Islam
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The Exceptional Qu'ran: Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam's Holy Book [Hardback]
Johanne Christiansen (Author)
£88.00ISBN: 9781463207298
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 26
This monograph examines the principle of dispensation in the Qur'an, which seems to be, if not unique, articulated in a new manner compared to previous religions (cf. Deut 12,32). The Qur'anic dispensations have never been systematically studied a... .... Learn More -
The Shīʿī Past in the Great Book of the Songs: A New Perspective on the Kitāb al-Aghānī by Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and Shīʿī Islam in the Tenth Century [Hardback]
I-Wen Su (Author)
£115.00ISBN: 9781463207144
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 24
The Kitāb al-Aghānī (the Book of the Songs) stands as one of the most important extant sources for Arabic literature and Islamic history. Compiled during the first half of the tenth century, the Kitāb al-Aghānī emerges from a pivotal period in the... .... Learn More -
Islam: Context and Complexity [Paperback]
Paul Stenhouse (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781925801897
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Islam is not homogeneous. Its complexity, however, is bewildering for non-Muslims, most of whom know little or nothing of Islam, and generally – like Pope Francis – see it as a peace-loving religion. Others find this claim difficult to accept in t... .... Learn More -
People of the Prophet's House [Hardback]
Fahmida Suleman (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781898592327
Published by : Azimuth Editions
Despite their distinct theological differences, Shi'a and Sunni Muslims, followers of the two main branches of Islam, share a number of core beliefs including an allegiance to and love for the Prophet Muhammad and members of his f... .... Learn More -
The Censure of Speculative Theology of Ibn Qudama (Tahrim al-Nazar fi Kutub al al-Kalam) [Hardback]
G. Makdisi (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780906094167
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. His Tahrim al-Nazar is an attack on the rationalist views of the earlier jurist of Baghdad, Ibn... .... Learn More -
Averroes: On the harmony of religion and philosophy [Paperback]
George F. Hourani (Author)
£12.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9780718902223
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the... .... Learn More -
Averroes: Tahafut al Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence) [Paperback]
Simon Van den Bergh (Author)
£30.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9780906094563
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yu... .... Learn More
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