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This album of the greatest Islamic art and architecture of Iran and India explores and celebrates cities from Tabriz to Khiva, Lahore to Sikandra. It offers a key to understanding the immense heritage left by hundreds of architects, landscape…

This book traces the historical development of Islamic regions and dynasties, highlighting their diversity of artistic expression from the inception of the faith until the present day. Its pages unveil the rich creativity of Islamic art and…

No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. The author's short history…

The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam, came of age during an extraordinarily rich era of interaction among monotheists. Jews, Christians, and Muslims not only…

"Examining closely a wide range of sources, from the fields of law, theology, literature, comparative religion, and folklore, Amira El-Zein clearly places the status of the jinn in the metaphysical and cosmological economy of Islam. The author also…

"As Muslims grow in numbers, and as Islam's role in world affairs becomes larger, we've begun to see the breakdown in a united fellowship among believers. Certainly the misunderstandings and friction between Islamic civilization and the modern West…