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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Women for Afghan Women Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future Edited by Sunita Mehta Palgrave Macmillan This groundbreaking collection traces the history of women's rights and roles in Afghanistan over the past 30 years; it examines the current human rights...

Hardcover : $68.00 Buy	Ecstasy and Enlightenment The Ismaili Devotional Literature of South Asia Ali S. Asani I.B. Tauris The devotional and mystical literature of the Ismailis in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent is a little known but rich seam of creativity in the cultural heritage...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Sacred Space And Holy War The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam Juan Cole I.B. Tauris Juan Cole examines Shi'i Islam as a world religion that has faced modernity on its own terms. He explores the little known history of Shi'i communities as far...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Islamic Britain Religion, Politics and Identity Among British Muslims, Revised and Updated Edition Phillip Lewis I.B. Tauris This is an investigation of British Muslims' perceptions of themselves and the dilemmas they face. It also deals with the reality behind distorted media images...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century Ataullah Siddiqui Palgrave Macmillan The book describes the challenge of modernity faced by Muslims and Christians and the issue of religious pluralism. It describes Muslims' encounters with...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Recognizing Islam Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East Michael Gilsenan I.B. Tauris Recent crises in the Middle East have flooded the media with sensationalist and inaccurate portraits of Islam. This revised edition of Gilsenan's classic work...

Hardcover : $68.00 Buy	Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam Essays in Honor of Wilferd Madelung Edited by Farhad Daftary and Josef W. Meri Institute for Ismaili Studies This book explores broad-ranging themes relating to memory, memorization, memorializing or commemorating in a variety of historical, legal, literary and...

Hardcover : $73.00 Buy	Arabic Ismaili Manuscripts The Zahid Ali Collection Delia Cortese Institute for Ismaili Studies This catalog, illustrated throughout, and with 179 annotated entries is a brilliant corpus of Islamic manuscripts devoted to the theological, philosophical,...

Hardcover : $107.00 Buy	The Christians of Lebanon Political Rights in Islamic Law Tauris Academic Studies David Grafton Tauris Academic Studies This book examines the Islamic categories of Christians under Islamic law and compares them with the status of Christians within Lebanon. David Grafton reviews...

Hardcover : $57.00 Buy	Crossing the Threshold Understanding Religious Identities in South Asia Dominique-Sila Khan Institute for Ismaili Studies Who is Hindu, who is Muslim? The answer, according to Dominique-Sila Khan, is not as simple as generally assumed. By analyzing documentary sources as well as...

Trade Paperback : $38.95 Buy	Women's Rights and Islamic Family Law Perspectives on Reform Edited by Lynn Welchman Zed Books This volume explores the present-day realities of Islamic family law, with particular emphasis on the rights of women. Three contrasting country cases have...

Hardcover : $107.00 Buy	Reason and Inspiration in Islam Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought Edited by Todd Lawson Institute for Ismaili Studies In all the current alienating discourse on Islam as a source of extremism and fanatic violence this new publication takes a timely and refreshing look at the...

Hardcover : $45.00 Buy	Degrees of Excellence A Fatimid Treatise on Leadership in Islam Ismaili Texts and Translations Edited and Translated by Arzina R. Lalani Institute for Ismaili Studies Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Naysaburi (996-1021) lived at the pinnacle of Fatimid rule in Egypt. One of the most distinguished scholars of his time, several important...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Justice and Remembrance Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali Reza Shah-Kazemi I.B. Tauris/Ismaili Studies Ali b. Abi Talib, son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, first Shi'i imam and fourth caliph, is a monumental figure within the Islamic tradition. But...

Hardcover : $73.00 Buy	Master of the Age An Islamic Treatise on the Necessity of the Imamate Paul E. Walker I.B. Tauris Few Islamic doctrines have provoked as much division and disagreement as those bound up with the imamate: or the office of supreme leader of the Muslim...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Hadith as Scripture Discussions on the Authority of Prophetic Traditions in Islam Aisha Y. Musa Palgrave Macmillan This work explores the earliest extant discussions on the authority of the Hadith in Islam and compares them with contemporary debates. These lively and often...

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	A Modern History of the Ismailis Continuity and Change in a Muslim Community Edited by Farhad Daftary Institute for Ismaili Studies The Ismailis have enjoyed a long, eventful and complex history dating back to the 8eigth century CE and originating in the Shi'i tradition of Islam. During the...

Hardcover : $45.00 Buy	The Children of Time The Aga Khan and the Ismailis Malise Ruthven and Gerald Wilkinson I.B. Tauris From highland peasant farmers in Central Asia to Canadian industrialists, South Asian businessmen and Europe-based scholars, the Nizari Ismailis are one of the...

Trade Paperback : $34.00 Buy	The Theory and Practice of Islamic Terrorism An Anthology Edited by Marvin Perry and Howard E. Negrin Palgrave Macmillan Drawing from a variety of sources, this anthology encourages readers to explore the multiple dimensions of Islamic terrorism and seeks to promote a better...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Islam, Modernity, Violence, and Everyday Life Ahmad Atif Ahmad Palgrave Macmillan This book questions the logic and basis of the comparisons between “Islamic” and “Western” values and cultures in today’s public discourse in the West. The...

Hardcover : $63.00 Buy	Muslim Modernities Expressions of the Civil Imagination Edited by Amyn B. Sajoo Institute for Ismaili Studies How does Islam engage with the idea of the modern and with the contemporary world? How is Muslim tradition to be reconciled with a world in continuous flux and...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Sufism Today Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community Edited by Catharina Raudvere & Leif Stenberg I.B. Tauris This book offers the first sustained treatment of Sufism in the context of modern Muslim communities. It is also innovative, in that it broadens the purview of...

Trade Paperback : $36.00 Buy	Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi'ism Library of Modern Religion #4 Abbas Amanat I.B. Tauris Interest in Shi'i Islam is running at unprecedented levels. International tensions over Iran, where the largest number of Shi'i Muslims live, as well as the...

Hardcover : $58.00 Buy	Orations of the Fatimid Caliphs Festival Sermons of the Ismaili Imams Ismaili Texts and Translations Paul Walker I.B. Tauris/Ismaili Studies The Fatimid empire was a highly sophisticated and cosmopolitan regime that flourished from the beginning of the 10th to the end of the 12th century. Under the...

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