Muslime Und Araber Bei Isojahb III. (649-659)
This volume contains a study of the letter corpus of Iso'jahbs III, Katholikos patriarch in Persia during the time of the Islamic conquest of this area around the middle of the 7th century. The patria...
The Muslims Of Medieval Italy
This significant new work focuses on the formation and disintegration of Arab-Muslim rule and society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300 which led to the creation of an enduring Muslim-Chr...
Contesting Justice: Women, Islam, Law, And Society
Argues that the rights of women in Muslim society are based on the preserved cultural standards of elites, not the ethical philosophy of the Quran.
Islam Encountering Globalisation
One of the greatest dilemmas facing Muslims today is the fact that Muslim culture is often seemingly incompatible with the culture of the modern Western world, and the features associated with it - te...
A Companion To The Muslim World
What is the extraordinary text that is the Quran - and how does it relate to the life and times of the Prophet Muhammad? This book offers a journey into the full range of experience - past and present...
Muslims, Scholars, Soldiers: The Origin And Elaboration Of The Ibadi Imamate Traditions
A study of the origin and development of the Ibadi Imamate ideal into its medieval Arabian and North African articulations, this study traces the distinctive features of the Ibadi imama to precedents ...
Introducing Islam
What exactly is a Islama (TM) and what does it mean to be a a Muslima (TM) in the world today? Since the events of 9/11 and 7/7, Islam has become one of the most controversial and misunderstood religi...
Religion In Modern Islamic Discourse
Religion as an analytical category doesn't lend itself to the reexamination and reinvention of tradition, especially in Islam, where the lines demarcating religion, culture, civilization, and politics...
Becoming Hebrew: The Creation Of A Jewish National Culture In Ottoman Palestine
"If the Jews wish to become a nation of 'Jewish Culture, '" Eliezer Ben-Yehuda wrote in 1904, "they must first become truly a nation." Throughout the subsequent decade, Ben-Yehuda and other Zionist ac...
The Borders Of Islam: Exploring Huntington's Faultlines, From Al-Andalus To The Virtual Ummah
In "The Clash of Civilizations," Samuel Huntington argued that the borders between Western and Islamic civilizations would one day become the loci of cultural conflict. The statements of Osama Bin-Lad...
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