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  • Science and Religion

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    by David Marshall, Rowan Williams, John Hedley Brooke, Ahmad Dallal, Denis Alexander, Ellen F. Davis, Michael Welker, Mustansir Mir, Emmanuel Clapsis, Osman Bakar0, Marwa Elshakry1, Sherine Hamdy2, Celia Deane-Drummond3 ...
    Science and Religion is a record of the 2009 Building Bridges seminar, a dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars convened annually by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The essays in this volume explore how both faith traditions have approached the interface between science and religion and throw light on the ongoing challenges posed by this issue today. The volume includes a selection ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communicating the Word

    Revelation, Translation, and Interpretation in Christianity and Islam

    by David Marshall, Seyed Amir Akrami, Daniel A. Madigan, Ellen F. Davis, Osman Bakar, John P. Langan, Asma Afsaruddin, Muhammad Abdel Haleem, Lamin Sanneh, John Azumah0, Abdullah Saeed1, Susan Eastman2, Michael Ipgrave3, Reza Shah-Kazemi4, Rowan Williams5 ...
    Communicating the Word is a record of the 2008 Building Bridges seminar, an annual dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Featuring the insights of internationally known Christian and Muslim scholars, the essays collected here focus attention on key scriptural texts but also engage with both classical and contemporary Islamic and Christian ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology

    Selected Conference Papers

    Edited by Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Osman Bakar, Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor, Rugayah Hashim ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents 25 selected papers from the International Conference on “Developing Synergies between Islam & Science and Technology for Mankind’s Benefit” held at the International Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in October 2014. The papers cover a broad range of issues reflecting the main conference themes: Cosmology and the Universe, Philosophy of Science and ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Islamic Democratic Discourse

    Theory, Debates, and Philosophical Perspectives

    by Tarek Ramadan, Tamara Sonn, Asma Afsaruddin, Osman Bakar, Ozlem Denli, Mahgoub El-tigani Mahmoud, Carolyn Fleuhr, Ali Paya, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Marc Lynch, Abdelwahab El-Affendi ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    There is a growing consensus among experts and the educated public alike that democratization will reduce the many problems of the Muslim world. The question that remains is how Islam should be incorporated into the public sphere. Islamic Democratic Discourse is in itself a dialogue that explores the multi-faceted relationship between Islam and democracy. Each chapter, by a preeminent scholar of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Asian Islam in the 21st Century

    by John L. Esposito, John Voll, Osman Bakar ...
    Although more than half of the world's Muslims live in Asia, most books on contemporary Islam focus on the Middle East, giving short shift to the dynamic and diverse presence of Asian Islam in regional and global politics. The Muslims of Asia constitute the largest Muslim communities in the world - Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Central Asia. In recent years, terrorist bombings in Bali ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Peace-Building by, between, and beyond Muslims and Evangelical Christians

    by Ghulam Haider Aasi, Osman Bakar, Steve Brown, Karim Douglas Crow, Alvin C. Dueck, Rabia Terri Harris, Riffat Hassan, Jimmy Jones, S Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana, Josh P. Morgan, Abdul Rashied Omar, Muhammed Shafiq, Wilbert R. Shenk, J Dudley Woodberry, Evelyne A.Reisacher, Kevin Reimer, David L. Johnston, Glen Stassen, Asma Afsaruddin ...
    This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and general misperceptions of Muslim and Christian communities. Joint authorship and discussion within ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear. Now one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers examines and explains it, in this searching, ... Read more

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  • Temptations of Power

    Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate

    by Bat Ye'or ...
    Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate analyzes the modern political trends and strategies that are leading to major changes in Western civilization, America included, since the OIC strategy targets America also. Learning from the European experience is crucial for Americans. Moreover this evolution is inscribed in the historical movement of Islamic theology and expansionism. It ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Warrior State

    Pakistan in the Contemporary World

    by T.V. Paul ...
    Seemingly from its birth, Pakistan has teetered on the brink of becoming a failed state. Today, it ranks 133rd out of 148 countries in global competitiveness. Its economy is as dysfunctional as its political system is corrupt; both rely heavily on international aid for their existence. Taliban forces occupy 30 percent of the country. It possesses over a hundred nuclear weapons that could easily ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Rethinking Political Islam

    Edited by Shadi Hamid, William McCants ...
    For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Tunisia's Ennahda Party governed in coalition with two secular parties, ratified a liberal constitution, and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Global Islam

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nile Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing transfers, it traces the origins, expansion and increasing diversification of Global Islam - from individual activists to organizations and then ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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