Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritagethat is visible in paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts. The Islamic ManuscriptTradition explores this aspect of Islamic h...
From the author of "Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East" comes a fundamental challenge to the way Americans understand the history of the Middle East and the role of Islam...
"A History of Islamic Philosophy" by Majid Fakhry is the first comprehensive survey of Islamic philosophy from the seventh century to the present. It traces the development of Islamic philosophy and i...
The most exquisite memories of the Ottoman history are brought back to life with an album of photographs from the Yildiz Collection. In the 1880s upon an order of Sultan Abdulhamid II, Mecca and Medin...
Exploring the birth period of Islam, this biography focuses on one of the most prominent and respected Muslim women in history, Khadija, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad. Addressing both her devotion ...
e Green reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.
Long viewed as an exotic wonderland of unimaginable treasures, the Mughal Empire (1526
The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the ear...
By the early nineteenth century, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity, but it was a particular kind of Islam described by the author as a "mystic synthesis." The Javanese he...
This book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The author contrasts the latter experience with life in Cairo, where some South...
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