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Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu Dhabi, but finding a way to explain to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she gets some good advice from the librarian, Mrs. Scrabble.
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"This book presents a transregional approach to the intersection of Islam and developments in other spheres of the human experience across Asia, thus covering a vast territory and a wide time span during which these lands saw much transformation. The primary interest is in offering the big picture of how and why Asia (here meaning the lands beyond the Oxus/Amu Darya river, Uzbekistan) is central to the history of Islam, and vice versa. The theoretical...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, [this work] reveals how Muslims have historically conceived of and lived with Islam as norms and truths that are at once contradictory yet coherent"--Front jacket flap.
7) Persepolis
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An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution....
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Flying in the face of everything we thought we knew, The Islamic Enlightenment becomes an astonishing and revelatory...
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Lynne Rienner Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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"For more than a decade, policymakers and observers in the Muslim world and the West have struggled with the specter of political Islam -- or "Islamic fundamentalism" -- often confounded by myriad and contradictory images. This book offers a thorough, objective examination of the impact of political Islam on domestic and international politics in countries ranging from North Africa to South Asia. Covering both governments and Islamic movements and...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Ed Husain has become one of the most vital Muslim voices in the world. The House of Islam could very well be his magnum opus." --Reza Aslan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot "This should be compulsory reading." --Peter Frankopan, author of the international bestseller The Silk Roads Today, Islam is to many in the West an alien force, with Muslims held in suspicion. Failure to grasp the inner workings of religion and geopolitics has...
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Oneworld
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"It is not only the holy cities of Mecca and Karbala to which Muslim pilgrims travel, but a wide variety of sacred sites around the world. Journeys are undertaken to visit graves of important historical and religious individuals, the tombs of saints, and natural sites such as mountaintops and springs. Exploring the rich diversity of traditions practiced by the 1.5 billion Muslims across the world, Arjana provides a rigorous theoretical discussion...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead. When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why? Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house, bin Laden had seen an historic opportunity: "The next stage will be the return of the caliphate." In the six years since bin Laden's death, al-Qaeda's affiliates...
17) Ramadan
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Crabtree
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Ramadan is a month-long Muslim holiday. Ramadan is the most important holiday of the year. It is about giving to others and sharing with others.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Quran Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Quran, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Quran actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much about Islam. That is no...
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Few men in American history are as controversial as Malcolm X. In this provocative biography, Myers, winner of a Newbery Honor and four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, presents a forthright portrait of a complex man whose life reflected the major events of our times.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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"Aladdin's Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded Europe, scholars in medieval Baghdad translated the works...