STRIVING IN THE PATH OF GOD - JIHAD AND MARTYRDOM IN ISLAMIC THOUGHTIn popular and academic literature, jihad is predominantly assumed to refer exclusively to armed combat, and martyrdom in the Islamic context is understood to be invariably of the military kind. This perspective, derived mainly from legal texts, has led to discussions of jihad and martyrdom as concepts with fixed, universal meanings divorced from the socio political circumstances in which they have been deployed through the centuries. Asma Afsaruddin

Coomaraswamy

but it endeavours to answer questions that have perplexed the most intelligent minds

Hallaj is the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj

The Festival of Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha)

Authored by: Ustadha Nazira Al-Badr

both historically and in the Arab Spring and its aftermath

friendship -and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems

ISBN-13:‎ 978-1887752022

and this new addition to the increasingly rich and varied literature now available in the English language is both useful and accurate in its presentation and content

as well as lesser-known pioneers such as Katherine Johnson

Editor: Bruce Perry

Perfect for young readers