Islamic Life & Practice

This book provides a socio-economic examination of the status of women in contemporary Turkey, assessing how policies have combined elements of neo...

Human Rights and Reformist Islam' critiques traditional Islamic approaches to the question of compatibility between human rights and Islam, and arg...

This book outlines the role of Sufism in Moroccan politics in the twenty-first century through a comparative study of contemporary Sufi organizatio...

Anti-Muslim voices have become louder in many places in the midst of ongoing atrocities undertaken in the name of Islam. As a result, much of the c...

Portrayals of Islamic teachings in mass media, often present Muslim women as victims of patriarchal norms. Often covered in a full veil, and withou...

This collection focuses on the controversial relationship between religion and the state within the Arab Spring context and the evolving debates on...

The Muslim shrine is at the crossroad of many processes involving society and culture. It is the place where a saint often a Sufi - is buried, and...

This handbook provides an overview on relevant structural features from a cultural-historical perspective and thereby examines to what extent the B...