The Cross and the Crescent: The Rise of American Evangelicalism and the Future of Muslims
Muhammad Arif Zakaullah

At the dawn of the new millennium, the forces of global Christian Fundamentalism are on the march and the Muslim world is looking increasingly vulnerable. The Cross and the Crescent is a pioneering study. This book fills a strategic intellectual void with its scientific study of the West.  

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282 pages
The Other Press, 2004
ISBN 9839541420

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Is There an Islamic Problem? Essays on Islamicate Societies, the US and Israel
M. Shahid Alam

These essays are about the malformations and misadventures of global capitalism in Islamicate societies, which now comprise a quarter of the world's population, and explain why this sector leads the struggle against Western hegemony.  They tell the history of our times, reported from the trenches (so to speak), from Palestinian camps under the siege of Israeli tanks, from the ruins of Iraq's civilian infrastructure mangled by American cruise missiles, from the Twin Towers taken down by 19 hijackers. They connect the present to the past, the dispossessed Palestinians to the history of their dispossession, the destruction of Iraq to American empire and the Zionist project, the disequilibrium in Islamicate societies to the history of their dismemberment, and the Islamicate resistance to the human instinct for self-preservation.

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240 pages
The Other Press, 2004
ISBN 9839541439

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Modern Islamic Political Thought
Hamid Enayat
Foreward by Hamid Algar

In the aftermath of the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, publications on Islam and politics began to flood the academic and pseudo-academic book market in the West. In the midst of such a staggering amount of writings, whether of a serious or pamphleteering type, this book offers a lucid and well-argued interpretation of modern Islamic political thought. It is indispensable for understanding current political developments in the Muslim world.

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320 pages
Islamic Book Trust, 2001
ISBN 983915415X

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Political Development: An Islamic Perspective
Edited by Zeenath Kausar

With a view that the Western dominant model for political development may not be relevant to Muslim societies, these essays attempt to re-conceptualize political development from an Islamic perspective. They critically evaluate the political developments and problems faced in countries like Malaysia, Bangladesh and Sudan. This book has been jointly published by the Research Centre of the International Islamic University of Malaysia and The Other Press.

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262 pages
The Other Press/IIIU, 2000
ISBN 9839541080

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Revolution to Revolution: Jam'at-e-Islami in the Politics of Pakistan
Abdul Rashid Moten

The author pinpoints various milestones in the transformation of the Jama'at-e-Islami of Pakistan from a quietist revivalist organization to an active political party and a mass revolutionary movement. It analyzes the relationship between the elite structure and the transformation of the Jama'at and assesses its impact upon the organization and upon society and, overall, evaluates the consequences of "politicizing" an Islamic movement. The book will be of interest to scholars and activists of Islamic political movements and to those concerned with the teaching and learning of Islamic political thought and institutions.

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220 pages
Islamic Book Trust, 2002
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Islam and the Problem of Israel
Ismail Raji al-Faruqi

The Muslim world has tended to regard Israel as another instance of modern colonialism, or at best, a repetition of the Crusades. The author shows how Israel is neither; but that it is both and more. The book goes into the nature of Zionism, its history, what has kept it alive, Islam's verdict concerning Israel today, and other topics such as the question of whether a secular Palestinian state is an answer to the problem of Israel.

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130 pages
The Other Press, 2003
ISBN 983954134X

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Stages of Islamic Revolution
Kalim Siddiqui

This book is the last work written by the author, a leading thinker of Islamic political thought, before his death in 1996. Here he studies the phenomenon called the ‘Islamic Revolution' and insists that, like a scientific process, the Islamic Revolution must be repeatable. Rising above the events in Iran, he considers much of the Shii and Sunni theology to be divisive, and identifies ideas that are already part of an ‘intellectual revolution' in the Muslim world. An indispensable reading for those who want to understand the Islamic movement and the events in the Muslim world.

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138 pages
The Open Press, 1996
ISBN 9839541455

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The Principles of State and Government in Islam
Muhammad Asad

The very fact that none of the existing Muslim countries has so far achieved a form of government that could be termed genuinely Islamic makes a discussion of the principles that underlie the constitution of Islamic state imperative. This book is an attempt to keep that discussion alive.

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111 pages
Islamic Book Trust
ISBN 983954095

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Islam at the Crossroads
Muhammad Asad

Written as a plea for Muslims to avoid a blind imitation of Western social forms and values, Muhammad Asad advocated the preservation of Islamic heritage in this book.

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105 pages
Islamic Book Trust
ISBN 9839541048

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First Things First: For Inquiring Minds and Yearning Hearts
Khalid Baig

This is one of the best single volume books on a wide range of contemporary issues dealing with Islam. Khalid Baig's penetrating insights into these issues and his analytical mind and solid grounding in Islam enable him to present Islamic perspectives on some of the most important issues of our times without apology. Originally published in the "First Things First" column of the Impact International, these articles have been thoroughly revised and updated.

An engineer by profession, Khalid Baig is editor of Albalagh E-Journal as well as a regular contributor to the Impact International, London.

 

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Open Mind Press,
1425/ 2004
ISBN:  0-9755157-0-5
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Humanism in Islam
Marcel A. Boisard

Wherever the movement of Westernization has been too brutal, it has run into a religious challenge. Islam thus reappeared as one of the grand moral and political forces of the world. This book has not been drafted out of sympathy for the Muslims but on account of historical evidence: Islamic civilization was the first to outline clear and mandatory provisions for protecting the destiny of man and society, and for creating order in the relationships between people.

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337 pages
Islamic Book Trust, 2003
ISBN 9839154532

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Our Decline: Its Causes and Remedies
Amir Shakib Arslan (new edition)

This book is timely and relevant, even seventy years after the author wrote it, for the Islamic character as it exists today has changed relatively little since Shakib's time: unjust and selfish Muslim leadership, degenerated ulama with selfish aims of protecting their own lives instead of correcting the errors of their kings and heads, the ultra-modern segment of society as well as the ultra-conservatives. The Muslim world still awaits redemption at all levels, ruler and ruled, young and old, rich and poor.

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172 pages
Islamic Book Trust, 2004
ISBN 9839154540

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In Quest of Truth, from Deception to Deliverance
Shifa L. Mustapha

At a time when the media highlights every Muslim misdeed and every Muslim virtue is hidden, when some denominations of Christianity are making every effort to turn Muslims and others away from Islam, how is it possible that so many western Christians are turning to Islam and recognizing it as God's True Path? This book gives the story of one such Western soul in search of Truth. The author was born in Australia in 1941 and embraced Islam in 1989. Her efforts to bring understanding between Muslims and other communities in Australia were recognized by the government in 1998 when she received the Queensland Multicultural Service Award.

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214 pages
The Other Press, 2004
ISBN 9839541447

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On the Origins of Human Society
Malik Bennabi
translated from the French by Mohamed Tahir el-Mesawi

Malik Bennabi, eminent thinker of post-WWII Algeria,  here investigates the essentials of human society by exploring what makes the human group an ethico-social order and historical community and not a mere agglomerate of individuals living according to the laws of nature. Following a multi-disciplinary approach informed by a clear philosophical mind and a unity of intellectual vision, On The Origins of Human Society provides an adequate theoretical framework for a paradigmatic shift in the study and understanding of human social existence.

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166 pages
Islamic Book Trust, 2002
ISBN 9839154478

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The Question of Culture
Malik Bennabi
translated from the French by Abdul Wahid Lu'lu'a

For the first time in English, one of the Muslim world's greatest thinkers tackles the delicate topic of culture in the Arab-Islamic world from a new perspective and does not follow a standard Western methodology in elucidating ideas. Bennabi is regarded as a grand theory-builder whose work is a critical response to the intellectual climate of his time. The Arabic original was first published in 1959.

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130 pages
Islamic Book Trust/IIIT, 2003
ISBN 9839154397 

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The Question of Ideas in the Muslim World
Malik Bennabi
translated from the French by Mohamed Tahir el-Masawi

This is a quintessential summary of Malik Bennabi's philosophical and sociological thought. Besides being a profound analysis and holistic critique of the political and intellectual situation in the Muslim world, the book offers a passionate formulation of what makes the essence of human society and civilization. 

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188 pages
Islamic Book Trust, 2003
ISBN 9839154516

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Educational Dualism in Malaysia, Implications for Theory and Practice
Rosnani Hashim

Contemporary subjects are rarely taught in traditional religious education and religion is only one of the many subjects taught in the pragmatic secular education system. This has inevitably led to conflict between the two systems and attempts to supplement one with the other has generated confusion. Faced with this dilemma, there have been attempts to reformulate educational policy and curriculum so as to be contemporary and integrated while remaining faith-based. This book investigates in detail the differences between the two systems within the Malaysian context and highlights how educational policy and curriculum have been reformulated. 

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286 pages
The Other Press,  2004
ISBN 9839541412

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Muslims and the West, Encounter and Dialogue
edited by Zafar Ishaq Ansari and John L. Esposito

In October 1997, forty scholars from around the world came together in Islamabad to explore Western perceptions of Muslims and Muslim perceptions of the West in an effort to build bridges of understanding and friendship. This book is a collection of 12 select papers  from that seminar, which was jointly sponsored by the Islamic Research Institute of the International Islamic University in Islamabad and the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Contributors: Isma`il Ibrahim Nawwab, Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Hussin Mutalib, Ahmet Davutoglu, Muhammad Khalid Masud, Jane Smith, Mustansir Mir, Riaz Hassan, Tamara Sonn, Muzaffar Iqbal, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr.
 

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373 pages
Islamic Research Institution, 2001
ISBN 969408217X
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Ideology of Pakistan
Sharif al Mujahid

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266 pages
Islamic Research Institution,
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The Emergence of Islam
Muhammad Hamidullah
English translation by Afzal Iqbal
 

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300 pages
Islamic Research Institution,
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Revivalism and Renaissance in Muslim India (1707-1867): the role of Shah Wali Allah in the Regeneration of the Muslim Community of the Subcontinent
M. A. Ghazi

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252 pages
Islamic Research Institution,
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The Muslim World Today
S. Amjad Ali

628 pages
Islamic Research Institution, 1985
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Knowledge for What?
Proceedings and papers of the Seminar on Islamization of Knowledge

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382 pages
Islamic Research Institution,
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