Welcome to Islam
Welcome to Islam

Author: Lucy Bushill-Matthews

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1350031399

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Written by a Muslim convert and mother of three, Welcome to Islam captures the occasionally poignant but often humorous reality of being a Muslim in the current climate: as a convert, a working woman, a mother, and as an active member of the local community. Discover what it's really like living life as a Muslim: praying the ritual prayers at work in an office when your boss walks in; going on Hajj with hundreds of Saudi women dressed from head to toe in black; or explaining to your six-year-old daughter, who is looking at the pictures in the newspaper, that the bearded Asian Muslim who is being arrested for terrorism isn't in fact the family friend we all know and love - just someone who looks extremely similar. It is rare to pick up a newspaper or watch the television without encountering a 'Muslim issue' at least once. Lucy Bushill-Matthews' story brings the faith behind the headlines refreshingly to life.

Welcome Home, Mohammed
Welcome Home, Mohammed

Author: Christian Daniel

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13:

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Need a gift for your Muslim friend? Or do you simply want to learn more about Islam? Check this out, I promise you will learn some things. Are you a Christian and perhaps you don't know how to share the Gospel with your Muslim friend? Get them this book God said "I will put My laws into their minds, And I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, And they shall be My people.". Therefore I believe that we are capable of recognizing the truth if we see it. "God wrote the laws in our hearts" (Romans 2:12-16). In this book, I will prove that despite the author's claims, the verses in the Quran are not from God, and definitely not from the same God of the Christians and Jews. I will list for you just 10 reasons why Islam is false "And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free," John 8:32. Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life".

The New Muslim's Field Guide
The New Muslim's Field Guide

Author: Theresa Corbin

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781981328994

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This is not your average "Welcome to Islam!" book. The New Muslim's Field Guide offers a fresh approach to guiding Muslim converts, focused on helping them grow as Muslims while maintaining their identity and love for God. Drawing on their shared decades of experience, Theresa and Kaighla walk the new Muslim through the hills and the valleys they'll encounter on their journey, helping the newcomer navigate the sometimes slippery cliffs of culture, politics, and interpersonal relationships. Injected with a healthy dose of humor and candor, The New Muslim's Field Guide discusses some of the deeper meanings behind belief and ritual, clarifies common sticky issues, and tells stories of triumph and failure on the journey of Islam.

Hospitality and Islam
Hospitality and Islam

Author: Mona Siddiqui

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0300216025

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Considering its prominent role in many faith traditions, surprisingly little has been written about hospitality within the context of religion, particularly Islam. In her new book, Mona Siddiqui, a well-known media commentator, makes the first major contribution to the understanding of hospitality both within Islam and beyond. She explores and compares teachings within the various Muslim traditions over the centuries, while also drawing on materials as diverse as Islamic belles lettres, Christian reflections on almsgiving and charity, and Islamic and Western feminist writings on gender issues. Applying a more theological approach to the idea of mercy as a fundamental basis for human relationships, this book will appeal to a wide audience, particularly readers interested in Islam, ethics, and religious studies.

What Is Islam?
What Is Islam?

Author: Shahab Ahmed

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 629

ISBN-13: 1400873584

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A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversity What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an analytical term? In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or those that privilege law and scripture. He argues that these modes of thinking obstruct us from understanding Islam, distorting it, diminishing it, and rendering it incoherent. What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for analyzing Islam. It presents a new paradigm of how Muslims have historically understood divine revelation—one that enables us to understand how and why Muslims through history have embraced values such as exploration, ambiguity, aestheticization, polyvalence, and relativism, as well as practices such as figural art, music, and even wine drinking as Islamic. It also puts forward a new understanding of the historical constitution of Islamic law and its relationship to philosophical ethics and political theory. A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, What Is Islam? reveals how Muslims have historically conceived of and lived with Islam as norms and truths that are at once contradictory yet coherent.

How to Pray
How to Pray

Author: Mustafa Umar

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2011-07-28

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781463578909

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There has been an urgent need for a simple and concise guide which teaches the basics of prayer for Muslims. This book has been designed for people who don't know how to pray yet or those who aren't sure whether they learned correctly or not.In this book you will learn the prayers by reading clear and simple descriptions of what to do along with pictures to make sure you understood correctly. One of the unique features of this book is that it doesn't limit itself to teaching the rituals behind the prayer only. Rather, there is an entire chapter dedicated to learning the meanings behind each statement and action in the prayer.

Transformations of Tradition
Transformations of Tradition

Author: Junaid Quadri

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0190077042

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"This book is a study of the Muslim world's entanglement with colonial modernity. More specifically, it is an historical examination of the development of the long-standing, indigenous tradition of learning and praxis known as Islamic law (shari°a, fiqh) as a result of its imbalanced interaction with new European modes of knowing during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the colonial experience. Drawing upon the writings of jurist-scholars from the òHanaf åischool of law writing in Cairo, Kazan, Lucknow, Baghdad and Istanbul, Transformations of Tradition reveals several central shifts in Islamic legal writing that throw into doubt the possibility of reading its later trajectory through the lens of a continuous "tradition." By focusing especially on the work of Muòhammad Bakhåit al-Muòtåi°åi, Mufti of Egypt for a time and a leading scholar at the Azhar, Transformations shows that the colonial moment of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant rupture in how Muslim jurists understood history and authority, science and technology, and religion and the secular, thereby upending the very ground upon which Islamic law had until then functioned"--

Black Pilgrimage to Islam
Black Pilgrimage to Islam

Author: Robert Dannin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780195300246

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Drawing on hundreds of interviews, Dannin provides an unprecedented look inside the fascinating and little understood world of black Muslims. He examines the tension between the Nation of Islam and Islamic orthodoxy, visits mosques and prisons, and ponders the effect of the assassination of Malcolm X.

Islam Translated
Islam Translated

Author: Ronit Ricci

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0226710904

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The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stretched from India to the Philippines. In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci uses the Book of One Thousand Questions—from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries—as a means to consider connections that linked Muslims across divides of distance and culture. Examining the circulation of this Islamic text and its varied literary forms, Ricci explores how processes of literary translation and religious conversion were historically interconnected forms of globalization, mutually dependent, and creatively reformulated within societies making the transition to Islam.