Islamic Theology

A sweeping history of Muslim identity from its origins in late antiquity to the present   How did Muslims across time and place define the line bet...

Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complica...

In The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception: History and Significance (University of Notre Dame Press, 1958; reissued 2016), thirteen European and Am...

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

Zoroastrianism was the religion of the ancient Persian kings and following the Arab conquest, it remained the religion of a significant portion of ...

Theology is a rational endeavor to understand everything about God, from within a faith tradition and its scriptures, and in response to problems p...

There are many ways of living religiously informed ethical Muslim lives In this book, the author presents two important accounts, one by the 9th ce...

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a h...

Finalist, 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies, American Academy of ReligionLonglist, 2024 Karwaan Book Award, Karwa...

Finalist, 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies, American Academy of ReligionLonglist, 2024 Karwaan Book Award, Karwa...

Many Muslim intellectuals and political activists have begun to move beyond classical political Islam to embrace a more pluralistic, democratic ord...