Islam In History And Politics: Perspectives From South Asia
This book looks at the meaning of Islam and Muslum "community" and the changing nature of Muslim consciousness as it has evolved from the colonial state to near contemporary times.
Sufism, Culture, And Politics: Afghans And Islam In Medieval North India
Strongly grounded in Persian manuscripts, many of them unpublished, this book makes an innovative and original intervention in the existing debates on the questions of medieval politics, patterns of g...
Black Pilgrimage To Islam
This book offers a comprehensive ethnographic study of African-American Muslims. Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted over a period of several years, Dannin provides an unprecedented look insid...
The Grove Encyclopedia Of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Diction...
The Ismailis In The Middle Ages: A History Of Survival, A Search For Salvation
"None of that people should be spared, not even the babe in its cradle." With these chilling words, the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan declared his intention to destroy the Ismailis, one of the most inte...
Muslim Rebels: Kharijites And The Politics Of Extremism In Egypt
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal...
The Isma'ilis: Their History And Doctrines
The Isma???ilis represent the second largest Shii Muslim community after the Twelvers, and are today scattered throughout more than twenty-five countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and N...
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings
Philosophy in the Islamic world emerged in the ninth century and continued to flourish into the fourteenth century. It was strongly influenced by Greek thought, but Islamic philosophers also developed...
Saint Francis And The Sultan: The Curious History Of A Christian-Muslim Encounter
In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-K mil. Although we in fact know very li...
Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America
In his quest for an indigenous American Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a series of interstate odysseys. Traveling 20,000 miles by Greyhound in sixty days, he squats in run-down mosques, pur...
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