Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad

Earlier than 11th of September, few Westerners had heard of Wahhabism. at the present time, it's a loved ones notice. usually pointed out in organization with Osama bin weighted down, Wahhabism is portrayed through the media and public officers as an illiberal, puritanical, militant interpretation of Islam that demands the wholesale destruction of the West in a jihad of world proportions.

Reflections of Tasawwuf: Essays, Poems, and Narrative on Sufi Themes

Sufism is the perform of closing conscious of the genuine presence of God in each situation, till definitely is reached. The dizzying complexity of Sufi metaphysics, the passionate great thing about Sufi poetry, and the profound Sufi technological know-how of religious psychology, are all in line with this. The Sufi direction is the method of non secular transformation, eventually ensuing (God keen) in self-transcendence, produced via the definitely of God’s presence.

Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism (Studien Zur Geschichte Und Kultur Des Islamischen Orients)

Gene W. Heck explores the function of Islam in precipitating Europe´s 12th century advertisement renaissance. deciding upon that Europe´s medieval feudal interregnum was once mostly because of indigenous governmental enterprise rules and never by way of shifts in foreign exchange styles, he demonstrates how Islamic financial precepts supplied the ideological rationales that empowered medieval Europe to flee its three-centuries-long scan in "Dark Age economics" - within the method, supplying the West with its archetypic instruments of capitalism.

RUMI - 53 Secrets from the Tavern of Love: Poems from the Rubiayat of Mevlana Rumi (Islamic Encounter Series)

Rumi's poetry has been released in a number of English versions because the nineteenth century. And there was no scarcity of translators. this present day, in the course of the translations of Coleman Barks, he's the best-selling poet within the English language. the marketplace for his poems is insatiable. He has a faithful following of English readers and critical devotees.