Islam

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 ...

Promoting Islamic religious communication in German requires extremely precise knowledge of this kind of communication and language. This can stre...

Diese Festschrift für die Philosophiehistorikerin und Islamwissenschaftlerin Anke von Kügelgen trägt ihrem übergeordneten Forschungsinteresse an Wi...

How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a c...

An introduction to Islam that has its focus on the practices and beliefs of ordinary people and on the issues that Western readers encounter in new...

In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('u...

Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive stu...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesOf the few surviving Nizari Ismaili texts from the Alamut period, the Haft bab (Seve...

This book is the first historical analysis of those parts of Islamic legal theory that deal with the language of revelation, and a milestone in rec...

Over the last twenty years, the rise of Qur'anic studies has been one of the most remarkable developments within the wider framework of Islamic sc...

Christian Homeland focuses on the involvement of clergy and prominent laity of the Episcopal Church in Middle Eastern affairs, both religious and p...

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA). In support of the associations mis...

The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various d...

Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East:Modernities in the Making is an edited volume that seeks to deepen and broaden our understanding of va...

The book presents the first English edition of Hubertine Auclert's Arab Women in Algeria which offers a unique picture of Algerian society in late ...

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

Based on a political sociology of two families of religious scholars, al-Hakim and al-Khu'i, Elvire Corboz explains the internal workings of transn...