ISLAMIC STUDIES 30% discount code: CSF20BRAIS Order online at combinedacademic.co.uk Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy and Aesthetics ESRA AKIN-KIVANC
reducing both Christianity and Islam to a common denominator. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS March 2020 192pp 9780268107253 £37.00 HB now £25.90
The Discourses
History, Theory,
Muthanna, also known as mirror writing, is a compelling style of Islamic calligraphy composed of a source text and its mirrored image placed symmetrically on a horizontal or vertical axis. Akin-Kivanc provides a comprehensive study of the text and its forms, beginning with an explanation of the visual principles and techniques used in its creation. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 47 B&W; 35 color 346pp 9780253049216 £27.99 PB now £19.59
Muhammad Reconsidered A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy
ANNA BONTA MORELAND Scholarly attempts to understand Islam in the West over the past several years have failed to take Islamic theology seriously. This book engages Islam from deep within the Christian tradition by addressing the question of the prophethood of Muhammad. Moreland calls for a retrieval of Thomistic thought on prophecy to view Muhammad within a Christian theology of revelation, without either appropriating the prophet as an unwitting Christian or
AL-HASAN AL-YUSI
Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One
EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY JUSTIN STEARNS
Translated into English for the first time, The Discourses offers readers access to the intellectual landscape of the early modern Muslim world through an author who speaks openly and frankly about his personal life and his relationships with his country’s rulers, scholars, and commoners. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature February 2020 372pp 9780814764572 £27.99 HB now £19.59
The Praiseworthy One
rather than a historical figure with fixed significance. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2019 145 color illus. 412pp 9780253025265 £50.00 HB now £35.00
A Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India JEFFREY A. REDDING SERIES EDITED BY K. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN, ANAND A. YANG & PADMA KAIMAL
Explores India’s non-state system of Muslim dispute resolution, known as the dar-ul-qaza system and commonly referred to as “Muslim courts” or “shariat courts.” Challenges conventional narratives about the inevitable opposition between Islamic law and secular forms of governance, demonstrating that Indian secular law and governance cannot work without the significant assistance of non-state Islamic legal actors. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Series: Global South Asia April 2020 248pp 9780295747088 £22.99 PB now £16.09
The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images Axis of Hope CHRISTIANE GRUBER Iranian Women’s Rights Activism Presents an exploration of the Prophet across Borders Muhammad’s significance in Muslim life CATHERINE Z. SAMEH and thought from the beginning of
Islam to today. Gruber pays particular attention to the procedures of narration, veneration, and sacralization, ultimately showing that Muhammad has served as a polyvalent symbol
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Sameh examines how Iranian women’s rights activists have cultivated ways of thinking of and being with each other that rupture the relentless differencemaking and violence of coloniality
through local and transnational networks along axes of feminist solidarity, friendship, and love. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Series: Decolonizing Feminisms December 2019 200pp 9780295746326 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Banking on the State The Financial Foundations of Lebanon HICHAM SAFIEDDINE
This title reveals how the financial foundations of Lebanon were shaped by the history of the standardization of economic practices and financial regimes within the decolonizing world. Safieddine shows that the arrangements governing the central bank was dictated by dynamics of political power and financial profit more than market forces or national interest. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures July 2019 272pp 9781503609679 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Believing Women in Islam
A Brief Introduction ASMA BARLAS & DAVID RAEBURN FINN
The authors focus primarily on the Qur’an’s teachings about women and patriarchy. They show how traditional teachings about women’s inferiority are not supported by the Qur’an but were products of patriarchal societies that used it to justify their existing religious and social structures. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS January 2019 120pp 9781477315880 £14.99 PB now £10.49
Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet
Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe
SCOTT G. BRUCE
In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy. Scott G. Bruce uses this extraordinary incident, largely overlooked by contemporary scholars, to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the Middle Ages. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2020 1 map 174pp 9781501748431 £17.99 PB now £12.59
Countless Blessings
A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel BARBARA M. COOPER
How do women in Niger experience pregnancy and childbirth differently from women in the United States or Europe? Barbara M. Cooper sets out to understand childbirth in a country with the world’s highest fertility rate and an alarmingly high rate of maternal and infant mortality. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2019 15 b&w illus. 362pp 9780253042019 £36.00 PB now £25.20
Defending Muhammad in Modernity SHERALI TAREEN FOREWORD BY MARGRIT PERNAU
Groundbreaking study presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic. Challenges the commonplace view of such moments of intra-Muslim contest and argues for a view of “competing political theologies.” UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS January 2020 506pp 9780268106706 £27.99 PB now £19.59
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Divorcing Traditions
Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism KATHERINE LEMONS
Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understand of Indian secularism. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2019 246pp 9781501734779 £20.99 PB now £14.69
Far from the Caliph’s Gaze
Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian NICHOLAS H. A. EVANS
How do you prove that you’re Muslim? In Far from the Caliph’s Gaze, Nicholas Evans explores how a need to respond to this question shapes the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern Indian. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 7 b&w halftones 240pp 9781501715693 £21.99 PB now £15.39
For God or Empire
Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World WILSON CHACKO JACOB
Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life—one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire. This book tells his story, as his life and legacy afford a singular view on historical shifts of power and sovereignty, religion and politics. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2019 304pp 9781503609631 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Here, There, and Elsewhere
The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World TAHSEEN SHAMS
Tahseen Shams explores how geopolitics in the homeland, hostland, and beyond shape Muslim-American and immigrant identities in a globalized world. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Globalization in Everyday Life August 2020 256pp 9781503612839 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Iran Reframed
Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic NARGES BAJOGHLI
Iran Reframed offers unprecedented access to those who wield power in Iran as they debate and define the future of the Republic. This book offers a multilayered story about what it means to be pro-regime in the Islamic Republic, challenging everything we think we know about Iran and revolution. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures September 2019 176pp 9781503610293 £17.99 PB now £12.59
Light in the Heavens
Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad AL-QADI AL-QUDA’I EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY TAHERA QUTBUDDIN
Assembling Muhammad’s words has been a major preoccupation for scholars throughout the 14 centuries since his death, resulting in an abundance of compilations. One which stands out in particular is Light in the Heavens (Kitab al-Shihab) by al-Qadi alQuda’i (d. 454/1062), a Shafi’i judge in the Fatimid court in Egypt. 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 £11.99 PB now £8.39
Morality at the Margins Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya SARAH HILLEWAERT
Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and speech that create moral personhood. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows how Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 320pp 9780823286508 £26.99 PB now £18.89
Musical Ethics and Islam The Art of Playing the Ney BANU SENAY
Documents the years-long training required to become a neyzen—a player of the ney. The process holds a transformative power that invites students to create a new way of living that involves alternative relationships with the self and others, changing perceptions of the city, and a dedication to craftsmanship. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS April 2020 240pp 9780252084881 £20.99 PB now £14.69
Russian Hajj
Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca EILEEN KANE
In the late 19th century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under
tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia’s mass hajj traffic, seeing it not only as a liability, but also an opportunity. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 29 b&w halftones, 6 maps 258pp 9781501748509 £17.99 PB now £12.59
Sharia Compliant
A User’s Guide to Hacking Islamic Law RUMEE AHMED
This book is designed to revitalize the hacking tradition by getting readers involved in the process. It walks them through the ins and outs of Islamic legal change, vividly describing how Muslim scholars have met new and evolving challenges on topics as diverse as abolition, democracy, finance, gender, human rights, sexuality, and more. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Encountering Traditions May 2018 272pp 9781503605701 £17.99 PB now £12.59
Spiritual Grammar
Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity F. DOMINIC LONGO
Longo identifies a genre of religious literature that until now has not been recognized as such. In this surprising and theoretically nuanced study, Longo reveals how grammatical structures addressed in two medieval texts, from distinct religious traditions, offer a metaphor for how the self is embedded in spiritual reality. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions July 2019 256pp 9780823275724 £70.00 HB now £49.00
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Spiritual Subjects
Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire LALE CAN
Spiritual Subjects examines the paradoxes of nationality reform and pan-Islamic politics in late Ottoman history. This panoramic story informs broader transregional and global developments, with important implications for how we make sense of subjecthood in the last Muslim empire and the legacy of religion in the Turkish Republic. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 272pp 9781503611160 £19.99 PB now £13.99
Tatar Empire
Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia DANIELLE ROSS
In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly networks stood at the forefront of Russia’s expansion into the South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. Danielle Ross bridges the history of Russia’s imperial project with the history of Russia’s Muslims by exploring the Kazan Tatars as participants in the construction of the Russian empire. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 288pp 9780253045713 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet EDITED BY COURTNEY M. DORROLL
How can teachers introduce Islam to students when daily media headlines can prejudice students’ perception of the subject? Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet provides clear, feasible suggestions and theoretical tools to address the challenges teachers of
Islamic Studies face. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2019 256pp 9780253039804 £19.99 PB now £13.99
The Martyrdom of the Franciscans
The Vanishing Generation
Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan BAGILA BUKHARBAYEVA
Incorporating both journal entries and first-hand reporting, this book provides a rare and unforgettable story of what life is like today inside the secretive country of Uzbekistan. Balancing The Martyrdom of the Franciscans intimate memories and neighborhood shows how, for Franciscans, martyrdom crushes with harrowing stories of accounts could at once offer veiled extremism, Bukharbayeva gives a voice critique of papal policies toward the to victims whose stories would never Order, a substitute for the rigorous otherwise be heard. pursuit of poverty, and a way to INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS symbolically overcome Islam by denying March 2019 23 b&w 260pp Muslims the solace of conversion. 9780253040817 £28.99 PB now £20.29 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: The Middle Ages Series U.S. Foreign Policy and March 2020 1 illus. 336pp 9780812251937 £52.00 HB now £36.40 Muslim Women’s Human
Islam, the Papacy, and an Order in Conflict CHRISTOPHER MACEVITT
Rights The Organization of KELLY J. SHANNON Islamic Cooperation and Explores the integration of American Human Rights concerns about women’s human rights EDITED BY MARIE JUUL PETERSEN & TURAN KAYAOGLU
Essays by some of the world’s leading scholars examine the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s human rights activities at different levels—in the UN, the organization’s own institutions, and at the member-state level—and assess different aspects of its approach, identifying priority areas of involvement and underlying conceptions of human rights. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights July 2019 2 illus. 344pp 9780812251197 £72.00 HB now £50.40
into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS March 2020 280pp 9780812224672 £18.99 PB now £13.29
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