This study explores the contestation of the public sphere by ten Islamic groups and traditions in colonial India. The groups studied here represent reformist and revivalist traditions with a significa...
A brave and timely examination of America's great dilemma in the Muslim worldPublished just as the United States went to war in Iraq, "After Jihad "put Noah Feldman "into the center of an unruly brawl...
An examination of the origins and development of the Islamic state and religion using hitherto neglected evidence such as archaeological excavations, rock inscriptions, and more. In this controvers...
This book covers Sufism in India from the 17th century to the present. In particular the author studies the city of Awrangabad and employs a combination of historical texts and anthropological fieldwo...
Extensive primary and secondary source materials, many translated here for the first time, are presented, making clear that jihad conquests were brutal, imperialist advances, which spurred waves of Mu...
The essays in this volume deal with three fundamental problems in Islamic civilization; the growth among Muslims of a consciousness of belonging to a culture; the unity of Muslim civilization as expre...
Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The first arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth century when European explorers and colonists crossed the...
This is an eye-opening exploration of a troubling phenomenon: the fast-growing belief in Muslim countries that the end of the world is at hand--and with it the "Great Battle," prophesied by both Sunni...
Purification of the soul is a principle that is central to understanding Islamic spirituality but despite this, relatively little has been written explicitly in the Islamic tradition regarding this di...
High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage,...
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