Islam

In Britain's highly politicised social climate in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings, Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and ...

After having explored the structure of the long sura 5 in his book The Feast (2007), Michael Cuypers applies the same rhetorical analysis to the th...

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

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....