Alfred Guillaume’s authoritative translation of the Sira of Ibn Ishaq presents in English the complete history of the life of Prophet Muhammad. No book can compare in comprehensiveness, [...]

The book sets out to investigate thoroughly the impact of the various traditions on the theological views of Allama Hilli.

This book presents a broad account of the present knowledge of the history and outlines the system of Islamic law. Showing that Islamic law is the key to understanding the essence of one of the [...]

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this [...]

Ignaz Goldziher wrote his book Die Zahiriten in 1883. The English translation of this standard work on Islamic jurisprudence appeared in 1971. The book has been in print ever since. This new [...]

This book is written with the lofty ambition of providing a meaningful introduction to the Qur’an for Western readers. It may be argued that the Qur’an, the sacred Book for the 900 [...]

The author of this book, feels that only a few books cover the entire period of eight centuries of Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula. This book attempts to cover the entire period from [...]

Now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, The Middle East: A History has long been the standard introductory textbook in the field of Middle Eastern history. It is the most comprehensive [...]

Rethinking the roots of modern science: Arabic manuscripts in European libraries (Occasional papers / Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Georgetown University

In the month of Ramadan of the year eight hundred and ninety-nine [June, 1494], I became King of Farghdna.’ Such are the opening words of the celebrated Memoirs of Barbar, first of the ‘Moghul’ [...]

This work was presented to the University of London in December 1921, under the title of “The Arab Conquest of Transoxania “, as a thesis for the degree of Master of Arts, and was approved by the [...]

Long before Muhammed (S) preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors Arabia and the Arabs [...]

This book is not just an attempt to sketch a history of the early Is’mailis. It is a history of the perceptions the non-Is’maili had of those early Is’mailis, a historiography combined with a [...]

This book is dedicated to all Muslim college and university students in Pakistan and abroad so that they may gain a full appreciation of the conspiracy working for their ruin and what can be done [...]

Muhammad and The Jews is probably the first objective study by a Muslim of a subject that needs a full appreciation in the background of the Arab struggle against zionism.The study conclusively [...]

The moral duty of every Muslim scholar is to acknowledge the services rendered by the orientalists to the Islamic branches of learning. For several among them have employed themselves to the [...]

In “Ethical Theories in Islam,” the author has given a “typology” of Islamic ethics, without overlooking altogether the chronological development. Four such types of [...]

This book stresses the need for unity among the believers of God: Jews, Muslims, and Christians. “We must read it – or rather we must travel with her, for truth guides her pen, as charity [...]

This work first published in 1898 has become almost an authoritative account of the era of the Crusades and the life of one of Muslim world’s best known leaders, Salahuddin al-Ayyubi, or [...]

Goitein’s selection of studies dealing with Islamic history, religion, and institutions offers a wide-ranging, sensitive, and highly original introduction to a civilization by one who lived all [...]