New York: Harper, 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Very minor general wear to jacket. Ink name and address on front paste-down endpaper.
x, 271 pp. "Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and.....
Boston: Shambhala, 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
64 pp. In each of these poems, taken from his long work The Interpreter of Desire, the Sufi master Ibn 'Arabi (1165–1240) evokes the transcendent experience of spiritual love—provoked by his encounter with a young Persian woman named.....
New York: A Galaxy Book/Oxford University Press, 1972. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Spine lightly creased, wrappers and pages faintly toned.
xv, 376 pp. 'From dawn to after sunset the clock in the mosque punctuates the life of Islam with the consciousness of God.' First published in 1956, The Call of the.....
Leominster, [Massachusetts]: Printed at Leominster,by Salmon Wilder, for John Whiting, of Lancaster, 1805. First American Edition. Full-Leather.
First American edition thus. Ink name and date (Robert Peele, 1807) on front endpaper, joints beginning to weaken, endpapers toned, minor loss from edges of front free endpaper.
171 pp. 5 3/4 x......
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. Trade Paperback.
Light crease on back corner, edges a bit rubbed.
xix, 460 pp. Christianity and World Religions: Paths to Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism by Hans Küng, Josef van Ess, Heinrich von Stietencron, Heinz Bechert, Peter Heinegg.
Upper Saddle River: Wharton School Publishing, 2008. Hard Cover.
Highlighting and ink marginalia on 9 pages only. Tiny smudge to lower jacket.
For many people, Islam remains a mystery. Here Bernard Lewis and Buntzie Ellis Churchill examine Islam: what its adherents believe and how their religion has shaped them, their.....
Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. A fine copy.
xxiv, 277 pp. Toby Matthiesen traces the politics of the Shia in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from the nineteenth century until the present day. This book outlines the difficult experiences of being.....
London / Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor general wear.
xii, 356 pp. After the Islamic revolution in Iran, revolutionary leaders had to compromise their ideology. The Iranian ship of state continues to drift in search of an equilibrium between revolutionary convictions and the.....
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1923. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1923 reprint of 1912 revised edition. No jacket. Edges and boards very lightly rubbed, front hinge starting.
cxix, 556 pp. Maroon boards with gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Includes photographs and maps. Muhammad ibn Abdullah; c. 570 – 8 June 632.....
London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Spine faded.
xv, 272 pp. Nicolas Pelham explores how America's overthrow of the Baath party in Iraq, and the failures of Washington's post-invasion regime spawned a Shiite revolution in the heartland of the Arab world. Through first-hand accounts beginning.....
New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
278 pp. "The volatility of Muslim and Middle Eastern politics has made these interrelated topics an overriding preoccupation of world and especially U.S. politics. Perhaps no region of the world.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Third printing.
125 pp. "The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century.....
GA: Windsor-Brooke Books, 2004. Trade Paperback.
Wrapper corners lightly dog-eared.
291 pp. "Sultana Al-Sa'ud, a Saudi Arabian Princess, has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, and designer dresses galore. But in reality, Sultana has no freedom or control over her own life, no value but.....
New York: Penguin, 1972. Trade Paperback.
Pages toned, a few ink marks.
A collection of entertaining anecdotes and "parables in action" illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern dervish teachers. Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three continents, it offers an extraordinary variety.....
. Fazal Sheikh, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. A very nice copy.
110 pp. "Fazal Sheikh (born June 27, 1965 in New York City) is an artist who uses photographs to document people living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world."
Washington, D.C. Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005. 5th Printing. Large Hardcover.
Fifth printing. Jacket edges worn.
xvi, 270 pp. In a fast-paced, politically incorrect tour of Islamic teachings and Crusades history, Spencer reveals the roots of Islamic violence and hatred. Spencer refutes the myths popularized by left-wing academics and Islamic apologists.....
Regina: Regina Orthodox Press, 2007. Trade Paperback.
Faint sticker remnant.
The book pulls no punches in identifying the rise of Islamic fundamentalism as the greatest danger to Western values since the end of the Cold War. This books outlines Islam's fundamentalist origins, basic tenets, historical record and the implications for.....
Chicago: Phoenix Books / The University of Chicago Press, 1961. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. Spine creased, ink name on half-title page, pages lightly toned.
vii, 378 pp. "This important work on the Islam of the Middle Ages explains the structure of its universe, its social and religious framework.....
New York: Back Bay Books, 2015. Trade Paperback.
Crease to front wrapper, ink name on inner wrapper.
xx, 330, 16 pp. ""I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in.....