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The Children of Time: The Aga Khan and the Ismailis by Malise Ruthven Publisher Comments From highland peasant farmers in Central Asia to Canadian industrialists, South Asian businessmen and Europe-based scholars, the Nizari Ismailis are one of the Muslim worlds most diverse Shia communities. With adherents living in more than twenty-five... (read more) Available August 21, 2012 Your price: $50.95 New - Hardcover 
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Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalism (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Move) by Mathieu Guidere Publisher Comments The Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalism provides a comprehensive and detailed examination into Islam as a religion, Islam as a government, and Islam as a way of life. Its a comprehensive and thorough analysis of various groups, events... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $109.75 New - Hardcover
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Knowledge Before Action: Islamic Learning and Sufi Practice in the Life of Sayyid Jalal Al-Di N Bukhari Makhdum-I Jahaniyan (Studies in Comparative Religion) by Amina M. Steinfels Publisher Comments A study of a revered figure's teachings to better understand Islam and... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond by Susan Scollay Publisher Comments Yusuf and Zulaykha. Khusrau and Shirin. Layla and Majnun. For hundreds of years, Persian poets have captivated audiences with recitations and reinterpretations of timeless tales of earthly and spiritual love. These tales were treasured not only in Iran,... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $92.50 New - Hardcover
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A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith by M. Zuhdi Jasser Publisher Comments Among the unsettling social shifts in the wake of 9/11 was the global attention paid to Islam. Here in the United States, we became divided, often sadly along partisan lines, between those who believed every Muslim was a potential threat and those who... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past by Sarah Bowen Publisher Comments Genealogy is one of the most important and authoritative organising principles of Muslim societies. From the Prophet's family tree to the present, ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities. An understanding of genealogy... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $115.95 New - Hardcover
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Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory by Robert Gleave Publisher Comments A commitment to a scriptural text as the sole source of knowledge, and an insistence on the literal interpretation of this text, is one of the characteristics of the conservative religious revival' movements in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet little... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $122.25 New - Hardcover
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A Journey Through Islamic History: A Timeline of Key Events by Yasminah Hashim Publisher Comments A Journey through Islamic History tells you all you ever wanted to know about the history of the Muslim world from the Prophet Muhammad to Malcolm X in a short, accessible, and lavishly-illustrated format. This book includes eight chronological essays... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature by Norman Calder Publisher Comments This definitive sourcebook presents more than fifty authoritative new translations of key Islamic texts. Edited and translated by leading specialists and clearly contextualized for introductory-level students, it illustrates the growth of Islamic thought... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $57.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Teachings of a Perfect Master: An Islamic Saint for the Third Millennium by Henry Bayman Publisher Comments Collected in entirety for the very first time, this study reflects more than 25 years of close contact with the Sufi Masters of Central Anatolia, with most of that time spent in the presence of the peerless Sufi teacher, Mr. Ahmet Kayhan. Out of the... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $37.95 New - Trade Paper
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Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam by Sumbul Ali-karamali Publisher Comments Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali offers her personal account, discussing the many and varied questions she fielded from curious friends and schoolmates while growing up in Southern California—from diet, to dress, to prayer and holidays and everything in... (read more) Available August 14, 2012 Your price: $16.99 New - Hardcover
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Sexuality in Islam (Saqi Essentials) by Abdelwahab Bouhdiba Publisher Comments Arguing that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status, this work represents an attempt to integrate the religious and the sexual. It examines the problem of whether this harmony of sexuality and religious faith is... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Encountering the Stranger: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue (Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies; A Sam) by Leonard Grob Publisher Comments In an age when "collisions of faith" among the Abrahamic traditions continue to produce strife and violence that threatens the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide, the contributors to Encountering the Stranger--six Jewish, six Christian... (read more) Available October 1, 2012 Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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Religions of the Hindukush: The Pre-Islamic Heritage of Eastern Afghanistan by Karl Jettmar Synopsis Detailed study of the pre-Islamic religious and tribal culture of Eastern Afghanistan; an important contribution which is both readable and scholarly.... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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Sufi Talks: Teachings of an American Sufi Sheihk by Robert Frager, Ph.d. Synopsis Once a woman brought her son to the thirteenth-century Turkish Sufi master Nasruddin complaining that the boy had an uncontrollable sweet tooth. She asked Nasruddin to tell the boy to stop eating sweets. He said to bring him back in four weeks. When they... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim (I Speak for Myself) by Wajahat Ali Synopsis Follow up work to White Cloud's successful and highly acclaimed May 2011 book I Speak For Myself: American Women on Being Muslim. With this second book in the I Speak For Myself series, American Muslim men speak out on their lives and how their Muslim... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices by Paulo Pinto Publisher Comments This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly relevant in the current climate. Political discourses and stereotypical media portrayals of Islam... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $115.95 New - Hardcover
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Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Sakandari's Taj Al-'Arus by Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ata Allah Publisher Comments Few forms of classical Islam are more controversial among modern Muslims than the spiritual discipline known as Sufism. Yet, in the face of the modern Muslim tendency to limit Islam's deployment to the emphatically political, few expressions of the... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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Islam and the West: Wars of the Gods. the Geopolitics of Faith by Ardavan Amir-aslani Publisher Comments The Muslim world had long been dormant and was therefore almost ignored by the west. Since 9/11 there is a new awareness seeking multiple explanations of those events often in a distorted and simplified manner. Is there such a thing as the "clash of... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Making Space Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India by Nile Green Publisher Comments This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social transformation in early modern India between 1500 and 1750 by studying various Sufi movements. It covers a wide range of topics from Sufism and polity in the Afghan frontier to north Indian context... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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