Product Description: The exploration of the contributions is made with regards to the title in hand by the thought and practice of the global movement associated with the Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gulen. The importance and distinctiveness of teaching of Gulen and the practice of the movement is that it is rooted in a confident Turkish Islamic heritage while being fully engaged with modernity...read more

A richly detailed reference chronicles the great religions of human history and their rituals, practices, and beliefs in a series of vivid photographs, maps, and text, exploring the geographical regions, areas, and cultures where the various faiths grew and flourished and following their development as they spread around the world. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.

A richly detailed reference chronicles the great religions of human history and their rituals, practices, and beliefs in a series of vivid photographs, maps, and text, exploring the geographical regions, areas, and cultures where the various faiths grew and flourished and following their development as they spread around the world.

Product Description: Political Islam, to be distinguished from Islam as a culture or a religion, and from Islamic Fundamentalism, is an increasingly important feature of the western political scene. The ideologies of Political Islam reflect the fact that some of their adherents live and work within a Western socio-political context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Political Islam, to be distinguished from Islam as a culture or a religion, and from Islamic Fundamentalism, is an increasingly important feature of the western political scene. The ideologies of Political Islam reflect the fact that some of their adherents live and work within a Western socio-political context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays discuss Islamic identity, influential Islamic leaders, and reasons for the revitalization of Islam in the Middle East