Islamic Studies

In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen. The study...

This book explores the public role of Islam in contemporary world politics. "Public Islam" refers to the diverse invocations and struggles over Islamic ideas and practices that increasingly influence the politics and social life of large parts...

The contributions in this volume aim to reflect the variety of current Muslim social practices and life-worlds in Germany. The volume presents fresh theoretical approaches and in-depth analyses of a rich mosaic of communities, cultures and social...

Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are...

Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are...

Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781422375891Author Martin LeveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politicsHumiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallies. It suffuses pictures and videos, speaks through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994682536Author Basheer NafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Afro-Middle East CentrePublisher Afro-Middle East CentreWeight(grams) 541g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447122047Author Fritz SchulzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963876871Author Abdellatif RajiFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Yaraak Publishing HousePublisher Yaraak Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789925638000Author Marius NurulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Heibera LtdPublisher Heibera LtdWeight(grams) 213g

Islamic Post-Traditionalism in Indonesia offers a unique assessment of the development of the phenomenon of Islamic post-traditionalism using Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest mass Islamic organization in Indonesia (and the world) as a case study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788891318916Author Daniele MascitelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher L'Erma Di BretschneiderWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782724706338Author IfaoFormat HardbackPage Count 580Imprint IfaoPublisher IfaoWeight(grams) 154g

The jihad has been at the centre of the West's securitization discourse for more than a decade. Theorists constantly use the jihadist as a discursive tool to further their neoliberal, military and market agendas, perpetuating massive gaps of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920942304Author A.G. MuhaiminFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543741148Author A H M Zehadul KarimFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Partridge SingaporePublisher Partridge SingaporeWeight(grams) 200g

The History of the Armenian priest Lewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic rule and the only contemporary chronicle of second/eighth-century caliphal rule in Armenia. This volume presents a diplomatic edition and new English...

The book explores the profound insights of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, an Islamic scholar, on the ecological crisis and its underlying causes. Nasr argues that the dominance of scientism, which prioritizes contemporary science as the sole source of knowledge,...

Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the historical antecedents to today's violent confrontations. With...

The articles selected for this volume explore emergent issues in the contemporary relationship between Islam and science and present studies of eight major voices in the discourse. Also included is a section on the operationalization of Islamic science...

In contrast to most recent studies on literary and artistic expression in Egypt and the Middle East, Shared Margins de-centres metropolitan cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied...

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The issue of Muslim women’s rights never seems outdated and has become trendy in the post-9/11 environment. That is, the mainstream media and Western politicians often view Muslim women as victims of male-patriarchy and frequently justify Western...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952269547Author Raphael IsraeliFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams) 399g

This handbook of foreign loan words in the Arabic of the Quran is set up in dictionary format. Each word is given in Arabic and in transliteration, followed by an extensive definition. As useful today as when it was first published, this volume will be...

A comprehensive treatment of Ismaili medieval history in its entirety. It will have great appeal to all scholars of medieval Islam. Farhad Daftary is one of the world's leading authorities on Ismaili history and literature. This important book, by an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970949663Author SihaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (Siha)Publisher Strategic Initiative for...

To what extent can Islam be localized in an increasingly interconnected world? The contributions to this volume investigate different facets of Muslim lives in the context of increasingly dense transregional connections, highlighting how the circulation...

Reviews of the first edition: "Students of Islam! will find it an invaluable and convenient source of information." Journal of Semitic Studies "A major reference tool for student and teacher for many years to come." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society...

While the Arab revolutions have obviously triggered extensive social and political changes, the far-reaching consequences of the cultural and discursive changes have yet to be adequately considered. For activists, researchers and journalists, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643173986Author Wafa SalahFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920942342Author Hyung Jun KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470934880Author K M IdrisFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925021295Author Zulkifli HasanFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845531294Author H.G. KippenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909112520Author Abdurahman M Abdullahi (Baadiyow)Format HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Adonis & Abbey PublishersPublisher Adonis & Abbey...

Providing up-to-date information for general readers as well as those well-informed about the Islamic State, this book offers an essential understanding of the rise of ISIS and its current influence in the Middle East as well as worldwide.ISIS-also...

This book explores how to locate the sources which influenced the political, social, and ideological stance of a famous Turkestani Jadid thinker, writer, journalist and scholar, ‘Abdurra’uf Fitrat (1886-1938), thus also putting in perspective some...