Philosophy & Religion
Ibn Khaldun
JOD 13.50
This book tells the fictional story of a quest inspired by Ibn Khaldun's ideas about people who lived in cities and the bedouins who lived in the deserts and rural areas as nomads. The events in the story have not taken place in reality. Perhaps some of it did happen since Ibn Khaldun did live among..
Ibn Sina: In Pursuit of the Flying Man
JOD 13.50
While Ibn Sina: In Pursuit of the Flying Man is based on true events, it is a fictional tale that recounts the renowned scholar of Islam, Ibn Sina or Avicenna’s last hours on earth. Join Ibn Sina on a journey through his ideas about the human body and soul, and explore the fascinating example of his..
Ibn Tufayl: Alone on the Island of One's Mind
JOD 13.50
Ibn Tufayl: Alone on the Island of One’s Mind is a fictional tale based on the questions and the thoughts Ibn Tufayl might have had before writing his famous work Hayy ibn Yaqdhan. How did Ibn Tufayl’s journey towards writing such a work begin? What kinds of thoughts must have passed through his m..
In the Early Hours
JOD 15.50
Let us live for Allah. Let us love what He loves and like what He likes; let us dislike what He dislikes and hate what He hates. Let there be no territories carved up and no frontiers set up in serving Him. Let us passionately involve ourselves in our society to do His will, but still passionately l..
Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship
JOD 7.50
In this book readers are led on a powerful and inspiring journey through the inner dimensions of a range of Islamic acts, including prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage. Consisting of a selection of writings by a great figure in Islamic history, Imam al-Ghazali, this book helps readers reali..
Interpretation Of Dreams
JOD 4.50
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud published a controversial and groundbreaking theory. Our dreams, he propos..
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
JOD 12.50
No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity face..
Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History
JOD 30.00
Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country’s goals really are. Vali Nasr examines Iran’s political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the v..
Islam
JOD 12.50
The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly a day goes by without mention of Islam. And yet, for most people, and in much of the world, Islam remains a little-known religion. Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights or slavery, Muslims are today expected to provid..
Islam
JOD 11.00
In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the worldÆs fastest growing faith; more than three-quarters of the worldÆs refugees are Islamic; it has produced government by authoritarian monarchies in Saudi Arabia and ultra- republicans in Iran. Whether we are reading about civil war in..
Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present
JOD 26.00
A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the tradition Today’s Muslim world is in upheaval: legalists and mystics engage in intense debates, radical groups invoke Sharia, Muslim immigrants in the..
It Tolls For Thee
JOD 13.50
After a close encounter with death, Tom Morton realised he needed a change of pace and perspective. He decided to become the only independent funeral celebrant on the remote Shetland Islands, an unusual new profession that would lead him on an extraordinary journey into the world of the dead. In a ..