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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers 'An ever-growing library of wisdom' The Economist Since 1998, In Our Time has been the go-to radio programme for knowledge seekers and inquiring minds. Tackling big topics...

Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain - "al-Andalus" - as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: It is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity", Fernández-Morera sets the record straight.

ISIS rocketed onto the world stage seemingly out of nowhere, beheading American hostages, bulldozing international borders, routing the American-trained Iraqi Army, and carving out a new state that rules eight million people and a territory larger than the United Kingdom. But who are they? Where did ISIS come from, and how did they rise to power in so little time? What is driving them - and how can they be stopped?

What do you do when divine law and the justice demanded by your conscience clash? Muslims have wrestled with this problem since the earliest caliphates. The mazalim courts, dating back to the eighth century, were the answer: courts where any subject could appeal directly to an Islamic ruler...

Bestselling scholar Jonathan A. C. Brown examines Islamic scripture, law, Sufism, and history to comprehensively interrogate this claim and determine how and why it emerged. Locating its origins in conservative politics, modern Afrocentrism, and the old trope of Barbary enslavement, he explains how antiblackness arose in the Islamic world and became entangled with normative tradition.

Bestselling author and jihad expert Robert Spencer unveils the shocking truth behind the mainstream media's propaganda about the Arab Spring and shows how the Fort Hood attack, the Boston Marathon bombings, and other violent acts by Muslims in the United States are indeed fresh instances of the Arab Spring ideology coming to this country. Robert Spencer brings years of study on radical Islam to this shocking and insightful book. Arab Winter Comes to America is a powerful warning of the terror and tyranny to come.

A compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after Muslims began to see their faith as an historical actor on the world stage, they needed to narrate Islam's birth...

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.

Understanding Islam's sacred text is integral to understanding your Muslim neighbor. Cross-cultural missionary and scholar Matthew Aaron Bennett blends the insights of Islamic believers, secular Qur'an scholars, and missionaries to Muslims, making The Qur'an and the Christian like no other resource for Christian ministry to Muslims. Combining these perspectives in one guide better equips Christians to communicate the biblical gospel to friends and neighbors who are adherents to Islam—both in and out of majority-Muslim cultures.

Now in an updated second edition, Gabriel Said Reynolds tells 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. Reynolds offers a fascinating look at the structure and meaning of the Qur'an, revealing the ways in which biblical language is used to advance the Qur'an's religious meaning. 

Frémeaux & Associés et la Grande Mosquée de Paris s'associent afin de faire connaître l'histoire, la philosophie, les cultures et les savoirs du monde musulman. Peut-on être scientifique et croyant aujourd'hui ? Une réponse par l'affirmative à cette question semble une gageure à notre époque où science et religion entretiennent un rapport conflictuel entamé à l'époque moderne.

How did Muslims across time and place define the line between themselves and their neighbors? Youshaa Patel explores why the Prophet Muhammad first advised his followers to emulate Christians and Jews, but then allegedly reversed course, urging them to "be different!" He details how subsequent generations of Muslim scholars canonized the Prophet's admonition into an influential doctrine against imitation that enjoined ordinary believers to embody and display their religious difference in public life.

Contrary to popular assumption, Arab women were instrumental in shaping world history. Between Rome's intervention in the Arabian Peninsula and the Arab conquests, noblewomen ruled independently, conducting trade and making war. Their power was often celebrated as queen, priestess and goddess. With time they delegated power to the most important holy men of their age, influencing Arabian paganism, Christianity and Islam forever.

Frémeaux & Associés et la Grande Mosquée de Paris s'associent afin de faire connaître l'histoire, la philosophie, les cultures et les savoirs du monde musulman. À la mort du Prophète en 632, l'Empire islamique intensifie ses conquêtes pour s'étendre de l'Asie centrale à la Péninsule ibérique. En moins d'un siècle un immense empire est constitué par la dynastie des Omeyyades, sur la base d'un califat.

The word "jihad" is everywhere in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in highly simplistic, distorted, and ahistorical understandings of the concept of jihad. 

Descubra el mundo andalusí que suscitó la admiración y la fascinación del mundo por su cultura, costumbres y ciencia. Una parte clave de la historia de España donde se funden el mundo visigodo con la elevada cultura árabe medieval. Desde la aparición del islam hasta la Reconquista y la expulsión de los moriscos. Conozca al-Ándalus, una civilización que nos dio poesía, cultura, música, idioma, progreso, costumbres y ciencia y que colocó a España más alto que el resto de Europa que no se dejó invadir.

Day after day we read of the caliphate and the Qur'an, of Sunni and Shi'a, Salafis and Sufis, integration and isolation, radicals and refugees. Almost a quarter of the world's populate is Muslim. It is clear that understanding the modern world requires knowing something about Islam. But while much is said and written about Islam and the global trends and historic events connected to it, little attention is given to placing these phenomena within their greater historical, religious and intellectual context.

Muhammad is the Prophet; the messenger of God. But for the vast majority of people outside the Islamic faith; he remains a mystery; and myths and misconceptions about him abound. Born in a time of moral despondency and despair; Muhammad spent his entire life trying to transcend human pettiness...

Frémeaux & Associés et la Grande Mosquée de Paris s’associent afin de faire connaître l’histoire, la philosophie, les cultures et les savoirs du monde musulman. À partir de la fin du VIIIe siècle, une civilisation originale et puissante, portée par une nouvelle religion, l’islam, commence à s’affirmer dans le cadre d’un immense espace géopolitique et économique qui s’étend sur trois continents.