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  • Sea of the Caliphs

    The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World

    Translated by Nicholas Elliott ...
    “How could I allow my soldiers to sail on this disloyal and cruel sea?” These words, attributed to the most powerful caliph of medieval Islam, Umar Ibn al-Khattab (634–644), have led to a misunderstanding in the West about the importance of the Mediterranean to early Islam. This body of water, known in Late Antiquity as the Sea of the Romans, was critical to establishing the kingdom of the caliphs ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Islamist Phoenix

    The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East

    An updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix is now available as ISIS: The Terror Nation (978-1-60980-725-2)From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)

    "The courageous Robert Spencer busts myths and tells truths about jihadists that no one else will tell." ***—***MICHELLE MALKINWhile many choose to simply blame the West for provoking terrorists, Robert Spencer’s new book **The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)™ reveals why it is time to ignore political correctness and identify the enemy - if we hope to ever defeat them.In a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS

    ISIS rocketed onto the world stage seemingly out of nowhere, beheading American hostages, bulldozing international borders, routing the American-trained Iraqi army, and carving out a new state that rules eight million people and a territory larger than the United Kingdom.But who are they?Where did ISIS come from, and how did they rise to power in so little time?What is driving them—and how can ... Read more

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  • What the Qur'an Meant

    And Why It Matters

    by Garry Wills ...
    America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient textGarry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur’an, leading us through perplexing passages with ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Introducing Islam

    A Graphic Guide

    Series series Graphic Guides
    Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind is too often seen in the West in terms of fundamentalism, bigotry and violence- a perception that couldn't be more wrong.Introducing Islam recounts the history of Islam from the birth of Prophet ... Read more

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  • Islamic and Arabian Quotes and Proverbs - Volume 1 [Illustrated]

    Knights of Arabia, #5

    by Aisha Bilal ...
    Series Book 5 - Knights of Arabia
    Here you'll find such classics as:"Tie your camel and trust in God""I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak""Sit crooked and talk straight""A monkey, in the eyes of its mother, is a gazelle""Love is neither sold nor bought"Each quote and proverb is accompanied by an illustration of it written in flowing Arabic Diwani script. This volume also features the work of comic artist Zahra Malki and includes ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Apostates

    When Muslims Leave Islam

    by Simon Cottee ...
    The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Muslims leave Islam and become irreligious. Apostasy in Islam is a deeply controversial issue and features prominently in current debates over the expansion of Islam in the West ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Islamic Spain

    1250 to 1500

    by L.P. Harvey ...
    This account of Muslim life in late medieval Spain is "a beautifully written account of an enthralling subject" ( The Observer).From an acclaimed scholar in the field, this is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest. Together with L.P. Harvey's following ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World in a Book

    Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

    by Elias Muhanna ...
    A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—al-Nuwayri’s The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. A storehouse of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Sasanian Era

    Series series The Idea of Iran
    This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series concentrates on the Sasanian period. Seizing power from the previous dynasty - the Parthians - the Sasanians ruled Iran and most of the ancient Near East from 224 until 642 CE. They are particularly fascinating because of their adherence to Zoroastrianism, an ancient dualistic Iranian religion named after the prophet Zarathustra (or, in Greek, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Muhammad the Messenger of Allah

    When talking about Prophet Muhammad, may Allah exalt his mention, one should keep in mind that he is talking about the greatest individual in history. This is not a baseless claim; for the one who reads his biography, and learns of his mannerisms and ethics, while keeping aside all preconceived notions would certainly reach this conclusion. Some fair and just non-Muslims have reached this ... Read more

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