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This is a history of history as it were... wonderfully hard-hitting analysis, elegantly tied into the unfolding narrative of events, with each religious establishment exposed in all its glory and treacherous realpolitik... \u003cb\u003ea spell-bindingly brilliant multiple portrait of the triumph of monotheism in the ancient world\u003c\/b\u003e * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eHolland's new book traces the process by which the world of the first millennium came to be dominated by one God, three religions and an innumerable succession of emperors -- Dan Jones * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eIt is difficult not to be bedazzled by a cast that includes ulcerated Christian holy men, Zoroastrian priests obsessed with dental hygiene, demonic emperors, barbarians with self-inflicted cranial deformities and Arab ambassadors stinking of camel -- Richard Miles * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSweeping and perceptive\u003c\/b\u003e. 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Greble teaches us that we will not be able to understand the genealogies of secularism, nationalism, liberalism, citizenship, and human rights without the crucial significance of Muslims in the making of modern Europe. This will prove an indispensable scholarly intervention to shatter the extremist ideologies that rely on the narratives of the clash of civilizations. * Cemil Aydin, author of The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History *\u003cbr\u003eMuslims and the Making of Modern Europe is an engaging story with significant archival, geographic, and chronological breadth. Greble offers new comparative insights into how religious \"minority\" communities navigated Europe's turbulent interwar years, while opening up paths for further research. 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Particularly, for any scholar or student interested in Islamic studies, the book will be a valuable resource for comprehending the Qur'anic exegetical tradition with great nuance and intricacy. Inspired by Barbara Stowasser's work on women and gender, the author insists on two central themes: that hermeneutics has a vital role in the sustainability of Islamic knowledge, and the boundaries of the Tafsir genre continue to be malleable in both the pre-modern or modern period. * Mohammed Salih, Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003eRather than add to the robust scholarly literature on women and gender in the Qur'an, Mubarak (Queens Univ. of Charlotte) begins her exploration of tafsir works by arguing for the significance of the exegetical tradition, past and present, for understanding Muslims' engagements with the Qur'an itself. She identifies a lacuna in feminist Muslim scholarship: for the most part, scholars have dismissed tafsir as patriarchal to rescue the Qur'an from that same charge. Mubarak offers readings of several 20th-century Muslim commentators in conversation with premodern tafsir scholars to argue that their views of women and gender norms are nuanced and provide openings for critiques of patriarchal perspectives as eternal and universal, thereby offering her own commentary on commentary. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eJoining a vigorous and vibrant debate about patriarchy, hierarchy, and interpretive authority in Islamic texts and Muslim thought, Hadia Mubarak's new study offers detailed engagement with the work of prominent twentieth-century male exegetes. Scholars of jurisprudence and ethics have shown that those genres combine hierarchical gendered presuppositions with attention to women's concerns and needs; Mubarak argues that the Sunni tafsir tradition does the same and thereby offers resources to contemporary advocates of egalitarianism * Kecia Ali, author of Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence *\u003cbr\u003eIn Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands, Hadia Mubarak provides a fresh, engaging and major study of the extent to which modern Quranic commentaries, responding to the impact of European colonialism and modernity, resulted in new and diverse orientations (Islamic modernism, Islamism, and neo-traditionalism) in modern interpretations of gender and the status and role of women in the Quran. * John L. Esposito, University Professor and Professor of Islamic Studies, Georgetown University *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a fresh engagement with medieval and modern Qur'an interpretation on questions of gender and women's status. Hadia Mubarak's reassessment of modern tafsīr highlights the pluralism in the genre and shows how the interpreters have used the tradition to put forth their own new interpretations. Significantly, Mubarak raises the possibility that tradition can be used as a locus for modern reform. * Karen Bauer, author of Gender Hierarchy in the Qur'an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is about the intersection of modernity and Sunni exegetical thought...The book can be read from a number of perspectives. On one level it is a response to and an accusation of 'well meaning' Muslim feminists who do not engage with the Tafsir genre and yet are quick to discard it as monolithic, patriarchal, misogynist and bereft of women's voice...It is a call to Muslim feminists not to indulge in disciplinary confusion. If one wants to engage with the Qur'an, then one needs to do so within the methods of the field of Tafsir studies and not superimpose methods from other disciplines. The book is also about the interpretive powers of pre-modern exegetes to have a say in modern issues. * Mansur Ali, Cardiff University, UK, Muslim World Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Chapter 1: Ruptures and Continuities in Modern Islamic Thought  Chapter 2: Modern Approaches to Qur'anic Interpretation  Chapter 3: Reflecting the Colonial Gaze: Women in Modern Qur'anic Exegesis  Chapter 4: Sexually Neglectful Husbands: Classical and Modern Interpretations of Q. 4:128  Chapter 5: Rebellious Wives: Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Q. 4:34  Chapter 6: A New Rationalization for Polygyny: Medieval \u0026amp; Modern Interpretations of Q. 4:3  Chapter 7: Men's \"Degree:\" An Unconditional Privilege?  Conclusion","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732649390423,"sku":"9780197553305","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197553305.jpg?v=1719997797"},{"product_id":"rebuilding-community-9780197642030","title":"Rebuilding Community","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women''s critical role in this rebuilding process and breaks new ground by writing women into modern Ismaili history.Rebuilding Community tells the story of how Ismaili Muslim women who fled East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s recreated religious community (jamat) in North America. Drawing on oral histories, fieldwork, and memory texts, Khoja-Moolji illuminates the placemaking activities through which Ismaili women reproduce bonds of spiritual kinship: from cooking for congregants on feast days and looking after sick coreligionists to engaging in memory work through miracle stories and cookbooks. Khoja-Moolji situates these activities within the framework of ethical norms that more broadly define and sustain the Ismaili sociality. Jamat--and religious community more ge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith this monograph, Khoja Moolji fills a gap in the existing literature and moves the trajectory of her own work in compelling directions. It constitutes appropriate reading for graduate level or advanced undergraduate courses, and selections would enhance syllabi in a range of introductory level courses. The book will, no doubt, garner an enthusiastic audience among Ismailis who see their histories reflected with such care and precision. For all its academic and theoretical value, the most enduring impact may be the service, the seva, that Khoja Moolji performs in capturing so keenly and tenderly an era in Ismaili women's history. * Celene Ibrahim, Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003eA Landmark study. Exploring the lives of Shia Ismaili Muslim women in the North American diaspora, Rebuilding Community illuminates many themes of our day - displacement, flight, migration (sometimes repeatedly from one country to another) followed by the work of recreating home and community in new spaces. Documenting the minutiae of their experience with brilliance and exquisite sensitivity, Khoja-Moolji also compellingly develops a theory of the ethics of care pertinent to any community of faith. * Leila Ahmed, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eIn this brilliantly conceptualized work, Khoja-Moolji argues for how the deeply ingrained ethic of care among migrant Ismaili women illustrates the critical role played by women in creating a vibrant symbolic, imagined, and living community, turning displacement into emplacement. Her careful research destabilizes understandings of migratory and refugee populations as solely victimized and traumatized, pointing instead to how the placemaking practices of such women draw upon shared spiritualities, ritual practices, traumatizing dislocations, and cultural traditions to forge connections across generations and geographical locations. We are drawn into a richly textured world in which mundane activities take on much greater significance when seen as threads in an intergenerational tapestry that tell the stories of loss, relocation, resilience, and regeneration. * Zayn Kassam, John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies, Pomona College *\u003cbr\u003eA pioneering study that sensitively explores the experiences of migrant Ismaili women in North America and the crucial role they have played in community formation through the ethic of care that is so central to their religious and spiritual lives. This compelling book will be of great interest to scholars in many intersecting fields, including religious studies, Islamic studies, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, migration and refugee studies. * Ali S. Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eA book of rare power. Theoretically sophisticated and historically imaginative. The life stories and voices of Muslim women we encounter in this book offer new ways of thinking about and making visible the vital role of feminist ethics of care inside religious communities, and about the enduring power that practices of placemaking by women have in shaping and preserving religious identities. The book is written with an exemplary ethics of care and will itself become a cherished 'place' for honouring and celebrating the remarkable journeys of contemporary Ismaili Muslim communities. * Farouk Mitha, Institute of Ismaili Studies and University of Victoria *\u003cbr\u003eAn insightful scholarly work that provides a rare, nuanced analysis of the experiences of Ismaili Muslim women...here is no doubt that [Khoja-Moolji's] book is a decolonial intervention within anthropology of religion that aims to engage with what is beyond the gaze of the ethnographer. * Shahana Munazir, Anthropology Book Forum *\u003cbr\u003eA powerful reminder of the importance of women to the forging of community. * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003eThe sharp theorisation of sacred spaces (jamatkhanas), the consideration of how care work informs religiosity, the focus on Muslim women's stories and the ethnographic methodology combine to render this book a worthy intervention into the fields of religious and Islamic studies. * Merin Shobhana Xavier, LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eShenila Khoja-Moolji's eloquent and accessible book is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on lived Islam, and is written with special attention to the role of migrant women's ordinary ethical pursuits in cultivating spiritual intimacies in new spaces. Her book makes an especially important contribution to the anthropology of Islam, moving beyond paradigms of ethical self-cultivation to properly account for divine presence in an innovative and creative manner. * Anika Kabani, Journal of Gender, Place and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Translation           Acknowledgments             1. Introduction: Re-Assembling Community        2. Ismaili Women's Lifeworlds, 1890-1970        Interlude: Fleeing, 1971-1972        3. Fostering Sacred Spaces           4. Storying Divine Intervention         5. Culinary Placemaking          6. Placemaking in the Second Generation        7. Conclusion: Spiritual Intimacies           Notes             Bibliography            Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732665512279,"sku":"9780197642030","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197642030.jpg?v=1719997859"},{"product_id":"the-higher-objectives-of-islamic-theology-9780197648636","title":"The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Islamic tradition, fiqh (Islamic law) is generally regarded as the science of furu''al-din (matters complementary to the Islamic faith), as opposed to kalam (Islamic theology) which is known as the science of u?ul al-din (matters primary to the Islamic faith). Over time, however, fiqh has significantly surpassed Kalam in terms of cognitive maturation and epistemic development. In The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology, Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour argues that far too little attention has been paid to parallel developments in Islamic theology. Consequently, the theological project in the Islamic tradition has largely become limited to definitions and deliberations about the nature and qualities of the transcendent God, and has barely developed as a systematic discipline devoted to the higher objectives of Islamic theology, similar to those of Maqa?id al-Shari?a (higher objectives of Islamic law). Addressing this gap and drawing on the full-fledged genre of Maqa?id al-Shari?a, this\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribing this study in lofty terms such as highly original, truly groundbreaking, and pioneering does not do it justice. I found this book to be all this, but also a profoundly perspicacious reflection upon the purpose of the Islamic faith. This book should be read by all students of Islamic studies and comparative religious studies. But it is an especially indispensable source to all readers interested in the future of Islamic ecumenism. * Khaled Abou El Fadl, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law *\u003cbr\u003eAbdelnour ventures into retrieving the purpose of theology in Islamic thought. He draws on early literary genres in a bid to grapple with a more normative, rather than a defensive posture for theology. Bold in his aspiration, this book will spark energetic conversation among various stakeholders in these debates. * Ebrahim Moosa, Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought \u0026amp; Muslim Societies, the University of Notre Dame *\u003cbr\u003eMohammad Gamal Abdelnour has written a book that is both deeply rooted in Islamic intellectual traditions and also thoroughly engaged with vital contemporary debates in theology and philosophy. The book draws on longstanding ideas of the Maqāṣid al-Sharī?a, or the higher purposes of the law, to develop an account of the higher objectives of Islamic theology. This innovative and convincing engagement between jurisprudence and theology offers a creative argument for how Muslims can understand faith, moral action, and religious difference in the contemporary world. Abdelnour is an exciting new voice in the revival of Islamic theology and the book contributes not only to Islamic Studies, but also to comparative theology, philosophical theology, and intellectual history. * Joshua Ralston, Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, University of Edinburgh *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Transliteration and Dating   Introduction  -Important Definitions and Clarifications  -Monograph's Epistemological Paradigm  -Key Arguments  -Structure of the Monograph  -Important Caveats   Chapter I. Historical Roots of Maqasid al-'Aqida -Maqasid al-'Aqida before al-Ghazali  -Al-Ghazali's Contributions to Maqasid al-'Aqida  -Maqasid al-'Aqida after al-Ghazali  -Muhammad 'Abduh's Contributions to Maqasid al-'Aqida -Explaining the Underdevelopment of Maqasid al-'Aqida  Chapter II. Sources and Methods of Maqasid al-'Aqida  -The Qur'an and Maqasid al-'Aqida  -The Sunna and Maqasid al-'Aqida  -Maqasid al-'Aqida between Exotericism and Esotericism   Chapter III: Towards a Theory of Maqasid al-'Aqida  -\"Interrogating\" the Classical \"Theory\" of Maqasid al-Shari'a -\"Generating\" the Higher Objective\/s of Islamic Theology  -Is Islam the Only Valid Path to the Truth?   Chapter IV: \"Integrating\" the \"Tools\" of Maqasid al-Shari'a into Maqasid al-'Aqida  -Definition and Transmission  -Al-Firqa al-Najiya between al-Daruriyyat, al-Hajiyyat, and al-Tahsiniyyat  -Faith vis-à-vis Deeds between al-Daruriyyat, al-Hajiyyat, and al-Tahsiniyyat -Prophet Muhammad between al-Daruriyyat and al-Hajiyyat  Chapter V: Why Does Maqasid al-'Aqida Matter?  -Al-Ghazali's Maqasidi-oriented Approach and Treating the Wahhabi-Shiite Conflict   Conclusions   Way Forward  Bibliography","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732667478359,"sku":"9780197648636","price":76.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197648636.jpg?v=1719997867"},{"product_id":"the-rise-of-critical-islam-10th13th-century-legal-debate-oxford-islamic-legal-studies-series-9780197685006","title":"The Rise of Critical Islam 10th13th Century Legal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a richly narrated historical study, Soufi excavates an Islamic legal culture of critique from the 10th to 13th centuries. 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In 632, soon after the prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. The majority argued that the new leader of Islam should be elected by the community''s elite. Others believed only members of Muhammad''s family could lead. This dispute over who should guide Muslims, the appointed Caliph or the bloodline Imam, marks the origin of the Sunni-Shii split in Islam. Toby Matthiesen explores this hugely significant division from its origins to the present day. Moving chronologically, his book sheds light on the many ways that it has shaped the Islamic world, outlining how over the centuries Sunnism and Shiism became Islams two main branches, particularly after the Muslim Empires embraced sectarian identity. It reveals how colonial rule institutionalised divisions between Sunnism and Shiism both on the Indian subcont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmbitious...undoubtedly an admirable study...an accessible introduction to the historical context that underpins the modern Middle East * Tariq Mir, BBC History Magazine *\u003cbr\u003ea remarkable, ambitious and successful survey of Sunni-Shii relations that will be the definitive single-volume study of the subject for years to come. * Eamonn Gearon, Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eclearly written, nuanced and meticulously documented * Malise Ruthven, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003ea truly ambitious book in its historical and geographic scope...This book should be read by any expert who deals in the Middle East * Francis Ghiles, Esglobal *\u003cbr\u003eA useful correction to religious pigeonholes about Muslims, and to the easy-going prejudice that sectarian differences can never make things right with the Islamic world. * Michiel Leezenberg, NRC Handelsblad *\u003cbr\u003eMatthiesen's masterful survey of Sunni-Shiite relations in history is firmly grounded in the primary sources and ranges more widely geographically than is common in other works on the subject, including South Asia. The author avoids the glib truisms that have come to dominate discussion of this subject, while giving us thought-provoking, contextual insights into one of the key flash points within Islamic civilization. * Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History and Director, Program in Arab and Muslim American Studies, University of Michigan *\u003cbr\u003eAmbitious in its historical as well as geographical scope, this is the first truly global account of the intimate and sometimes also violent relationship of Sunni and Shia in the making and remaking of Islam. * Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: From Karbala to Damascus PART I THE FORMATION OF SUNNISM AND SHIISM, 632-1500 Chapter 1 After the Prophet Chapter 2 Sunni Reassertion and the Crusades Chapter 3 Polemics and Confessional Ambiguity PART II THE SHAPING OF MUSLIM EMPIRES, 1500-1800 Chapter 4 The Age of Confessionalisation Chapter 5 Muslim Dynasties on the Indian Subcontinent Chapter 6 Reform and Reinvention in the 18th Century PART III EMPIRE AND THE STATE, 1800-1979 Chapter 7 British India and Orientalism Chapter 8 Ottoman Reorganisation and European Intervention Chapter 9 The Mandates Chapter 10 The Muslim Response PART IV REVOLUTION AND RIVALRY, 1979- Chapter 11 The Religion of Martyrdom Chapter 12 Export and Containment of Revolution Chapter 13 Regime Change Chapter 14 The Arab Uprisings Conclusion: Every Place is Karbala BIBLIOGRAPHY ENDNOTES","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732790686039,"sku":"9780198806554","price":22.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198806554.jpg?v=1719998413"},{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-islamic-theology-9780198816607","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been achieved over the past decades with respect both to discoveries of new materials and to scholarly approaches to the field. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field. It provides a variegated picture of the state of the art and at the same time suggests new directions for future research. Part One covers the various strands of Islamic theology during the formative and early middle periods, rational as well as scripturalist. To demonstrate the continuous interaction among the various theological strands and its repercussions (during the formative and early middle period and beyond), Part Two offers a number of case studies. These focus on specific theological issues that have developed through the dilemmatic and often polemical interactions between the different theological schools and thinkers. Part Three covers Islamic theology during the later middle and early modern periods. One of the characteristics of this period is the growing amalgamation of theology with philosophy (Peripatetic and Illuminationist) and mysticism. Part Four addresses the impact of political and social developments on theology through a number of case studies: the famous mi?na instituted by al-Ma''mun (r. 189\/813-218\/833) as well as the mihna to which Ibn ''Aqil (d. 769\/1367) was subjected; the religious policy of the Almohads; as well as the shifting interpretations throughout history (particularly during Mamluk and Ottoman times) of the relation between Ash''arism and Maturidism that were often motivated by political motives. Part Five considers Islamic theological thought from the end of the early modern and during the modern period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of forty-one innovative articles, the volume widens the scope of scholarship to include geographical areas and theological topics that have remained explored... the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology is a go-to place for the latest scholarship on Islamic theologies that flourished in diverse Islamic lands, and for lucid expositions of a number of philosophical and theological difficulties that the mutakallimun sought to resolve. * Tariq Jaffer, Department of Religion, Amherst College *\u003cbr\u003eGiven its scope and the uniformly high quality of the essays, this volume will be an excellent resource\/textbook for those interested in Islamic theology and philosophy. Summing up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology is an impressive encyclopaedic work, accessible and yet comprehensive, on the latest and most authoritative research on Islamic theology. This is the place to start for any student or early researcher in Islamic theology, and certainly a work that I highly recommend. * Abdessamad Belhaj, MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSabine Schmidkte: Introduction Part I: Islamic Theolog(ies) during the formative and the Early Middle Period 1: Alexander Treiger: Origins of Kal=am 2: Steven Judd: The Early Qadariyya 3: Cornelia Schöck: Jahm b. .Safw=an (d. 128\/745-46) and the \"Jahmiyya\" and  .Dir=ar b. 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It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching.  Recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, it has nevertheless remained difficult to understand in its English translations.  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