Jews in the era of modern greek enlightenment and the 1821 revolution (greek language)

The essays included in this volume focus on the complex relationship between the Jewish question, Jews themselves, the Modern Greek Enlightenment and the Greek War of Independence of 1821. Text in Greek

Hebrew union college annual volume 95

The Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. With a history spanning nearly a century, it stands as a chronicle of Jewish scholarship through the twentieth cen...

The commentary of abraham ibn ezra on the book of job

The book of Job was among the most popular books of study for Jewish scholars in the Middle Ages. Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164), born in Muslim Spain, composed his commentaries while living in Christian Europe. By writing in Hebrew, rather than Arabic, he also transmitted the intellectual life of ...

The tavern of popricani

In this novelistic account of his childhood in the Romanian countryside, Yitskhok Horowitz charts his episodic memories in the literary voice of his child self. The Tavern of Popricani (first published in 1953, in Yiddish) offers an account of the rhythms of life for one Jewish family in the hint...

The friday mosque in the city

Edited volume exploring the dynamic relationship between the Friday Mosque and the city. While the Friday mosque and the 'Islamic City' have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this volume specifically examines the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality...

The making of religious texts in islam

This is a study of the modalities, actors, technicalities and consequences of evolving religious texts in the perspective of the fragment versus the whole. The focus is on fragmentary texts from Islamic religious sources, including contributions on Qur'anic manuscripts, early graffiti, the format...

Journal of the international qur'anic studies association volume 5 (2020)

The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association.

Journal of the international qur'anic studies association volume 2 (2017)

The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association, a nonprofit learned society for scholars of the Qur'an.

The struggle for the meaning of islam (4-volume set)

Sadik Jalal Al-Azm was an internationally respected scholar and political commentator who offered innovative challenges to conventional narratives on issues surrounding Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. This 4 volume set includes the fourth and final vol...

Islamist occidentalism

Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was the most important radical Islamist ideologue in modern times. This groundbreaking new study analyses Qutb's thinking from his early years in Cairo to the radical Islamist stance he adopted towards the end of his life.

Queer muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film

This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage. .

Ibn a'tham al-kufi and his kitab al-futuh (two-volume set)

This two-volume set delves deeply into the life of the Muslim scholar Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī and his monumental historical work, the Kitāb al-futūḥ (Book of Conquests).

Insights into islamic archaeology and material culture

This book's fourteen contributors emphasise the need to move beyond orientalist interpretations and historiographic dependencies of Islamic archaeology. Instead they foster a more neutral and analytical approach to early Islamic material culture.

Al-tabari

This volume provides a discussion of the works of Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d. 932 CE) the greatest historian of the early Islamic world. An international team of well-known scholars examine the life of the man, his work, the sources he used and his intellectual legacy.

Studies in early islamic history (with an introduction by g. r. hawting)

This is a collection of all of Martin Hinds' (1941-1988) full-length articles which appeared in journals as well as one of his articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Most of the articles concern the early period of Islamic history, while two others deal with the early Abbasid caliphate.

Muslim chaplaincy

There is a distinctive new field of ‘Muslim Chaplaincy Studies’, to which this book contributes. A practitioner-orientated volume, it offers a theological grounding for the role, alongside insights about the realities of working as a chaplain. The pastoral case-studies you will read in this book ...

Occasionalism revisited, 2nd edition

This book guides us through one of the most fascinating theories of causality, where the only true causal agent is God, and all occurrences in the universe are but moments of divine creation. This expanded and updated 2nd edition, edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu, weaves together philosophical perspect...

An armenian futuh narrative

The ‘History’ of the Armenian priest Lewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic rule and the only contemporary chronicle of 2nd/8th-century caliphal rule in Armenia. This book is a new annotated English translation of Lewond's text, which describes events during the century an...

Islam and humanity - consequences of a contemporary reading

This new book by Mohammed Shahrour discusses the implications of contemporary reading of the Qur'an. He seeks to introduce Islam “from its original source, the authoritative revelation, on the basis of a contemporary reading taking into account the level of knowledge of the C21st and the scientif...

The fatwa as an islamic legal instrument (3-volume set)

One of the most misunderstood aspects of Islamic legal practice and thought is the role of fatwas or legal opinions. This 3-volume reference work offers a comprehensive overview and detailed insights into the concept of the fatwa as a vehicle of legal opinion-making in Islam and its historical ro...

Reform of islam

This is an open indictment of prevailing conservative Islam which insists on the absolute subjugation of the body and mind of all Muslims. The author seeks a humanist understanding of Islam, interpreted in today's terms. He argues against the historical alienation and transfiguration that shape t...

The muslim theology of huzn

The subject of sorrow and how it should be treated is a subject as old as mankind itself. With the aim of unravelling the mystery of its existence, this ground-breaking study aims to tell the story of sorrow in the Qur'an from a Muslim scholarly perspective, with particular emphasis on the theolo...

Discerning religious truth

The tradition of rational theology in the mature post-classical Sunni tradition has unique philosophical insights and solutions to modern philosophical problems that have not yet been articulated in the philosophical mainstream. This book connects the tradition of Sunni Muslim intellectual though...

European muslims and their foreign policy interests

In a global context marked by terrorist threats, Muslim communities in the West have come under increasing scrutiny. This book investigates the foreign policy interests and political mobilization of Muslims in Europe, specifically in France and Great Britain, shedding light on these difficult que...

Islamic ethos and the specter of modernity

Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity.

The logic of al-fanārī

This is a comprehensive study and annotated translation of al-Fanārī’s famous commentary on the Īsāghūjī, a foundational work in the Ottoman seminary tradition. It includes a plain-English representation of al-Fanari’s commentary enhanced by the inclusion of helpful explanations drawn from variou...

The banū sulaym

This study focuses on Sulaym in the crucial transition period from Jāhiliyya to Islam, and hence it contributes to the study of the Prophet and his time.

Divine revelation and communication

This book is an exploration of how God speaks to humanity and how Muslims engage with Divine discourse. Produced by the International Foundation for Muslim Theology, the book brings together Muslim scholars from diverse backgrounds to examine revelation, prophethood and the role of angels as medi...

The political culture of the abbasid court, 279-324 a.h.

Knowledge and power in muslim societies

The study of Islam and of Islamic history is enjoying something of a revival with an emphasis on intellectual history. There are noticeable differences of approach in the various chapters presented here, but what brings them together is a careful study of texts as forms of speech acts

The eye of the beholder

The author analyses the ways in which Muhammad's early biographers sought to shape the Prophet's biography through biblically based, and later Qur'anic, modes of authentication.

The sufi journey of baba rexheb

Explores the life and teachings of the Bektashi mystic who established the first Bektashi community in America. Through stories, oral histories, and ethnography, Frances Trix provides insights into modern Sufi leadership and the Bektashi order's journey to America, showcasing Baba Rexheb's wisdom...

A gateway to hell, a gateway to paradise

This book is a study of the early history of the lbadiyya in North Africa, a "moderate" movement among the Kharijis which from its base in Basra gradually spread among the Berbers of the Maghrib in the 750s.

Studies in islamic painting

Ernst Grube's research spans Islamic painting from 10th-century Egypt to 19th-century Persia. This collection of studies presents his extensive scholarship, offering new materials, defining painting schools, and proposing fresh interpretations. Essential reading for art enthusiasts in Islamic and...

Supervivencia indígena en la nicaragua colonial

Acompañada de una nueva introducción, esta traducción al español del clásico libro, Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua, ofrece una descripción detallada de los cambios demográficos y culturales que la conquista española y el dominio colonial trajeron a las sociedades indígenas de Nicaragua.

Thou shalt forget

Following a decade-long research project, this devastating book examines colonial state imperatives to sideline indigenous peoples and history from mainstream national narratives. Through the study of his community, the Essipiunnuat or, ‘People of the Brook Shells River’, the author hopes to comb...

The terms of our surrender

Canada is seen as a liberal democracy and staunch upholder of human rights across the world. Yet the domestic scene is different when it comes to indigenous peoples. Based on extensive fieldwork and oral history, The Terms of Our Surrender is a powerful critical appraisal of unceded indigenous la...

A world you do not know

A World You Do Not Know explores the wilful ignorance demonstrated by NorthAmerica’s settlers in establishing their societies on lands already occupied by indigenous nations.

Critical sexual literacy

This book is a new and exciting resource for teachers, students, and activists who aim to critically examine contemporary sexuality through the lens of sexual literacy and situated social analysis. This original anthology provides shorter cutting-edge essays on theory, method, and activism, inclu...

Sexual progressives

Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressi...

The atlas of conflict reduction

This book takes readers on a journey through western Montana to showcase ranchers and partner groups who are pioneering strategies for reducing conflicts with wildlife and why. Conservation heroes, using psychological theory interwoven with personal stories from the twenty-first century, provide ...

Postcapitalist cities

Postcapitalist cities explores, analyses & celebrates how to transform cities into equitable, solarpunk, and community-driven spaces, challenging the dominance of capitalism, and highlights case studies from all corners of the globe.

The social significance of dining out

The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and ...

Sanctuary cities and urban struggles

This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration.

Climate change and the future of seattle

This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings.

Turning up the heat

The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change.

Mapping crisis

Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around th...

Researching animal research

Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century.

Living the urban periphery

An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on th...

Ageing, corporeality and embodiment

This book investigates the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently – for ageing without becoming old. 

Tv formats worldwide

This book redresses the balance of reality shows and the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. It explores topics such as reality TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, talent shows, fiction serials, broadcaster management policies, production decision...

European journalism education

This book is the first comprehensive directory of the journalism education and training offered in thirty-three European countries. The volume, organized by country, discusses the history of journalism education and includes an analysis of all the current university programs and training provided...

Tv formats worldwide

This book redresses the balance of reality shows and the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. It explores topics such as reality TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, talent shows, fiction serials, broadcaster management policies, production decision...

Crash cultures

Crash cultures

Since Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and scientific history of our responses to the car crash, as well as showing the personal impact of the crash on...

The inner world of research

A book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher, and on the role of emotions and social relations in research based on the author’s reflections from a life as a researcher and on interviews with leading scientists about their work and careers.

Procreation and population in historical social science

The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the c...

Self-presentation and representative politics

The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising quest...

The anthem companion to raymond boudon

This book seeks to identify the main threads of a resolutely complex course of thought which has contributed greatly to sociology.

The metahistory of western knowledge in the modern era

The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era –from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods to address them develop in a coordinated mann...

Using media for social innovation

Presenting a number of case studies including campaigns dealing with young people, Indigenous peoples, human rights and environmental issues, this work looks at the guiding principles, assumptions, goals, practices and outcomes of experiments involving social innovation media.

Isis and the pornography of violence

‘ISIS and the Pornography of Violence’ is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 2014 to its demise in early 2018.

Keepin' it real

Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America is a vibrant and eclectic collection of essays written during the most racially turbulent period of the modern era – the end of the Obama Administration and the start of the Trump Administration – that examine emerging racial tensions, curre...

Raymond williams

This book focuses in particular on the formation and application of Raymond Williams's cultural-materialist methodology to society and politics. Addressing aspects of Williams's work that have startlingly direct relevance to the prospects for socialism and progressive change in the twenty-first c...

Revolution in the echo chamber

Revolution in the Echo Chamber is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. Building on historical analysis, this book provides contemporary perspective, drawing on trends from the current audio drama environment to analyse how people listen ...

The importance of elsewhere

This book is a collection of essays rooted in Randy Malamud’s own lifetime of travel. Setting today’s tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty, key drivers of ou...