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ALI: THE ELIXIR OF LOVE
ISBN: 9781943393060
Publisher: MAINSTAY FOUNDATIONS
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Author: JALAL MOUGHANIA -
AN INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC THEOLOGY
ISBN: 9789697280292
Publisher: SRAK PUBLISHERS
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Author: JOHN RENARD -
THE PROMISE OF PIETY
In The Promise of Piety, Arsalan Khan examines the zealous commitment to a distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement the Tablighi Jamaat. This group says that Muslims have abandoned their religious duties for worldly pursuits, creating a state of moral chaos apparent in the breakdown of relationships in the family, nation, and global Islamic community. Tablighis insist that this dire situation can only be remedied by drawing Muslims back to Islam through dawat, which they regard as the sacred means for spreading Islamic virtue. In a country founded in the name of Muslim identity and where Islam is ubiquitous in public life, the Tablighi claim that Pakistani Muslims have abandoned Islam is particularly striking.
The Promise of Piety shows how Tablighis constitute a distinct form of pious relationality in the ritual processes and everyday practices of dawat and how pious relationality serves as a basis for transforming domestic and public life. Khan explores both the promise and limits of the Tablighi project of creating an Islamic moral order that can transcend the political fragmentation and violence of life in postcolonial Pakistan.
ISBN: 9789696403111
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: ISLAM AND THE POLITICS OF MORAL ORDER IN PAKISTAN
Author: ARSALAN KHAN -
MOHAMMAD KAUN HAIN ?
ISBN: 9789699368912
Publisher: UMT PRESS
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Author: DR. ABDUL HAMEED JASIM AL-BALALI -
INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM
ISBN: N0001
Publisher: PEACE PBULICATION
Subtitle: PEACE CLASSIC ISLAMIC SERIES
Author: DR. MUHAMMAD HAMIDULLAHMAWDUDI AND THE MAKING OF ISLAMIC REVIVALISM
Nasr examines the life and thoughts of Mawlana Mawdudi, one of the first and most important Islamic ideological thinkers. Mawdudi was the first to develop a modern political Islamic ideology and a plan for social action to realize his vision. The prolific writings and indefatigable efforts of Mawdudi’s party, the Jamaat-i-Islami, first in India and later in Pakistan, have disseminated his ideas far and wide. His views have informed revivalism from Morocco to Malaysia.
Nasr discerns the events that led Mawdudi to a revivalist perspective, and probes the structure of his thought, to gain fresh insights into the origins of Islamic revivalism. He argues that Islamic revivalism did not simply develop as a cultural rejection of the West, rather it was closely tied to questions of communal politics and its impact on identity formation, discourse of power in plural societies, and nationalism. Mawdudi’s discourse, though aimed at the West, was motivated by competition from the Muslim Hindus for power in British India. His aim, according to Nasr, was to put forth a view of Islam whose invigorated, pristine, and uncompromising outlook would galvanize Muslims into an ideologically uniform and hence politically indivisible community. In time, this view developed a life of its own and evolved into an all-encompassing perspective on society and politics, and has been a notable force in South Asia and Muslim life and thought across the Muslim world.
ISBN: 9786277706036
Publisher: LEGACY BOOKS
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Author: VALI NASRISLAM AT WAR
The word Islam means Peace, but for nearly 1,400 years its adherents have waged war―frequently on the grandest and most successful scales in history. This book introduces some of Islam’s greatest military figures and analyzes significant events that are shaping the modern world. Nafziger and Walton detail the rich and diverse military histories of dozens of empires, nations, tribes, clans, and peoples.
Militant Islamists viewed the events of September 11, 2001, as merely one more step in an ongoing military campaign against the West and the United States. Major events in this ongoing war include the great Arab conquests in the Middle East and the Iberian Peninsula, the Crusades, Muslim India, the Seljuq and Ottoman Empires, naval warfare, colonialism, and the numerous military actions of modern Muslim states. The word Islam means Peace, but for nearly 1,400 years its adherents have waged war―frequently on the grandest and most successful scales in history. This book introduces some of Islam’s greatest military figures and analyzes significant events that are shaping the modern world.
Nafziger and Walton detail the rich and diverse military histories of dozens of empires, nations, tribes, clans, and peoples. They make a special effort to outline the military history of the Quran and show how Islamic theology justifies the military effort. With considerable discussion of the military aspects of terrorism, this overview will provide the general reader with background information and analysis of parts of the world that are likely to remain a battleground for years to come.
ISBN: 9.78028E+12
Publisher: PRAEGER
Subtitle: A HISTORY
Author: GEORGE F. NAFZIGER MARK W. WALTONTHE ABBASID CALIPHATE
The period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750?1258) has long been recognized as the formative period of Islamic civilization with its various achievements in the areas of science, literature, and culture. This history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 examines the Caliphate as an empire and institution, and probes its influence over Islamic culture and society. Ranging widely to survey the entire five-century history of the Abbasid dynasty, Tayeb El-Hibri examines the resilience of the Caliphate as an institution, as a focal point of religious definitions, and as a source of legitimacy to various contemporary Islamic monarchies. The study revisits ideas of ‘golden age’ and ‘decline’ with a new reading, tries to separate Abbasid history from the myths of the Arabian Nights, and shows how the legacy of the caliphs continues to resonate in the modern world in direct and indirect ways.
ISBN: 9781107183247
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: A HISTORY
Author: TAYEB EL-HIBRIPARTISANS OF ALLAH
The idea of jihad is central to Islamic faith and ethics, yet its meanings have been highly contested over time. They have ranged from the philosophical struggle to live an ethical life to the political injunction to wage war against enemies of Islam. Today more than ever, jihad signifies the political opposition between the Islamic world and the West. As the line between Muslims and non-Muslims becomes more sharply drawn, Ayesha Jalal seeks to retrieve the ethical meanings of this core Islamic principle in South Asian history.
Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia. She reveals how key innovations in modern Islamic thought resulted from historical imperatives. The social and political scene in India before, during, and after British colonial rule forms the main backdrop. We experience jihad as armed warfare waged by Sayyid Ahmad of Rai Bareilly between 1826 and 1831, the calls to jihad in the great rebellion of 1857, the fusion of jihad with a strand of anticolonial nationalism in the early twentieth century, and the contemporary politics of self-styled jihadis in Pakistan, waging war to liberate co-religionists in Afghanistan and Kashmir.
Partisans of Allah survey this rich and tumultuous history of South Asian Muslims and its critical contribution to the intellectual development of the key concept of jihad. Analyzing the complex interplay of ethics and politics in Muslim history, the author effectively demonstrates the preeminent role of jihad in the Muslim faith today.
ISBN: 9789693521306
Publisher: SANG-E-MEEL PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: JIHAD IN SOUTH ASIA
Author: AYESHA JALALTHE VENTURE OF ISLAM – 3 VOLS SET
The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad (PBUH) to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of the famous course on Islamic civilization that Hodgson created and taught for many years at the University of Chicago.
This is a nonpareil work, not only because of its command of its subject but also because it demonstrates how, ideally, history should be written.
ISBN: 9694023904
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
Subtitle: CONSCIENCE AND HISTORY IN A WORLD CIVILIZATION – THE CLASSICAL AGE OF ISLAM – THE EXPANSION OF ISLAM IN THE MIDDLE PERIODS – THE GUNPOWDER EMPIRES AND MODERN TIMES
Author: MARSHALL G. S. HODGSON₨ 14,995THE SOLE SPOKESMAN
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ISBN: 9789693502176
Publisher: SANG-E-MEEL PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: JINNAH, THE MUSLIM LEAGUE AND THE DEMAND FOR PAKISTAN
Author: AYESHA JALALDESTINY DISRUPTED
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. He clarifies why our civilizations grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europe?a place it long perceived as primitive and disorganized?had somehow hijacked destiny.
ISBN: 9781586488130
Publisher: PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Subtitle: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD THROUGH ISLAMIC EYES
Author: TAMIM ANSARYSALADIN
n this authoritative biography, historian John Man brings Saladin and his world to life with vivid detail in “a rollicking good story” (Justin Marozzi).
Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, he is the Islamic world’s preeminent hero. A ruthless defender of his faith and brilliant leader, he also possessed qualities that won admiration from his Christian foes.
But Saladin is far more than a historical hero. Builder, literary patron, and theologian, he is a man for all times, and a symbol of hope for an Arab world once again divided. Centuries after his death, in cities from Damascus to Cairo and beyond, to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf, Saladin continues to be an immensely potent symbol of religious and military resistance to the West. He is central to Arab memories, sensibilities, and the ideal of a unified Islamic state.
John Man charts Saladin’s rise to power, his struggle to unify the warring factions of his faith, and his battles to retake Jerusalem and expel Christian influence from Arab lands. Saladin explores the life and enduring legacy of this champion of Islam while examining his significance for the world today.
ISBN: 9780306825422
AUTHOR: JOHN MAN
ISBN: 9780306825422
Publisher: DA CAPO PRESS
Subtitle: THE SULTAN WHO VANQUISHED THE CRUSADERS AND BUILT AN ISLAMIC EMPIRE
Author: JOHN MANJIHAD IN ISLAMIC HISTORY
What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today’s debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothing less than a struggle over Islam itself. In Jihad in Islamic History, Michael Bonner provides the first study in English that focuses on the early history of jihad, shedding much-needed light on the most recent controversies over jihad.
To some, jihad is the essence of radical Islamist ideology a synonym for terrorism, and even proof of Islam’s innate violence. To others, jihad means a peaceful, individual, and internal spiritual striving. Bonner, however, shows that those who argue that jihad means only violence or only peace are both wrong. Jihad is a complex set of doctrines and practices that have changed over time and continue to evolve today. The Quran’s messages about fighting and jihad are inseparable from its requirements of generosity and care for the poor. Jihad has often been a constructive and creative force, the key to building new Islamic societies and states. Jihad has regulated relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, in peace as well as in war. And while today’s “jihadists” are in some ways following the “classical” jihad tradition, they have in other ways completely broken with it.
Written for general readers who want to understand jihad and its controversies, Jihad in Islamic History will also interest specialists because of its original arguments.
ISBN: 0691125740
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: DOCTRINES AND PRACTICE
Author: MICHAEL BONNERMUSLIM IN SPAIN
“Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 is a work of maturity, distilling all the knowledge L. P. Harvey has absorbed (and also contributed to) over a period of nearly fifty years. A work of definitive scholarship like this one will not be bettered for at least another generation.” — Consuelo López Morillas, Indiana University.
On December 18, 1499, Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government’s attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subsequent widespread rebellion provided the Christian city governments in Granada and throughout Spain with an excuse—or justification, as its leaders saw things—to embark on the systematic elimination of the Islamic presence from Spain, as well as from the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, over the next hundred years.
Picking up at the end of his earlier classic study, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500—which described the courageous efforts of the followers of Islam to preserve their secular, as well as sacred, culture in late medieval Spain—L. P. Harvey chronicles here the struggles of the Moriscos. These unwilling converts to Christianity lived clandestinely in the sixteenth century as Muslims, communicating in Aljamiado—Spanish written in Arabic characters. More broadly, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 tells the story of an early modern nation struggling to deal with a determined faction of non-Christians at a time when the forces of the Counter Reformation—themselves threatened by Ottoman political and military expansion— were endeavoring to impose absolute religious uniformity.
Retold in all its complexity and poignancy, this tale of religions intolerance, political maneuvering, and ethnic cleansing resonates with many modern concerns. Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 will be compulsory reading for student and specialist alike.
ISBN: 0226319636
Publisher: CHICAGO
Subtitle: 1500 TO 1614
Author: L. P. HARVEYA HISTORY OF ISLAMIC LAW
This timely text describes the complete history of Islamic jurisprudence from its origins, through the Medieval period, to modern times. This reissue demonstrates how, although religious law lies at the heart of Islamic culture, Islamic states have recently modified the law to meet society’s changing values.
ISBN: 0748605142
Publisher: EDINBURGH
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Author: NOEL J. COULSONLANDSCAPES OF THE JIHAD
The militant Islam represented by Al Qaeda is often described as a global movement. Apart from the geographical range of its operations and support, little else is held to define it as ‘global’. Landscapes of the Jihad explores the features that Al Qaeda and other strands of militant Islam share with global movements such as environmentalists and anti-globalisation protesters.
ISBN: 1850657750
Publisher: FOUNDATION BOOKS
Subtitle: MILITANCY, MORALITY AND MODERNITY
Author: FAISAL DEVJI₨ 1,478