Women in Islam and the Middle East earrings Altaie takes us from the

Altaie takes us from the early circles of Mu'tazili and Ash'ari Kalam

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali explains the fundamentals of the purification that is necessary in order to perform the five daily prayers

Rumi was born in 1207 to a long line of Islamic theologians and lawyers on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire in what is now Afghanistan

Thirty lessons provide a basic working knowledge of Arabic

This edition is a fully revised and updated version of the original

Women in Islam and the Middle East earrings Altaie takes us from theMuch of the lively and often heated debate on the role of women in Islam and Middle Eastern society is grounded in different readings of the primary sources and historical precedents. But despite the increasing importance of this debate, these key texts have remained inaccessible to English speaking readers. This book fills the gap by collecting extracts from a range of sources dating from the early Islamic period until today. The readings cover