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All the World Is Awry
(December 2021)
Al-Ma‛arrī and the Luzūmiyyāt, Revisited
R. Kevin Lacey - Author
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Examines the thought of Abū al-‛Alā’ al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) within the broader context of the major trends in Arab Islamic political and intellectual history by the time of his flourishing.
Free-thinking poet, grammarian, social critic, and satirist, Abū al-‛Alā' al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) remains one of the more celebrated and intriguing personalities in the history of Arab Islami...(Read More) |
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The Nation or the Ummah
(December 2021)
Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy
Birol Başkan - Author
Ömer Taşpınar - Author
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Explains why Turkey embraced the Arab Spring despite the risk both domestically and internationally.
Turkey’s enthusiastic embrace of the Arab Spring set in motion a dynamic that fundamentally altered its relations with the United States, Russia, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran, and transformed Turkey from a soft power to a hard power in the tangled g...(Read More) |
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The Space of the Transnational
(December 2021)
Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian Writing
Shirin E. Edwin - Author
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Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.
This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic and communal violence, polygamous abuse, sterility, and heteronormativity. By closely reading and ex...(Read More) |
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The Anonymity of a Commentator
(September 2021)
Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī and the Rhetoric of Muslim Commentaries
Matthew B. Ingalls - Author
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A close study of one of the most prolific commentary writers in Islamic history.
The Anonymity of a Commentator examines the life and writings of the Egyptian Sufi-scholar Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī (d. 926/1520), the longest-serving chief Shāfi‘ī justice to the Mamlūk sultanate during its final years. It analyzes al-Anṣārī’s commentaries in the disciplines of Sufism and Islamic la...(Read More) |
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Ummah
(May 2021)
A New Paradigm for a Global World
Katrin A. Jomaa - Author
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Offers the Islamic concept of ummah as an alternative to the nation-state.
How can we live together without alienation, avoidance, and fear? How can we complement one another such that each of us can uniquely contribute to the making of our societies? To address these and other questions, Katrin A. Jomaa examines the moral, political, and spiritual understanding of the Qur’...(Read More) |
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Djinn
(January 2021)
Tofik Dibi - Author
Nicolaas P. Barr - Translated and with an introduction by
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The gripping memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.
From a young age, Tofik Dibi feels “it”—a spirit, or djinn, that follows him everywhere. Where “it” goes, “they” go—his classmates, his colleagues, all the people who fear and hate “it,” his homosexuality.
The son of Moroccan immigrants, Dibi...(Read More) |
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The Muslim World in Modern South Asia
(January 2021)
Power, Authority, Knowledge
Francis Robinson - Author
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Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.
Over the past two hundred years, two great processes have shaped Muslim societies: Western domination and the industrial capitalism that came with it, and the Islamic revival that preceded the Western p...(Read More) |
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Keys to the Beyond
(August 2020)
Frithjof Schuon's Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence
Patrick Laude - Author
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Studies the original vocabulary of Frithjof Schuon, its relevance to comparative religion, and the status of metaphysical and theological terms in religion.
This book explores the work of the religious philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) by focusing on the way he develops his own expansive adaptations of traditional religious terms. As a leading proponent of perennial philosoph...(Read More) |
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The Art of Jihad
(October 2019)
Realism in Islamic Political Thought
Malik Mufti - Author
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Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten “realist” tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and considers the prospects for its revival in the context of the contemporary Middle East.
Now all but forgotten, there exists within medieval Islamic political thought a coherent “realist” tradition analogous to its Western counterpart. In The Art of Jihad, Malik ...(Read More) |
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The Repose of the Spirits
(October 2019)
A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names
Ahmad Sam'ani - Author
William C. Chittick - Translated and with an introduction by
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Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition.
The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam‘ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a famous Central Asian scholarly family in about the year 1135, it is one of th...(Read More) |
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