This study presents a contrasting hypothesis concerning the genesis and development of Islam in Mexico than the one generally held across academic spheres and...
May, 2022
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12 May
The Fatimids and their Traditions of Learning
In this book, Heinz Halm investigates from a historical perspective the intellectual traditions that developed among the Ismailis from the rise of the Fatimid state in North Africa to the cultural brilliance of...
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12 May
The Faith of the Imamiyyah Shi’ah
My interest in researching into this book, has arisen from the significance of the book itself and the urgent need to release it among the various milieus...
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9 May
God’s Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
This book is not about the present. It is a history of the ideology underpinning modern jihad and, in particular, a first full account of one important strand in that founding ideology: Wahhabism...
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8 May
Cyber Muslims Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Digital Age
Through an array of detailed case studies, this book explores the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufis, feminists and...
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5 May
The Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View
Challenging the conservative framers of Islamic law who accorded a lesser status to women, Mohammad Ali Sayyid argues that the Quran and the Hadith—the two primary sources of...
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4 May
Conciliation in the Qurʾan: The Qurʾanic Ethics of Conflict Resolution
Conciliation in the Qurʾan addresses an existing imbalanced focus in Islamic Studies on conflict in the Qurʾan, and moves beyond a restrictive approach to ṣulḥ (reconciliation) as a mediation process in...
April, 2022
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28 April
Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement
This book explores the socio-political conditions and cultural venues in which Islamic movements cease to confront and start to cooperate with secular states....
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27 April
Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces
The book entitled “Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History through Biography in Fin-de-siecle Egypt” explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic-language global biographical dictionary of...
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22 April
Book: The Voice of Human Justice (Sautu’l ‘Adalati’l Insaniyah)
The present book is an English translation of Sautu'l `Adalati'l Insaniyah, the biography of Imam Ali, written in Arabic by George Jordac, a renowned Christian author of...