Knight joins the emerging subfield of literature in Islamic Studies exploring embodiment and materiality as concepts for making sense of the spatial and temporal developments of Muslim subjectivities....

Ibn Taymiyya is one of the most prolific and influential Islamic thinkers to date, and was even the only pre-modern Muslim author cited in the 9/11 Report...

Tolan offers a fascinating and rich survey of the complex perceptions of Muhammad as understood by Christian Europeans..,

Haque deconstructs liberal accounts of secularism through an examination of the work of authors and artists from ethnic and religious minorities...

Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought...

Malcolm tells the story of Western European fascination with the Ottoman empire and Islam between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the latter half of the 18th century...

Drawing from the experiences of diasporic South Asian Muslim community in America, namely Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and Indians, Shams introduces an innovative conceptual notion of “elsewhere” which informs her new multicentered approach to the study of globalized immigrant identities...

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...

Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...

In the early 20th-century Muslims, primarily with roots in Lebanon, began to settle in Canada’s interior plains...

Is it possible to interpret the Qur’an using the Qur’an alone? Is a feminist interpretation of controversial verses such as 4:34, the notorious “wife-beating” verse, possible?

Evans offers a sustained and compelling critique of the doubt/belief binary in the anthropology of religion and Islam,..

Gillum examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims’ attitudes on a range of relevant issues...

This book captures these complex varieties of Sufism in America...

Daneshgar invites his readers on a journey exploring how the Muslim academy—that is, academic institutions in the Muslim-majority world—teaches Islamic Studies, with an emphasis on the Qur’an...

Who are the Uyghurs? Sean Roberts explains...

Fraser-Rahim explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context...

For many, the history of the Mughal empire looms heavy over contemporary South Asian social imaginaries. The lightning rod figure within modern day myths about the past is the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707)...

Nair offers intellectually daring and dazzlingly imaginative study of scholarly interactions, made visible through translation, between Sanskrit and Arabo-Persian philosophical traditions in premodern South Asia...

Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, “the main man who translated jihad into English.”

Wright maps the intellectual history of the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa, the Tijaniyya...

Why did the modern economy emerge in northwestern Europe at some point in the 17th or 18th century but not in the Middle East?

Atwill questions the popular portrayals of Tibet as isolated, ethnically homogenous, and monolithically Buddhist...

The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...

Freitag offers a rich urban and biographical history of Jeddah...