A beautifully curated and translated collection of the Qur'anic surahs and verses that are most cherished and memorized by Muslims the world over. Muslim devotional practices vary greatly over time and across regions, communities, and denominations...

An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder – told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle. Usama Bin Laden's greatest fear was not capture or death, but the exposure of al-Qaeda's secrets. At great risk to themsel...

A sweeping history of Muslim identity from its origins in late antiquity to the present. How did Muslims across time and place define the line between themselves and their neighbors? Youshaa Patel explores why the Prophet Muhammad first advised his...

The first volume of a world-renowned scholar's long-awaited Qur'an commentary, now available in English. Angelika Neuwirth's six-volume commentary, published originally in Germany, offers a historical and philological analysis of the form, structure...

A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women's khutbahs (sermons) drawing on their social, religious, and spiritual experiences and framed by original reflections on an emerging Muslim feminist ethics. Within the Muslim world, there is a dyn...

Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In "Public Freedoms in the Islamic State", he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – in its broad outlines – meets with wide acceptance among Muslims...

A revelatory account of early Islam's great diversity by the world's leading scholar of early Qur'anic manuscripts. According to Muslim dogma, the recited and written text of the Qur'an as we know it today scrupulously reflects the divine word as i...

This is the first English translation and commentary of the collected poems of Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura (1910-2004), a Northern Ghanaian orthodox Islamic scholar, poet, and polemicist known as "Afa Ajura", or "scholar from Ejura". The poems were trans...

This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arab...

Ali ibn Abi Talib is arguably the single most important spiritual and intellectual authority in Islam after prophet Mohammad. Through his teachings and leadership as fourth caliph, Ali nourished Islam. But Muslims are divided on whether he was suppos...