Islam

In various parts of the Islamic world over the past decades virulent attacks have targeted Islamic funeral and sacral architecture. Rather than bei...

In an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba'th almost completely eradicated illiteracy among ...

This new and dynamic approach to the perennially fascinating subject of miracles adopts a strictly anthropological and phenomenological approach. A...

The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and di...

Although regarded as a single community of Islamists, Islamic political movements utilise vastly different means to pursue their goals. This book e...

This book is principally a study of the complex relationship of religion to modernity. Monica M. Ringer argues that modernity should be understood ...

Ramon Harvey revisits the Muslim theologian Ab Manr al-Mturd (d. 333/944) from Samarqand and puts his system, and that of the Mturd school, into li...

Does political Islam have a specific vision of global politics? How has the foreign policy of Islamist forces developed in order to impose their id...

Featuring the work of leading contemporary Muslim philosophers and theologians, this book grapples with various forms of evil and suffering in the ...

The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nig...

Addressing the contested nature of Ottoman Sunnism from the 14th to the early 20th century, this book draws on diverse perspectives across the empi...

Recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa have radically destabilised the region, which is beset with rising religious and political ...

Islam in Historical Perspective provides readers with an introduction to Islam, Islamic history and societies with carefully selected historical an...