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by Fred Mcgraw Donner  Book News Annotation Donner (Near Eastern history, Oriental Institute and U. of Chicago) challenges the scholarly assumption that the earliest Muslim believers wanted to write history out of "idle curiosity" and suggests that Islamic historical tradition resulted from a... (read more)  Your price $95.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Caesar Farah Publisher Comments This concise study examines Islam as a world religious, cultural, and political force, beginning with its founding by the prophet Muhammad in the early seventh century A.D. Islam's holy scripture, the Qur'an, is explained in detail, and the core of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce B Lawrence Publisher Comments Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and monolithic religion, whose adherents are intent upon battling nonbelievers throughout the world. Shattering the Myth demonstrates that these conceptions more... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Coleman Barks Publisher Comments The Prayer is a drawing of the curtain, an invitation to a secret place that is discovered and explored. . . . <BR>According to tradition and the testimony of Sufi mystics, The Prayer--or Salat--was first taught by the angels, who themselves... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Mcneill Publisher Comments "The Islamic World" is a collection of important and representative documents from all periods of Islamic history. From the formative years in Arabia to the confrontations with and responses to modernity, these translations indicate the continuity and... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by H M Balyuzi Publisher Comments This book contains a full biography of the Prophet and a history of Islam from the years of His mission to the Nineteenth century.... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price $32.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Idries Shah Publisher Comments The Magic Monastery differs from its predecessors in that it contains not only traditional tales--mostly unpublished--but also stories specially written by Shah to complete the book as 'a course in non-linear thinking.'... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments A concise book that traces how Islam grew and how its legacy today is often set aside. From the best-selling author of "A History Of God".... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allah And Khan Publisher Comments Reading the Qur'an was once a difficult undertaking due to language translation challenges from Arabic to English. Now this complete and accurate translation--with clearer comprehension and free-flowing text--makes the study of this sacred text of Islam... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthew Gordon Publisher Comments The birth of Islam in the 7th century and its subsequent outward expansion from the Arab world has been one of the most influential occurrences in world history. During its first few decades, the new faith inspired conquests from Spain to northern India.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Syed Ahamed Publisher Comments <div>Rendered in simple, accessible language, this translation aims to present younger English-speaking readers with what Muslims the world over hold to be the meaning of the words of the Qur'an. This translation deals with issues of self... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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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 $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Asma Gull Hasan Publisher Comments Part memoir, part polenic, it represents the side of Islam that is left out of the daily newspaper. For Asma Hasan being a Muslin is not merely a matter of birth, but a matter of choice.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.45 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Idries Shah Publisher Comments 'The Commanding Self, ' in Sufic terminology, is that mixture of primitive and conditioned responses, common to everyone, which inhibits and distorts human progress and understanding. This book, while complete in itself as an anthology of hitherto... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rumi And Scholey Publisher Comments 'The Paragon Parrot and Other Inspirational Tales of Wisdom'. A wonderful new collection of Rumi's poetry.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Camille Helminski Publisher Comments The essential qualities of human nature, including faith, trust, repentance, forgiveness, compassion, and mercy, are discussed in this collection of writings by some of the world's great sages, both ancient and contemporary. The advice of prophets... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Don Belt Publisher Comments A timely look at a timeless culture, "The World of Islam looks back on almost a century of classic NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC coverage of Islamic culture all over the world. A wonderful mix of photographs, narratives, maps, and more, these chronologically... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Publisher Comments ... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Lane Poole Publisher Comments The aim of this little volume is to present all that is most enduring and memorable in the public orations and private sayings of the prophet Mohammad in such a form that the general reader may be tempted to learn a little of what a great man was and of... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lex Hixon Publisher Comments Lex Hixon's poetic translations of selected Qur'anic passages make the mystical teachings of Islam clear and accessible to the Western reader.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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