ISLAM
The Precious Summary
Under Empire
Sagang Sechen
Michael Francis Laffan
Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945
A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty
Translated by Johan Elverskog
The Precious Summary is the most important work of Mongolian history on the threehundred-year period before the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty. Written by Sagang Sechen in 1662, shortly after the Mongols’ submission to the Qing, it spans Buddhist cosmology, Chinggis Khan, the post-Yuan Mongols, and the Mongols’ conversion to Buddhism.
Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and nationstates around the Indian Ocean world. He traces interlinked lives and journeys, examining engagements with Western, Islamic, and panAsian imperial formations to consider the possibilities for Muslims in an imperial age.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20695-2
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20262-6
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20694-5
2022 480 pages
March 2023 360 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20263-3
HISTORY
Wives and Work
The Politics of Arab Authenticity
Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity
Challenges to Postcolonial Thought
Marion Holmes Katz
Ahmad Agbaria
It is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives’ domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20689-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20688-4 2022 320 pages
Ahmad Agbaria tells the story of a generation of postcolonial thinkers and activists who came to question their modernist commitments. He analyzes the heated cultural and intellectual debates that overtook the Arab world in the 1970s, uncovering why major figures turned to tradition in search of solutions to postcolonial predicaments. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20495-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20494-1 2022 288 pages
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