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  • The Qur'an

    A Verse Translation

    by M.A.R. Habib, Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Islam’s founding text, rendered for the first time in flowing English verse.This monumental feat of translation, the product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of literature (M. A. R. Habib), The Qur'an: A Verse Translation offers readers the first rendering in English to echo, in accessible and fluent ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • People’s Peace

    Prospects for a Human Future

    by Yasmin Saikia, Lisa Sowle Cahill, David Cortright, Donald L. Fixico, Bruce B. Lawrence, Joel Gereboff, Stuart B. Schwartz, Amanda Izzo, Jackie Smith, Atalia Omer0, Leslie Dwyer1, Chad Haines3 ...
    Series series Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution
    People’s Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people’s daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence. The volume’s focus on local and ordinary efforts highlights peace as a lived experience that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader

    Islam beyond Borders

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more than two dozen of Lawrence's key writings, among them analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions and methodological reflections on the contextual study of religion. Six methodologies serve as the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Rethinking Islamic Studies

    From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Religion
    A groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist eraRethinking Islamic Studies upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Orientalist discourse within contemporary Islamic studies and carves fresh inroads toward a robust new understanding of the discipline, one that includes religious studies and other politically infused fields of inquiry ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop

    Edited by miriam cooke, Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing and reinforcing the others. This volume selects major moments and key players from the seventh century to the twenty-first that have defined Muslim ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Muqaddimah

    An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition

    Translated by Franz Rosenthal ...
    by Ibn Khaldûn ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    Discover the essence of the Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit and what it has contributed to societies across the agesIn Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit, author and expert, Bruce B. Lawrence, delivers a spiritual elan filtered through cultural practices and artefacts. Neither juridical nor creedal, the book expresses a desire for the just and the beautiful. The author sets out an original and ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality

    Edited by Vincent J. Cornell, Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    A ground-breaking and comprehensive collection on various facets of Islamic spirituality throughout history and in the modern worldThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality is an authoritative reference work comprising twenty-eight scholarly essays that explore the expressive and performative dimensions of Islamic spirituality. Edited by two of its most prominent scholars, and bringing ... Read more

    $161.00 USD

  • On Violence

    A Reader

    Edited by Aisha Karim, Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the editors’ contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Who is Allah?

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...

    $20.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Qur'an A Verse Translation, The

    by M.A.R. Habib, Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Narrated by M.A.R. Habib ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 37 min

    Islam’s founding text, rendered for the first time in flowing English verse."This must be the most beautiful translation of the Qur'an ever, being the first attempt to produce a verse rendition of the final divine revelation to humankind. It is both impressively poetic and accurate. It also includes an elaborate introduction, furnishing insightful background to the Islamic Holy Book."― Dr. Ahmad ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Koran in English

    A Biography

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English KoranFor millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation. Yet English translations exist and are growing, in both number and importance. Bruce Lawrence ... Read more

    $12.99 USD