Islam

This book investigates the lives and careers of Muslim African interpreters employed by the French colonial administration in Saint Louis, Senegal,...

Identities in Crisis in Iran aims at finding answers to the questions about the puzzling character of the Iranian identity. The contributors acknow...

America's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Mu...

The book is a study of political development in Bahrain during the first five years after its independence in 1971. It is based on field research d...

Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary hist...

Philosophical debates, many of them involving the appropriation of modern Western philosophical doctrines, are a crucial element shaping the intell...

Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the "real" Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-century reformers claimed, but a valid ...

"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it wa...

This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportuni...

Both traditions recognize and draw theological and historical lessons from some of the same narrative sources, but this is the first comparative re...

Writing on an often overlooked section of contemporary Persian culture, A. Christian Van Gorder provides a comprehensive and readable introduction ...

Conservative Islam: A Cultural Anthropology by Erich Kolig analyzes the salient characteristics of Islam and contemporary Muslim society from the p...

The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Foundations and Contexts, by Rob Simms and Amir Koushkani, examines the traditional art of singing cla...

Little has been published in English about Islam in Denmark although interest grew after the cartoons crisis of 2005-6. Danish research on the subj...