Islamic Worship, Rites & Ceremonies

Though there have been many studies on the Qur'an's importance in tafsr (Qur'anic commentary), there are comparatively few which look at the impact...

Over several years, Christian Suhr followed Muslim patients being treated for jinn possession and psychosis in a Danish mosque and in a psychiatric...

Drawing on five years of field studies in pragmatic- and dogmatic-inclined mosques across Europe, Sharia and Life explores how Muslims engage with ...

This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the c...

In this book, Masooda Bano presents an in-depth analysis of a new movement that is transforming the way that young Muslims engage with their religi...

Ilija Trojanow's journey from Mumbai to Mecca is told in the tradition of the rihla, one of the oldest genres of classical Arabic literature and de...

Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been achieved ov...

The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in SyriaThe 'Alids (descendants of the P...