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The Oxford History of Islam by John L Esposito Publisher Comments Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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No God But God ((Rev)11 Edition) by Reza Aslan Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Koran (94 Edition) by J.m. (translator) Rodwell Publisher Comments The Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the Hegira in AD 622 and the Prophet's death in AD 632. It has exerted untold influence upon the history of mankind. Apart... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story by Latifa Publisher Comments "My Forbidden Face" provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity, Latifa describes her ordered world falling apart, in the name of a fanaticism that she could not comprehend, and... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women and Gender in Islam : Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (92 Edition) by Leila Ahmed Publisher Comments In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender from the ancient world to the present.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Koran (05 Edition) by J.m. (translator) Rodwell Publisher Comments A guide to daily life, the Koran is considered the finest work of Arabic prose in existence. This accessible translation restores the traditional ordering of the chapters, which deal with God as creator, the role of Muhammad as God's messenger, as well... (read more) Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Women in the Middle East : Past and Present (07 Edition) by Nikki R. Keddie Publisher Comments "Women in the Middle East is a broad, accessible book that deals superbly well with the historical literature. It is also an intriguing experiment in combining genres from a pioneer of Middle Eastern women's history."--Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments A world-renowned activist and feminist pulls no punches in her efforts to reform Islam in this international bestseller, available for the first time in English.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Islam : From the Prophet Muhammad To the Capture of Constantinople : Religion and Society, Volume II (74 Edition) by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments This second volume examines the religion and structure of Islamic society. Bernard Lewis draws on a broad range of Islamic literature, including books on religious sects, politics and economics, philosophy and science, travel, biography and literary... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Muhammad and Believers (10 Edition) by Fred Mcgraw Donner Publisher Comments The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The traditional view, which presents Islam as a self-consciously distinct religion tied to the life and revelations of the prophet Muhammad in western Arabia, has... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Islam by Fazlur Rahman Publisher Comments A new foreword, by John E. Woods, offers a reappraisal of Rahman's life and thought after the events of fall 2001. This incisive, surprisingly comprehensive volume is both a history and an analysis of Islam: from Mohammed's time to the late twentieth... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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No God But God: the Origins and Evolution of Islam (11 Edition) by Reza Aslan Publisher Comments In this invaluable introduction to a faith that for much of the West remains shrouded in ignorance and fear, Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed scholar of comparative religion, examines Islam: its rituals and traditions, the revelation of Muhammad... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an (Cambridge Companions to Religion) by Jane Damm Mcauliffe Publisher Comments As the living scriptural heritage of more than a billion people, the Qur'an (Koran) speaks with a powerful voice. Just as other scriptural religions, Islam has produced a long tradition of interpretation for its holy book. Nevertheless, efforts to... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Al-ghazali's Path To Sufism (00 Edition) by R.j. (translator) Mccarthy Publisher Comments This text has long been recognized as not only an Islamic classic, but also as a great spiritual autobiography of one of the world's greatest religious thinkers. It is the narrative of how one dedicated seeker of true knowledge and salvation, having... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power (Yale Nota Bene) by Jonathan Bloom Publisher Comments In its first thousand years -- from the revelations to Muhammad in the seventh century to the great Islamic empires of the sixteenth -- Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Qur'an ((Rev)10 Edition) by Muhammad A.s. Abdel Haleem Publisher Comments One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur'an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Koran Interpreted: A Translation by A J Arberry Publisher Comments This classic, authoritative translation brings the full meaning and power of the sacred book of Islam to Western readers. "Certainly the most beautiful English version, and among those by non-Muslim translators, the one that comes closest to conveying... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women in Muslim Family Law (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) by John L Esposito Publisher Comments Expands and updates family law as it pertains to women with regard to marriage, divorce and inheritance throughout the Middle East.<P>This second revised edition of John L. Esposito's landmark work expands and updates coverage of family law reforms... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Little X : Growing Up in the Nation of Islam (05 Edition) by Sonsyrea Tate Publisher Comments In Little X, Sonsyrea Tate reveals, through the acute vision and engaging voice of a curious child, the practices and policies of the mysterious organization most know only through media portrayals of its controversial leaders Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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