Explores the relation between Malcolm, the Nation of Islam, and Christianity. After revealing the religious roots of the Nation of Islam in relation to Christianity, this title examines Malcolm's development and contributions as an activist, journalist, orator, and revolutionist against the backdrop of his familial religious heritage.
Provides an overview of Islam. To place Islam in perspective, the author discusses the problems raised by Western perceptions of Islam and provides a brief account of Islamic history down to the present. He also explains major topics in Islamic worship to help readers understand it as a living faith.
The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident
On 21 February 1994, a woman entered a crowded public square in Tehran and lit herself on fire. The media reported that the martyr was Dr Homa Darabi, an advocate of civil rights. This book attempts to recreate her childhood in Iran in the '50s and '60s - a time of limited resources, tensions, and religiously sanctioned child abuse.
Explores the relation between Malcolm, the Nation of Islam, and Christianity. This title reveals the religious roots of the Nation of Islam in relation to Christianity. It also examines Malcolm's development and contributions as an activist, journalist, orator, and revolutionist against the backdrop of his familial religious heritage.
Brings together critical essays which raise key issues surrounding Islam's holy book, Koran. This anthology begins with Theodor Noldeke's first truly scientific study of the Koran. It focuses on the difficulty of establishing a reliable Koranic text, examining the Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian sources of Muhammad's 'revelation'.
During the Golden Age of Islam (seventh through seventeenth centuries A.D.), Muslim philosophers and poets, artists and scientists, princes and laborers created a unique culture that has influenced societies on every continent. This book offers a fully illustrated, highly accessible introduction to an important aspect of that culture-the ......
Insists that the Koran and those who live under its rule must re-examine this religious text and place it under the microscope of critical intelligence. This book explains how Arab tribal society degenerated from a polytheistic, pre-Islamic culture in which women enjoyed positions of relative prestige to one in which men dominate.
The mythic figure of Malcolm X conjures up a variety of images - black nationalist, extremist, civil rights leader, hero. But how often is Malcolm X understood as a religious leader, a man profoundly affected by his relationship with Allah? This title offers the book length religious treatment of Malcolm X.
A collection of four unconventional essays presented by Islamic art and architecture expert Michael Meinecke in lecture form at New York University before his sudden death in 1995. The case studies, representing years of field experience, do not follow the traditional periodic, linear approach of m
