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To speak of the crisis of a civilisation is not enough, since the phenomenon has assumed universal proportions. The impending darkness draws ever nearer; a sense of disquiet spreads more and more widely.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eIslam has been given to man precisely to help him five through this last stage of history without losing himself. The final revelation of the prophetic cycle, it offers methods of resisting the present chaos, and of re-establishing order and clarity within the soul—as well as harmony in human relations—and of achieving the higher destiny to which the Creator has called us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eIslam is addressed to man, of whom it has a deep and precise understanding, defining as it does his position in creation and before God.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eModem thought, by contrast, has no well-defined and generally accepted anthropology. Concerning man it has amassed a vast array of facts, yet the very confusion and variety of these facts betrays an inability to give a coherent definition of the human condition. In no other civilisation has there been such a complete and systematic ignorance of the reason why we are born, why we are alive, and why we must die.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eSuch is the paradox of our culture, which, in the first place. wishes to be ‘humanist’; in other words, to make man the criterion and the end of all things, but in which even the concept of man has broken down. Having been made into a perfected monkey by evolutionism, he has been relieved of whatever tenuous coherence was left to him by the Philosophy of the absurd. The human creature is henceforth to resemble a puppet shaken and disjointed by a mechanism which he himself has set in motion but the chaotic and accelerating movement of which he is no longer able to control.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eProclaimed as absurd, fife on earth has effectively lost its meaning. Man is offered a multitude of material possibilities and advantages undreamt of by earlier generations, but, since we are now ignorant of what man is, and of what his deep aspirations might be, not one of these miracles can prevent him from foundering in his own despair.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eNone the less, modem civilization has confidently declared that it has brought happiness to the human race. The French Revolution adopted a Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the American constitution claims to assure the ‘pursuit of happiness’ to every citizen. The nineteenth century sanctioned in every Western country, and even in a few others, the grand idea of Progress by virtue of which the Golden Age lies not behind but before us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eFor some time the facts have seemed to confirm this belief. The material conditions of the lower strata of Western society have been greatly improved, individual freedom has been guaranteed to all, science has given man a sense of being incomparably better informed than the greatest sages of past generations, and technological developments have placed tools of a previously unimaginable power in his hands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eOn another level, and through psychological theories which claim to have located at last the true centre of gravity of the human being—at the level of sexuality—individuals are promised that they are capable of ‘self-fulfillment’ simply by throwing off every constraint and following their own inclinations. For many this has been a sufficient excuse to suppress the morality inherited from the past, henceforth to be considered a mass of obsolete prejudices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eIn this way, modem man believes that he has come of age, the concomitant assumption being that his forbears of earlier centuries were childish. 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In 1988 he was awarded the coveted French Author's association prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Translator\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTimothy John Winter\u003c\/strong\u003e (born in 1960), also known as \u003cstrong\u003eShaykh Abdal Hakim Murad\u003c\/strong\u003e, is a British Sunni Muslim Shaykh, researcher, writer and academic. He is the Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College and the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge University. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eHis work includes publications on Islamic theology and Muslim-Christian relations.In 2003 he was awarded the Pilkington Teaching Prize by Cambridge University and in 2007 he was awarded the King Abdullah I Prize for Islamic Thought for his short booklet \u003cem\u003eBombing Without Moonlight\u003c\/em\u003e. He has consistently been included in the \"500 Most Influential Muslims\" list published annually by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre and was ranked in 2012 as the 50th most influential.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e-------------------------------\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘This book offers an exceptionally lucid and concise introduction to Islam specially intended for those with little prior knowledge or understanding of it...The author is endowed with a pronounced gift for thoroughly explaining complex issues or ideas in only a very few words.’\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e- Maryam Jameelah (Muslim World Book Review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘In this excellent translation by T. 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This esoteric deviation is preparing Islam to enter the final phase of capitalism. We will prevent it. This book is the first step to eradicating this hundred year old plague. Insha’allah.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eUmar Ibrahim Vadillo was born in 1964. After attending the Augustinian College in Navarre he went on to study Agronomy at the University of Madrid. While still at university he embraced Islam. There followed a long period of study applying the commercial parameters defined in Islam’s founding legal document, Imam Malik’s Al-Muwatta, to modern financial practice. 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It continues right through to the terrible events that brought about the death of al-Hussein ibn Ali.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eGiven that the author assumes a command of the source texts and knowledge of the events and personalities involved that is now much rarer than it was, the commentary by Muhibb ad-Din al-Khatib is extremely helpful for the modern reader. He helpfully gives a biography of Qadi Abu Bakr that helps the reader realise his greatness and the vastness of his scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eQadi Abu Bakr (468 – 543 AH\/1076 – 1148 CE) was born and grew up in Seville and as a young man traveled with his father in search of knowledge to Egypt, Sham and Iraq, meeting and studying with the greatest scholars alive among whom was Imam al-Ghazali. When he returned to Andalusia, the people of knowledge immediately recognised the immensity of his learning and gathered around him, among them such luminaries as Qadi ‘Iyad, author of the Shifa, and Qadi Abu-l-Waleed ibn Rushd the great Maliki and grandfather of the philosopher and author of the Bidayat al-Mujtahid.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Commentator\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMuhibb ad-Din al-Khatib (1303 – 1389 AH\/1886 – 1969 CE) was born in Syria. 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But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events — from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth century — that shaped modern Palestine. The first book of its kind, A History of Palestine offers a richly detailed interpretation of this critical region’s evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eStarting with the prebiblical and biblical roots of Palestine, noted historian Gudrun Krämer examines the meanings ascribed to the land in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions. Paying special attention to social and economic factors, she examines the gradual transformation of Palestine, following the history of the region through the Egyptian occupation of the mid-nineteenth century, the Ottoman reform era, and the British Mandate up to the founding of Israel in 1948. 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Andalusians spoke proudly of the region’s excellence, and indeed it engendered celebrated thinkers such as Maimonides and Averroes. Sarah Stroumsa offers an integrative new approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus, where the cultural commonality of the Islamicate world allowed scholars from diverse religious backgrounds to engage in the same philosophical pursuits.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eStroumsa traces the development of philosophy in Muslim Iberia from its introduction to the region to the diverse forms it took overtime, from Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism to rational theology and mystical philosophy. She sheds light on the way the politics of the day, including the struggles with the Christians to the north of the peninsula and the Fāṭimids in North Africa, influenced philosophy in al-Andalus yet affected its development among the two religious communities in different ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile acknowledging the dissimilar social status of Muslims and members of the religious minorities, \u003ci\u003eAndalus and Sefarad\u003c\/i\u003e highlight the common ground that united philosophers, providing a new perspective on the development of philosophy in Islamic Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"m-author-row__blurb m-author-row\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"m-author-row__bio\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSarah Stroumsa\u003c\/b\u003e is the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor Emerita of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her books include \u003ci\u003eMaimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton) and \u003ci\u003eFreethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rāwandī, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47674794148148,"sku":"PUP005","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/5031\/5572\/files\/Andalus-and-Sefarad_-On-Philosophy-and-Its-History-in-Islamic-Spain-Princeton-University-Press-40588191.jpg?v=1780391567"},{"product_id":"before-and-after-muhammad-the-first-millennium-refocused","title":"Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv id=\"iframeContent\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIslam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature sufficiently to compare with Christianity or rabbinic Judaism until the tenth century. \u003ci\u003eBefore and After Muhammad\u003c\/i\u003e suggests a new way of thinking about the historical relationship between the scriptural monotheisms, integrating Islam into European and West Asian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eGarth Fowden identifies the whole of the First Millennium--from Augustus and Christ to the formation of a recognizably Islamic worldview by the time of the philosopher Avicenna--as the proper chronological unit of analysis for understanding the emergence and maturation of the three monotheistic faiths across Eurasia. Fowden proposes not just a chronological expansion of late Antiquity but also an eastward shift in the geographical frame to embrace Iran.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBefore and After Muhammad\u003c\/i\u003e, Fowden looks at Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alongside other important developments in Greek philosophy and Roman law, to reveal how the First Millennium was bound together by diverse exegetical traditions that nurtured communities and often stimulated each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"m-author-row__blurb m-author-row\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"m-author-row__bio\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGarth Fowden\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Director at the Institute of Historical Research, National Research Foundation, Athens, and Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths at the University of Cambridge. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEmpire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e (both Princeton).\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47674794443060,"sku":"PUP007","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/5031\/5572\/files\/Before-and-After-Muhammad_-The-First-Millennium-Refocused-Princeton-University-Press-40588441.jpg?v=1780381726"},{"product_id":"islamic-spain-1250-to-1500","title":"Islamic Spain: 1250 to 1500","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e1. Geographical Environment and Historical Context \u003cbr\u003e2. The Rise of the Banu’l-Ahmar \u003cbr\u003e3. Enclaves and Anomalies \u003cbr\u003e4. Mudejar Status: The Teachings of the Islamic Lawyers; Christian Attitudes and Doctrines \u003cbr\u003e5. Mudejar Communities: Castile \u003cbr\u003e6. Mudejar Legal Codes from Castile \u003cbr\u003e7. Mudejar Communities: Aragon \u003cbr\u003e8. Mudejar Communities: Valencia \u003cbr\u003e9. Mudejar Communities: Navarre \u003cbr\u003e10. Muhammad II (1273-1302) \u003cbr\u003e11. Muhammad III (1302-1309) \u003cbr\u003e12. Nasr (1309-1314); Isma’il (1314-1325); Muhammad IV (1325-1333) \u003cbr\u003e13. Yusuf I (1333-1354) \u003cbr\u003e14. Muhammad V (1354-1391): A Reign Interrupted by Those of Isma’il and Muhammad VI \u003cbr\u003e15. Yusuf II (Abu’L-Hajjaj) (1391-1392); Muhammad VII (1392-1408); Yusuf III (1408-1417) \u003cbr\u003e16. The Interlocking Reigns of Muhammad VIII, Muhammad IX, Muhammad X, Muhammad XI, Yusuf IV, and Yusuf V (1417-1452) \u003cbr\u003e17. Sa’d (1453-1464) and Abu’l-Hasan ’Ali (1464-1482) \u003cbr\u003e18. The Final Decade of Granadan Independence (1482-1491) \u003cbr\u003e19. All Mudejars Now: Islamic Spain (1492-1500) \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eL. P. Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e was, until his retirement, head of the Department of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, King's College, University of London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47674796081460,"sku":"UCP003","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/5031\/5572\/files\/Islamic-Spain_-1250-to-1500-University-of-Chicago-Press-40589438.jpg?v=1780385476"},{"product_id":"muslims-in-spain-1500-to-1614","title":"Muslims in Spain: 1500 to 1614","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOn December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subsequent widespread rebellion provided the Christian government with an excuse—or justification, as its leaders saw things—to embark on the systematic elimination of the Islamic presence from Spain, as well as from the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, over the next hundred years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePicking up at the end of his earlier classic study, \u003ci\u003eIslamic Spain, 1250 to 1500—\u003c\/i\u003e which described the courageous efforts of the followers of Islam to preserve their secular, as well as sacred, culture in late medieval Spain—L. P. Harvey chronicles here the struggles of the Moriscos. These forced converts to Christianity lived clandestinely in the sixteenth century as Muslims, communicating in \u003ci\u003ealjamiado—\u003c\/i\u003e Spanish written in Arabic characters. More broadly, \u003ci\u003eMuslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614,\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of an early modern nation struggling to deal with diversity and multiculturalism while torn by the fanaticism of the Counter-Reformation on one side and the threat of Ottoman expansion on the other. Harvey recounts how a century of tolerance degenerated into a vicious cycle of repression and rebellion until the final expulsion in 1614 of all Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRetold in all its complexity and poignancy, this tale of religious intolerance, political maneuvering, and ethnic cleansing resonates with many modern concerns. Eagerly awaited by Islamist and Hispanist scholars since Harvey's first volume appeared in 1990, \u003ci\u003eMuslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614,\u003c\/i\u003e will be compulsory reading for student and specialist alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eContents:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e1. The Beginnings of Crypto-Islam in the Iberian Peninsula \u003cbr\u003e2. Spain’s Muslims under a New Order \u003cbr\u003e3. The Muslims of Aragon and Valencia up to Their Forcible Conversion \u003cbr\u003e4. Crypto-Muslims in the Lands of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon, 1525-1560 \u003cbr\u003e5. The Intellectual Life of Spain’s Clandestine Muslims \u003cbr\u003e6. Crisis and War: Granada, 1567-1571 \u003cbr\u003e7. Assimilation or Rejection? The 1570s and 1580s \u003cbr\u003e8. 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