Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shiite Islam combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in...
February, 2019
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18 February
Islam in Modern Societies: Facts, Issues, and Perspectives in the West
The writer of this book considers that Muslims born in France and in the West now build their identity not from an imported model but from a strong sense of belonging to the nation, which they claim at the...
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17 February
Book: Shari’a and Politics in Modern Indonesia
This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most...
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17 February
Book: Modern Challenges to Islamic Law
This book is very much work in progress and presents preliminary reflections on some contemporary challenges to...
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14 February
Book: Islam and Law in Lebanon: Sharia within and without the State
In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an...
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5 February
Book: Women in Shiʿism: Ancient Stories, Modern Ideologies
This book takes a more nuanced approach to that question by exploring how women are portrayed in hadith on ancient sacred narrative – the stories of the prophets. ...
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2 February
Book: Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam
Bringing together the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, art history, and architecture, this edited collection investigates how sound production in built environments is central to Muslim religious and...
January, 2019
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27 January
The Emergence of Modern Shi’ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran +PDF
This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to...
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19 January
Foundations of Islamic Unity: Crucial Points Relevant to the Reconciliation of the Muslim Community
In this monumental book, one of the most important works of the late Sayyid Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al Musawi al-Amili, the author has presented the reasons why love and harmony must prevail between all Muslims. In this monumental book, one of the most important works of the late Sayyid …
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19 January
The Creation of Philosophical Tradition
the book “The Creation of Philosophical Tradition: Biography & the Reception of Avicenna’s Philosophy from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century A.D.” clearly documents the vitality of the post-classical philosophical tradition as reflected in literary biography, the genres of...