Author : Alison Cooper
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780750248303
A colourful and informative book filled with fascinating facts about Islam, ideal for KS2 and less able KS3 readers.
Author : John Ankerberg
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736911078
John Ankerberg and John Weldon's popular Facts On books (more than 800,000 copies sold) have new covers and updated material! Known for their extensive research and Bible knowledge, the authors offer readers the essential facts they need to evaluate and discuss today's issues. The concise, easy?to?follow information helps readers: understand the basic tenets of each subject evaluate the teachings in light of God's Word share the gospel more effectively The user?friendly, question?and?answer format of this series gives readers the flexibility to explore the subject fully or look up specific teachings. Readers will discover the specific beliefs of Islam, whether Allah is the God of the Bible, what Islam teaches about Jesus, information about the Koran, and the religious duties required of all Muslims.
Author : Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1479894508
Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 142631258X
"1001 inventions, official children's companion to the exhibition"--Cover.
Author : Robert Spencer
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2003-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1594032955
In "Islam Unveiled," Robert Spencer dares to face the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches--and the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West. Going beyond the shallow distinction between a "true" peaceful Islam and the "hijacked" Islam of terrorist groups, Spencer probes the Koran and Islamic traditions (as well as the history and present-day situation of the Muslim world) as part of his inquiry into why the world's fastest growing faith tends to arouse fanaticism. "Islam Unveiled" evaluates the relationship between Islamic fundamentalism and "mainstream" Islam; the fixation with violence and jihad; the reasons for Muslims' disturbing treatment of women; and devastating effects of Muslim polygamy and Islamic divorce laws. Spencer explores other daunting questions--why the human rights record of Islamic countries is so unrelievedly grim and how the root causes of this record exist in basic Muslim beliefs; why science and high culture died out in the Muslim world--and why this is a root cause of modern Muslim resentment. He evaluates what Muslims learn from the life of Muhammad, the man that Islam hails as the supreme model of human behavior. Above all, this provocative work grapples with the question that most preoccupies us today: can Islam create successful secularized societies that will coexist peacefully with the West's multicultural mosaic?
Author : Salim T. S. Al-Hassani
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1426209347
Modern society owes a tremendous amount to the Muslim world for the many groundbreaking scientific and technological advances that were pioneered during the Golden Age of Muslim civilization between the 7th and 17th centuries. Every time you drink coffee, eat a three-course meal, get a whiff of your favorite perfume, take shelter in an earthquake-resistant structure, get a broken bone set or solve an algebra problem, it is in part due to the discoveries of Muslim civilization.
Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : DK Children
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Describes Islam including its beliefs, history, and civilization.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0744031044
Learn about the history and traditions of the Islamic faith in The Islam Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Islam in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Islam Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Islam, with: - Images of Islamic art, architecture, calligraphy, and historical artifacts - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Straightforward text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Islam Book is a comprehensive guide essential to understanding the world's fastest-growing religion - aimed at self-educators after a trustworthy account and religious studies students wanting to gain an overview. Here you'll find clear factual writing offering insight into terms like Sharia law, the Caliphate, and jihad; Sunni and Shia divisions; and Sufi poetry and music. Your Islam Questions, Simply Explained This essential guide to Islam covers every aspect of the Muslim faith and its history - from the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the teachings of the Koran to Islam in the 21st century. If you thought it was difficult to learn about one of the world's major religions, The Islam Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. Find out about modern issues such as fundamentalism, the work of peaceful traditionalists, modernizers, and women's rights campaigners, as well as the central tenets of Islam, such as prayer, fasting, and pilgrimage. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Islam Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.
Author : Christian C. Sahner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 069120313X
A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations during late antiquity and the early Islamic era How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and how small groups of individuals rejected this faith through dramatic acts of resistance, including apostasy and blasphemy. Using previously untapped sources in a range of Middle Eastern languages, Christian Sahner introduces an unknown group of martyrs who were executed at the hands of Muslim officials between the seventh and ninth centuries CE. Found in places as diverse as Syria, Spain, Egypt, and Armenia, they include an alleged descendant of Muhammad who converted to Christianity, high-ranking Christian secretaries of the Muslim state who viciously insulted the Prophet, and the children of mixed marriages between Muslims and Christians. Sahner argues that Christians never experienced systematic persecution under the early caliphs, and indeed, they remained the largest portion of the population in the greater Middle East for centuries after the Arab conquest. Still, episodes of ferocious violence contributed to the spread of Islam within Christian societies, and memories of this bloodshed played a key role in shaping Christian identity in the new Islamic empire. Christian Martyrs under Islam examines how violence against Christians ended the age of porous religious boundaries and laid the foundations for more antagonistic Muslim-Christian relations in the centuries to come.
Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0199794138
In the aftermath of September 11, there has been an overwhelming demand for information about Islam, the faith in the name of which the hijackings were perpetrated. Esposito has assembled a list of the most frequently asked questions about Islam, and here provides accessible, sensitive, and even-handed answers.
