Ebooks about Islam and Misticism
 The Koran
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A reader from Tucson, Arizona USA
I feel that all those of the Christian and Jewish Faiths should read the Koran. It will
help them to gain some insight to how their Muslim neighbors live and what they believe. I
also feel that all Muslims should read the Old and New Testaments of the Bible so they may
gain some insight to the lives and beliefs of their Christian and Jewish neighbors. There
are actually some good ideas in the teachings of the Koran, just as there are in the
Bible. All Three works have much good to offer those who read and try to understand what
is written there in. The E Book is just a new way to get their messages across.
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Islam
in America
by Jane
I. Smith
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A
Reader on Classical Islam
by F.
E. Peters
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Book Description
To enable the reader to shape, or perhaps reshape, an understanding of the
Islamic tradition, F. E. Peters skillfully combines extensive passages from Islamic texts
with a fascinating commentary of his own. In so doing, he presents a substantial body of
literary evidence that will enable the reader to grasp the bases of Muslim faith and,
more, to get some sense of the breadth and depth of Islamic religious culture as a whole.
The voices recorded here are those of Muslims engaged in discourse with their God and with
each other--historians, lawyers, mystics, and theologians, from the earliest Companions of
the Prophet Muhammad down to Ibn Rushd or "Averroes" (d. 1198), al- Nawawi (d.
1278), and Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406). These religious seekers lived in what has been called
the "classical" period in the development of Islam, the era when the exemplary
works of law and spirituality were written, texts of such universally acknowledged
importance that subsequent generations of Muslims gratefully understood themselves as
heirs to an enormously broad and rich legacy of meditation on God's Word.
"Islam" is a word that seems simple to understand. It means
"submission," and, more specifically in the context where it first and most
familiarly appears, "submission to the will of God." That context is the Quran,
the Sacred Book of the Muslims, from which flow the patterns of belief and practice that
today claim the spiritual allegiance of hundreds of millions around the globe. By drawing
on the works of the great masters--Islam in its own words--Peters enriches our
understanding of the community of "those who have submitted" and their imposing
religious and political culture, which is becoming ever more important to the West. --This
text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Western
Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Feminists,
Islam & Nation: Gender & the Making of Modern Egypt
by Margot
Badran
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Book Description
The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but
previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of
women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and
extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so
doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common
claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between
feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first
half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters
of Islam. --This text refers to the Paperback
edition.
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 The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple
Mount
by Gershom
Gorenberg
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For the average American watching CNN, the conflict in the Middle East is a
complicated affair, mired in an ancient past and an uncertain future. It also seems like a
distant story, one that only remotely touches upon the temples and churches beyond the
Middle East. Not so, explains Gershom Gorenberg, a senior editor at the Jerusalem
Report. In fact, the threat of apocalyptic religious violence is happening now, and
it's happening everywhere. It is fueled in part, he says, by Christian leaders in
America's fundamentalist churches.
To help readers make sense of it all, Gorenberg
centers his fascinating discussion around the Temple Mount, the world's most desired piece
of religious real estate. It is where King David erected an altar, where Solomon and Herod
built their temples, and where the Dome of Rock now stands. (Cain even murdered Abel,
according to ancient legend, over who would own this place.) The Christian far right now
stakes a future claim to the Temple Mount, where they predict (or at least hope) the
"Third Temple" will be built shortly. Gorenberg offers the impressive research
of a seasoned investigative journalist, yet he possesses the narrative skills of a
novelist. The result is an enthralling and informative read. --Gail Hudson --This
text refers to the Hardcover
edition.
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 Mysticism: The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
by Evelyn
Underhill
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Description
The strength of this remarkable book lies in its definition of what it is to
be human and religious. The most important experience, Underhill claims, is to be 'in love
with the Absolute', because it is this mystical experience that releases our greatest
potential as human beings. Above all, it is a book that shows how the world of the mystic
is within everyone's reach, and shares an inspiring vision of what this world offers those
who choose to enter it. Mysticism, first published in 1911, was at once hailed as a
classic and swiftly established its author as the foremost authority on the subject in the
English-speaking world. Here she offers an excellent introduction to mysticism, discussing
the works of such great mystics as Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of
Avila, Rumi and 'Attar. Mysticism draws on hundreds of sources from all over the world and
remains the pre-eminent study of human spiritual consciousness. Part One defines mysticism
from different perspectives, sets out its characteristics and explains its relationship to
psychology, theology and symbolism. Part Two explores the 'mystic way', the stages of
mystic consciousness from the self to union with the Absolute. Also included are a useful
summary of European mysticism, and an impressive bibliography. --This text refers to an
out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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 Religion after Religion
by Steven
M. Wasserstrom
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Description
"By focusing on Scholem, Corbin, and Eliade, Steven Wasserstrom has
brought to light many of the tacit assumptions that have informed the study of religious
culture in our time. Particularly important is his attentiveness to the primary emphasis
placed on the symbolic imagination in these three seminal thinkers and the impact that
this orientation had on their assessment of history, politics, and ethics. Wasserstrom has
produced a study that will have major implications for the way that historians of religion
think about their own discipline."--Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University
By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be
on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt
on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing trends made religious rituals look
out of place. It was in this atmosphere that the careers of Scholem, Eliade, and
Corbin--the twentieth century's legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judaism,
History of Religions, and Islam--converged and ultimately revolutionized how people
thought about religion. Between 1949 and 1978, all three lectured to Carl Jung's famous
Eranos circle in Ascona, Switzerland, where each in his own way came to identify the
symbolism of mystical experience as a central element of his monotheistic tradition. In
this, the first book ever to compare the paths taken by these thinkers, Steven Wasserstrom
explores how they overturned traditional approaches to studying religion by de-emphasizing
law, ritual, and social history and by extolling the role of myth and mysticism. The most
controversial aspect of their theory of religion, Wasserstrom argues, is that it minimized
the binding character of moral law associated with monotheism.
The author focuses on the lectures delivered by
Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin to the Eranos participants, but also shows how these scholars
generated broader interest in their ideas through radio talks, poetry, novels, short
stories, autobiographies, and interviews. He analyzes their conception of religion from a
broadly integrated, comparative perspective, sets their distinctive thinking into
historical and intellectual context, and interprets the striking success of their
approaches. --This text refers to the Hardcover
edition.
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