Ramadan

Ramadan

Author: Ausma Zehanat Khan

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1459811836

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The month of Ramadan offers the opportunity to improve one's personal and spiritual behavior. By focusing on positive thoughts and actions, Muslims build a closer connection with God and come away from the month feeling spiritually renewed. Ramadan: The Holy Month of Fasting explores the richness and diversity of the Islamic tradition by focusing on an event of great spiritual significance and beauty in the lives of Muslims. Rich with personal stories and stunning photographs, Ramadan demystifies the traditions and emphasizes the importance of diversity in a world where Islamophobia is on the rise.


The Road To Mecca

The Road To Mecca

Author: Muhammad Asad

Publisher: The Book Foundation

Published: 1954

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0992798108

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Part travelogue, part autobiography, "The Road to Mecca" is the compelling story of a Western journalist and adventurer who converted to Islam in the early twentieth century. A spiritual and literary counterpart of Wilfred Thesiger and a contemporary of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Muhammad Asad journeyed around the Middle East, Afghanistan and India. This is an account of Asad's adventures in Arabia, his inner awakening, and his relationships with nomads and royalty alike, set in the wake of the First World War. It can be read on many levels: as a eulogy to a lost world, and as the poignant account of a man's search for meaning. It is also a love story, defying convention and steeped in loss. With its evocative descriptions and profound insights on the Islamic world, "The Road to Mecca" is a work of immense value today.


Muslims in the Western Imagination

Muslims in the Western Imagination

Author: Sophia Rose Arjana

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-01-02

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0199324948

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A Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic Title Throughout history, Muslim men have been depicted as monsters. The portrayal of humans as monsters helps a society delineate who belongs and who, or what, is excluded. Even when symbolic, as in post-9/11 zombie films, Muslim monsters still function to define Muslims as non-human entities. These are not depictions of Muslim men as malevolent human characters, but rather as creatures that occupy the imagination -- non-humans that exhibit their wickedness outwardly on the skin. They populate medieval tales, Renaissance paintings, Shakespearean dramas, Gothic horror novels, and Hollywood films. Through an exhaustive survey of medieval, early modern, and contemporary literature, art, and cinema, Muslims in the Western Imagination examines the dehumanizing ways in which Muslim men have been constructed and represented as monsters, and the impact such representations have on perceptions of Muslims today. The study is the first to present a genealogy of these creatures, from the demons and giants of the Middle Ages to the hunchbacks with filed teeth that are featured in the 2007 film 300, arguing that constructions of Muslim monsters constitute a recurring theme, first formulated in medieval Christian thought. Sophia Rose Arjana shows how Muslim monsters are often related to Jewish monsters, and more broadly to Christian anti-Semitism and anxieties surrounding African and other foreign bodies, which involves both religious bigotry and fears surrounding bodily difference. Arjana argues persuasively that these dehumanizing constructions are deeply embedded in Western consciousness, existing today as internalized beliefs and practices that contribute to the culture of violence--both rhetorical and physical--against Muslims.


Ramadan & Diabetes Care

Ramadan & Diabetes Care

Author: Abdul Hamid Zargar

Publisher: JP Medical Ltd

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9350907003

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Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan is an important spiritual practice for many Muslims. This involves going without food, liquids and even medication between the hours of dawn until sunset, putting people with diabetes at significant risk of hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose), hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose), or dehydration. This book is a guide to the management of patients with diabetes during Ramadan. Beginning with an introduction to the physiology and endocrinology of fasting, the following chapters examine both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment options. The final sections are dedicated to management of the condition in different population groups (children, adolescents, the elderly); and management of complications, including hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemic emergencies, and co-morbid conditions such as hypertension, high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. Key points Guide to the management of diabetes during Ramadan Discusses both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment options Examines management of diabetes for different population groups Includes comprehensive section on complications and their management


Ramadan and Fasting Activity Book

Ramadan and Fasting Activity Book

Author: Aysenur Gunes

Publisher: Discover Islam Sticker Activity Books

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780860376156

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Introduce Ramadan and the Muslim fast to children with this fun sticker, activity book.


Magid Fasts for Ramadan

Magid Fasts for Ramadan

Author: Mary Matthews

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780618040353

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It is the first day of Ramadan, the month when good Muslims eat nothing and drink nothing all day, every day, from sunrise to sunset. Mama and Baba have told Magid he isn't old enough to fast, but even Magid's sister, Aisha, is fasting, and Magid doesn't want to wait. Set in present-day Egypt, Magid Fasts for Ramadan satisfyingly recounts Magid's struggle and its surprising and happy resolution, and offers an illuminating introduction to the beliefs and practices of Islam.


An Elementary Study of Islam

An Elementary Study of Islam

Author: Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad

Publisher: Islam International

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1853725625

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"This book is a brief introduction to the five fundamental articles of the Islamic faith."--P. [4] of cover.


Fasting for Ramadan

Fasting for Ramadan

Author: Kazim Ali

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781932195941

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To go without food from dawn to dusk for the whole month of Ramadan - how does this feel? What do we become when we deny our major appetites during the hours of daylight, and in what ways does this transform the nights? In these absences, what new presences, what illuminations and revelations arise? After many years of not practicing, acclaimed writer Kazim Ali has re-embraced the Ramadan tradition, and he brings a poet's precision and ardor to these brilliant meditations on an ancient and yet entirely contemporary ritual. Jane Hirshfield has said, "Kazim Ali - a writer whose powers astonish in everything he puts pen to - has made in FASTING FOR RAMADAN a book that is hybrid, peregrine, and deeply, quietly revelatory. Ali's meditations on the month-long ritual fast unfold, across cultures and spiritual practices, the deep meaning of a chosen foregoing. These journal-born pages are both intimate and public, at once ecumenical, particular, daily, and eloquently learned; planted on the deep roots of tradition, they breathe this moment's air. Is it possible for a work to be at once modest and an undeniable tour de force? This book proves: it is."