Islam

Reporting Islam argues for innovative approaches to media coverage of Muslims and their faith.

The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernization in the 1920s.

Why Islam is more political and fundamentalist than other religionsWhy does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions?

Sad Amir Arjomands Kings and Dervishes is a pioneering study of the emergence and development of Sufism during the formation of the Persianate world.

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself.

The first eleven essays in this collection treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between 1100 and 1500 CE.

In the United States, precious little is known about the active role Muslim women have played for nearly a century in the religious culture of Indonesia, the largest majority-Muslim country in the world.

In the wake of the 25 January revolution and the coup that followed in 2013, Egyptian bookstores recorded a significant increase in demand for books by and about the Muslim Brotherhood.

Making Moros offers a unique look at the colonization of Muslim subjects during the early years of American rule in the southern Philippines.

An ethnographic study set in Uzbekistan which shows how Muslims practise and celebrate their religion despite a repressive government.

Shireen Hunter provides a pragmatic analysis of relations between Islam and the West, marked by specific cases from the contemporary Islamic/Western divide.

The matter of Christian-Muslim relations cannot be ignored these days.

This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day.

What is the nature of the Qur'an?

Over the past few years, secularism has become an intrinsic component of discussions on religious freedom and religious governance.

A lively debate is currently being conducted in the social sciences around the concepts of "e;tribe"e;, "e;segmentary societies"e; and "e;Islam in society"e;.

This book showcases multidisciplinary research at the intersection of the Islamic tradition and biomedicine.

L’islam est-il fermé ou ouvert à l’autre ?

For many American Muslims, the 9/11 attacks and subsequent War on Terror marked a rise in intense scrutiny of their religious lives and political loyalties.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an offers an impressive and comprehensive overview of the formative scripture of Islam.

In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important of geopolitical issues.

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews, and case studies on religion in historical South Asia, in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, and in the South Asian diaspora.

Since the Mediterranean connects cultures, Mediterranean studies have by definition an intercultural focus.

This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe from a critical perspective.

At a time when the world is becoming increasingly interdependent, multi-cultural and multi-religious, the concept of religious pluralism is under assault as a result of hatred, prejudice and misunderstanding from both religious exclusivists and dogmatic secularists.

Why are we here?

The Islamic claim to supersede Judaism and Christianity is embodied in the theological assertion that the office of prophecy is hereditary but that the line of descent ends with Muhammad, who is the seal, or last, of the prophets.

Originally published in 1948.

What do Buddhism and Islam have in common?

This book explores why Islam becomes politicized in some countries and not in others, comparing diverse cases including Turkey, Algeria, and Senegal.

Empirically analyzes Islam and human rights in constitutions of Muslim-majority states and theorizes why some adopted Islam in their constitutions.

Responsible Management in Theory and Practice in Muslim Societies delineates principles of responsible management from an Islamic perspective, exploring the concept of responsibility in Islamic religious texts, and how the understanding of responsibility evolved in Islamic jurisprudence.

This book introduces readers to Abu Bakr al-Razi (known in Latin as Rhazes), one of the most innovative and divisive figures of the early philosophical tradition in the Islamic world.

This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.

Conventionally the word sufi is considered synonymous with the word mystic.

Exploring the subjectivity of the Qur?

This book investigates the ways in which the war on terror has transformed the postcolonial state in Africa.

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The Fatigue of the Shari'a places on a continuum two kinds of debates: debates in the Islamic tradition about the end of access to divine guidance and debates in modern scholarship in Islamic legal studies about the end of the Shari'a.

An examination of temporary marriage, or sigheh, in Iran through the representation of women within modern novels, short stories and cinema.

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare's canon.

Winner of two 2025 CMA Book Awards from the Catholic Media Association: The Future of the Church (First Place), and Pastoral Ministry Catechetical (Third Place).

This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics.

First published in 1832, this work was at the time considered an authoritative account of the beliefs and practices of the Musalmans of India.

This book explores the contributions of Eastern female pioneers in science, politics and arts from Ancient Egypt to modern times, and discusses the possible psychological and social impact of this knowledge on today's gender role in Eastern and Western Societies.

This book introduces and examines the work of two significant 21st century Christian - Muslim dialogue initiatives - "e;Building Bridges"e; and the "e;Christian-Muslim Theological Forum"e; - and gives close attention to five theological themes that have been addressed in common by them.

Islamic Psychology or ilm an-nafs (science of the soul) is an important introductory textbook drawing on the latest evidence in the sub-disciplines of psychology to provide a balanced and comprehensive view of human nature, behaviour and experience.

This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium.