Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest SourcesMartin Lings biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the Prophet. Based on the sira, the eighth and ninth century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophets life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Scrupulous and exhaustive in

why Walter Pater thought it 'the perfect handling of a theory'

Among the Disbelievers

Centuries after his death

was awarded the 1938 Story magazine prize for the best book written by anyone involved in the WPA Federal Writers' Project

who engage Justice Scalia’s ideas about judicial interpretation from varying standpoints

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and moral rectifications mentioned in the Sacred Law

Jonathan Lyons shows just how much "Western" ideas owe to the Golden Age of Arab civilization

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A Thinking Person's Guide to Islam: The Essence of Islam in 12 Verses from the Quran

present and future respectively in three mutually complementary parts

The Timaeus seeks the origin of the visible universe out of abstract geometrical elements