Islam: Perspectives and Essentials
Explore Islam's core beliefs and diverse perspectives with essential reads from Reza Aslan, Karen Armstrong, and Bernard Lewis. A curated guide to history, faith, and culture.
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No God But God
by Reza Aslan
In this compelling--and profoundly hopeful--book, Aslan demonstrates that Islam has much in common with Christianity and Judaism, and bears seeds of egalitarianism and social reform at its core.
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Islam
by Karen Armstrong
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing about the subject, Karen Armstrongâs short history demonstrates that the worldâs fastest-growing faith is a much more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest.
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The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades (Penguin Classics)
by ibn Munqidh, Usama
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Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi (Penguin Classics)
by Jamal, Mahmood
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The Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly written, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the world's foremost authority on the Middle East. In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly written, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the world's foremost authority on the Middle East.
