Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

A groundbreaking study of jinn doppelgangers and the problem of evil in Akbarian Sufism.

A history of the world’s mystical traditions.

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.

Shows how Engaged Buddhists can expand their understanding of the causes of collective suffering and develop nonviolent means for social transformation through a dialectic of love, power, and justice.