Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Islam - Koran & Sacred Writings

Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich Becker, an early practitioner of the modern study of Islam. Following Becker s lead, the mission of the series is the study of past societies of the Middle East, their belief systems, and their underlying social and economic relations, from the Iberian Peninsula to Central Asia, and from the Ukrainian steppes to the highlands of Yemen. Publications in the series draw on the philological groundwork generated by the literary tradition, but in their...

If non Muslims are to understand Islam, then they must first understand the Qur'an-or Koran. The Koran is written in Arabic, but over 80% of Muslims are non-Arabic speakers. Islam means submission. Iihad means struggle, an individual's internal struggle against impure motivations and manifest behavior. Jihad is often translated-incorrectly according to some Muslims-as holy war against all infidels or people of all faiths except Islam.

The Koran for Christians seeks to help Christians further their understanding of Islam and moderate Muslims, and foster more positive interactions between...

If non Muslims are to understand Islam, then they must first understand the Qur'an-or Koran. The Koran is written in Arabic, but over 80% of Muslims are non-Arabic speakers. Islam means submission. Iihad means struggle, an individual's internal struggle against impure motivations and manifest behavior. Jihad is often translated-incorrectly according to some Muslims-as holy war against all infidels or people of all faiths except Islam.

The Koran for Christians seeks to help Christians further their understanding of Islam and moderate Muslims, and foster more positive interactions between...

New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics provides a panoramic insight into the Qur'anic landscape fenced by innate syntactic, semantic and stylistic landmarks where context and meaning have closed ranks to impact morphological form in order to achieve variegated illocutionary forces. It provides a comprehensive account of the recurrent syntactic, stylistic, morphological, lexical, cultural, and phonological voids that are an iceberg looming in the horizon of Qur'anic genre. It is an invaluable resource for contrastive linguistics, translation studies, and corpus linguistics. Among the...

"Allah's are the names most beautiful. Whatever is in the heavens and earth extols His glory." The Qur'an (Al-Hashr 59:24)

"Allah has 99 names. He who remembers these will certainly enter Paradise." Prophet Muhammad (Bukharhi Hadith Kitab Ad-Dawat, 2,949)

Remembering the Names of Allah is a sacred tradition in Islam. Both the Qur'an and sayings of the Prophet (Hadiths) state the importance of learning them and promise reward for reciting them in supplications and prayers.

This beautiful presentation of Allah's most revered nintety-nine names draws the reader nearer to the...

Islamic Spirituality: Theology and Practice for the Modern World examines and explores the inner dimension of Islam - Islamic spirituality.The writings of important figures in the historical development of Islamic spirituality are examined, as well as the major sources of religious authority in Islam, the Qur'an and Hadith.

Both classical Sufis and Sufism are explored as well as contemporary mystics. Key figures discussed include medieval Islamic theologian Al-Ghazali (d.1111), and Said Nursi (d.1960), arguably one of the most important contemporary theologians in relation to...

This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur' n and the Aramaic Gospels, i.e. the Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic dialects. It builds upon the work of traditional Muslim scholars, including al-Biq ' (d. ca. 808/1460) and al-Suy (d. 911/1505), who wrote books examining connections between the Qur' n on the one hand, and Biblical passages and Aramaic terminology on the other, as well as modern western scholars, including Sidney Griffith who argue that pre-Islamic Arabs accessed the Bible in Aramaic.