What You Have Not Heard about the Sharia Question
Author: Abd al-Masih
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13:
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Contesting the Iranian Revolution
Author: Pouya Alimagham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1108475442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the last forty years of Iranian and Middle-Eastern history through the prism of the Green Uprisings of 2009.
Sharia Compliant
Author: Rumee Ahmed
Publisher: Encountering Traditions
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781503605701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers the ins and outs of Islamic legal change and provides readers with step-by-step instructions for shaping the future of Islamic law.
A Common Word
Author: Miroslav Volf
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0802863809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA letter printed in the pages of The New York times in 2007 acknowledged differences between Christianity and Islam but contended that "righteousness and good works" should be the only areas in which the two compete. That letter and a collaborative Christian response appear in this volume, which includes subsequent dialogue between Muslim and Christian scholars.
No God but One: Allah or Jesus? (with Bonus Content)
Author: Nabeel Qureshi
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0310522560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBONUS: This eBook includes downloadable videos and a Q&A with Nabeel Qureshi that are not found in the print edition. Having shared his journey of faith in the New York Times bestselling Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, Nabeel Qureshi now examines Islam and Christianity in detail, exploring areas of crucial conflict and unpacking the relevant evidence. In this anticipated follow-up book, Nabeel reveals what he discovered in the decade following his conversion, providing a thorough and careful comparison of the evidence for Islam and Christianity--evidence that wrenched his heart and transformed his life. In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, Nabeel Qureshi recounted his dramatic journey, describing his departure from Islam and his decision to follow Christ. In the years that followed, he realized that the world’s two largest religions are far more different than they initially appeared. No God but One: Allah or Jesus? addresses the most important questions at the interface of Islam and Christianity: How do the two religions differ? Are the differences significant? Can we be confident that either Christianity or Islam is true? And most important, is it worth sacrificing everything for the truth? Nabeel shares stories from his life and ministry, casts new light on current events, and explores pivotal incidents in the histories of both religions, providing a resource that is gripping and thought-provoking, respectful and challenging. Both Islam and Christianity teach that there is No God but One, but who deserves to be worshiped, Allah or Jesus? This eBook includes the full text of the book plus bonus content not found in the softcover! Bonuses include a Q&A with Nabeel Qureshi and downloadable videos that answer important questions about Islam and Christianity. Please note that some e-reader devices do not accommodate video play. You can still access the bonus videos by copying the web address provided into an internet browser on a device or computer that accommodates video content.
Christian Martyrs Under Islam
Author: Christian C. Sahner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 069120313X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations during late antiquity and the early Islamic era How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and how small groups of individuals rejected this faith through dramatic acts of resistance, including apostasy and blasphemy. Using previously untapped sources in a range of Middle Eastern languages, Christian Sahner introduces an unknown group of martyrs who were executed at the hands of Muslim officials between the seventh and ninth centuries CE. Found in places as diverse as Syria, Spain, Egypt, and Armenia, they include an alleged descendant of Muhammad who converted to Christianity, high-ranking Christian secretaries of the Muslim state who viciously insulted the Prophet, and the children of mixed marriages between Muslims and Christians. Sahner argues that Christians never experienced systematic persecution under the early caliphs, and indeed, they remained the largest portion of the population in the greater Middle East for centuries after the Arab conquest. Still, episodes of ferocious violence contributed to the spread of Islam within Christian societies, and memories of this bloodshed played a key role in shaping Christian identity in the new Islamic empire. Christian Martyrs under Islam examines how violence against Christians ended the age of porous religious boundaries and laid the foundations for more antagonistic Muslim-Christian relations in the centuries to come.
A Question Of Interest
Author: Peter Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-28
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0429714726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Saudi Arabia today a classic confrontation between Islamic fundamentalism and modernism has brought the Saudi banking system virtually to a state of paralysis. The debate is between those upholding the traditional Islamic prohibition against charging interest on loans and those who wish to see a modern banking system capable of generating credit to support economic development. Drawing on personal experience, interviews, and unpublished primary sources, Peter Wilson tells a dramatic story of powerful personalities, clashing cultures, and often mysterious institutions with a journalists’ eye for the telling anecdote as well as for the statistical evidence.
Conference of the Books
Author: Khaled Abou El Fadl
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbou El Fadl (Islamic law, UCLA School of Law) wrote the 62 brief essays here over the course of five years. Through a combination of musings and critical reflections on classical Muslim authors, he both traces Muslim intellectual history and also confronts questions of ethics, faith, law, politics, culture, and modern identity. He ranges over many facets of Islam in the contemporary world, exploring censorship, political oppression, terrorism, the veil and the treatment of women, marriage, parental rights, the dynamics between law and morality, the character of the prophet Muhammad, and other topics. About half the essays first appeared in The minaret magazine. c. Book News Inc.
Islam Unveiled
Author: Robert Spencer
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2003-11-25
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1594032955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn "Islam Unveiled," Robert Spencer dares to face the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches--and the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West. Going beyond the shallow distinction between a "true" peaceful Islam and the "hijacked" Islam of terrorist groups, Spencer probes the Koran and Islamic traditions (as well as the history and present-day situation of the Muslim world) as part of his inquiry into why the world's fastest growing faith tends to arouse fanaticism. "Islam Unveiled" evaluates the relationship between Islamic fundamentalism and "mainstream" Islam; the fixation with violence and jihad; the reasons for Muslims' disturbing treatment of women; and devastating effects of Muslim polygamy and Islamic divorce laws. Spencer explores other daunting questions--why the human rights record of Islamic countries is so unrelievedly grim and how the root causes of this record exist in basic Muslim beliefs; why science and high culture died out in the Muslim world--and why this is a root cause of modern Muslim resentment. He evaluates what Muslims learn from the life of Muhammad, the man that Islam hails as the supreme model of human behavior. Above all, this provocative work grapples with the question that most preoccupies us today: can Islam create successful secularized societies that will coexist peacefully with the West's multicultural mosaic?
Christians
Author: Jan Harm Boer
Publisher: Essence Publishing (Canada)
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781554522170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies in Christian Muslim Relations is volume seven in this series. This series will eventually have eight volumes of a case study in Christian-Muslim relations. Each volume deals with a different aspect of these relations-violence, secularism, Muslim law and more from Christian and Muslim perspectives. In this volume, even more so than in the earlier ones, you will hear the voice of Christians under duress and pressure from their Muslim compatriots. Their voice is loud and clear-and usually reasonable. Admittedly, not always correct. Why prefer secular to Muslim law? And what is the relationship between secular law, Christian law and Muslim law? The Christian attitude is based less on principle than on many years of experience-and a degree of ignorance. But the arguments in Volume 6 for Muslim law seem just as powerful, right and reasonable! So what gives? These two volumes shed light on these two contradictory but apparently reasonable quests. These two quests together form a case study of Christian-Muslim struggles for leadership. It sheds light also on the question why they do not simply adopt an attitude of live and let live. Here the Achilles' heel of multi-culturalism and multi-religion is exposed. Political correctness, their silent ally, in its effort to sweep it all under the carpet, has only prolonged the bloodshed. And yet we cannot solve the problems without either. About Volume 7: "I sincerely thank you so much for taking the pains to go through my deep provocative writings. I enjoyed the most your comments and questions, which made my writings and ideas come alive. More importantly, your pointing out the areas of Christian weaknesses only go to strengthen our cause. Bravo!" -Prof. Dr. Yusufu Turaki Former General Secretary of the Evangelical Churches of West Africa Former Principal of Jos ECWA Theological Seminary Former Vice President of the Nigerian Christian Association About the Author Dr. Jan H. Boer (Ph.D.-Amsterdam) has worked in Nigeria for a total of thirty years. He has served the Institute of Church & Society, the Christian Health Association of Nigeria, the University of Jos, the Theological College of Northern Nigeria and the Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria. He has written significant books on economic and social issues in Nigeria. See his Web site www.SocialTheology.com. He continues research and writing in Vancouver, Canada, with occasional trips to Nigeria.
