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This excellent audiobook is the first of its kind and has been selected by a number of organisations as a worthy introduction to the life of Prophet Muhammad....

Hear the Qur'an in English like never before! AudioIlm presents the first fully dramatized, full-cast audiobook of the holiest scripture of Islam in English.

This audiobook narrated by Ric Jerrom traces the panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the the dawn of the modern era

“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle) In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim community at the center. His story...

Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists, and theologians have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion some of these personalities and institutions....

Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero.

With all the narrative power and intellectual authority that have distinguished his earlier books, V.S. Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the ferment inside the nations of Islam.

The House Divided follows narratives from the first Sunni and Shia caliphates through the medieval empires of the Arabs, Persians, and Ottomans to the contemporary Middle East.

In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides the definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima....

America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he...

Profiled 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....

Now in audiobook format, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle...

A riveting account of the lives and epic battles of eight Western defenders against violent Islamic jihad that sheds much-needed light on the enduring conflict with radical Islam....

The most comprehensive examination to date of the claim that Islam, as a system of scripture, law and spirituality, is antiblack.

The Koran: It may be the most controversial book in the world....

In this insightful book, Ziauddin Sardar unravels the meaning and significance of Mecca....

Why are Muslim men portrayed as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam stopping Muslims from integrating? Across western societies, Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority....

Based on extensive scholarship, an innovative biography of the central text of Islam.

The story of Islam in this brief survey, beginning with Muhammad's early life and rise to power, then tracing the origins and development of the Qur'an juxtaposed with biblical literature, and concluding with an overview of modern and fundamentalist narratives of the origin of Islam....

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers. Since 1998, In Our Time has been the go-to radio programme for knowledge seekers and inquiring minds. Tackling big topics with a light touch, it has introduced weekly...

In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of...

Al-Hasan al-Wazzan - born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco - became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus....

In this book, Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times, both diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world and offers a way forward....

When the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, it was a stark sign that the Arab Spring had arrived in America....

A journalist explores his family’s history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the world’s first Islamic democracy....

دراسة فلسفية وتاريخية للفكر الإسلامي تتناول منهج الإمام الشافعي في أصول الفقه وتطوره، خاصة كتابه "الرسالة" الذي يعتبره الكاتب مثالاً على نشأة التفكير الفلسفي في الإسلام عبر ضبط الفروع بقواعد كلية. يحلل عبد الرازق رؤية الشافعي التي سعت للتقريب بين المذهبين الفقهيين الرئيسيين (أهل الرأي وأهل الحديث) وتجاوز النقص في كل منهما، مما مهد للوحدة الإسلامية.

هو عمل تأسيسي في الدراسات العربية الحديثة، يتكون من سلسلة محاضرات ألقيت في عام 1908م في الجامعة المصرية. يتناول الكتاب تاريخ الحضارة الإسلامية من بدايتها حتى سقوط الدولة العثمانية، ويركز على دور الإسلام في توحيد العرب ونبض الحضارة لديهم، وتناول أيضاً الكتابة والحفظ والتدوين. يهدف إلى إزالة الغبار عن الحضارة الإسلامية وإظهار قوتها الأصلية، كما يعالج أسباب أفولها، مع التركيز على الأسس التي قامت عليها.

فجر الإسلام لأحمد أمين هو رحلة فكرية تتبع خطى تطور العقلية العربية منذ فجر الجاهلية إلى بزوغ الحضارة الإسلامية في ظل الدولة الأموية. يمضي أحمد أمين في الكتاب، كمن يسبر غور الفكر العربي، مستعرضًا جذوره، وكيف صاغت الفتوحات والتداخل الحضاري مع الفرس واليونان هويةً جديدة للفكر الإسلامي.

سفرٌ إلى معارج البيان القرآني، يقف فيه الكاتب على عتبات الإعجاز، متأملًا أسرار الحروف وخلجات الكلمات في آياتٍ تتدفق بالبلاغة. يسرد الرافعي تاريخ جمع القرآن وتدوينه، ثم يغوص في اختلاف القراءات وأثرها في تناغم النص ومعانيه، ليبرز كيف صاغ القرآن لغة العرب بوهج فريد.

هل يمكنُ أن تكونَ شخصيَّةٌ واحِدَةٌ قد أثَّرت في عدّةِ حضاراتٍ ودياناتٍ، رغم اختلافِ الزمانِ والمكانِ؟ سؤال يطرحه الكِتابُ في رحلةٍ بحثيةٍ مثيرة لاستكشافٍ أثر النبيِّ "إدريسَ" عليه السلام والذي أتى ذكره في القرآنِ الكريم، وظهرت أثاره في نصوصِ التوراةِ والإنجيلِ وحتّى في الأساطيرِ المصريةِ القديمةِ. تساؤلاتٍ هامة عن التشابُه بينَ النبي إدريسَ وشخصياتٍ مثلَ "أخنوخ" و"هرمس" و"أوزوريس"، مُستعرضًا كيفَ ارتبطَت تعاليمهُ بالتوحيدِ والعِلمِ ونقلِ المعرفةِ.