Book Series in Middle East Studies
Islamic Studies Series
New & Published Titles:
Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt
Contesting the Nation
This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the academic historian, the… read moreJune 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58934-5 (Routledge)
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Interest in Islamic Economics
Understanding Riba
With Islamic banking gradually becoming a more influential factor in the West, an analysis of the concept of riba – a definition of which is…
read moreJune 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58935-2 (Routledge)
Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations
Modern Egyptian Thinkers on al-damir
Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations puts forward a discussion of how the notion of conscience may unite Muslim and Christians across religious divides, as well…
read moreJune 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58936-9 (Routledge)
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The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814
Army and Government of a North-African Eyâlet at the End of the Eighteenth Century
This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the pasha-bey Hammûda the Husaynid (1777--1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these… read moreJune 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58941-3 (Routledge)
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Islam and Disability
Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence
This book explores the position of Islamic theology and jurisprudence towards people with disabilities. It investigates how early and modern Muslim scholars tried to reconcile…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-54757-4 (Routledge)
Muslim Diaspora
Gender, Culture and Identity
Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77915-9 (Routledge)
Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries
Although Muslims are now an important presence in Europe, little is known about the Muslim communities that exist in the Nordic and Baltic regions of…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48519-7 (Routledge)
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The Alevis in Turkey
The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition
This is the only volume dedicated to the Alevis available in English and based on sustained fieldwork in Turkey. The Alevis now have an increasingly… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44436-1 (Routledge)
The West and Islam
Western Liberal Democracy versus the System of Shura
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44438-5 (Routledge)
Medieval Islamic Economic Thought
Filling the Great Gap in European Economics
This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44451-4 (Routledge)
Series Details:
This broad ranging series includes books on Islamic issues from all parts of the globe and is not simply confined to the Middle East.
Forthcoming Titles:
Political Liberalism in Muslim Societies
By Fevzi Bilgin
To be published February 1st 2011
Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God
By Richard Gauvain
To be published January 1st 2011
Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe
By Martin Van Bruinessen, Stefano Allievi
To be published August 30th 2010