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This enlightening biography introduces readers to Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam. Readers will learn how he grew to become the founder of Islam and an important figure in the history of the world. The engaging facts, alluring images, and supportive text combine together to create an engaging reading experience for children to learn about such things as the Bedouins, Makkah, Qur'an, Hijrah, Sunnis, Shi'as, and how Muhammed urged people to follow his idea of monotheism. With a glossary and index, children will have all the tools they need to learn about Muhammed's incredible life!.
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• 1. Commentary
• 2. The history of intellectual movements in Islam : the social movements / by Bandali Jawzi.

This work makes available for the first time in English a seminal text of Arab modernism. Originally published in 1928, Jawzi's book The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam offered the first Marxist interpretation of the development of Islamic thought, arguing that Muslim society in the industrial age must adopt a socialist economic system. Tamara Sonn provides an extensive contextualizing and interpretive introduction to her readable translation.
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• Table of Contents; Preface vii;
• 1. The Sermon in Islam: A Discursive and Religious Symbol in History 1;
• 2. Creation of the Cape Mosque Discourse 21;
• 3. The Claremont Main Road Mosque: Redrawing the Cape Tradition 40;
• 4. Transvaal Mosques: The Production of Orthodoxy 60;
• 5. The Brits Mosque: Orthodoxy and Its Periphery 77;
• 6. The Sermons: Ritual Inscription of Space 102;
• 7. Sermons and the Re-citation of Discourses 115;
• 8. Conclusions 137; Notes 149; Works Cited 161; Index 173.

The author examines the Islamic institutions of South Africa over 200 years, from the first European colony in the 17th century through British colonialism and apartheid. He argues that the Imams' sermons function as symbols of the Word of God and as venues for interpretation of the Qu'ran.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1-Begin with the Basics Chapter 2-Demystifying the Origins of Islam
• Chapter 3 - Demystifying Jihad
• Chapter 4 - Demystifying Shariah
• Chapter 5 - Demystifying Islam's View of Religious Freedom
• Chapter 6 - Demystifying Islam's View of Free Speech
• Chapter 7 - Demystifying Women's Rights in Islam
• Chapter 8 - Demystifying Islam's View of Jesus Christ
• Chapter 9 - Demystifying the Sects of Islam About the Author.
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Demystifying Islam is a concise guide to what Islam really teaches about provocative topics, from the burqa to Shariah law. After a short introduction to basic beliefs and practices, each chapter boldly tackles a challenging topic about Islam today. The book is forthright about issues where Muslims disagree, and provides a single, engaging source where readers can turn for answers to these important topics.
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• 1. The story of Islamic history
• 2. Peoples and cultures
• 3. Institutions
• 4. The sources
• 5. Competing approaches
• 6. Religious significance
• 7. Political significance
• Conclusions
• Further reading.
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Does history matter? This book argues not that history matters, but that Islamic history does. This Very Short Introduction introduces the story of Islamic history; the controversies surrounding its study; and the significance that it holds - for Muslims and for non-Muslims alike. Opening with a lucid overview of the rise and spread of Islam, from the seventh to twenty first century, the book charts the evolution of what was originally a small, localised community of believers into an international religion with over a billion adherents. Chapters are also dedicated to the peoples - Arabs, Persians, and Turks - who shaped Islamic history, and to three representative institutions - the mosque, jihad, and the caliphate - that highlight Islam's diversity over time. Finally, the roles that Islamic history has played in both religious and political contexts are analysed, while stressing the unique status that history enjoys amongst Muslims, especially compared to its lowly place in Western societies where history is often seen as little more than something that is not to be repeated. Some of the questions that will be answered are: * How did Islam arise from the obscurity of seventh century Arabia to the headlines of twenty first century media? * How do we know what we claim to know about Islam's rise and development? * Why does any of this matter, either to Muslims or to non-Muslims? ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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• ""Preface""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""The Study of Islam in German Scholarship""; ""The Study of Islam in French Scholarship""; ""The Study of Islam in British Scholarship""; ""The Study of Islam in Dutch Scholarship""; ""The Study of Islam in Russia and the Former Soviet Union: An Overview""; ""The Cultural and Intellectual Background of German Orientalism""; ""The Image of Islam in the Medieval and the Early Modern Period""; ""The Study of Islam, Orientalism and America""; ""Islamic Studies and the History of Religions: An Evaluation""; ""Rethinking Islam Today""

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
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• Arabia before Islam
• Muhammad
• The expansion of Islam
• The Koran and its teachings
• The tradition
• The law
• Theology and philosophy
• The Shia and related sects
• Mystical Islam and Sufi Brotherhoods
• Popular piety and the veneration of saints
• Modern developments inside Islam.

"It is a splendid introduction--carefully researched and comprehensive, yet readable. It corrects many popular and erroneous notions about Islam that prevail in non-Muslim societies. For the general reader there are many profound insights of great consequence, for example, the passages on women, marriage, and inheritance, or the section on jihad, nearly always completely misunderstood in the press."--Jacket.

• Editor's preface Author's preface
• 1. Kavad's heresy and Mazdak's revolt
• 2. Zoroastrian communism
• 3. Khurramis
• 4. Muqanna'
• 5. Abu Tammam on the Mubayyida
• 6. The Muqanna' narrative in the Tarikhnama: Part I, Introduction, edition and translation
• 7. The Muqanna' narrative in the Tarikhnama: Part II, Commentary and analysis
• 8. Al-Jahiz on ashab al-jahalat and the Jahmiyya
• 9. Buddhism as ancient Iranian paganism
• 10. A new text on Ismailism at the Samanid court
• 11. What was al-Farabi's 'imamic' constitution?
• 12. Al-Farabi's imperfect constitutions
• 13. Pre-existence in Iran: Zoroastrians, ex-Christian Mu'tazilites, and Jews on the human acquisition of bodies List of Patricia Crone's publications Index to volume 2.
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Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. Volume 1, The Qur'anic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qur'anic religious milieu. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. The Qur'anic Pagans and Related Matters Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness.
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• In de stad van de Marabouts; Voorwoord; Inhoud; 1 Dorst in Djenné; 2 Twee soorten kennis; 3 De Koran en andere boeken; 4 Vragen aan God; 5 Toekomstgeheimen; 6 Het melkmeisje en de amulet; 7 Amuletten; 8 Zegenrijke krachten en aalmoezen; Epiloog Het zand en de tijd; Djenné anno 2007; Verklarende woordenlijst; Literatuur; Verantwoording.

• Acknowledgements-- Transcription-- Introduction: Islam in early modern Britain--
• 1. 'Turning Turke': conversion to Islam in English writings--
• 2. The renegade on stage and in church--
• 3. 'Arabia Britannica': 'Alcoran' and the legacy of Arabic Islam--
• 4. 'Baptising the Turk': conversion to Christianity in English writings--
• 5. Eschatology and the Saracens-- Conclusion: Islam and Britain: centripetal to centrifugal-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This book examines the impact of Islam on Britain between 1558 and 1685. Professor Matar provides a perspective on the transformation of British thought and society by demonstrating how influential Islam was in the formation of early modern British culture. Christian-Muslim interaction was not, as is often thought, primarily adversarial; rather, there was extensive cultural, intellectual and missionary engagement with Islam in Britain. The author documents conversion both to and from Islam, and surveys reactions to these conversions. He examines the impact of the Qur'an and Sufism, not to mention coffee, on British culture, and cites extensive interaction of Britons with Islam through travel, in London coffee houses, in church, among converts to and from Islam, in sermons and in plays. Finally, he focuses on the theological portrait of Muslims in conversionist and eschatological writings.
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• PROVISIONAL CONTENTS LIST Why is the Qur'an in Arabic? Wouldn't it be better if we read the Qur'an only in English (from the translation)? So, even though we don't understand it, what good is there in reading and listening to the Qur'an in Arabic? So if the Qur'an is Allah's word, why is it so much like people's words? Why was the Qur'an sent over such a long time like 23 years? Wouldn't it be easier if Allah had sent it all at once? How can we be so sure that the Qur'an has reached us without even a single letter changed? Does the Qur'an get old? Some scientific miracles that take place in the Holy Qur'an Why does it say, "Will they not then consider the camels?" in the Qur'an? Why is the name of the longest surah in the Qur'an Baqara (the cow)? THE DICTIONARY OF THE QUR'AN.
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The fourth book in the series that answers some of the cunning questions children ask about God (Allah). The "I Wonder About Islam" series includes the following titles: I Wonder about Allah (Book One) I Wonder about Allah (Book Two) I Wonder about the Prophet, I Wonder about Angels, I Wonder about Heaven, I Wonder about Destiny.
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• Cover; Part I: Context; Part II: Text; A. The Syncretistic Great Tradition;
• Section I: The Mainstream;
• Section II: The Muslim ""Vaisnav"" Lyrical Literature; B. The Syncretistic Little Tradition;
• 6. Pirism or the Cult of Pir.

Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the real"" Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-century reformers claimed, but a valid historical religion developed in an area totally different from the Middle East. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions.

• Cover; Part I: Context; Part II: Text; A. The Syncretistic Great Tradition;
• Section I: The Mainstream;
• Section II: The Muslim ""Vaisnav"" Lyrical Literature; B. The Syncretistic Little Tradition;
• 6. Pirism or the Cult of Pir.

Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the real"" Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-century reformers claimed, but a valid historical religion developed in an area totally different from the Middle East. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions.

• Introduction: patterns of Islamization and varieties of religious experience among Muslims of Africa / Nehemia Levtzion, Randall L. Pouwels
• Egypt and North Africa / Peter von Sivers
• The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea / M.N. Pearson
• Islam in the Bilad al-Sudan to 1800 / Nehemia Levtzion
• The Juula and the expansion of Islam into the forest / Ivor Wilks
• Precolonial Islam in the eastern Sudan / Jay Spaulding
• Revolutions in the western Sudan / David Robinson
• The eastern Sudan, 1822 to the present / John O. Voll
• Islam in Africa under French colonial rule / Jean-Louis Triaud
• Islam in West Africa: radicalism and the new ethic of disagreement, 1960-1990 / Lansiné Kaba
• Religious pluralisms in northern Nigeria / William F.S. Miles
• Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa / Lidwien Kapteijns
• The East African coast, c. 780 to 1900 C.E. / Randall L. Pouwels
• The coastal hinterland and interior of East Africa / David C. Sperling, with additional material by Jose H. Kagabo
• East Central Africa / Edward A. Alpers
• Islam in southern Africa, 1652-1998 / Robert C.-H. Shell
• Radicalism and reform in East Africa / Abdin Chande
• Islamic law in Africa / Allan Christelow
• Muslim women in African history / Roberta Ann Dunbar
• Islamic education and scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa / Stefan Reichmuth
• Sufi brotherhoods in Africa / Knut S. Vikør
• Prayer, amulets, and healing / David Owusu-Ansah
• Islamic art and material culture in Africa / René A. Bravmann
• Islamic literature in Africa / Kenneth W. Harrow
• Music and Islam in sub-Saharan Africa / Eric Charry.

The history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History of Islam in Africa presents a detailed historic mapping of the cultural, political, geographic, and religious past of this significant presence on a continent-wide scale. Bringing together two dozen leading scholars, this comprehensive work treats the historical development of the religion in each major region and examines its effects. Without assuming prior knowledge of the subject on the part of its readers, The History of Islam in Africa is broken down into discrete areas, each devoted to a particular place or theme and each written by experts in that particular arena. The introductory chapters examine the principal "gateways" from abroad through which Islam traditionally has influenced Africans. The following two parts present overviews of Islamic history in West Africa and the Sudanic zone, and in subequatorial Africa. In the final section, the authors discuss important themes that have had an impact on Muslim communities in Africa. Designed as both a reference and a text, The History of Islam in Africa will be an essential tool for libraries, scholars, and students of this growing field. Contributors: Edward A. Alpers, Rene A. Bravmann, Abdin Chande, Eric Charry, Allan Christelow, Roberta Ann Dunbar, Kenneth W. Harrow, Lansine Kaba, Lidwien Kapteijns, Nehemia Levtzion, William F. S. Miles, David Owusu-Ansah, M. N. Pearson, Randall L. Pouwels, Stefan Reichmuth, David Robinson, Peter von Sivers, Robert C.-H. Shell, Jay Spaulding, David C. Sperling with Jose H. Kagabo, Jean-Louis Triaud, Knut S. Vikor, John O. Voll, and Ivor Wilks.
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• Reviving Al-Andalus
• From celebration to stigmatization
• Migration, urbanization, and social stratification in Catalonia
• Urban marginality and anti-mosque mobilization
• Urban privilege and neighborhood defense
• A point of comparison: the case of Madrid
• From the social to the legislative realm.

• 1. GENERAL INFORMATION
• 2. FAITH AND PRACTICE
• 3. ISLAM AND OTHER RELIGIONS
• 4. CUSTOMS AND CULTURE
• 5. VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM
• 6. SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND ECONOMY
• 7. MUSLIMS IN THE WEST.
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Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been an overwhelming demand for information about Islam, and recent events - the war in Iraq, terrorist attacks both failed and successful, debates throughout Europe over Islamic dress, and many others - have raised new questions in the minds of policymakers and the general public. This newly updated edition of What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam is the best single source for clearly presented, objective information about these new developments, and for answers to questions about the origin and traditions of Islam. Editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islam and The Oxford History of Islam, and author of The Future of Islam and many other acclaimed works, John L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. This brief and readable book remains the first place to look for up-to-date information on the faith, customs, and political beliefs of the more than one billion people who call themselves Muslims.
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