The Islam category has 138 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 686 ratings. The most-rated is Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus.
The Wisdom of the Sands, Vol. 1
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In this age of information overload, it’s refreshing to come upon a unique voice. Osho speaks directly to you - he is speaking the truth. Osho calls Sufism a core source of wisdom in the world. In this series of nine chapters, Osho comments on Sufi stories and statements and responds to questions from his audience - which are also our questions. He talks on a vast range of topics, from personal relationships, society, death and rebirth to the ultimate experience of dissolving into the greater existence. A recurrent theme throughout several Sufi stories. “A stream, from its source in far-off mountains, passing through every kind and description of countryside, at last reached the sands of the desert. 'At last…every consciousness reaches a point of cul-de-sac, a point which Sufis call 'the desert'. The desert is a point where you start feeling you are disappearing. The desert is a point where you feel you are dying. The desert is a point when you feel utterly hopeless, meaningless, a point where you start contemplating suicide, a point where you cannot figure it out - what to do, what not to do, to be or not to be. One day or other, every consciousness has to face the desert because without passing through the desert, you will never really be mature.” (Osho) Chapter 1: The Tale of the Sands: Allowing the Winds to Carry You Chapter 2: Get Out of Your Mind and into Your Senses Chapter 3: Be Total Like a Child and Remain a Learner Chapter 4: The Three Stages of Spiritual Evolution Chapter 5: Marriage Is Needed Because Love Is Missing Chapter 6: Love Human Beings First Chapter 7: Sinners Are More Authentic than the Virtuous Chapter 8: The Quantum Leap to Enlightenment Chapter 9: Don’t Be Afraid of Contradictions
©1978 OSHO International Foundation (P)2006 OSHO International Foundation
What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an
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A Look Inside the Sacred Book of One of the World's Fastest-Growing Religions What used to be an exotic religion of people halfway around the world is now the belief system of people living across the street. Through fair, contextual use of the Qur'an as the primary source text, apologist James R. White presents Islamic beliefs about Christ, salvation, the Trinity, the afterlife, and other important topics. White shows how the sacred text of Islam differs from the teachings of the Bible in order to help Christians engage in open, honest discussions with Muslims. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2013 James R. White (P)2020 Two Words Publishing LLC
Liberty to the Captives
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Liberty to the Captives is a resource for equipping the church to respond to the challenge of Islam. Mark Durie presents unique resources for ministering freedom from the yoke of Islam, both for those who have lived as non-Muslims under Islamic dominance as well as those who have come to Christ out of a Muslim background. Liberty to the Captives identifies the dhimma pact of surrender to Muslim rule and the shahada - the Muslim confession of faith - as covenants that must be rejected and renounced by followers of Christ. It explains why this is necessary and how to do it. The prayers and declarations provided here have been tested across four continents and have proven value for setting people free from fear, breaking spiritual strongholds, and releasing men and women to be bold and effective witnesses to Muslims of the saving power of Christ.
©2010, 2013, 2015 Mark Durie (P)2020 Salaam Ministries
Islam
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Best-selling author and renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong presents a concise and articulate history of Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith. Beginning with the Prophet Muhammad's flight from Medina and concluding with an examination of modern Islamic practices and concerns, Armstrong delivers an unbiased overview. She contends that no religion is more feared and misunderstood by the Western world as Islam, and firmly challenges the notion that these two civilizations are on a collision course.
©2002 Karen Armstrong
The Messenger of God
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A compilation of Fethullah Gulen's sermons on the life of the prophet, the book offers us a deeper understanding of God's Messenger through looking into his exemplary life from different aspects.
©2005 Tughra Books (P)2012 Tughra Books
I Want Burning
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Ecstatic Sufi Poetry Comes Alive To fully experience the ecstatic poetry of the Middle and Near East, you must hear it as originally intended: stirred ablaze by inspired music and rhythms before a live audience. In I Want Burning, Coleman Barks fuses his passionate scholarship with a deep feeling for the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz (a 14th-century Sufi mystic, called "one of the jewels in the necklace of Persian poetry"), and Lalla (an exquisite Kashmiri female poet of the 14th century). Includes more than 50 translations of this rare and moving work, accompanied by vocals, Peruvian flute, harmonium, and other instruments.
©2001 Coleman Barks (P)2001 Coleman Barks
What the Qur'an Meant
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America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay listeners to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites listeners to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur'an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur'an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much about Islam. That is no longer the case. We blundered into the longest war in our history without knowing basic facts about the Islamic civilization with which we were dealing. We are constantly fed false information about Islam - claims that it is essentially a religion of violence, that its sacred book is a handbook for terrorists. There is no way to assess these claims unless we have at least some knowledge of the Qur'an. In this book Wills, as a non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur'an with sympathy but with rigor, trying to discover why other non-Muslims - such as Pope Francis - find it an inspiring book, worthy to guide people down through the centuries. There are many traditions that add to and distort and blunt the actual words of the text. What Wills does resembles the work of art restorers who clean away accumulated layers of dust to find the original meaning. He compares the Qur'an with other sacred books, the Old Testament and the New Testament, to show many parallels between them. There are also parallel difficulties of interpretation, which call for patient exploration - and which offer some thrills of discovery. What the Qur'an Meant is the opening of a conversation on one of the world's most practiced religions.
©2017 Garry Wills (P)2017 Penguin Audio
The Imam's Daughter
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Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter. She lived the life of a devout Muslim in a family of Pakistani Muslims in England, but behind the front door, she was a caged butterfly. For many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At 16, she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and she gathered the courage to run away. Relentlessly hunted by her angry father and brothers, who were intent on executing an "honor" killing, she moved from house to house in perpetual fear to escape them. Over time, she converted to Christianity and was able to live and marry as she wished. Hannah found the courage to live her life free from shame, free from religious intolerance, and free from the abuse that haunted her childhood. This is a remarkable true story of how a young girl escaped a life of torture - a story you won't forget.
©2010 Hannah Shah (P)2010 Zondervan
Spiritual Verses
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Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time. Rumi examines our human separation from reality, love, and truth. He shows how love - neither erotic nor sentimental but divine, by which the universe is held together - enlightens ignorance and dissolves suffering. The first book of the Masnavi is the key to the whole work: It takes off from simple, amusing tales into realms unimaginable, but wholly familiar to the human heart.
©2007 Naxos AudioBooks Ltd. (P)2007 Naxos AudioBooks Ltd.
Saudi, Inc.
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The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions of long-term strength and profit. They use Islamic law, traditional ideology, and harsh justice to maintain stability and their own power, but underneath the thobes and abayas and behind the religious fanaticism and illiberalism lies a sophisticated and ruthless business enterprise.
Over more than a century, fed by ambition and oil wealth, al Saud (as the royal family is known) has come from having next to nothing to ruling as absolute monarchs. Their story starts with Saudi Arabia's founder, the lowly refugee Abdul Aziz, embarking on a daring gambit to reconquer his family's ancestral home: the mud-walled city of Riyadh. And it ends with al Saud's most ambitious move yet: taking Aramco, the multinational business that has made them the wealthiest family in the world, public.
©2018 Ellen R. Wald, PhD (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The War of the Three Gods
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The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century - with its chief focus on the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (AD 610-641) - a pivotal and dramatic time in world history. The Eastern Roman Empire was brought to the very brink of extinction by the Sassanid Persians before Heraclius managed to inflict a crushing defeat on the Sassanids with a desperate, final gambit. His conquests were shortlived, however, for the newly converted adherents of Islam burst upon the region, administering the coup de grace to Sassanid power and laying siege to Constantinople itself, ushering in a new era. Peter Crawford skillfully explains the threeway struggle between the Christian Roman, Zoroastrian Persian, and Islamic Arab empires, a period of conflict peopled with fascinating characters, including Heraclius, Khusro II, and the Prophet Muhammad himself. Many of the epic battles of the period - Nineveh, Yarmuk, Qadisiyyah, and Nahavand - and sieges such as those of Jerusalem and Constantinople are described in as rich detail. The strategies and tactics of these very different armies are discussed and analyzed, while plentiful maps allow the listener to follow the events and varying fortunes of the contending empires. This is an exciting and important study of a conflict that reshaped the map of the world.
©2014 Peter Crawford. First published 2013 Pen & Sword Books Limited (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Arabs
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A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia. Mackintosh-Smith reveals how linguistic developments - from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammad's use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabic - have helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in today's politically fractured post-Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.
©2019 Tim Mackintosh-Smith (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Coran
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Le Coran est le texte sacré de la religion musulmane, aussi appelé l'Écriture des musulmans et donc de ceux qui pratiquent l'Islam. Ce livre est la plus ancienne œuvre littéraire en arabe que nous connaissions. Le Coran regroupe les paroles d'Allah (Dieu), les révélations (ou "Aya") qu'il fait au monde par le biais du prophète et messager Mahomet (Muhammad) et va jusqu'à la mort de ce dernier en 632. Cette parole correspond à ce que l'Homme ne peut apprendre par lui-même, ni découvrir par ses propres moyens : elle répond donc à des questions existentielles plus qu'elle ne concerne les lois physiques de l'univers. Ce message est universel et donne un but au croyant, une raison à son existence (l'origine, la fin et le sens de la vie). Le Coran sert donc de véritable ouvrage de référence pour tous les musulmans, quelles que soient leurs langues ou l'endroit où ils se trouvent dans le monde. >> Ce livre audio en version intégrale vous est proposé en exclusivité par Audible et est uniquement disponible en téléchargement. Veuillez noter : ce livre audio est en arabe.
©2017 AB Publishing (P)2017 AB Publishing, NewInTech LLC
The Qur'an: A New Translation
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This is a new and complete translation of the Qur'an - the Muslim scripture - by one of the premier translators of religious texts in the world. The meanings of this sacred text are rendered into the English language with subtle touches of poetry, allowing for the opportunity to fully understand the spirit and soul of the Qur'an. This direct and timely rendition is an essential source for the modern seeker.
©2004 Thomas Cleary (P)2020 Thomas Cleary
The Search for Inner Peace
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The struggle to attain inner peace has been with humankind since the earliest times, but what does it mean, and is it even attainable? Are people being deprived of inner peace because of obstacles in the path, both real or perceived? How does a materialistic outlook affect one's search for inner peace? Most importantly, what is the only guaranteed way to achieve true and lasting inner peace? In this audiobook, Jamaican-born scholar Dr. Bilal Philips examines the topic in detail and provides concrete and satisfying answers.
©2007 Bilal Philips (P)2019 Islamic Audiobooks Central
The Holy Qur'an - A Modern English Reading - Selected Chapters
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The Holy Qur'an was revealed in Arabic over 1400 years ago for the whole of Humanity to the last prophet in Islam, Muhammad (peace be upon him). Written down and recorded as it was revealed, The Holy Qur'an remains unchanged even to this day. The Holy Qur'an is considered the greatest miracle given to the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). This is a Modern English reading of the interpretations and the meanings of the Holy Qur'an, based on interpretations of meaning by Dr Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Dr Muhammad Muhsin Khan. This production in the English language is only an interpretation of the Arabic.
©2007 Noorbox Productions (P)2007 Noorbox Productions
Emerald Hills of the Heart: Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism, Volume 1
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This comprehensive study explores Sufism as a form of self-purification, offering a deeper understanding of the sacred acts and a greater knowledge and love of the divine. The first volume of the series presents such Sufi concepts as repentance, reflection, self-criticism, asceticism, piety, abstinence, self-supervision, and sincerity.
©2007 Tughra Books (P)2012 Tughra Books
The Way of Passion
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The Way of Passion draws on the poems of Jalalud-Din Rumi (1207 - 1273) to present a guide to the timeless truth and beauty of Rumi's words. Each chapter, Harvey tells us, is "a dance, a dance of mirrors, in which essential spiritual themes return to be reflected in different constellations and harmonies, a dance around Rumi and that mystery of love he lived and expressed so completely". Inspired by Rumi's voice and by his own startling ability to see into the innermost heart of life, Harvey urges us to change, to have faith, and to act through love to transform this time of apocalypse into the time of resurrection. The passion of his words shine with an intensity that can embrace and inspire us all. Features musical accompaniment created and performed on ney and bendir by Steve Coughlin.
©1994 Andrew Harvey (P)1995 / 2016 Audio Literature / Phoenix Books
L'islam pour les Nuls
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Connaître les grands principes de l'Islam pour le comprendre : Sais-tu qui était le prophète Mohammed ? Comment le Coran lui a été révélé ? Peut-être sais-tu que les musulmans peuvent être chiites ou sunnites, mais as-tu déjà entendu parler des soufis ? De même, tu sais sans doute ce qu'est le ramadan, mais que connais-tu des autres rituels et traditions religieuses de l'islam ? Tu apprendras comment l'ange Gabriel est apparu à Mohammed à La Mecque, tu découvriras l'oeuvre littéraire et culturelle qu'est le Coran, tu en sauras plus sur les valeurs de l'islam, tu comprendras le rapport de cette religion au monde d'aujourd'hui... et bien des choses encore ! Que tu sois musulman ou simplement curieux, si tu as envie de découvrir l'islam sous toutes ses coutures, ce livre audio est celui qu'il te faut ! Avec la participation d'Itsik Elbaz.
©2011 "Pour les Nuls" est une marque déposée de John Wiley & Sons, Inc. "For Dummies" est une marque déposée de John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Editions First, un département d'Edi8. Publié en accord avec John Wiley & Sons (P)2020 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris
Coran
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Le Coran est le texte sacré de la religion musulmane, aussi appelé l'Écriture des musulmans et donc de ceux qui pratiquent l'Islam. Ce livre est la plus ancienne œuvre littéraire en arabe que nous connaissions. Le Coran regroupe les paroles d'Allah (« Dieu »), les révélations (ou « Aya ») qu'il fait au monde par le biais du prophète et messager Mahomet (Muhammad) et va jusqu'à la mort de ce dernier en 632. Cette parole correspond à ce que l'Homme ne peut apprendre par lui-même, ni découvrir par ses propres moyens : elle répond donc à des questions existentielles plus qu'elle ne concerne les lois physiques de l'univers. Ce message est universel et donne un but au croyant, une raison à son existence (l'origine, la fin et le sens de la vie). Le Coran sert donc de véritable ouvrage de référence pour tous les musulmans, quelles que soient leurs langues ou l'endroit où ils se trouvent dans le monde. La langue arabe avec l'introduction française! Veuillez noter : ce livre audio est en arabe Please note: This audiobook is in Arabic.
©2017 AB Publishing (P)2017 AB Publishing