Category: Islam

Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali's profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. Hard-hitting, outspoken, and controversial, The Caged Virgin is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from a brutal religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity. It is a defiant call for clear thinki...
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Engaging Islam

By: Houssnet, Georges

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 379221

ISBN: 983048509

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (Encountering Traditions)

By: Iqbal, Muhammad

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 411165

ISBN: 804781478

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith

By: Jasser, M. Juhdi

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 376121

ISBN: 145165796X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A conservative American Muslim and former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander provides an alternate voice to radical Islam, providing "a candid, patriotic pushback against Muslim stereotyping" (Kirkus Reviews).

Can a Good Muslim Be a Good American?

Among the unsettling social shifts in the wake of 9/11 was a division here in the United States, often sadly along party lines, between those who believed every Muslim was a potential threat and those who believed no Muslim could do wrong. In a compelling and balanced must-read, "one of the most controversial Muslims...
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Islam: A Short History

By: Karen Armstrong

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Modern Library: Aug-00

Seller ID: 444363

ISBN: 679640401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

History of Islamic Societies

By: Lapidus, Ira M.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Aug-13

Seller ID: 231352

ISBN: 521779332

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad

By: Lesley Hazleton

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Riverhead Books: Jan-13

Seller ID: 418604

ISBN: 1594487286

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited and remade.
Look out for Lesley Hazleton's new book, "Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto," coming in February 2016.
Muhammad s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known. In "The First Muslim," Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion, and psychology, she renders him as a man in full, in all his complexity and ...
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Islam and the West

By: Lewis, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oct-10

Seller ID: 54640

ISBN: 195090616

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Crisi of Islam

By: Lewis, Bernard

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 372324

ISBN: 753817527

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Islam: Faith and History

By: Mahmoud M. Ayoub

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Oneworld Publications: Jan-05

Seller ID: 459676

ISBN: 185168350X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Combining the scholarly with the personal, this innovative introduction by an internationally renowned Islamicist gives the reader an insight into the history, traditions and beliefs of Islam. explores all aspects of Islam; from the Qur'an and Islamic law to the epic poetry of the Sufis; from the spread of Islam worldwide to reform movements in the US and Europe.
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