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...

Gabbay shows that contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history of Muslims' recognition of bilateral descent...

Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?

Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...

Iraj Bashiri provides an overview of the Civil War in Tajikistan that emerged amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union...

Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...

An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa...

Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...

Smith’s book centers intimacy in the consideration of geopolitics which is otherwise only seen as a game between nation states...

Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries...

Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...

Modest fashion is a growing, global multi-billion-dollar market...

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

Fogg analyzes the religious aspirations that motivated many Muslim revolutionaries to fight the return of Dutch after the Second World War and envision a new nation-state...

Siddiqi offers a forceful meditation on a number of key issues around the social contract, citizenship, and state provisions such as disaster relief and social protection...