Aiming to trace the development of Islamic theological discourse in Indonesia from the early 1900s to the end of the 20th century, the author focusses on how modernist Muslims have constructed their t...
The Tabl?gh? Jam?'at is a twentieth century faith renewal movement, which is presently operating in more than eighty countries. With millions of participants, its annual conference has become the seco...
In this book leading scholars contribute comprehensive studies of the religious movements in the late 18th and 19th centuries: the Hassidic movements in Judaism, the Mormon religion, in Christianity, ...
This book deals with patronate and patronage ("wal?'") of early and classical Islam. Though "Webster's Third" has the term "mawla," the concept remains very difficult to come to grips with. Fourteen c...
The book presents a first attempt to investigate the criticism of the Gospels, hardly considered within the previous research work of the Islamic scholar Ibn ?azm (d. 1064) referring to its methodolog...
This study consists of a critical edition of Ibn al-Jawz?'s "Kit?b Akhb?r as-Sif?t (KAS) along with an annotated translation and introduction. "KAS is a critique of anthropomorphic conceptions of God,...
Brill publishes a major multi-volume reference work, the "Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures". It is a unique collaboration of over 1000 scholars from around the world.
The Nusayr's - also known as cAlaw's -have been in power in Syria for the past three decades. Little is known of their origins or their long history, while their religious creeds and thought are somew...
'Abd al-?abb?r (d. 1024 AD) belonged to the Bahamiyya branch of the Basra Mu'tazila. The Mu'tazilites upheld the principle of divine justice, and from this perspective they attempted to explain the ex...
Modernization in the Muslim world was determined by the two interrelated processes of indigenous state formation and European economic penetration. These drove governments to enlist the orthodox and t...
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