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The Study of Judaism
(December 2013)
Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship
Aaron W. Hughes - Author
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Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.
The relationship between Jewish studies and religious studies is a long and complicated one, full of tensions and possibilities. Whereas the majority of scholars working within Jewish studies contend that the discipline is in a very healthy state, many who work in theory and method in religious studies disagree. For them, Jewish studies represents...(Read More) |
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Conceiving Identities
(November 2013)
Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
Kathryn M. Kueny - Author
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Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.
Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a woman’s reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treati...(Read More) |
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Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance
(October 2013)
A Dialogue with the Persian Poet Hafiz
Hafiz - Author
Martin Bidney - Author and Translator
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A selection of poems by one of Islam’s greatest poetic voices.
“In his poetry, Hafiz has inscribed undeniable truth indelibly … Hafiz has no peer!” — Goethe
Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance includes 103 pioneering poems by the medieval Persian poet and Sufi monk Muhammad Shemseddin Hafiz (ca. 1320–1389). With the rich complexity of a character in Shakespeare, Hafiz celebrates h...(Read More) |
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Mutual Othering
(July 2013)
Islam, Modernity, and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Pre-Colonial Moroccan and European Travel Writing
Ahmed Idrissi Alami - Author
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Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
For the first time, readings of Moroccan travel writing in Arabic are juxtaposed with French and British writing about Morocco in a critical exploration of nineteenth-century concepts of modernity. Ahmed Idrissi Alami investigates the complex dynamics concerning colonial expansion, military conflict, an...(Read More) |
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Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey
(July 2013)
Grassroots Women Activists, the European Union, and the Turkish State
Gül Aldikaçti Marshall - Author
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Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey.
Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey uncovers how, why, and to what extent Turkish women, in addition to the Turkish state and the European Union, have been involved in gender policy changes in Turkey. Through analysis of the role of multiple actors at the subnational,...(Read More) |
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Reproducing Sectarianism
(June 2013)
Advocacy Networks and the Politics of Civil Society in Postwar Lebanon
Paul W. T. Kingston - Author
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Examines the politics of civil society in modern Lebanon.
The Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere has highlighted the growing importance of the politics of civil society in the contemporary Middle East. In Reproducing Sectarianism, Paul W. T. Kingston examines rights-oriented advocacy networks within Lebanon’s postwar civil society, focusing on movements and political campaigns based on gender relat...(Read More) |
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From the Shahs to Los Angeles
(November 2012)
Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture
Saba Soomekh - Author
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GOLD MEDALIST - 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion category
A fascinating look at the lives, culture, and religious and ritual observance of three generations of Iranian Jewish women in the United States.
Saba Soomekh offers a fascinating portrait of three generations of women in an ethnically distinctive and little-known American Jewish community, Jews of Iranian origin living in Los ...(Read More) |
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The Triumph of Mercy
(September 2012)
Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra
Mohammed Rustom - Author
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Discusses philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā’s commentary on the opening chapter of the Qur'ān.
This book investigates the convergence of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and mysticism in the thought of the celebrated Islamic philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1050/1640). Through a careful presentation of the theoretical and practical dimensions of Ṣadrā’s Qur'ānic hermeneutics...(Read More) |
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In Search of the Lost Heart
(February 2012)
Explorations in Islamic Thought
William C. Chittick - Author
Mohammed Rustom - Editor
Atif Khalil - Editor
Kazuyo Murata - Editor
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Renowned scholar William C. Chittick explores the worldview of Islam in a series of essays written over thirty-six years.
In Search of the Lost Heart brings together twenty-six essays by William C. Chittick, renowned scholar of Sufism and Islamic philosophy. Written between 1975 and 2011, most of these essays are not readily available in Chittick’s own books. Although this is a collection, its editors have crafted...(Read More) |
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Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies
(February 2012)
Özgen Felek - Editor
Alexander D. Knysh - Editor
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A wide-ranging consideration of the place of dreams and visions in Islamic societies from the premodern period to the present.
Dreams and visions have always been important in Islamic societies. Yet, their pervasive impact on Muslim communities and on the lives of individual Muslims remains largely unknown and rather surprising to Westerners. This book addresses this gap in understanding with a fascinating and diverse account, tak...(Read More) |
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