Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters

10 best books like Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters (Omid Safi): Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, Islam: A Short History, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective, Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations, The Message of the Qur'an, Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم

Author

Anonymous

The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن‎ al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally meaning "the recitation"), also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Al-Coran, Coran, Kur'an, and Al-Qur'an, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be...

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

Author	Karen Armstrong
ISBN	0062508865

I've been on a quest to read more about Islam, (so I will not be an absolute ignoramus about it, as Americans are often accused of being.). I've read a few books on the topic, but this is the first one I can honestly recommend. Karen Armstrong has not written a page-turner with this biography of Muhammad -...

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Author	Martin Lings
ISBN	1594771537

Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet’s life, it contains original English...

Islam: A Short History

Author

Karen Armstrong

El Islam es, probablemente, la religión más incomprendida y malinterpretada de la modernidad. Una curiosa ignorancia prevalece en Occidentes desde las cruzadas, cuando empezó a cultivarse una visión distorsionada del Islam como una religión violenta e intolerante. Sin embargo, los imperios...

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Author	Bart D. Ehrman
ISBN	0060859512

For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity...

Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

Author	Amina Wadud
ISBN	0195128362

Islam is misogynist--a common claim by those who criticize it. Most often such critics are non-Muslims who have never picked up a Qur'an and have no intention of ever doing so. Their concern for women's rights often disappears too, once the discussion has left Islam.

So what might someone who...

Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations

Author	Michael A. Sells
ISBN	1883991692

Approaching the Qur’án is a major event in religious publishing. Professor Michael Sells has captured the complexity, power, and poetry of the early suras of the Qur’án, the sacred scripture of Islam. In this second edition, Sells introduces important new translations of suras and a new preface...

The Message of the Qur'an

Author	Muhammad Asad
ISBN	1904510000

A fresh look at Muhammad Asad's classic English translation and explanation of the Qur'an is offered in this redesigned and updated edition of his work. A new typeset and index is complimented with a prologue by the distinguished British Muslim Gai Eaton and original artwork by internationally renowned...

Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection

Author

Sherman A. Jackson

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...

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

Author	Tamim Ansary
ISBN	1433272261

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of...

"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an

Author	Asma Barlas
ISBN	0292709048

Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. Taking a wholly...

The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity

Author	Seyyed Hossein Nasr
ISBN	0060730641

As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition. In the case of Islam, there has been much recent confusion in the Western world centered on distorted portrayals of...

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

Author

Reza Aslan

A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A finalist for the Guardian First Book Award

In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins...

Islam and the Destiny of Man

Author

Charles Le Gai Eaton

Islam and the Destiny of Man by Charles Le Gai Eaton is a wide-ranging study of the Muslim religion from a unique point of view. The author, a former member of the British Diplomatic Service, was brought up as an agnostic and embraced Islam at an early age after writing a book (commissioned by T.S. Eliot)...

Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence

Author	Kecia Ali
ISBN	1851684565

Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives’ sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument. In this ground-breaking, lucid, and carefully constructed work, feminist Muslim...

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

Author	Karen Armstrong
ISBN	0060598972

Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is little...

In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

Author	Tariq Ramadan
ISBN	0195308808

Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most important innovators of the century, Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim scholar, with a large following especially among young European and American Muslims. Now, in his first book written for a wide audience, he offers a marvelous biography of the Prophet...

Hadith: An Introduction (Foundations of Islam)

Author	Jonathan A.C. Brown
ISBN	1851686630

Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Qur'an but rather from hadith, first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds, passed from generation to generation. However, with varying accounts often only committed to paper a century after the death of Muhammad,...

After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

Author	Lesley Hazleton
ISBN	0385523939

In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever.
 
Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic...

Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think

Author	John L. Esposito
ISBN	1595620176

Based on the largest study of its kind, this book is the first to present the fascinating findings of the Gallup Poll of the Muslim World.

The horrific events of 9/11 dramatically intensified what many saw as an ongoing conflict between the U.S. and parts of the Muslim world. Extremism has grown...

Islam: The Straight Path

Author	John L. Esposito
ISBN	0195112342

In Islam, Esposito provides a succinct, up-to-date survey of the Islamic experience, an introduction to the faith, belief, and practice of Islam from its origins to its contemporary resurgence. He traces the emergence and development of this dynamic faith and its impact on world history and politics....

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Author	Leila Ahmed
ISBN	0300055838

Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and other traditional clothing a symbol of regression or an effort to return to a “pure” Islam that was just and fair to both sexes? In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to...

The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary

Author	Seyyed Hossein Nasr
ISBN	0062227629

The Study Quran is a historic and groundbreaking work, produced by a distinguished team of Islamic studies scholars led by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, which offers:
A new English translation of the Quran that is accurate, accessible, and reliable in how it renders this sacred text.
A wide-ranging...

Bir Ömür Nasıl Yaşanır?

Author

İlber Ortaylı

Daha anlamlı yaşamak için İlber Ortaylı’dan tavsiyeler…

“Cesur olun. Kendinizi rahat hissettiğiniz alanın dışında pencereler açın. Farklı dünyalarla ancak böyle tanışırsınız. Ben hep yerimde dursaydım, dünyamı değiştirecek insanları aramasaydım,...