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Series
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead the conquest of Palestine, beginning in 634-35. Although this discrepancy has been known for several decades, Stephen J. Shoemaker here writes the first systematic study of the various traditions. Using...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From furious reactions to the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad to the suppression of women, news from the Muslim world begs the question: is Islam incompatible with freedom? With an eye sympathetic to Western liberalism and Islamic theology, Mustafa Akyol traces the ideological and historical roots of political Islam.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from their common origin of Abraham and describes their similarities and differences, their sacred texts, their rituals, and how each religion has influence the world.
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Series
Publisher
Atlas Books/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is little known. Karen Armstrong's immaculately researched new biography of Muhammad will enable readers to understand the true origins and spirituality of...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Muhammad was born in 570 C.E. Over the course of the following sixty years, he built a thriving spiritual community and laid out the foundations of a religion that has changed the course of world history. There is more historical data available about his life than that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet, particularly in the West, his is a consistently misunderstood story.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is, too, a kind of self-destruction, what does one do with the body's question,...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the critical differences between Christianity and Islam. Sharing personal stories from converts and followers of both religions, the author addresses controversial topics including jihad, the Crusades, the Trinity, and shari'a law while unveiling fundamental and enduring doctrinal distinctions.
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