Abd al-Malik (Makers of the Muslim World)
By: Chase F. Robinson
3.77
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
‘Abd al-Malik, who came to prominence during the second civil war of early Islam, ruled the Islamic…
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1. The Road to Mecca
By: None , Muhammad Asad
4.48
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and beautifully-written autobiography, Asad tells of his initial rejection of… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- islam
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"سر الصحفي الناجح والناضج: أن يكتب بموضوعية عما يراه ويسمعه، ويفكر دون أن يخلط كل ذلك مباشرة بخبراته وآراءه الشخصية والذاتية"-None, The Road to Mecca
"Batılı geçmişi bulanık, uzak bir düş sanki; büsbütün unutamayacağım kadar reel, ama şimdinin bir parçası olamayacak kadar da realitenin dışında."-None, The Road to Mecca
"لو احتفظ المسلمون برباطة جأشهم، وقبلوا التقدم كوسائل لا غايات، لن يستعيدوا فقط حريتهم الداخلية، بل ربما ينقلون للمواطن الغربي السر المفقود لحلاوة الحياة"-None, The Road to Mecca
"It was not the philosophers and the prophets who taught us to believe in life after death; all they did was give form and spiritual content to an instinctive perception as old as man himself."-None, The Road to Mecca
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
By: Stephen J. Shoemaker
3.98
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the proph… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- islam
- history
4. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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5. The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800
By: Muzaffar Alam
4.03
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The Languages of Political Islamilluminates the diverse ways in which Islam, from the time of its a… read more
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- nonfiction
- islam
- history
6. Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth
By: Audrey Truschke
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. Hindu… read more
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- islam
- history
7. The Prisoner of Zenda
By: Anthony Hope
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from… read more
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8. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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10. Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
By: Fred M. Donner
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The tradition… read more
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11. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
12. Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents
By: Robert Irwin
4.23
Format: 690 pages, Hardcover
The publication of Edward Said's hugely influential Orientalismin 1981 called into question the ent… read more
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13. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
By: Saba Mahmood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Politics of Piety" is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnogra… read more
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14. الرحيق المختوم
By: None
3.66
Format: None pages, ebook
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15. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
16. Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy
By: Jonathan A.C. Brown
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Muhammad. Modern me… read more
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17. God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
By: Patricia Crone , Martin Hinds
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that… read more
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18. My Life with the Taliban
By: Alex Strick van Linschoten , Felix Kuehn , Abdul Salam Zaeef
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs,… read more
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19. The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more
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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
20. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
21. The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
By: G.R. Hawting
4.12
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Why and under what circumstances did the religion of Islam emerge in a remote part of Arabia at the… read more
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- religion
- islam
22. Slavery and Islam
By: Jonathan A.C. Brown
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religio… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- islam
- history
23. Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement
By: Cole M. Bunzel
4.28
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State In the mid-eighteen… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- islam
- history
24. Abd al-Malik (Makers of the Muslim World)
By: Chase F. Robinson
3.77
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
‘Abd al-Malik, who came to prominence during the second civil war of early Islam, ruled the Islamic… read more
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25. A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam
By: Thomas Bauer
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the Western imagination, Islamic cultures are dominated by dogmatic religious norms that permit … read more
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26. Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190–1350 (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
By: Michael Chamberlain
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Michael Chamberlain focuses on medieval Damascus to develop a new approach to the relationship betw… read more
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27. The One and the Many: The Early History of the Qur'an
By: François Déroche
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of early Islam’s great diversity by the world’s leading scholar of early Qur’a… read more
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- religion
- history
28. Companions of the Prophet - Book 2
By: Abdulwahid Hamid
4.53
Format: 266 pages, None
This book highlights aspects of the lives of thirty Companions of the Prophet, some famous, others … read more
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- islam
29. Controversies over Islamic Origins: An Introduction to Traditionalism and Revisionism
By: Mun'im Sirry
5.00
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What evidence do we have to reconstruct the origins of Islam? On the basis of what sources can the … read more
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- islam
30. Religion and Politics Under the Early 'Abbasids: The Emergence of the Proto-Sunni Elite (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, V. 16)
By: Muhammad Qasim Zaman
3.25
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
The main concern of this book is the religious policies of the early 'Abbāsid caliphs. It focuses o… read more
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- history
- islam
31. Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism
By: Muhammad Qasim Zaman
3.87
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Among traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises… read more
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- nonfiction
- islam
"In contemporary parlance, the term Salafi has come to acquire many different connotations. It has been used to refer to some groups who consider it obligatory to take up arms against all those - non-…"-Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism
