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Best Religious Books of 2011: HuffPost Religion’s Top 11

Hundreds of religion books come across the HuffPost Religion desk each year. Stacked in mountains next to our computers, they remind us of the sacred wisdom, religious leadership and academic…

WORLD CRISES and the PATHWAY TO PEACE – by Mirza Masroor Ahmad

Foreword: The purpose of Islam is to teach man the ways of attaining peace, both with himself and with his Creator. Under Divine direction, over 1,400 years ago, Hadrat Muhammad (sa), the Holy…

Al Islam International Publications at London Book Fair: Launch of World Crisis and Pathways to Peace by Khalifa of Islam

Going on now in London- Please pay a visit More: …

Book review: Rashid Khalidi’s detailed account on the relationship between the US and the Middle East

Brokers of Deceit Rashid Khalidi Beacon Press By most accounts, Barack Obama delivered a masterful speech to a group of Israeli youth in Jerusalem last week as part of his…

New Book: ‘Muslim Secular Democracy’

MARCH 26, 2013 BY REZA JAVAHERI Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices from Within Edited by Lily Zubaidah Rahim (University of Sydney) Published by Palgrave Macmillan March 20, 2013 Description: Muslim Secular…

AFTER THE SHEIKHS: THE COMING COLLAPSE OF THE GULF MONARCHIES (book review)

AFTER THE SHEIKHS: THE COMING COLLAPSE OF THE GULF MONARCHIES The UK/European/Middle East edition, published by Hurst & Co., is now available. The US and electronic editions, published by Oxford…

“The invention of the Jewish people”

The Middle East Monitor: The Invention of the Jewish People was a book written by Shlomo Sand, an Israeli professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv…… Sand argues…

Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home

Edited by Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh US: Olive Branch Press/Interlink Publishing Pp. 202 It is significant that this book is entitled “Seeking Palestine”, not “Remembering Palestine”, for there is…

Book review: **NEW: Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War

**NEW: Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War Author Name:Michel ChossudovskyISBN Number:978-0-9737147-5-3Year:2012Pages:102 NEW BOOK FROM GLOBAL RESEARCH! “Professor Chossudovsky’s hard-hitting and compelling book explains why and…

Punishment for Apostasy and Blasphemy-A Conspiracy Against Islam

Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom WorldwideBy Paul Marshall and Nina Shea(Oxford University Press, 448 pp., $35) In spite of its slightly agitated title, this book is…

Book Review: The New Religious Intolerance — US Vs. Europe

Source: Guardian UK By Giles Fraser Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance ‘Is it right to allow nuns to teach in full habit but to ban Muslim teachers wearing…

Indonesia: Tale of Ahmadi Refugees Wins Literary Award

Jakarta Globe | December 01, 2012 A novel that tells the story of Ahmadis being thrown out of their homes and forced to move to refugee camps has won Indonesia’s…

1,000-YEAR-OLD MUSLIM JOKE BOOK FOUND

Analysis by Jennifer Viegas DISCOVERY NEWS An 11th-century book by a revered Baghdad Muslim scholar turns out to be a tongue-in-cheek guide for party crashers, according to the researcher who…

Islam and Science: Book review- Interpreting Avicenna

Interpreting Avicenna Critical Essays Edited by Dr Peter Adamson Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen View list of contributors… Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521190732) Not yet published – available from May 2013 Price is not yet…

Rooms Are Never Finished – Poems relating to Karbala

By Agha Shahid Ali W. W. Norton & Company Copyright © 2002 Agha Shahid Ali. All rights reserved. ISBN: 0-393-04149-2 Chapter One From Amherst to Kashmir 1. Karbala: A History…

Seeking Ethical Foundations in Pluralistic World

Book Review by Atif Munawar Mir of the book “The Dialects of Secularization” What should be the main source of morality and law in a pluralistic world? In pre-modern times,…

In the Footsteps of the Historical Jesus

Huffingtonpost In the Footsteps of Jesus, published by National Geographic Books, is the culmination of a very personal 15-year quest for the historical Jesus. As both a historian and practicing…

Islamophobia: How Anti-Muslim bigotry was brought into the American mainstream

The Global Research: Ahmed Sharif was a 44-year-old Muslim Bangladeshi taxi driver in New York City. It was August 24, 2010, a time that marked the height of vitriolic protests…

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