Religion, Armed Conflict and the Quest for “Secular”: Mapping Martyrdom in Kashmir

Religion is bivalent. It can be argued that religion is an instrument of peace and equivocally the role of religion in...

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Post-Orientalism and Geopolitics: Three Debates that Inform Islam and U.S. Foreign Policy

This article argues that a post-orientalist discourse has emerged over the past few decades to challenge the dominance of...

Friday, July 3, 2020

Al-Quds: History, Religion, and Politics

Al-Quds: History, Religion, and Politics makes a great contribution to understanding the latest conflicts in the region by...

Friday, December 17, 2021

Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

The edited book presents multiple perspectives and a coherent research agenda characterized by an interdisciplinary...

Friday, December 17, 2021

Japan’s Relations with Muslim Asia

The book is an attempt to add a new and fresh perspective to the existing literature. Its diverse, multi-language...

Monday, June 21, 2021

The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned

In a philosophy-themed book series pandering to a general audience and including pop cultural phenomena ranging from Harry...

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Imposing Particular Identities: The Balkans as a Meeting Place of Ethnicities and Religions

Since Balkan ethnicities are primarily organized along locally-practiced religious lines, regional monotheistic religions...

Monday, April 30, 2018

Can Islam and Modernity be Reconciled?

Is Islam particularly inimical to modernity, and the two are never to be reconciled? Many westerners and Muslims alike...

Wednesday, July 1, 2009