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...

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...

'Empowering....of great benefit to those who want their doors flung open by Allah' - Mufti MenkWhat seems impossible can become possible through du...

The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy: 1949Present explores the activities of the Iran National Front (INF). The INF is a coalitio...

There are many misconceptions and concerns regarding Islamic societies and how Muslim countries have failed to come up with their own localised sol...

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...