Islam

This first volume of Collected Works of the ERC Project TYPARABIC focuses on the history of printing during the 18th century in the Ottoman Empir...

How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history intervi...

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came ...

Bold, addictive and brilliant. Stylist, best fiction 2021 A Times Bestseller A Times & Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021 A Waterstones T...

This book questions whether the best way to deal with religious diversity is to equalise upwards or downwards, what the obstacles to a more egalita...

Islamic art is justly famed for its technological sophistication, varied approaches to ornament, and innovative employment of the written word. But...

This empirically grounded study challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about hegemonic power of such Islami...

One of the most controversial issues that divided Islamic philosophers and theologians for many centuries was whether human beings would have a spi...

In this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as profet national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and film....

ikyat Abu al-Qsim, probably written in the 11th century by the otherwise unknown al-Azd, tells the story of a gate-crasher from Baghdad named Ab al...

Who are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Investigating these core ques...

How can people belong simultaneously to two cultures, originating in two different places and expressed in two different languages, without alienat...

From its earliest times, Islam has had an ambivalent relationship with violence. For many early Muslim authors, violence was a simple fact of life....

Throughout your existence, there are angels in your presence. But its your actions that cause those angels to either praise you or disgrace you. Th...

Jews and Muslims in South Asia examines how Jews and Muslims relate to each other in a place where, in contrast to Europe, their perceived attitude...

The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucaults analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the ideological conflicts whic...

'Empowering....of great benefit to those who want their doors flung open by Allah' - Mufti MenkWhat seems impossible can become possible through du...

This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What...

The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy: 1949Present explores the activities of the Iran National Front (INF). The INF is a coalitio...

This project presents the hermeneutical approaches to the Qurn of the most prominent Qurnic scholars in Islamic intellectual history. Not only scho...

This book brings together contributions from ten academics and a commentary from a Muslim community leader on how the British media represent some ...

The Principles of Islamic Marketing fills a gap in international business literature covering the aspects and values of Islamic business thought. I...

First published in 2005, this book addresses the challenges arising from Christian-Muslim encounter and attempts to enable outsiders to understand ...