President George Bush while providing a sense of direction to his nation after September
11, 2001, said somewhat ruefully,“the world has changed for good”. He was partly right. For …

This book explores matters that have negatively affected the public image and led to
distorted depictions of Islam from the late nineteenth century to the present. The areas of …

There is both unity and variety in the Islamic world. Muslims are not a homogeneous people
who can be explained solely by their normative texts: the Koran and the Sunnah. Muslims …

" It is a splendid introduction--carefully researched and comprehensive, yet readable. It
corrects many popular and erroneous notions about Islam that prevail in non-Muslim …

In this timely and important work, John Esposito and John Voll explore the development of
contemporary Islamic movements and thought through the biographies of nine major activist …

Pendant des sikcles l'Arabie pre-islamique avait pietin6 sur place. Les grands antagonismes
de la politique internationale l'avaient touche, les mouvements intellectuels et religieux du …

Diese Ideengeschichte rekonstruiert die Entwicklungen in verschiedenen Feldern des
islamischen Wissens (Mystik, Koran, Theologie, Philosophie ua). Der Autor zeigt zugleich …