The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
10 best books like The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (Khaled Abou El Fadl): Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم, A Bride's Story, Vol. 1, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, The Road to Mecca, Islam: A Short History, The Book of the City of Ladies, Titus Andronicus, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Apology
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...
| Author | Kaoru Mori |
| ISBN | 0316180998 |
Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior. Coping with cultural differences, blossoming feelings for her...
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...
| Author | Muhammad Asad |
| ISBN | 1887752374 |
There are enough reviews by other people, which does the justice to the book. Yet I just want to add that Leopold Weis/Muhammad Asad's life is the testimony to one thing:
Can a modern/secular mind find it way into Islam and appreciate its truth? And if so how is this possible?
As I was born...
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...
The Book of the City of Ladies
| Author | Christine de Pizan |
| ISBN | 0892552301 |
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0671722921 |
Literally years after people began suggesting that I do this, I finally got around to reading the damn play. So in the words of Bette Davis: fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. Because here's
TITUS ANDRONICUS, ABRIDGED:
TITUS: Man, it's great to be me! I'm an awesome...
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0517223120 |
Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have shaped and altered the conception...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0865163480 |
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier...
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...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0192839535 |
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 1853991325 |
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these matters, converses with Euthyphro, but as usual, the man who professes to know nothing fares better...
| Author | Yxta Maya Murray |
| ISBN | 0802135641 |
Locas tells a violent and poignant story set in the heart of the rough L.A. neighborhood Echo Park. Lucia and Cecilia are the girlfriend and sister of the rising young loco whose gun trade is about to explode into the big business of drugs. When their world starts to split apart under the vicious pressure...
| 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...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0915145677 |
A tour de force of scholarship and the art of translation, this volume includes a fully integrated set of translations by a single team, a feature enabling Greekless readers to read widely and deeply in Aristotle with continuity, appreciation for his use of technical terminology and for the structure...
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
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...
Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart
| Author | Imam al-Mawlud |
| ISBN | 1929694156 |
Translation and Commentary of Imam al-Mawlud's Matharat al-Qulub by Hamza Yusuf
This exploration of Islamic spirituality delves into the psychological diseases and cures of the heart. Diseases examined include miserliness, envy, hatred, treachery, rancour, malice, ostentation,...
Islam Yes, Khilafah No! Jilid 2
Khilafah adalah bagian dari produk ijtihad masa lampau. Sejak tahun 1924 layar khilafah telah tertutup. Sudah bubar. Mempelajari sistem pemerintahan khilafah masa lalu akan menyadarkan kita bahwa sistem ini sudah tidak relevan lagi untuk dihidupkan kembali,
Khilafah bukan bagian inti...
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...
Islam Yes, Khilafah No! Jilid 1
Misi Nabi Muhammad SAW bukanlah mengislamkan dunia, tapi menebar Islam yang rahmatan lil 'alamin lewat penyempurnaan akhlak yang mulia. Bagaimanakah misi ini dipahami dalam teori dan praktik umat masa silam?
Buku ini mengajak kita menelusuri lembar demi lembar literatur klasik Islam,...
Alhamdulillah, sejak 2002 menjadi Muslim sampai saat ini saya masih diberi nikmat terbaik yaitu hidayah Allah hingga bangga pada Islam. Hidayah ini memang pemberian terbaik dari Allah, karena-Nya saya bisa mengenal inti ajaran Islam, dan tak henti takjub karenanya. Kesalahan terbesar yang dulu...
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...
| Author | Erasmus |
| ISBN | 0826477941 |
Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at Cambridge. An influential figure in the Protestant Reformation, though without ever breaking from the Church himself, he satirised both human folly...
Prétextat Tach, prix Nobel de littérature, n’a plus que deux mois à vivre. Des journalistes du monde entier sollicitent des interviews de l’écrivain que sa misanthropie tient reclus depuis des années. Quatre seulement vont le rencontrer, dont il se jouera selon une dialectique où la mauvaise...
