ISLAM
The Sound of Salvation
A Culture of Ambiguity
Guangtian Ha
Thomas Bauer
Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China
An Alternative History of Islam
Translated by Hinrich
Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall
The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order in northwest China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The first ethnography of this order in any language, The Sound of Salvation draws on nearly a decade of fieldwork to reveal the intricacies and importance of Jahriyya vocal recitation. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19806-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19806-6
In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and a competing tendency that looks for ways to live with complexity. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17064-2
February 2022 312 pages 32 illus.
$145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-17064-2
STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE,
2021 336 pages
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Language of History
Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context
Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule
A Bibliographical History
Audrey Truschke
Zofia A. Brzozowska, Mirosław J. Leszka, and Teresa Wolińska
For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. Audrey Truschke offers a groundbreaking analysis of these texts. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19705-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19704-5 2021 376 pages
This bibliographic dictionary features an overview of medieval texts from the Eastern Orthodox world that discuss Muhammad, the Arabs, and the birth of Islam. These texts shed new light on interreligious polemics in the Middle Ages, previous studies of which have typically focused on texts written in Greek, Latin, or Middle Eastern languages. $50.00 paper 978-83-2334-943-3 February 2022 384 pages 2 illus.
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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