Journey to the End of Islam
10 best books like Journey to the End of Islam (Michael Muhammad Knight): The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition, The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief, Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur'an, Miraj, Poetic and Theological Writings, I Am Wind, You Are Fire: The Life and Work of Rumi, Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan, Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters, Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection
| Author | Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
| ISBN | 0060797223 |
The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the desire for heavenly reward or the fear of punishment,...
| Author | Peter Rollins |
| ISBN | 1557255601 |
"About 30 years ago, I came across the evocative phrase 'religionless Christianity' in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's later writings, and it has stayed with me ever since. In his new book The Fidelity of Betrayal, Peter Rollins has teased out - as Bonhoeffer never had the chance to do - profound possibilities...
| Author | Kaya Oakes |
| ISBN | 1593764316 |
As someone who clocked more time in mosh pits and at pro-choice rallies than kneeling in a pew, Kaya Oakes was not necessarily the kind of Catholic girl the Vatican was after. But even while she immersed herself in the punk rock scene and proudly called herself an atheist, something kept pulling her back...
| Author | Henry Corbin |
| ISBN | 0691058342 |
"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism for the West, but also to defend the principal Western traditions of esoteric spirituality." —From...
The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry
| Author | Peter Lamborn Wilson |
| ISBN | 0930872657 |
Sufism can be seen to have functioned as a positive and healthy reaction to the overly rational activity of the philosophers and theologians. For the Sufis, the road to spiritual knowledge could never be confined to the process of purely intellectual activity, without the direct, immediate experience...
Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur'an, Miraj, Poetic and Theological Writings
| Author | Michael A. Sells |
| ISBN | 0809136198 |
The first centuries of Islam saw the development of Sufism as one of the world's major mystical traditions. Although the later Sufi writings by mystics such as Rumi are known and available in translation, access to the crucial early period of Islamic mysticism has been far more limited.
This...
I Am Wind, You Are Fire: The Life and Work of Rumi
| Author | Annemarie Schimmel |
| ISBN | 1570626456 |
This book celebrates the extraordinary career of Persia's great mystical poet, Rumi (1207–1273), through the story of his life, along with an enlightening examination of his ecstatic verse. Rumi lived the quiet life of a religious teacher in Anatolia until the age of thirty-seven, when he came...
Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan
| Author | Ryōkan |
| ISBN | 1590301080 |
The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (1758-1831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian literature, renowned for his beautiful verse, exquisite calligraphy, and eccentric character. Deceptively simple, Ryokan's poems transcend artifice, presenting spontaneous expressions of pure Zen spirit....
| Author | Omid Safi |
| ISBN | 0061231347 |
Who was the historical Muhammad, and how do Muslims remember him—as a holy prophet, a cultural revolutionary, a military leader, or a spiritual mystic? Unending media coverage of extremist fanatics, the controversy over offensive cartoon depictions of Muhammad, and fatwas against journalists...
Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection
Sherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of Islam among the blacks of America. Jackson notes that no one has offered a convincing explanation of why Islam spread among Blackamericans (a coinage he explains and defends) but not among white Americans or Hispanics. The assumption...
An Introduction to Shi`i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism
| Author | Moojan Momen |
| ISBN | 0300035314 |
This book is a general introduction to Shi’i Islam—specifically to Twelver Shi’ism, to which the majority of Shi’is belong today. It deals with the history and development of this important religion, giving an account of Shi’i doctrines and focusing in particular on those areas in which...
Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
| Author | Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle |
| ISBN | 1851687017 |
This is a book written by a Muslim scholar for the purposes of challenging Muslim viewpoints and beliefs. Out of necessity it will base its entire premise on the Qur'an and, to the best of its abilities, will also base its argument on what we know of the Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) words. At times this could...
On Religion is a thrilling and accessible exploration of religion faith today. If God is dead, why is religion back? Digging up the roots of all things religious, John D. Caputo inspects them with clarity and style. Along the way, some fascinating questions crop up: What do I love when I love my God? What...
Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim
Raised in Pakistan, Ziauddin Sardar learned the Koran at his mother’s knee. As a young student in London, he embarked on a quest to grasp the meaning and contemporary relevance of his religion and, hopefully, to find “paradise.” After experimenting with the mystical branch of Islam, Sufism,...
Marxism and Other Western Fallacies : An Islamic Critique
| Author | Ali Shariati |
| ISBN | 0933782055 |
Throughout history, Shari'ati reminds us in these lectures and writings, people in search of deliverance from constricting social and intellectual systems have all too often followed influential thinkers out of one form of capivity and directly into another. He warns that great case must be taken...
Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women
| Author | Khaled Abou El Fadl |
| ISBN | 1851682627 |
What a fabulous books! As a revert/convert to Islam I never follow anything blindly. I do my own research and find out the reasons why I have to do something. Where Ahadeeth are concerned I certainly do not believe they are all right. After all Allah has told us only the Quran has never and will never be change....
| Author | Frithjof Schuon |
| ISBN | 0941532240 |
"Islam is the meeting between God as such and man as such.... Islam confronts what is immutable in God with what is permanent in man."
These are the opening words of what has become a classic work on Islam, perhaps the most misunderstood of the great Revelations. And yet the purpose of this book...
Towards Understanding the Qur'an (Tafhim Al-Qur'an) Volume 2: Surah 4 (Al-Nisa) to Surah 6 (Al-An'am)
| Author | Abul A'la Maududi |
| ISBN | 0860371875 |
As a non Arabic speaking revert to Islam, this has become a huge help. It's incredibly informative whereby on some pages, the footnotes may take more room than the translated lines of The Quran itself (got to love those footnotes!).
Even after you learn Arabic with English being your mother...
Ahmadinejad! David di Tengah Angkara Goliath Dunia
| Author | Muhsin Labib |
| ISBN | 9791140057 |
Mengapa seorang MAN (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) perlu dibahas di dalam sebuah buku? Pertanyaan ini mungkin terlontar dari mulut sesetengah orang terutama bagi mereka yang tidak mengikuti sepenuhnya situasi politik Timur Tengah yang kian panas itu.
Menurut kami, perkara ini menarik diperhatikan...
| Author | Shaykh Hakim Moinuddin Chishti |
| ISBN | 0892813245 |
For the Sufis, the healing of the sick is considered to be the most important of all services to humanity. For the first time in the West, the author presents the secret principles and practices of this divine science, based on the 800-year tradition of the Chishti Order. Among the many topics covered...
Muslims in American History: A Forgotten Legacy
| Author | Jerald F. Dirks |
| ISBN | 1590080440 |
Dr. Jerald F. Dirks received his Bachelor of Arts (philosophy) from Harvard College in 1971, his Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School in 1974, his Master of Arts (clinical child psychology) from the University of Denver in 1976, and his Doctor of Psychology degree in clinical psychology...
The Jew is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths That Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism
| Author | Tarek Fatah |
| ISBN | 0771047835 |
A liberal Muslim and critically acclaimed author explores the historical, political, and theological basis for centuries of Muslim animosity towards Jews, debunking long-held myths and tracing a history of hate and its impact today.More than nine years after 9/11 and 60 years after the creation...
| Author | Dina Zaman |
| ISBN | 9833221157 |
I am Muslim is a selfish journey of faith. Dina meets shamans, nationalists, moderates and gets into all sorts of scrapes, to discover what Islam means to Muslims in Malaysia. Heartbreaking, angry and downright funny.
Dina Zaman's articles about being Muslim in Malaysia today capture the...
Sufism: A Short Introduction
| Author | William C. Chittick |
| ISBN | 1851685472 |
William C. Chittick, the leading scholar in the field, offers a compelling insight into the origins, context, and key themes of this fascinating movement. He draws upon the words of some of the greatest Sufi writers to give a fresh and revealing perspective on the teachings and beliefs of Sufism and...
