Michael James Bonner

Michael Bner

Michael Bonner is a scholar of Islam. He is currently at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras is an anthology of the most enduring and important scholarly articles about the Civil War and Reconstruction era published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association. Past officers of the South Carolin...

Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice

What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today's debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothing less than a struggle over Islam itself. In Jihad in Is...

Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice

What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today's debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothing less than a struggle over Islam itself. In Jihad in Isl...

Jihad in Islamic History Doctrines and Practice by Bonner, Michael [Princeton University Press,2006] [Hardcover]

Confederate Political Economy: Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

In Confederate Political Economy, Michael Bonner suggests that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state -- a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government. As Bonner sho...

Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East) (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East (Paperback))

Offering insights and analysis in a field that has only recently come into existence, this book explores the ideals and institutions through which Middle Eastern societies from the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. to the present day have confronted poverty and the poor. By introducing new s...

Islam in the Middle Ages: The Origins and Shaping of Classical Islamic Civilization (Praeger Series on the Middle Ages)

In the Middle Ages, a varied and vibrant Islamic culture flourished in all its aspects, from religious institutions to legal and scientific endeavors. Lassner, Reisman, and Bonner detail how all three montheist traditions are linked to the same sacred history. They trace the most current scholarship...

The Oral Health Bible

Dr. Bonner believes that the mouth is a doorway to achieving peak health and wellness in all the body's systems. His informative book The Oral Health Bible contains an action plan for taking charge of our oral health and it educates us and our doctors and dentists by detailing how many debilitating ...

Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice

Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts

Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts

Arab-Byzantine Relations in Early Islamic Times