Islamic Theology

A revelatory account of early Islam’s great diversity by the world’s leading scholar of early Qur’anic manuscripts  “There is no one better placed ...

Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition is the first monograph-length study and intel...

The Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010) was one of the 20th century's foremost Islamic modernists. A professor of Islamic thought in t...

This is an eye-opening exploration of a troubling phenomenon: the fast-growing belief in Muslim countries that the end of the world is at hand--and...

This edited volume offers an incisive exploration of the intersection between Islam and evolutionary theory – a topic that remains a focal point of...

The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book points out distinctively Islamic formulations and solutions of the problem of the best of al...

The first book length-work on Afa Ajura and translation of his complete poems This is the first English translation of and commentary on the collec...

Sufism, the spiritual, mystical, and esoteric dimension of Islam, is experiencing a renewal in the 21st century. Charismatic Sufi masters have been...

This book concerns the ways in which the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is embedded in Moroccan society. Approaching pilgrimage from the per...

Driven by a detailed hermeneutical investigation of the Qur'anic story of creation, this book questions the hybrid Biblical/Qur'anic narrative that...

Driven by a detailed hermeneutical investigation of the Qur'anic story of creation, this book questions the hybrid Biblical/Qur'anic narrative that...