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Provocations eBook Series

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  • Islam Beyond the Violent Jihadis

    An Optimistic Muslim Speaks

    by Ziauddin Sardar ...
    Series Book 9 - Provocations
    Islam has been corrupted. A virulent strain of the religion manifests itself in bloodthirsty mutations such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and the terrifying spectre of ISIS. But behind the atrocities and turmoil lie many different versions and visions of Islam, each struggling to survive in a rapidly changing world.Ziauddin Sardar, with inimitable wit and intelligence, chronicles the diversity and ... Read more

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  • Standing Alone

    An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam

    by Asra Nomani ...
    As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. Mecca is Islam's most sacred city and strictly off limits to non-Muslims. On a journey perilous enough for ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Search for Beauty in Islam

    A Conference of the Books

    by Khaled Abou El Fadl ...
    Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers eye-opening and enlightening insights into the contemporary realities of the current state of Islam and the West. Through a 'conference of the books,' an ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Treasury of Hadith

    A Commentary on Nawawis Selection of Prophetic Traditions

    Translated by Mokrane Guezzou ...
    by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Daqiq al-'Id, Imam Nawawi ...
    Series Book 1 - Treasury in Islamic Thought and Civilization
    Imam Nawawi's collection of forty two hadith brings together some of the most important and pivotal Prophetic traditions. Each tradition encapsulates a great rule of the religion of Islam, described by Islamic religious scholars as an "axis" in Islam. The commentary of the great hadith master Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Daqiq al-'Id is simple but erudite.Mokrane Guezzou is a well-known translator of over ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Amazing Quran

    by Gary Miller ...
    Many centuries before the onset of Muhammad's prophethood, there was a well-known theory of atomism advanced by the Greek philosopher, Democritus. He and the people who came after him assumed that matter consists of tiny, indestructible, indivisible particles called atoms. The Arabs too, used to deal in the same concept; in fact, the Arabic word dharrah commonly referred to the smallest particle ... Read more

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  • The Status of Women in Islam

    by Sherif Abdel Azeem Mohamed ...
    In the West, Islam is believed to be the symbol of the subordination of women par excellence. In order to understand how firm this belief is, it is enough to mention that the Minister of Education in France, the land of Voltaire, has recently ordered the expulsion of all young Muslim women wearing the veil from French schools! A young Muslim student wearing a headscarf is denied her right of ... Read more

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  • The Craft of Ritual Studies

    by Ronald L. Grimes ...
    Series series Oxford Ritual Studies
    In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Saving the Original Sinner

    How Christians Have Used the Bible's First Man to Oppress, Inspire, and Make Sense of the World

    by Karl W. Giberson ...
    A scientist and former evangelical argues that holding onto a belief in a literal, historical Adam has forced many Christians to reject science and become intellectually isolated from the modern world.The Bible’s first man stands at the center of a crisis that is shaking much of Christianity. In the evangelical world, scholars have been ostracized and banished from their academic communities for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

    by Mohammad Hassan Khalil ...
    Is Islam fundamentally violent? For influential New Atheists such as Sam Harris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Richard Dawkins, the answer is an emphatic yes, largely because of the Islamic doctrine of jihad. According to this view, when al-Qaeda plotted 9/11 or ISIS planned any one of its recent terrorist attacks, they were acting in accord with Islamic scripture. Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Srebrenica. The days of shame

    by Luca Leone, Riccardo Noury ...
    Series series Inediti in e-book
    Srebrenica represents a dark and painful chapter in late twentieth-century European history. Here, a still unknown number of Bosnian Muslim citizens were tortured and killed in July 1995. About 8.500 deaths have so far been confirmed, but survivors say 10.701 people died as a result of the blind and racist violence of the Bosnian Serb army led by Ratko Mladic’ and mainly Serb paramilitary forces, ... Read more

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  • Women of Sufism

    A Hidden Treasure

    by Camille Adams Helminski ...
    This collection of Sufi poetry and songs is “an inspiring source to deepen our knowledge of Sufism by the examples and teachings of . . . beautiful and wise Sufi women” (Sufism)The luminous presence of women who follow the Sufi Way—the mystical path of Islam—is brought to life here through their sacred songs and poetry, their dreams and visions, and stories of their efforts as they witness the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Edge of Islam

    Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast

    by Janet McIntosh ...
    In this theoretically rich exploration of ethnic and religious tensions, Janet McIntosh demonstrates how the relationship between two ethnic groups in the bustling Kenyan town of Malindi is reflected in and shaped by the different ways the two groups relate to Islam. While Swahili and Giriama peoples are historically interdependent, today Giriama find themselves literally and metaphorically on the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD