Islam

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a...

This open access book explains why southern European countries with significant Muslim communities have experienced few religiously inspired violen...

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a...

Jalaloddin Rumis Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or Spiritual Couplets, composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of I...

Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic...

This collection investigates the conflictual relationship between the Islamic world and Western civilization, looking at its history as key to unde...

Religionen sind in den säkular geprägten, pluralen Gesellschaften der Gegenwart noch immer bedeutsam, sei es im Kontext des friedlichen Zusammenleb...

Zahra confidently wears the hijab and challenges the widespread assumption that Islam and feminism are mutually exclusive. Hamza, on the other hand...

Embark on a journey through the various stages of life, from marriage to divorceand widowhood, to witness how women living within the Islamic tradi...

This Element intends to contribute to the debate between Islam and science. It focuses on one of the most challenging issues in the modern discussi...

This Element intends to contribute to the debate between Islam and science. It focuses on one of the most challenging issues in the modern discussi...

Does the Qur'an promote the abolition of slavery? If so, why had the slave trade been allowed to operate across the Muslim world for over a millenn...

This proceedings volume presents selected chapters from the 13th Global Islamic Marketing Conference, featuring contributions from renowned experts...

Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah was a genius and prolific writer. Anyone who has an interest in the Qurans translation, Hadith literature International Isl...

The publication of The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, Ninth-Tenth Centuries C.E., first as a University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertati...

This is a presentation of beautiful colored mosaics. They originate from buildings in the oasis of Jericho and all date from the first half of the ...

The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qu...

The 16th and 17th century raids of the Tatars of the Northern Black Sea take an important place in the historical consciousness of the Eastern Euro...

This volume revisits the long 19th century in the Middle East from the perspective of emerging subjectivity as a fundamentally new attitude of the ...

Today, genocide has almost entirely lost its meaning. Either its occurrence is denied into oblivion, or its frequency allows it to fall on stone-de...

In 1587, Ab al-Fazl ibn Mubrak a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnmah completed his Preface to the Persian translation of th...

This work aims to distill the findings of a wide variety of scholarly disciplines into a coherent narrative of the Qurns history, from the first or...

Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions ...