Religious & Theocratic Ideologies

While acknowledging Dostoevskys personal commitment to the Russian Orthodox faith, Jones argues that it is possible to understand his fictional wor...

Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material 2022. Jewish political and cultural behaviour during the first half ...

Madagascar is a poor country with very little power on the world stage. As a former French colony, Madagascars wealth has often been viewed as avai...

Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces a...

The so-called Islamic State (IS) that has swept into power in parts of Syria and Iraq presents an imminent danger to the global community with its ...

This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in ...

In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex...

Why has secularism faced such challenges in the Middle East and in Lebanon in particular? In light of dominating headlines about the spread of sect...

The Fourth Ordeal tells the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s until 2018. Based on over 140 first-hand interviews with...

The Fourth Ordeal tells the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s until 2018. Based on over 140 first-hand interviews with...

As the Cold War faded into history, it appeared to have been replaced by a new conflict - between Islam and the West. Or so we are told. After the ...

Deadly Clerics explains why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant jihadism while most do not. The book explores multiple pathways of c...

Religion and nationalism are two of the most potent and enduring forces that have shaped the modern world. Yet, there has been little systematic st...

This book is an exploration of contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and the distinct ways in which these two communities inter...

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world? Exploring the rise of Islamic activism in Lebanon and the Middle East, and drawing tr...

The 2011 secession of South Sudan spurred hopes for a more just, democratic Sudan, but was followed by new wars and growing unrest. This book exami...

Exploring the relationship between fiction and nation formation in the Muslim world through 12 unique studies from Azerbaijan, Libya, Iran, Algeria...

Against a background of weak and contested  national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, t...