Religion / Islam

A Muslim's Heart

by Edward Hoskins

In an age when Christians are often more fearful and suspicious of Muslims than warm and relational, A Muslim's Heart will help you understand Muslim culture and how to share Christ within the context. A practical,...

Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam Across the Centuries

by Tarif Khalidi

From one of today’s leading Muslim scholars, this compelling look at how the Prophet Muhammad has been portrayed throughout the centuries offers a fascinating history of the diversity of Islamic cultures and...

On Repentance: The Thought and Oral Discourses of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

by Pinchas H. Peli

For five decades prior to his death in 1993, Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik was the unchallenged leader of modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States. His understanding of both traditional Judaism and secular...

Orientalism Revisited: Art, Land and Voyage

by Ian Richard Netton

The publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological...

Islamic Civilization in South Asia: A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent

by Burjor Avari

Muslims have been present in South Asia for 14 centuries. Nearly 40% of the people of this vast land mass follow the religion of Islam, and Muslim contribution to the cultural heritage of the sub-continent has...

Women Shaping Islam: Reading the Qur'an in Indonesia

by Pieternella van Doorn-Harder

In the United States, precious little is known about the active role Muslim women have played for nearly a century in the religious culture of Indonesia, the largest majority-Muslim country in the world. While...

Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature

by Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi & Andrew Rippin

This definitive sourcebook presents more than sixty authoritative new translations of key Islamic texts. Edited and translated by three leading specialists, Classical Islam features eight thematically-linked...

The Synagogue Survival Kit

by Jordan Lee Wagner

In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit offers introductions and instructions...

Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire: The Politics of Bektashi Shrines in the Classical Age

by Yürekli

The shrine complexes examined in this book were established as independent institutions in medieval Anatolia and became the primary centres of the Bektashi order of dervishes in the classical Ottoman period....

Stranger to History

by Aatish Taseer

“Indispensable reading for anyone who wants a wider understanding of the Islamic world, of its history and its politics.” —Financial Times

Aatish Taseer’s fractured upbringing left him with many questions...

Knowledge before Action: Islamic Learning and Sufi Practice in the Life of Sayyid Jalal al-din Bukhari Makhdum-I Jahaniyan

by Amina M. Steinfels & Frederick M. Denny

A study of the teachings of a revered South Asian Sufi master

The A to Z of Islam

by Ludwig W. Adamec

The A to Z of Islam presents a concise overview of Islamic history, religion, philosophy, and Islamic political movements. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and cross-referenced...

A Student's Obligation: Advice from the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto

by Kalonymus Shapira & Micha Odenheimer

The last hasidic rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto explores many facets of spiritual growth and character development.

The Apocalypse of Ahmadinejad: The Revelation of Iran's Nuclear Prophet

by Mark Hitchcock

He stands only 5-foot-4 and smiles incessantly. But behind that charismatic persona beats the heart of a genocidal terrorist.

Meet the World’s Most Dangerous Man

In his provocative, well-researched exposé of...

Why Be Jewish?

by David J. Wolpe

"All beginnings require that you unlock new doors."--Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

In this short and inspiring text, Rabbi David J. Wolpe addresses all who seek to enlarge the spiritual side of their lives. For those...

Seven Steps to Moral Intelligence

by Musharraf Hussain

A handbook to universal moral teachings, based on Imam Ghazali's teachings.

Heaven on Earth

by Sadakat Kadri

Some fourteen hundred years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God’s law—the shari‘a—its earthly interpreters are still arguing about what it means. Hard-liners reduce it to am­putations,...

The Sabbath

by Abraham Joshua Heschel & Ilya Schor

Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication--and has been read...

After Jihad

by Noah Feldman

A lucid and compelling case for a new American stance toward the Islamic world.

What comes after jihad? Outside the headlines, believing Muslims are increasingly calling for democratic politics in their undemocratic...

A God Who Hates

by Wafa Sultan

From the front page of The New York Times to YouTube, Dr. Wafa Sultan has become a force radical Islam has to reckon with. For the first time, she tells her story and what she learned, first-hand, about radical...