A clear and rigorous introduction to the history, transmission, and interpretation of Hadith, from the origins of Islam to contemporary debates. Jonathan A.C. Brown analyzes the methods of authentication, the sciences of Hadith, and its uses in Islamic law, theology, and spirituality. This book is intended for students, researchers, teachers, and anyone interested...

An essential work for exploring the core principles of Islam: the Quran, the Prophet, Sufism, and the Muslim perspective. This book provides a profound introduction to Islamic spirituality and offers an enriching understanding for all those who wish to grasp Islam in its true dimension.

Consuming more rare resources, more difficult to recycle, too complex, these much-vaunted new technologies are leading us to a dead end. This book dismantles one by one the mirages of high tech innovations, and proposes to take the opposite course to the technological forward race by...

This essay is aimed at parents, teachers, politicians, citizens who are wondering about the relevance of the “digital plan for schools”. What if, on the contrary, we had to make school a refuge zone, without connections or screens, and reinvent the non-digital ways of living together?

Should France really continue to mistreat its youth, reject the children of immigrants on the outskirts of its cities, demonize Islam, feed an increasingly threatening anti-Semitism? Identify the anthropological, religious, economic and political forces that have brought us to the edge of the abyss, indicate the difficult but possible paths of a return to the true...

Dictionary of French words of Arabic origin by Salah Guemriche Dictionary of French words of Arabic (and Turkish and Persian) origin, accompanied by a literary anthology, the history of 400 terms (etymology, spelling evolution, ancient and modern uses), extracts from...

What is Sufism? According to Martin Lings: The title of this book is an interrogation; and in recent years this question has been given, at least in the Western world, dubious and suspicious answers. Moreover, the rapidly expanding interest in Sufism further accentuates the need for an introductory and trustworthy book.

Martin Lings gives us this life of the Prophet with a beautiful storytelling talent. The profusion of often unpublished details makes this biography a monument of scholarship accessible to the greatest number.