Islamic Life & Practice

Agonistic Democracy and Islamism in Indonesia offers an in-depth analysis of the dynamic relationship between Islamism and democratic governance in...

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study foc...

Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia explores gender, sexuality and religion in contemporary Indonesia. It is the first book-lengt...

In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Sharia and intended to protect religion...

Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic...

This volume revisits the long 19th century in the Middle East from the perspective of emerging subjectivity as a fundamentally new attitude of the ...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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