"This third edition of Ira M. Lapidus's classic A History of Islamic Societies has been substantially revised to incorporate the insights of new scholarship and updated to include historical developments in the first decade of the twenty ...

This volume makes available a seminal work of Islam and medieval and ancient history to twenty-first century audiences.

A groundbreaking work that delivers a fresh account of the Arab conquests, incorporating the latest research in Late Antique history

If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none ...

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This work offers coverage of the spiritual and psychological tradition of Sufism. It shows that Sufism is not the preserve of ecstatic religionists, but has a contribution to make to human culture and philosophy.

The reader is forced to face dilemmas that cannot be easily resolved. This is social science at its most illuminating.

Written by a noted Muslim scholar and educationist with a contemporary Muslim audience in mind, this is an invaluable reference for every home and classroom.

Stowasser establishes the link between the female figure as cultural symbol, and Islamic self-perceptions from the beginning to the present time.