Islam

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...