Religious & Theocratic Ideologies

The Bible observes that God made humanity for a while a little lower than the angels. If humans are that close to angels, does the difference lie i...

The purpose of this Element is to analyse the assiduous attempts of two Islamic political thinkers-the 12th century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rush...

The persecution of the Yezidis, a religious community originating in Upper Mesopotamia, has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. On 3 Augu...

Despite numerous warnings from intelligence services, ISIS' rise to power has left countries around the world floundering for solutions. Today, we ...

Originally published in 1926, this is the third of four volumes to discuss Christian Theology, under the guidance of the historic decisions of the ...

Although regarded as a single community of Islamists, Islamic political movements utilise vastly different means to pursue their goals. This book e...

Does political Islam have a specific vision of global politics? How has the foreign policy of Islamist forces developed in order to impose their id...

In 2011, the Maghreb occupied a prominent place in world headlines when Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, became the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring. E...

Haroro J. Ingram journeys through over a century of history, from the Islamist modernists of the late-1800s into the 21st century, in the first ful...

American exceptionalism was once a rather obscure and academic concept, but in the 2012 presidential election campaign the phrase attained unpreced...

Including contributions from leading scholars from Algeria, France, Germany, India and the United States this book traces the rise and turn to mode...

Since its inception in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), also known as the Jamaat-ul-Dawa (JuD), has arguably been the mo...

This collection of papers is intended to provide a survey of the history of political ideas in the Ottoman world from its dawn around 1300 to its d...

Ideologies need enemies to thrive, religion does not. Using the Sahel as a source of five comparative case studies, this volume aims to engage in t...

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the end of history. The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal d...

New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraft The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged...

These are some of the urgent questions posed by this stimulating and wide-ranging new colloquy. Bringing together a wealth of wisdom and experience...

It's no coincidence that one of the most asked questions on any search engine is: Is God real?When life feels overwhelming, we want to know if ther...

Based on an invitational address to an international audience of scholars, government representatives, and peace organisations in Washington D.C., ...