This collective volume provides an integrative historical and contemporary discussion of Sunni ?ulama? in the Middle East in both an urban and a semi-tribal context. The various chapters reinforce a r...
This encyclopedic work on Islam comprises English translations of all canonical ?ad?ths, complete with their respective chains of transmission (isn?ds). By conflating the variant versions of the same ...
The 19th century saw an enormous shift in the authority structure of Iranian and Iraqi Twelver Shi?ism, with the victory of a theological school (Usulism) that stressed the power of the clergy. This i...
Around 1720 in Fez A?mad b. al-Mub?rak al-Lama, a religious scholar, wrote down the words and teachings of the Sufi master ?Abd al-?Az?z al-Dabb?gh. Al-Dabb?gh shunned religious studies but, having re...
Drawing on legal and hadith texts from the formative and classical periods of Islamic legal history, this book offers an overview of the questions prominent jurists asked and answered when they though...
This is the first systematic examination of the esoteric significance of the bawdy tales and explicit sexual passages present in R?m?'s (d. 1273) "Mathnaw?," a masterpiece of medieval Perso-Islamic my...
This book is about Iranian Islamism on grass-roots level. It provides a vivid, near-life portrait of young activist men who uphold this movement through their zealous support of revolutionary ideals a...
This book relates the story of the evolution of the Bb-Bah community, beginning with the birth of the Bb and then traced over the next century and a half in the city of his birth, Shiraz. This fascina...
Studies of nineteenth and twentieth century Islamic reform have tended to focus more on the evolution of ideas than how those ideas emerge from local contexts or are disseminated to a broad audience. ...
In a series of essays devoted to key terms and ideas in Islam, Bravmann argues on the basis of pre-Islamic and early Islamic texts for an Arabian background to the rise of the religion. In pursuing a ...
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