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A Treasury of Virtues

Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to al-Jahiz

al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī

Translated by Tahera Qutbuddin

Foreword by Rowan Williams

This book offers unique insights into the shifts in behaviour and attitudes surrounding the Soviet emancipation of women in the Muslim periphery, Tajikistan.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Library of Arabic Literature

October 2016 196pp

9781479896530 £12.99 PB now £9.09

Coerced Liberation

Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan

Zamira Abman

This book offers unique insights into the shifts in behaviour and attitudes surrounding the Soviet emancipation of women in the Muslim periphery, Tajikistan.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

May 2024 9 b&w Illus. 234pp

9781487553180 £29.99 PB now £20.99

Light in the Heavens

Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad

al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī

Translated by Tahera Qutbuddin

Foreword by Bishop Paul Hinder

Assembling Muhammad’s words has been a major preoccupation for scholars throughout the fourteen centuries since his death. The collection’s overall conceptualization is distinctively ethical and pragmatic, and offers humanitarian lessons and practical insights with universal appeal.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Library of Arabic Literature

November 2019 192pp

9781479864485 £12.99 PB now £9.09

Composing Violence

The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities

Moyukh Chatterjee

Examining the 2002 pogrom in which Hindu mobs attached Muslims in the west Indian state of Gujuarat, Chatterjee examines how political violence against minorities catalyzes radical changes in law, public culture, and power. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism, and mainstream media coverage, Chatterjee theorizes violence as a form of governance that creates minority populations.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Theory in Forms

February 2023 6 Illus. 184pp

9781478019664 £21.99 PB now £15.39

Divine Money

Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine

Emanuel Schaeublin

In Divine Money, Emanuel Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations function in contemporary Palestine. Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living under military rule and security surveillance. In the neighborhoods of Nablus, the Islamic tradition shapes public life. Many enact simple gifts of money of food as an expression of God's generosity and justice.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society

October 2023 12 b&w illus. 184pp

9780253066572 £21.99 PB now £15.39

Empire of Refugees

North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

February 2024 360pp

9781503637740

Islam and Me

Narrating a Diaspora

Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

Edited by Simone Brioni

Foreword by Charles Burdett

Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia’s former colonizer. Looking at Italian school textbooks, newspapers, and TV, she invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants, especially women, are depicted in both news reports and scholarly research.

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

August 2023 196pp

9781978835825 £14.99

Islamic Ecumene

Comparing Muslim Societies

Edited by David S. Powers & Eric Tagliacozzo

The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Using the insights and methods of historians, anthropologists, literary critics, art historians, and sociologists, Islamic Ecumene seeks to understand Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

November 2023 6 b&w halftones, 2 maps 330pp 9781501772399 £29.99 PB now £20.99

Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World

Edited by Quinn Mecham & Julie Chernov Hwang

This book examines the impact these parties have had on the political process in two different areas of the world with large Muslim populations. As the impact of the Arab Spring continues to be felt, this book offers a nuanced and timely perspective of Islamist politics in broader global context.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

August 2023 5 b/w Illus. 240pp

9781512825466 £25.99 PB now £18.19

Liminal Minorities

Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies

Günes Murat Tezcür

Liminal Minorities addresses the question of why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence, even though they lack significant power and pose no political threat.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Religion and Conflict

April 2024 14 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 4 charts 270pp

9781501774683 £27.99 PB now £19.59

Medina by the Bay Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival

Maryam Kashani

Maryam Kashani examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay area forge alternate ways of surviving and flourishing in the face of colonial racial capitalism.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

September 2023 12 Illus. 328pp

9781478025177 £24.99 PB now £17.49

On Salafism

Concepts and Contexts

Azmi Bishara

Bishara offers a sophisticated account of various movements—such as Wahabbism and Hanbalism—frequently collapsed into simplistic understandings of Salafism. He distinguishes reformist from regressive Salafism, and examines patterns of modernization in the development of contemporary Islamic political movements and associations. In deconstructing the assumptions of linear continuity between traditional and contemporary movements, Bishara details various divergences in both doctrine and context of modern Salafisms, plural. On Salafism is a crucial read for those interested in Islamism, jihadism, and Middle East politics and history.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

September 2022 246pp

9781503630352 £54.00

Political Theology and Islam

From the Birth of Empire to the Modern State

Paul L. Heck

This books first section spells out the concepts and methods for the study of politics in Islam as a struggle for a moral order, and the diverse ways in which the umma, the community of Muslims, has struggled for a moral order that recalls its prophetic message. Deftly moving in various political theaters and through intellectual traditions, Heck’s book will emerge as a touchstone of scholarship in the field of Muslim politics.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

November 2023 530pp

9780268207359 £58.00 HB now £40.60

Politicizing Islam in Austria

The Far-Right Impact in the Twenty-First Century

Farid Hafez & Reinhard Heinisch

This book examines this anti-Muslim swerve in Austrian politics through a comprehensive analysis of government policies and regulations. In their innovative study, Hafez and Heinisch show how the farright Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) adapted anti-Muslim discourse to their political purposes and how that discourse was then appropriated by the conservative centerright Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP).

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

March 2024 1 b&w figure, 23 tables 206pp 9781978830448 £31.00 PB now £21.70

Pop Islam

Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media

Rosemary Pennington

This book traces narratives found in contemporary American comic books, television, and more to understand how they reveal nuanced Muslim identities to American audiences. Pennington argues that even as American Muslims have become more visible in popular media, this move toward "being seen" can reinforce fixed ideas of what it means to be Muslim.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

April 2024 37 b&w Illus., 1 b&w table 214pp 9780253069375 £25.99 PB now £18.19

Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat

Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan

Ali Usman Qasmi

Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a sweeping history of the country's formative period. Qasmi paints a rich picture of the often conflict-ridden process of writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan. He provides an illuminating analysis of the practices of being Pakistani, and a new portrait of Muslim history in the subcontinent.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: South Asia in Motion

December 2023 444pp

9781503637788

Sufi Civilities

Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan

Annika Schmeding

Based on long-term ethnographic field research among multiple Sufi communities in different urban areas of Afghanistan, this book examines navigational strategies employed by Sufi leaders over the past four decades to weather periods of instability and persecution, showing how they adapted to changing conditions in novel ways that crafted Sufism as a force in the civil sphere.

STANFORD

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe

Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia

Amzi-Erdogdular

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe

December 2023 332pp

9781503636705 £67.00 HB now £46.90

The Niqab in France

Between Piety and Subversion

Agnès De Féo

Translated by Lindsay Turner

An in�mate look at a fiercely controversial topic in contemporary Western culture and poli�cs: a garment—the niqab, or full-face veil—and the women who choose to wear it.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

February 2024 25 b&w Illus. 208pp

9781531504649 £25.99 PB now £18.19

The Promise of Piety

Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan

Arsalan Khan

The Promise of Piety shows how Tablighis cons�tute a dis�nct form of pious rela�onality in the ritual processes and everyday prac�ces of dawat and how pious rela�onality serves as a basis for transforming domes�c and public life. Khan explores both the promise and limits of the Tablighi project of crea�ng an Islamic moral order that can transcend the poli�cal fragmenta�on and violence of life in postcolonial Pakistan.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

February 2024 6 b&w halftones 240pp

9781501773570 £27.99 PB now £19.59

Youth, Education, and Islamic Radicalism

Religious

Intolerance in

Contemporary Indonesia Mun'im Sirry

Youth, Education, and Islamic Radicalism offers groundbreaking analysis of religious intolerance and radicalization among high school and university students in modernday Indonesia.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Series: Contending Modernities

March 2024 41 tables 364pp

9780268207649 £29.99 PB now £20.99