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...
May, 2022
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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...
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19 April
Observing Islam in Spain: Contemporary Politics and Social Dynamics
Observing Islam in Spain contains the keys to understanding current debates about the presence of Muslim citizens in Spain with regard to symbolism and public space, the law, ritual, the question of.....
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17 April
Islam in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
In Islam in Post-communist Eastern Europe: Between Churchification and Securitization Egdūnas Račius reveals how not only the governance of religions but also practical politics in post-communist Eastern Europe are....
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17 April
Muslim Women and Agency: an Australian Context
Focussing on the little-researched area of the Australian Muslim community, this book brings together for the first time diverse accounts from Australian Muslim researchers, leaders, and...