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The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

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Elias Muhanna Paperback 9780691191454   Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest e...

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Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam

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Yohanan FriedmannHardback, 268 pages9780861543113   Expectation of a redeemer is a widespread phenomenon across many civilizations. Classical Islam...

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Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia

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Clifford Geertz Paperback, 144 pages 9780226285115   "In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay...

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Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East: A Historical Perspective

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Daniella Talmon-Heller Paperback, 288 pages 9781474460972   Explores the construction of sanctity and its manifestations in the medieval Muslim Mid...

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The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction

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Christopher Tyerman Paperback, 184 pages  9780192806550   Contents 1. Definition and Scope 2. Sources and Perspectives 3. Holy War 4. Holy lands 5....

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Our Legends: Luminaries Who Revived Islam

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Abdul Wahab Waheed and Mustafa Rasheed Paperback 9781847741547   Every now and then some great people have come along to protect and revive Islam. ...

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Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today

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John Tolan Hardcover, 328 pages 9780691167060   In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But th...

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The Muslim 100

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Muhammad Mojlum Khan Paperback 2021 Revised Edition 9781847741769   The Muslim 100 provides a highly readable, fascinating and equally inclusive ex...

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A History of Islamic Societies

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Ira M. Lapidus Paperback, 1018 pages Third Edition 9780521732970   This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civiliza...

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A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam

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Thomas Bauer Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall (translation) Paperback, 336 pages 9780231170659   In the Western imagination, Islamic cultur...

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Islam and the European Empires

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David Motadel (editor) Paperback, 328 pages 9780198754343   At the height of the imperial age, European powers ruled over most parts of the Islamic...

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The Abbasid Caliphate: A History

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Tayeb El-Hibri Paperback, 360 pages 9781316634394   The period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258) has long been recognized as the formative period...

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Ahmad ibn Tulun: Governor of Abbasid Egypt

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Matthew S. Gordon Hardback, 176 pages 9781851688098   Makers of the Muslim World   Ahmad ibn Tulun (835-884) governed Egypt on behalf of the Abbasi...

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Longing for the Lost Caliphate

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Mona Hassan Paperback 9780691183374   A Transregional History   This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims around the worl...

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Islamic Societies to the 19th Century: A Global History

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Ira M. Lapidus Paperback, 788 pages 9780521732987   This book, based on fully revised and updated parts one and two of this monumental work,describ...

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Mutual Othering: Islam, Modernity, and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Pre-Colonial Moroccan and European Travel Writing

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Ahmed Idrissi Alami Paperback, 272 pages 9781438447346   Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the ...

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The Islamic Civilization

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Mustafa Siba’i Paperback 9780953758265   For a thousand years the Islamic civilization was the central light whose rays illuminated the world. It w...

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A Journey Through Islamic History: A Timeline of Key Events

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Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg, Yasminah Hashim Hardback 9781847740281   Contents The Prophet Muhammad - 570-632 CE/ 54BH-11AH   The Rightly-Guided Cali...

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Twelver Shiism: Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam

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Andrew J. Newman Paperback 9780748633319   Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam, 632 to 1722   Charts the history and development of one of the...

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Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades

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Usamah ibn Munqidh Paperback 9780140455137   A significant contribution to the understanding of the medieval holy wars between Christians and Musli...

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Slavery and Islam (PB)

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Jonathan A.C. Brown Paperback 9781786078391   What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong?Every major religion a...

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Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization PB

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Justin Marozzi Paperback 9780141981093   Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capital...

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Islam and the Abolition of Slavery

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William Clarence-Smith Paperback 9781787383388   In this important book, Clarence-Smith provides the first general survey of the Islamic debate on ...

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Muhammad's Heirs: The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622-950 PB

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Jonathan E. Brockopp Paperback 9781107514379

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