Islamic Life & Practice

There are few ideals of character as distinctive and divisive as the ancient virtue of 'greatness of soul'. A larger-than-life virtue embodying not...

The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains c...

It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of frank and insightful essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.'Passionate...

Who says you can’t be pious and fashionable? Throughout the Muslim world, women have found creative ways of expressing their personality through th...

Filled with quotes, sayings and teachings from the Qur'an and a curated selection of prominent figures, this little book will uplift and inspire yo...

This book explains the role of the madrasa in the cultural, intellectual and religious experience of Muslims. The prospects for peace in Afghanista...

Between the 2001 and 2011, the Muslim population of Scotland increased by nearly eighty percent. The youthfulness of Scotland's Muslim community me...

After Spirituality: Studies in Mystical Traditions is the first volume in a new series of the same name. The book is devoted to the comparative stu...

The author examines three 20th/21st century Muslims' accounts of reading the Quran. To master contemporary social challenges, Fazlur Rahman (d. 198...

This study is a critique of Arabic textual sources for the history of the Arabs in late antique times, during the centuries immediately preceding M...

'Striking.' ELLE France 'Brave.' iNews 'Powerful.' TLS 'Urgent.' Evening Standard 'Original.' CosmopolitanIn these essays, Leïla Slimani gives voic...

This book presents Islam as a lived religion through observation and discussion of how Muslims from a variety of countries, traditions and views pr...

Karl Barth never paid particular attention to the religions of the world. In fact he has often been stereotyped as the prime exponent of an exclusi...

Many global film industries fail in expanding the role of Muslims on screen. Too often they produce a dichotomy between "good" and "bad" Muslims, l...

Antifragility of Islamic Finance: The Risk-Sharing Alternative explains how risk-sharing, as defined under Islamic finance, makes financial systems...

This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power st...

Shortlisted for the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018.'A SERIOUSLY NECESSARY BOOK.' ROWAN WILLIAMS, FORM...

Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; brid...

Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain. It is a book about the changing nature o...