Islam

Public interest in the religion of Islam and in Muslim communities in recent years has generated an impetus for Western Universities to establish a...

This book sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and th...

Increasing numbers of young adults go to university. This book explores contemporary understandings of what universities are for, what impact they ...

First published in 1977, this book is intended as a record of sources in Islamic prophetology which focus on the prophet Isa Jesus in Christian th...

The first major treatment of skepticism in Islam, this book explores the critical role of skeptical thinking in the development of theology in Isla...

This title was first published in 2002. This text seeks to provide the necessary background for understanding the contemporary relationship between...

The history of Islam runs without a break from its origins to the present. Therefore, understanding medieval Islam gives us a much clearer comprehe...

Haroro J. Ingram journeys through over a century of history, from the Islamist modernists of the late-1800s into the 21st century, in the first ful...

Many Peoples, Many Faiths places the worlds religions in historical context, illustrating the complex dynamic of each religion over time, while als...

The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often b...

In the second of a three-volume work, Seta B. Dadoyan explores the Armenian condition from the 970s to the end of the fourteenth century. This peri...

In the third volume of the trilogy, Seta B. Dadoyan focuses on social and cultural aspects, rather than the core political focus exhibited in her f...

The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the ...

Offering a unique analysis of Islamist ideology, Islamism and the West attempts to explain how- and why-mainstream Islamist leaders have, for the p...

Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The Poesis of Peace...

Anti-Muslim voices have become louder in many places in the midst of ongoing atrocities undertaken in the name of Islam. As a result, much of the c...

Prayer is an important religious practice that is rarely studied from the perspective of politics and yet it should be. Though some forms of Prote...

Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal explores the historical, religious, cultural and economic contexts of Islam in Senegal through the narrative first-h...

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the events of 9/11, 7/7, the War on Terror and the Caliphate and atrocities of the so-called ...

Portrayals of Islamic teachings in mass media, often present Muslim women as victims of patriarchal norms. Often covered in a full veil, and withou...

A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia examines the Islamic modernist thought of Husein ozo, a prominent Balkan scholar. Born at a time when th...

This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and social landscape...

This book addresses some of the fiercely contested issues about religion and politics in medieval India, especially with regard to the crucial pres...

This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, an...