Islam

The Qurn is the sacred religious book of Muslims around the world. Yet its history, from its inception in seventh-century Arabia to its transmissio...

The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully ...

Philip Dorroll argues that Turkish Islamic theology is in fact a distinct tradition of Islamic theological thought, shaped by the unique social con...

With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa'di (1210-1281) is a vital classical poet and a towering figure of the medieval Persian canon. In this ...

The teachings, style and impact of the Qur'an have always been matters of controversy, among both Muslims and non-Muslims. But in a modern context ...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, scholarship and policy debate on Islam and Muslim societies has come to focus primarily on Islam's ability...

In thisengaging study, Matthew J. Kuiper tellsthe fascinating story of how Islam became a world religion and cultural phenomenon of immense scale, ...

Published as Dall al-Muslim al-azn il muqtada-l-sulk f'l-qarn al-ishrn in 1983, this book remains a timely and important read today. Both the resur...

Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of re...

This book addresses South Asian Muslim womens lived experiences, whilst questioning dominant concepts of agency.Negative, homogenising construction...

This book presents the first national study of the practice of polygamy undertaken amongst Malay Muslims, contextualised within the broader social,...

This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced...

Focusing on apocalyptic manifestations found in ISIS propaganda, this book situates the group's agenda in the broader framework of contemporary Mus...

In this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyp...

Human Rights and Reformist Islam' critiques traditional Islamic approaches to the question of compatibility between human rights and Islam, and arg...

This commemorative volume discusses aspects of the life and work of the internationally famous scholar Professor W. Montgomery Watt (19092006). His...

Discussions of Islam in Turkey are still heavily dominated by political considerations and the dualistic paradigms of modern v. traditional, secula...