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  • Misquoting Muhammad

    The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy

    by Jonathan A.C. Brown ...
    Series series Islam in the Twenty-First Century
    A much needed and timely work on the contentious issues of Islamic thought in the modern worldAN INDEPENDENT RELIGION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Lucid, learned and engaging.'The Sunday TimesFew things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Prophet Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan A.C. Brown ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As the founder of Islam Muhammad is one of the most influential figures in history. The furor surrounding the Satanic Verses and the Danish cartoon crisis reminded the world of the tremendous importance of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad. Learning about his life and understanding its importance, however, has always proven difficult. Our knowledge of Muhammad comes from the biography of him written ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Power: Divine and Human

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    by Lucinda Mosher, David Marshall, Jonathan A. C. Brown, Philip Sheldrake, Martin Nguyen, Stephen Cook, Ahmet Alibasic, Joan O'Donovan, Mahan Mirza, Jonathan Chaplin ...
    This volume of the Building Bridges Seminar, Power: Divine and Human, Christian and Muslim Perspectives, comprises pairs of essays by Christians and Muslims which introduce texts for dialogical study, plus the actual text-excerpts themselves.This new book goes far beyond mere reporting on a dialogical seminar; rather, it provides guidance and materials for constructing a similar dialogical ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    by Lucinda Mosher, Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Jonathan A. C. Brown, Christoph Schwobel, Ayman Shabana, Susan Eastman, Mohammad Khalil, Philip Sheldrake, Asma Afsaruddin0 ...
    Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a collection of essays and scripture passages studied at the 2014 Building Bridges seminar.Thoughtful and provocative, the book begins with the complete texts of the opening lectures by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and Jonathan A. C. Brown and contains essays by Christoph Schwöbel, Ayman Shabana, Susan Eastman, Mohammad Hassan ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slavery and Islam

    by Jonathan A.C. Brown ...
    What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong?Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when they erect statues of Founding Fathers who slept with their slaves. And Muslims faced it when ISIS revived sex slavery, justifying it with verses ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Islam and Blackness

    by Jonathan A.C. Brown ...
    It is commonly claimed that Islam is antiblack, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Africans. Western and African critics alike have contended that antiblack racism is in the faith’s very scriptural foundations and its traditions of law, spirituality, and theology. But what is the basis for this accusation?Bestselling scholar Jonathan A.C. Brown examines Islamic scripture, law, Sufism, and ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Justice and Islamic Law

    Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform

    by Jonathan A.C. Brown ...
    What do you do when divine law and the justice demanded by your conscience clash? Muslims have wrestled with this problem since the earliest caliphates. The mazalim courts, dating back to the eighth century, were the answer: courts where any subject could appeal directly to an Islamic ruler regarding any matter of justice. Mazalim courts, which were not bound by the rulings of an established ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hadith

    Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World

    by Jonathan A.C. Brown ...
    Series series The Foundations of Islam
    Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Quran but from hadith, first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s words and deeds, passed from generation to generation. However, with varying accounts often only committed to paper a century after the death of Muhammad, Islamic scholars, past and present, have been faced with complex questions of historical authenticity ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Hadith: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Jonathan A. C. Brown ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Salafism: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Jonathan A. C. Brown ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sunna: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Jonathan A. C. Brown ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Misquoting Muhammad

    The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy

    by Jonathan A.C. Brown ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 36 min

    Sometimes rumor, sometimes based on fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion's founding moments. They were developed, like in other world religions, over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars.Misquoting Muhammad takes listeners back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed, offering ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook