Exploring the Islamic tradition of cleanliness through detailed rules and rituals, this book defines physical cleanliness and analyses other dimensions of cleanliness, like keeping the heart safe from various kinds of wrong thoughts and maintaining earnings that are untainted by illegitimate income.
An extensive manual describing the Hajj "a journey that enlightens the significance of human existence and submission" this guidebook offers advice for those undertaking the holy voyage and gives the meanings behind its rituals. With special attention to the people who make the journey "approximately three million Muslims a year" this reference ......
What Non-Muslims Should Know, Revised & Expanded Edition
This revised and expanded edition of a trusted text offers updated information about Islam in an accessible and sympathetic presentation. Kaltner presents Islam as first and foremost a religion of practices. Showing the deep humanism of Islam and its most cherished commitments, Kaltner corrects many misconceptions about Islam.
This book seeks to explore the divine institution of fasting in Islam by providing comprehensive information on its place in Islamic worship and on the fasting month of Ramadan. Topics covered include: fasting in Islam and other faiths merits and benefits of fasting types of fasts charity in Ramadan fasting and health
The Life of Ibn Hanbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597/1200), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson. Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadiths-the reports of the Prophet's sayings and ......
Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs a
A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph. An acknowledged master of Arabic eloquence and a sage of Islamic wisdom, 'Ali was renowned for his eloquence: his words were ......
Mediations of Knowledge and Power in the Lower and Middle Senegal Rive
This book explores the intermediary functions of Muslim interpreters in Senegal to affirm their status as active historical agents in the historiography on French colonial rule in West Africa, including themes such as the intersection of knowledge and power in a colonial context and Muslim identity formation and French assimilation.
Jews under Islam, Sources and Documents, 997 - 1912
This book reviews a thousand years of Jewish history in North Africa under Islam, culled from literary sources such as Islamic legal and theological texts, European travel accounts, and diplomatic dispatches, as well as unpublished archival material.
Exploring one of the five essential pillars of Islam, this guide to zakat explains how this Muslim practice plays a key role in preserving a peaceful economic balance within a Muslim society and how it encourages individuals with an urge to share with the less fortunate. This book is a must for Muslims who seek to observe this obligation fully and ......
