- Arguing the Just War in Islam
- John Kelsay
- Jihad, with its many terrifying associations, is a term widely used today, though its meaning is poorly grasped. Kelsay's timely and important work focuses on jihad of the sword in Islamic thought, history, and culture. Making use of original sources, Kelsay delves into the tradition of shari'a--Islamic jurisprudence and reasoning--and shows how it defines jihad as the Islamic analogue of the Western "just" war.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Dao of Muhammad
- Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
- This book documents an Islamic-Confucian school of scholarship that flourished, mostly in the Yangzi Delta, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unstudied materials, it reconstructs the network of Muslim scholars responsible for the creation and circulation of a large corpus of Chinese Islamic written material--the so-called Han Kitab. Overturning the idea that participation in Confucian culture necessitated the obliteration of all other identities, this book offers insight into the world of a group of scholars who felt that their study of the Islamic classics constituted a rightful "school" within the Confucian intellectual landscape.
- Hardcover 2005
- Dreaming Across Boundaries
- Edited by Louise Marlow
- Contributions by Serpil Bagci
- Contributions by Olga M. Davidson
- Contributions by Yehoshua Frenkel
- Contributions by Rotraud E. Hansberger
- Contributions by Hagar Kahana-Smilansky
- Contributions by Jonathan G. Katz
- Contributions by Leah Kinberg
- Contributions by John C. Lamoreaux
- Contributions by Mohammad J. Mahallati
- Contributions by Eric Ormsby
- Contributions by Sholeh A. Quinn
- Contributions by Khalid Sindawi
- This volume explores the context of theological speculations and political aspirations through the medium of dreams to present fascinating insights into the social history of the pre-modern Islamic world in all its cultural diversity. Wider cultural exchanges are discussed through concrete examples such as the Arabic version of the Aristotelian treatise De divinatione per somnum, and some of the current scholarly assumptions about dreams are challenged by personal reports that express individual personalities, self-awareness, and spiritual development.
- Hardcover 2008 / Paperback 2008
- Dreaming Across Boundaries
- Edited by Louise Marlow
- Contributions by Serpil Bagci
- Contributions by Olga M. Davidson
- Contributions by Yehoshua Frenkel
- Contributions by Rotraud E. Hansberger
- Contributions by Hagar Kahana-Smilansky
- Contributions by Jonathan G. Katz
- Contributions by Leah Kinberg
- Contributions by John C. Lamoreaux
- Contributions by Mohammad J. Mahallati
- Contributions by Eric Ormsby
- Contributions by Sholeh A. Quinn
- Contributions by Khalid Sindawi
- This volume explores the context of theological speculations and political aspirations through the medium of dreams to present fascinating insights into the social history of the pre-modern Islamic world in all its cultural diversity. Wider cultural exchanges are discussed through concrete examples such as the Arabic version of the Aristotelian treatise De divinatione per somnum, and some of the current scholarly assumptions about dreams are challenged by personal reports that express individual personalities, self-awareness, and spiritual development.
- Hardcover 2008 / Paperback 2008
- The Failure of Political Islam
- Olivier Roy
- Translated by Carol Volk
- Olivier Roy demonstrates that the Islamic Fundamentalism of today is still the Third Worldism of the 1960s: populist politics and mixed economies of laissez-faire for the rich and subsidies for the poor. In Roy's striking formulation, those marching today beneath Islam's green banners are the same as the "reds" of yesterday, with similarly dim prospects of success. Richly informed, powerfully argued, and clearly written, this is a book that no one trying to understand Islam can afford to overlook.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- The Flowering of Muslim Theology
- Josef van Ess
- Translated by Jane Marie Todd
- The Flowering of Muslim Theology discusses the emergence of theology in the classical period and offers acute and illuminating comparisons with the Christian (and Jewish) traditions. In this lucid and authoritative introduction to classical Islam, Josef van Ess opens a window on the intellectual world that gave rise to Muslim theology. This work gives a wider audience rare insight into Islam's past.
- Hardcover 2006
- For Prophet and Tsar
- Robert D. Crews
- In stark contrast to the popular "clash of civilizations" theory that sees Islam inevitably in conflict with the West, Robert D. Crews reveals the remarkable ways in which Russia constructed an empire with broad Muslim support. For Prophet and Tsar unearths the fascinating relationship between an empire and its subjects. As America and Western Europe debate how best to secure the allegiances of their Muslim populations, Crews offers a unique and critical historical vantage point.
- Hardcover 2006
- Historical Atlas of Islam
- Malise Ruthven
- Azim Nanji, With
- From the birth of the prophet Muhammed to the independence of post-Soviet Muslim states in Central Asia, this accessible and informative atlas explains the historical evolution of Islamic societies. Rich in narrative and visual detail that illuminates the story of Islamic civilization, this is an indispensable resource to anyone interested in world history and religion.
- Hardcover 2004
- The History of an Islamic School of Law
- Nurit Tsafrir
- The Hanafi school of law is one of the oldest legal schools of Islam, coming into existence in the eighth century in Iraq, and surviving up to the present. So closely is the early development of the Hanafi school interwoven with non-legal spheres, such as the political, social, and theological, that the study of it is essential to a proper understanding of medieval Islamic history. Tsafrir offers a thorough examination of the first century and a half of the school's existence, the period during which it took shape.
- Hardcover 2004
- Islam and Ecology
- Edited by Richard C. Foltz
- Edited by Frederick M. Denny
- Edited by Azizan Baharuddin
- Contributions by Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
- Contributions by Adnan Z. Amin
- Contributions by Nawal H. Ammar
- Contributions by Saadia Khawar Khan Chishti
- Contributions by L. Clarke
- Contributions by Mawil Izzi Dien
- Contributions by Hashim Ismail Dockrat
- Contributions by Yasin Dutton
- Contributions by Nathan C. Funk
- Contributions by Safei-Eldin A. Hamed
- Contributions by S. Nomanul Haq
- Contributions by Joseph G. Jabbra
- Contributions by Nancy W. Jabbra
- Contributions by Tazim R. Kassam
- Contributions by Fazlun M. Khalid
- Contributions by Othman Abd-ar-Rahman Llewellyn
- Contributions by Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed
- Contributions by Ibrahim Ozdemir
- Contributions by Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz
- Contributions by Attilio Petruccioli
- Contributions by Abdul Aziz Said
- Contributions by Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq
- Contributions by James L. Wescoat
- The articulation of an Islamic environmental ethic in contemporary terms is all the more urgent because Western-style conservation efforts do not fit all cultural and philosophical traditions. This volume outlines the Islamic view of the cosmic order and reviews the ways an Islamic world view can be interpreted, reassessed, and applied to such environmental problems as pollution and water scarcity.
- Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003
- Islam without Fear
- Raymond William Baker
- For the last several decades an influential group of Egyptian scholars and public intellectuals has been having a profound effect in the Islamic world. Raymond Baker offers a compelling portrait of these New Islamists--Islamic scholars, lawyers, judges, and journalists who provide the moral and intellectual foundations for a more fully realized Islamic community, open to the world and with full rights of active citizenship for women and non-Muslims.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- Islamic Legal Interpretation
- Edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud
- Edited by Brinkley Messick
- Edited by David Powers
- The world knows of Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa in the Salman Rushdie case, yet this key institution in Muslim society has not been the subject of a major examination until now. Islamic Legal Interpretationoffers a casebook of interdisciplinary analyses of fatwas over a wide range of times and places.
- Hardcover 1996
- The Islamic School of Law
- Edited by Peri Bearman
- Edited by Rudolph Peters
- Edited by Frank E. Vogel
- Contributions by Camilla Adang
- Contributions by Alfonso Carmona
- Contributions by Maribel Fierro
- Contributions by Robert Gleave
- Contributions by Steven C. Judd
- Contributions by Eyyup Said Kaya
- Contributions by Daniella Talmon-Heller
- Contributions by Bernard G. Weiss
- Contributions by Ihsan Yilmaz
- The Islamic school of law, or madhhab, is a concept on which a substantial amount has been written but of which there is still little understanding, and even less consensus. This collection of selected papers from the III International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held in May 2000 at the Harvard Law School, offers building blocks toward the entire edifice of understanding the complex development of the madhhab, a development that even in the contemporary dissolution of madhhab lines and grouping continues to fascinate.
- Hardcover 2006
- Jewish and Islamic Law
- Gideon Libson
- Gideon Libson's highly original work on custom is the first attempt to present a comprehensive comparative study of Jewish-Islamic law on a particular topic during the early Middle Ages. His in-depth study of Islamic law--its sources, legal schools, and extensive legal literature--together with his expertise in the wide range of geonic and rabbinic literature enable him to determine the influence of Muslim practice on geonic custom.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Muslim Jesus
- Edited and translated by Tarif Khalidi
- This work presents in English translation the largest collection ever assembled of the sayings and stories of Jesus in Arabic Islamic literature. The 300 sayings and stories, arranged in chronological order, show us how the image of this Jesus evolved throughout a millennium of Islamic history.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs
- Kathryn Babayan
- Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence--another form, or eternal life following death and resurrection--individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth. In their minds, Muhammad's prophecy represented one such cosmic moment of transformation.
- Paperback 2003