This volume offers an engaging introduction to the diverse writings of influential scholars representing six classical Islamic schools of theology: Sunnism, Zaydism, Twelver Shiʿism, Muʿtazilism, Ibadism, and....
November, 2023
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9 November
Islam: Threat to West, Capitalism and Corporations
This book answers the question "Why is Islam perceived as evil from the Western perspective?" The book's arguments are based on facts, circumstances, incidents, and evidence cited in more than a....
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2 November
Between Jabal ʿAmil, Karbala and Jerusalem: The Lebanese Shi‘a and the Struggle for Palestine
This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi’a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East....
October, 2023
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25 October
Book: The Economic System of Islam
We could analyses the Islamic economic system in both theoretical and practical levels. A theoretical concern is to illustrate the particular plan of Islam for solving economic problems and building a prosperous economy. The practical aspect of the economic system of Islam is related to the performance of this system and its ability in...
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18 October
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history....
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12 October
The Shīʿīs in Palestine: From the Medieval Golden Age until the Present
This book includes a study of Shīʿī shrines in Palestine, as well as showing the importance of these Muslim sites and holy towns in Palestine in the Shīʿī religion....
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8 October
Neo-traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics
This book shows the importance of neo-traditionalism in the changing conceptions of religious orthodoxy, religious authority and spirituality for young Muslims in the West....
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4 October
The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam’s Ancient House
This book explores the Kaʿba as it has been conceptualised, represented and used by Muslims from the earliest period of Islam onwards....
September, 2023
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19 September
God’s Emissaries: Adam to Jesus
The book presents a comprehensive theologically sound, captivating, and believable set of stories from Adam to Jesus. It portrays God’s prophets as the heroes they were, possessed of the most stellar of human traits, exemplary in every aspect of their....
August, 2023
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15 August
The Beginnings of Shīʿī Studies in Germany
Rudolf Strothmann (b. 1877, d. 1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya, consulting primarily the recently purchased collections of Yemeni Zaydī manuscripts in....