Product Description: Funny, challenging, controversial, and unforgiving, this is an unprecedented personal account of a Muslim's life in the modern world. As an Islamic scholar, outspoken social activist and well-known commentator, Esack is in a unique position to tackle the quandaries and challenges facing Muslims today...read more

Product Description: Arguably the most powerful book in the world it has spoken to Muslims for over one thousand years; it is lawmaker, moral code, and the word of God. Drawing on both contemporary and ancient sources, Esack outlines the key themes and explains the historical and cultural context of this unique literary work whilst examining its content, language and style, and the approaches that have been used to interpret it (fundamentalist, feminist and modernist)...read more

Product Description: Islam and AIDS is the first book to comprehensively address the HIV/AIDS pandemic from an Islam perspective, with contributions from a number of internationally known activists and scholars of Islam. With an introduction by Peter Piot, Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, this landmark work provides an insight into new possibilities of critical and progressive Islamic approaches, in both law and ethics, to one of the most urgent crises facing humankind today...read more

The author shows how the Qu'ran came into existence and evolved into the spiritual guide for millions of Muslims, unlocking the text and presenting keys to understanding and interpreting it. Original.

The South African Muslim scholar and social activist shares his insights into several important Islamic themes found in the Qur'an, including justice, truth, and gender relations. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This challenging and unusual work discusses the issues of liberation theology and inter-religious dialogue from the Islamic point of view, focusing on the experience of the multi-religious community of South Africa.