As one of the major components of the Islamic state, Islamic law has drawn considerable attention from different scholars both in the East and...

In this book, Erdağ Göknar, the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk’s novel, My Name Is Red, has set himself the task of explaining why Pamuk’s...

The demise of empires left a powerful and perplexing legacy for successor states in the Middle East and Central Asia. Sally Cummings and Raymond...

A decade after 9/11, the Arab revolts gave a second impetus to scholarly interest in the Middle East. A plethora of books and other academic and...

In her comparative study, Ghoncheh Tazmini investigates the Russian revolution of 1917 and the 1979 Iranian revolution to identify patterns of...

In her comparative study, Ghoncheh Tazmini investigates the Russian revolution of 1917 and the 1979 Iranian revolution to identify patterns of...

While dynasties rose and fell in the geographical area now called “China,” in this book Yuri Pines treats the Chinese empire since the Qin dynasty...

In the last decade, the world has witnessed an unprecedented development of many countries. The speed of this process has not only caused surprise...

Recent scholarship in the sociology of religion has produced fresh perspectives on the understanding of religion and its inter-relationships with...

Near the end of this interesting book, the author characterizes his final chapter as “a series of interpretive judgments about the venture of Islam...

Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies brings together the two recently much discussed concepts in its title and explores them through a...

There is a strong tendency among public commentators and many scholars to view nationalism as a phenomenon of yesteryears. Hence the 19th and...

David Burrell’s Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology explores key theological topics of the three Abrahamic faiths, insightfully depicting...

Ethnic and religious minorities – and concomitant majorities – do not just exist sui generis. They have to be constructed or invented. It is not...

This little memoir, first published in Italian in 1987, is an account of a life well lived. A proud Sephardi Jew, Victor Eskenazi (1906-1987) was...

Beyond Turkey's Borders is based on Banu Şenay’s PhD dissertation, which is an ethnographic study of Kemalism among migrant Turks in Australia....

Shivdeep grewal has written this excellent research-turned-into-a book on Jurgen Habermas, one of the most important philosophers of our time. He...

The continuities, changes, ruptures, and transformation of Egyptian foreign policy have been analyzed from different angles. The changes in...

The subtitle of this one-volume overview of Jewish history presents its main focus as the notion of diaspora, but its twenty-eight chapters are...

THE CONTINUED and growing presence of Islam and Muslims in the West has produced a plethora of conflicting literature and debates around...

The United States supposedly is premised on “separation of church and state,” which means the American government should be neutral regarding...

When Britain was more permeated by Christianity than it is today, well-meaning vicars would run youth clubs offering table tennis along with church...

THE NAQSHBANDIYYA is perhaps one of the widest-spread Islamic religious brotherhoods due to its active involvement in political affairs. Its...

THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) faced a stalemate of institutional reform between the signing of the Treaty of Nice in 2001 and the Treaty of Lisbon in...