Muhammad And The Origins Of Islam

Author : Fred M. Donner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674064143
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammad and the Believers written by Fred M. Donner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of Islam, arguing that its origins began with the "Believers" movement that emphasized strict monotheism and righteous behavior that included both Christians and Jews in its early years.

Author : Francis E. Peters
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791418758
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammad and the Origins of Islam written by Francis E. Peters and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inquiry into the religious environment of the person Muslims hail as the "Envoy of God" and an attempt to trace his progress along the path from paganism to that distinctive form of monotheism called Islam.

Author : Zofia Aleksandra Brzozowska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788382203417
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-slavic Literary Context written by Zofia Aleksandra Brzozowska and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199745968
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Islam written by John L. Esposito and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. Now, in this brilliant portrait of Islam today-- and tomorrow-- he draws on a lifetime of thought and research to provide an accurate, richly nuanced, and revelatory account of the fastest growing religion in the world. Here Esposito explores the major questions and issues that face Islam in the 21st century and that will deeply affect global politics: Is Islam compatible with modern notions of democracy, rule of law, gender equality, and human rights? How representative and widespread is Islamic fundamentalism and the threat of global terrorism? Can Muslim minority communities be loyal citizens in America and Europe? In the midst of these questions Esposito places an important emphasis on the issue of Islamophobia, the threat it poses, and its vast impact on politics and society in the US and Europe. He also turns the mirror on the US and Europe and paints a revealing portrait of how we appear to Muslims. Recent decades have brought extraordinary changes in the Muslim world, and in addressing these issues, Esposito paints a complex picture of Islam in all its diversity--a picture of urgent importance as we face the challenges of the coming century.

Author : Mohammed A. Bamyeh
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816632633
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Origins of Islam written by Mohammed A. Bamyeh and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the genesis of Islam for insight into the nature of ideological transformation.

Author : Robert Spencer
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 1642938548
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Did Muhammad Exist? written by Robert Spencer and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there any sound historical evidence that the prophet of Islam actually existed, or is the entire story of Muhammad fable or fiction? It is a question that few have thought—or dared—to ask. Virtually everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, takes for granted that the prophet of Islam lived as a prophet, as well as a political and military leader, in seventh-century Arabia. But this widely accepted story begins to crumble on close examination. In his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The Truth about Muhammad, historian and Islam expert Robert Spencer revealed the often shocking contents of Islamic teachings about Muhammad. Now, in this newly revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist?, he lays bare those teachings’ surprisingly shaky historical foundations. This updated and enlarged version of this acclaimed book examines even more striking and compelling evidence that the story of Muhammad, who for so long was assumed to have lived in the “full light of history,” could be more myth and legend than historical fact. Spencer meticulously examines historical records and archaeological findings, pioneering new scholarship to reconstruct what we can know about Muhammad, the Qur’an, and the early days of Islam. The evidence he presents challenges the most fundamental assumptions about Islam’s origins.

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981040
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What the Qur'an Meant written by Garry Wills and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur’an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur’an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much about Islam. That is no longer the case. We blundered into the longest war in our history without knowing basic facts about the Islamic civilization with which we were dealing. We are constantly fed false information about Islam—claims that it is essentially a religion of violence, that its sacred book is a handbook for terrorists. There is no way to assess these claims unless we have at least some knowledge of the Qur’an. In this book Wills, as a non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur’an with sympathy but with rigor, trying to discover why other non-Muslims—such as Pope Francis—find it an inspiring book, worthy to guide people down through the centuries. There are many traditions that add to and distort and blunt the actual words of the text. What Wills does resembles the work of art restorers who clean away accumulated layers of dust to find the original meaning. He compares the Qur’an with other sacred books, the Old Testament and the New Testament, to show many parallels between them. There are also parallel difficulties of interpretation, which call for patient exploration—and which offer some thrills of discovery. What the Qur’an Meant is the opening of a conversation on one of the world’s most practiced religions.

Author : Lesley Hazleton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594487286
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Muslim written by Lesley Hazleton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known. In The First Muslim, Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion, and psychology, she renders him as a man in full, in all his complexity and vitality. Hazleton's account follows the arc of Muhammad's rise from powerlessness to power, from anonymity to renown, from insignificance to lasting significance. How did a child shunted to the margins end up revolutionizing his world? How did a merchant come to challenge the established order with a new vision of social justice? How did the pariah hounded out of Mecca turn exile into a new and victorious beginning? How did the outsider become the ultimate insider?

Author : Ibn Warraq
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 161592146X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Koran written by Ibn Warraq and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of Islam are familiar with the Koran's many errors and contradictions, but these have rarely been revealed to a wider public. THE ORIGINS OF THE KORAN is an attempt to remedy this deficiency by bringing together classic critical essays which raise key issues surrounding Islam's holy book. Indispensable to scholars and all those interested in the textual underpinning of one of the fastest growing religions in the world.

Author : Walter Williams
Publisher : Maathian Press
ISBN 13 : 9781881040514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Origin of Islam written by Walter Williams and published by Maathian Press. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his book The Historical Origin Of Islam Walter Williams explains how the religion known as Islam developed historically. The information presented in this book differs from the traditional Islamic theology and literature and must be read with an open mind.