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 Free Download Prince Ghazi Bin Muhammad, "A Thinking Persons Guide to Islam: The Essence of Islam in Twelve Verses from the Quran" English | ISBN: 1933764155 | 2017 | 226 pages | EPUB | 6 MB The world is at a crossroads today. A tiny minority of Muslims seems to be bent on hijacking the religion of Islam and bringing it into perpetual conflict with the rest of the world. Because of their actions, very few non-Muslims understand the real difference between Islam as it has always been, and the distorted perversions of Islam today. This book is an attempt to positively say what Islam actually is - and always was - as well as what it is not.  Free Download Abbas Panakkal, "Matrilineal, Matriarchal, and Matrifocal Islam: The World of Women-Centric Islam " English | ISBN: 3031517482 | 2024 | 343 pages | PDF | 7 MB Around the world, Islamic cultures have developed distinctive matrilineal, matrifocal, matrilocal, or matriarchal natures as a result of how they have been practised by integrated and indigenised Muslim communities. In matrilineal descent systems, in contrast to the more common mosaic of patrilineal patterns, children belong to the mother's ancestry group. Matrilineal Muslims therefore follow a social system in which people are identified with their mother's lineage, and the inheritance of property as well as succession are transferred through the matriline. This volume focuses on matrilineal, matrifocal and matriarchal Muslims and their unique folk natures, integrated social structures, adopted legal systems, and so on. It provides a unique perspective for understanding global Muslim communities that have succeeded in integrating the matrilineal tenets of local practices with religion, adhering to essential Islamic values in a way that makes traditional women-centred cultures acceptable to mainstream Islam.  Free Download Tsvetelin Stepanov, "Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800-1100" English | ISBN: 3031344286 | 2023 | 367 pages | PDF | 6 MB This book explores the widespread mass conversions to Christianity and Islam that took place in Europe and Asia in the ninth to eleventh centuries. Taking a comparative perspective, contributors explore the processes at work in these conversions. Focusing on Christianity and Islam, it contrasts religious conversion in the period with earlier conversions, including those of Manichaeism in central Asia; Buddhism in east Asia; and Judaism in Khazaria, exploring why conversions to Christianity and Islam led to centralized political structures.  Free Download Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook By Charles Kurzman 1998 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 0195116216 | PDF | 3 MB This book contends that "Liberal Islam" is not a contradiciton in terms, but rather a thriving tradition more than a century old and undergoing a revival within the last generation. This anthology presents the translated work of 32 Muslims who are concerned with the separation of church and state, democracy, the condiditon of women, the rights of minorities, freedom of thought, and the future of human progress. The collection will be an important resource for scholars and students of Islam, the Middle East, and international affairs, and will serve the larger purpose of redressing the imbalance in our perceptions of the Islamic world.  Free Download Jamal Malik, "Islam in South Asia Revised, Enlarged and Updated Second Edition " English | ISBN: 9004422692 | 2020 | 746 pages | PDF | 6 MB Jamal Malik provides new insights into the social and intellectual history of the complex forms of cultural articulation among Muslims in South Asia from the seventh to twenty-first century, elaborating on various trends and tendencies in a highly plural setting.  Free Download I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America by Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst English | 2023 | ISBN: 1469674661 | 233 Pages | True PDF | 4.2 MB  Free Download Tahir Abbas, "Contemporary Turkey in Conflict: Ethnicity, Islam and Politics" English | 2016 | ISBN: 147441799X, 1474417981 | PDF | pages: 217 | 2.3 mb New perspectives on ethnic relations, Islam and neoliberalism have emerged in Turkey since the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002. Placing the period within its historical and contemporary context, Tahir Abbas argues that what it is to be ethnically, religiously and culturally Turkish has been transformed. He explores how issues of political trust, social capital and intolerance towards minorities have characterised Turkey in the early years of the 21st-century. He shows how a radical neoliberal economic and conservative outlook has materialised, leading to a clash over the religious, political and cultural direction of Turkey. These conflicts are defining the future of the nation.  Free Download Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920 1990 By Annelies Moors 1996 | 285 Pages | ISBN: 0521474973 | PDF | 15 MB According to Islamic law, women are entitled to inherit property, receive a dower at marriage, and to manage their own income. In practice, however, this is not always the case. In an anthropological study of Palestinian women from different stratas of society, Annelies Moors examines under what circumstances they claim property rights and when they are prevented from doing so. The combination of oral history and written legal sources presents an informed and sophisticated challenge to the conclusions of existing literature on the region.  Free Download Nasr M Arif, "South Asian Islam " English | ISBN: 1032574755 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 56 MB This volume explores the historical trajectory of the spread of Islam in South Asia and how the engagements of the past have played a crucial role in the making of the present outfits of South Asian Islam.  Free Download Is Islam an Enemy of the West By Tamara Sonn 2016 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 1509504427 | PDF | 4 MB New York, Washington, Madrid, London and now Paris the list of Western cities targeted by radical Islamic terrorists waging global jihad continues to grow. Does this extreme violence committed in the name of Islam point to a fundamental enmity between the Muslim faith and the West?In this compelling essay, leading scholar of Islam Tamara Sonn argues that whilst the West has many enemies among Muslims, it is politics not religion that informs their grievances. The longer these demands remain frustrated, the more violence has escalated and recruitment to groups like Islamic State has increased. Far from quelling the spread of Islamic extremism, Western military intervention has helped to turn nationalist movements into radical terrorist groups with international agendas. Islam, Sonn concludes, is not the problem, just as war is not the solution. |
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