Books

The Iranian Metaphysicals Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny By: Alireza Doostdar What do the occult sciences, séances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late ...

Editor(s): Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin, Alaya Forte Islamophobia is one of the most prevalent forms of prejudice in the world today. This timely book reveals the way in which Islamophobia’s pervasive power is being met with responses that challenge it and ...

Author:  Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi Foreword by Professor Noel Q. King Published by Al-Ma’arif Publications, Toronto, Canada   This book deals with the history of the Shi‘a Ithna-‘Ashari Muslim community from the early days of Islam up to ...

Arabic was not just spread by the sword, but by merchants, patron-hunting poets and dowry-seeking princes. Arabs is a dazzling achievement, born of a historian’s passionate affection for his subject. It is a labour of love, achieved after ...

1 MUHAMMAD 570-632 From the 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History by Michael H. Hart My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and ...

G. W. Bowersock Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for ...

Edited by Tahir Abbas and Sadek Hamid An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth. “Muslim youth, like Muslims in general and Islam itself, resist narrow stereotypes and incendiary shibboleths. In Political Muslims both Islamism and Islamic ...

Creating and Resurrection An Early Muslim Perspective on Divine Unity and Cosmology Edited by: Herman Landolt Known as an ‘intellectual missionary’ of Fatimid Ismailism, Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani was one of the most creative and original thinkers of the ...

A book titled ‘Khomeini, Revolutionary of God’ on the personality and manner of leadership of Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran was published in Italy. In the 284-page book, the author refers to the ...

In the wake of major Islamic commemoration of the third Shia Imam, senior Iranian jurisprudent has issued his views on Arba’een and importance of visiting the holy shrine of Imam Hussein (AS). “Kawthar of Arba’een” by top Iranian ...