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Understanding Islam 

With over one billion believers throughout the globe, Islam remains one of the most misunderstood of the world’s great Revelations. In this fully revised and amended translation of his masterpiece,…

The Sacred Republic: Power and Institution in Iran presents a comprehensive, detailed analysis of the establishment, evolution and current significance of different institutions in today’s Islamic Republic of Iran. The…

A Frequency Lexicon of Standard Arabic Used in Children’s TV Programs

Mahmoud Al-Ashiri’s book in Arabic, A Frequency Lexicon of Standard Arabic Used in Children’s TV Programs: A Corpus-based Lexicon (Dar Konoz Almarefa Publishers, 2021), offers an invaluable resource for designing and…

A New Day : Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh

A collection “A New Day: Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh” honoring Lamin Sanneh, one of the most adamant advocates and apostles of the radical change in…

Al Mû`assasah Al-Arabîyyah lil Dirasaat wa l-Nashr. [Creativity and the Sacred]

The book, which is written in Arabic, relies on a variety of texts from different disciplines ranging from philosophy, poetry, and art to cosmology and physics, but it remains absorbed…

al-Kitaab fii ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A textbook for Arabic, Part One

This is the second book in the Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program, which was extensively revised and reorganized for the third edition. This book with its companion website develops skills in…

Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend : Examining Its Suitability as a Model

Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations,…

Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds

This best-selling book is the first volume of the Al-Kitaab Arabic language program and is now available in a new third edition. In this new version of the introduction to…

An Intensive Course in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic

Based on the cumulative experience of three leading teachers of Arabic as a foreign language, Kalaam Gamiil builds and develops communicative skills in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, along parallel tracks of…

Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat's Egypt

Answering the Call examines the means by which the Muslim Brotherhood was reconstituted during Anwar al-Sadat’s presidency. Through analysis of structural, ideological, and social developments during this period of the…

Apocalypse des Religions : Pathologies et Dévoilements de la Conscience Religieuse Contemporaine

This collection of essays “Apocalypse des Religions” is devoted to the crisis of contemporary religious consciousness. The latter is considered here as much in its fragmentation and destructive dissolution aspects…

Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC

Long a recipient of migrants from its surrounding areas, the Arabian Peninsula today comprises a mosaic of communities of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious origins. For decades, while the…