uppermost in...
Aldine Transaction; Revised ed. edition — 2005 — 260 p. — ISBN10: 0202307670 / ISBN13: 978-0202307671 In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter, the author opens by reminding us that "the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history." Classical Islam also serves as a reminder that in the case of Islam, despite its...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 366 p. Muslim Studies of Other Religions The Early Period: 610–650 Jacques Waardenburg The Medieval Period: 650–1500 Jacques Waardenburg The Modern Period: 1500–1950 Jacques Waardenburg The Contemporary Period: 1950–1995 Jacques Waardenburg Medieval Times Christians in the Quran and Tafsir Jane Dammen McAuliffe Arab-Islamic Perceptions of...
Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2002. — 64 p. — ISBN: 0-7894-8870-1 (plc); ISBN: 0-7894-8871-X (alb). Gr 3-8-An introduction to the basic tenets of the faith, the history of its spread, the varieties of the cultures in which it flourishes, and highlights of the achievements of Islamic peoples. The series's standard format is expanded somewhat with a number of chapters totaling more...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 219 p. The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides a new perspective on the previously ignored history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the 19th century, based primarily on unpublished Ottoman Turkish documents. From these, he examines how local Shiites were well...
Cairo 1998. 282 p. I.S.B. N. 977-265-221-8. ISLAMIC INC. This book seeks most of all, to outline the essential aspects of Islam as an ever living force, and not just as a matter of historical interest, in a language that is contemporary and in fact, is addressed to those who are acquainted with the dialect of modern thought. Moreover, we have tried to answer in many cases the...
Leiden University Press, 2016. - 358 p. This book investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation, but also its effects in the wider Middle East. It looks at the German hopes and British fears of a worldwide rising of Muslims in the colonial empires. It also discusses the fierce academic debates caused by the Jihad proclamation, in which the 1915...
قم: مرکز بین المللی ترجمه و نشر المصطفی. ۱۳۹۰ - ۲۸۰ ص Qom: Markaz-e Beyno'lmelali-ye Tarjome va Nashr-e al-Mostafà, 1390/2011-2012. — 280 p. (In Persian) درباره سرگذشت شیعیان افغانستان، نانوشتههای بسیاری وجود دارد؛ البته دلیل آن، به این باز میگردد که شیعیان در گذشتههای تاریخی این سرزمین مورد ستم حکومتهای آن روزگار قرار گرفتهاند و با آنها برخوردهای ناعادلانهای شده است....
Qom: Entesharat-e Shi'e-shenashi. 1386/2007-08 - 208 pp. (In Persian). كاشان در مسير تشيع تأليف مصطفى صادقى (متولد 1348ش) است كه در آن سير تاريخى پيدايش تشيع در شهر كاشان را به صورت علمى بررسى كرده است. ايشان اثبات كرده است كه برخلاف نظر مشهور، مردم كاشان نه از قرون اوليه بلكه از قرن سوم هجرى به تشيع گراييدند و در قرن چهارم هجرى تشيع در آنجا به شكل مذهب رسمى مردم درآمد. اين...
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