The Muslim 100
Author: Muhammad Khan
Publisher: Kube Publishing Ltd
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1847740294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShort biographies of the most influential Muslims in history and today. A must-have book.
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Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns
Author: Hena Khan
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2012-06-06
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 0811879054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam. Full color.
Understanding the Koran
Author: Mateen Elass
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-08-19
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0310298601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFind out how the Koran resembles the Bible—and the drastic ways in which it differs. Understanding the Koran gives you an essential grasp of Islam's holy book: where it came from, what it teaches, how Muslims view it, and how the Allah of the Koran compares with the God of the Bible. Cherished as the final, perfect revelation of God's will by 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide, the Koran has become a part of American life. What do you know about the holy book that shapes the lives and views of your neighbors and a fifth of the world's population? Written by a pastor who was born to a Muslim father and raised in Saudi Arabia, Understanding the Koran gives you a fascinating, easy-to-understand overview that will show you: Why the background behind the Koran is important to understanding it. How the Koran came into existence. A summary of the main teachings of the Koran, including what it says about Jesus and the crucifixion. Similarities and differences between Muslim and Christian views of God. What the Koran teaches about Jihad and holy war. What the Koran teaches about heaven and hell and the final destinies of the human soul. Giving you an essential grasp of Islam's holy book, Understanding the Koran points you to the one thing that can draw your Muslim friends to Jesus—his love, demonstrated to them through you. Discussion questions make it possible to use this book in group studies.
Reading the Muslim Mind
Author: Dr. Hassan Hathout
Publisher: American Trust Publications
Published: 1995-01
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 0892591579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce in a while a book comes along that can reshape the thinking of the world. One person at a time. "Reading the Muslim Mind" is just such a book. Dr Hassan Hathout starts out from a simple observation - a lifetime of biculturalism leads him to note that "Islam in the West is widely known for what it is not." This encyclopedic personality sets out to guide the reader on a comprehensive tour through Islam. For this voyage, he supplies a keen and lucid anatomy of Islamic life. But more: he provides, with incisive clarity, the inner guidebook; he uncovers the tracing of the mind at work behind the practice, the spirit behind the letter, the rationale and the Ultimate Reason, God.
Mosques: The 100 Most Iconic Islamic Houses Of Worship (Special Edition)
Author: Bernard O’Kane
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Published: 2019-06-01
Total Pages: 6
ISBN-13: 1614288429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile all mosques stem from a common tradition of reverence, differing sects, regions and practices have led to many innovations and novel architectural forms. Mosques is the latest addition to the “Ultimate collection,” and is a journey though centuries and continents that brings readers to the threshold of 100 of the world’s most historically significant buildings that are home to worshippers of the fastest growing, and second largest, religion in the world.
iMuslims
Author: Gary R. Bunt
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-04-30
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0807887714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the increasing impact of the Internet on Muslims around the world, this book sheds new light on the nature of contemporary Islamic discourse, identity, and community. The Internet has profoundly shaped how both Muslims and non-Muslims perceive Islam and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting in the twenty-first century, says Gary Bunt. While Islamic society has deep historical patterns of global exchange, the Internet has transformed how many Muslims practice the duties and rituals of Islam. A place of religious instruction may exist solely in the virtual world, for example, or a community may gather only online. Drawing on more than a decade of online research, Bunt shows how social-networking sites, blogs, and other "cyber-Islamic environments" have exposed Muslims to new influences outside the traditional spheres of Islamic knowledge and authority. Furthermore, the Internet has dramatically influenced forms of Islamic activism and radicalization, including jihad-oriented campaigns by networks such as al-Qaeda. By surveying the broad spectrum of approaches used to present dimensions of Islamic social, spiritual, and political life on the Internet, iMuslims encourages diverse understandings of online Islam and of Islam generally.
Religion as Critique
Author: Irfan Ahmad
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-11-20
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1469635100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIrfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions. Ahmad interrogates Greek and Enlightenment notions of reason and critique, and he notes how they are invoked in relation to "others," including Muslims. Drafting an alternative genealogy of critique in Islam, Ahmad reads religious teachings and texts, drawing on sources in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and English, and demonstrates how they serve as expressions of critique. Throughout, he depicts Islam as an agent, not an object, of critique. On a broader level, Ahmad expands the idea of critique itself. Drawing on his fieldwork among marketplace hawkers in Delhi and Aligarh, he construes critique anthropologically as a sociocultural activity in the everyday lives of ordinary Muslims, beyond the world of intellectuals. Religion as Critique allows space for new theoretical considerations of modernity and change, taking on such salient issues as nationhood, women's equality, the state, culture, democracy, and secularism.
Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners
Author: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl Bukhārī
Publisher: Al Saadawi Publications
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9781881963622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 100
Author: Michael H. Hart
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780806513508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKListing of 100 people from around the world and from many different fields of endeavor, whose actions--the author has determined--have had, or will have, the greatest influence on the course of history.
The Idea of the Muslim World
Author: Cemil Aydin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0674050371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Superb... A tour de force.” —Ebrahim Moosa “Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world and the relentless efforts to exploit that idea for political ends.” —Washington Post When President Obama visited Cairo to address Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single entity. How did this belief arise, and why is it so widespread? The Idea of the Muslim World considers its origins and reveals the consequences of its enduring allure. “Much of today’s media commentary traces current trouble in the Middle East back to the emergence of ‘artificial’ nation states after the fall of the Ottoman Empire... According to this narrative...today’s unrest is simply a belated product of that mistake. The Idea of the Muslim World is a bracing rebuke to such simplistic conclusions.” —Times Literary Supplement “It is here that Aydin’s book proves so valuable: by revealing how the racial, civilizational, and political biases that emerged in the nineteenth century shape contemporary visions of the Muslim world.” —Foreign Affairs
