13 Best islam books like Abd al-Malik (Makers of the Muslim World) by Chase F. Robinson

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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…

If you liked the islam plot in Abd al-Malik (Makers of the Muslim World) by Chase F. Robinson , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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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
  • history
"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

Cover of Orientalism by None, Edward W. Said

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

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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
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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
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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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  • nonfiction
  • 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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9. Companions of the Prophet - Book 1

By: Abdulwahid Hamid

3.14

Format: 208 pages,

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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

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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

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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
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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
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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
Cover of Abd al-Malik (Makers of the Muslim World) by Chase F. Robinson

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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  • religion
  • islam
  • history
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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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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • islam
  • history
Cover of Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190–1350 (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) by Michael  Chamberlain

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
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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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  • nonfiction
  • islam
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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
Cover of 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

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
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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

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3.98

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4.36

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