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  • Political Islam, Justice and Governance

    by Mbaye Lo ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book argues that political Islam (represented by its moderate and militant forms) has failed to govern effectively or successfully due to its inability to reconcile its discursive understanding of Islam, centered on literal justice, with the dominant neo-liberal value of freedom. Consequently, Islamists' polities have largely been abject, often tragic failures in providing a viable collective ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • I Cannot Write My Life

    Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America

    by Mbaye Lo, Carl W. Ernst ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Omar ibn Said (1770–1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James Owen, brother of Governor John Owen. In 1831 Omar composed a brief autobiography, the only known narrative written in Arabic by an enslaved person in North America, and he became famous for his Arabic writings. His enslavers also provided him with an ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Arabic Classroom

    Context, Text and Learners

    Edited by Mbaye Lo ...
    The Arabic Classroom is a multicontributor work for trainee and in-service teachers of Arabic as a foreign language. Collected here is recent scholarly work, and also critical writing from Arabic instructors, Arabists and language experts, to examine the status of the teaching and learning of Arabic in the modern classroom. The book stresses the inseparability of the parameters of contexts, texts ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Understanding Muslim Discourse

    Language, Tradition, and the Message of Bin Laden

    by Mbaye Bashir Lo ...
    Understanding Muslim Discourse provides a well-illustrated account of the major ideas currently in use within the Muslim discourse, and also examines the mechanics whereby Bin Laden's message has become popular, legitimate, and one of the most dominant voices in this discourse. The book, therefore, explores the ways in which Bin Laden's popularity and legitimacy are rooted in his eloquence and ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Sheikh Moussa Kamara’s Islamic Critique of Jihadists

    by Moussa Kamara, David Robinson ...
    Translated by Mbaye Bashir Lo ...
    Sheikh Moussa Kamara was one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century. His scholarship spanned many disciplines, including history, the ethnography of Sudanic Africa, theology, and poetry. His objection to jihad is one of his most pertinent works. As illustrated in this first English translation and commentary, he expounds upon the futility of waging Jihad bis-Sayf (Jihad of the Sword), as ... Read more

    $100.09 CAD

  • Religion and Terrorism

    The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism

    by Gideon Aran, Joseph Woolstenhulme, Donna Lee Bowen, John David Payne, Daniel Brown, Mbaye Bashir Lo, Douglas Pratt ...
    Religion and Terrorism: The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism provides theoretical analysis of the nature of religious terrorism and religious martyrdom and also delves deeply into terrorist groups and beliefs in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious terrorism is found in all three of the great monotheistic faiths, and while the public is most aware of Islamic terrorism, Jewish and ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

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  • The Story of the Qur'an

    Its History and Place in Muslim Life

    by Ingrid Mattson ...
    This popular introduction by a well-known Islamic scholar has been updated and expanded, offering a balanced portrayal of the Qur’an and its place in historic and contemporary Muslim society.Features new sections on the Qur’an and its relationship to democracy, science, human rights, and the role of womenContains expanded sections on the Qur’an in the life cycle of Muslims, and in Islamic ethics ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity

    by William Montgomery Watt ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam
    Islam is a burning topic in modern scholarship and contemporary world affairs. It is a subject poorly understood by Western observers, and in this book Professor Montgomery Watt takes a significant step towards its demystification.Montgomery Watt examines the crucial questions of traditional world-view and self-image which dominate the thinking of Muslims today. This traditional self-image causes ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Islam

    Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics and Power

    by George Braswell ...
    This book is essential reading for anyone who desires a complete, balanced view of Islam beyond what appears on the nightly news, Written from a western Christian viewpoint, but with a detailed first-hand knowledge of Muslim life, Islam: Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics, and Power digs deep beneath the surface to reveal Islam as a rich, proud and powerful force in world affairs. Though Dr. Braswell ... Read more

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  • The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

    by Vali Nasr ...
    The New York Times bestseller: "Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes."—Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of BooksProfiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr has become one of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, admired and welcomed by both media and government for his ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an

    Islam and the Founders

    by Denise A. Spellberg ...
    In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire ... Read more

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  • Islamic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Adam J. Silverstein ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Does history matter? This book argues not that history matters, but that Islamic history does. This Very Short Introduction introduces the story of Islamic history; the controversies surrounding its study; and the significance that it holds - for Muslims and for non-Muslims alike. Opening with a lucid overview of the rise and spread of Islam, from the seventh to twenty first century, the book ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

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