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The Gate of Mercy as a Contested Monument: Jerusalem’s Sealed Gate as a Muslim Site of Memory Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah
English-language guides to the city of Jerusalem often describe the Golden Gate or Gate of Mercy (Bāb al-Raḥma) as sealed by the Muslims to prevent the return of the Messiah. This narrative, inherited from British colonial-era sources, has no basis in Islamic history or theology. A review of Umayyad, ʿAbbasid, and Fāṭimid-era traditions instead reveals that the Gate of Mercy was a site where Muslims
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The blessed tree in the Works of Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141) Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Sam Jaffe, Yousef Casewit
In his commentary on the Light Verse (Q. 24:35), the Andalusian mystic and Qurʾān exegete Abū al-Ḥakam Ibn Barrajān (d. 1141) presents the blessed tree (al-shajara al-mubāraka) not simply as a terrestrial olive tree in Syria or even as a mystical allegory, but as the ultimate locus of divine disclosure and the highest metaphysical entity in the cosmos that subsumes the world of creation. This article
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A Sufi Conception of Order: Ibn ʿArabī’s Discourse on Governance Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Doha Tazi Hemida
This article outlines, through a reading of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī’s Tadbīrāt al-ilāhiyya fī iṣlāḥ al-mamlaka al-insāniyya (Divine governance in the improvement of the kingdom of the self), a Sufi conception of order that encompasses a discourse on political governance and cuts across the realms of the cosmos, the self, and the polity. It explores the isomorphic relation and mutual ‘folding’ linking
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Following the Steps of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ in the Ottoman World. I: Insights From Three Universal Histories Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz, Godefroid de Callataÿ
This article is a first step in a project to study the influence of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ in the Ottoman world. We argue that, at least from the end of the fourteenth century until well into the second half of the sixteenth, the knowledge presented in the encyclopedic Rasāʾil was a conspicuous scholarly source for the Ottoman cultural milieu, especially at the dynastic court, and played a significant
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Muslim Saints Contested: Ibn Taymiyya’s Critique of Al-Qushayrī’s Risāla Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Kamal Gasimov
This article analyses Ibn Taymiyya’s neglected commentary on ʿAbū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī ’s Epistle on Sufism (al-Risāla al-Qushayriyya fī ʿilm al-taṣawwuf), in which he wages several intellectual battles simultaneously: with Ashʿarī theologians of earlier centuries, such as al-Qushayrī himself; with his Ashʿarī contemporaries like Ibn Jahbal al-Kilābī; and with advocates in Damascus and Cairo of Ibn
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ʿAbd al-Mājid Daryābādī and reforming institutional Sufism in Colonial India Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Ali Altaf Mian
This article examines the reformation of the Sufi tradition in the writings of the Urdu journalist and Qurʾān translator and exegete ʿAbd al-Mājid Daryābādī (1892–1977), especially as articulated in relation to his spiritual connection with the colonial-era Sufi master and Ḥanafī jurist Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī (1863–1943). Daryābādī’s balanced, pragmatic approach to the meaning and practice of
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Innovation in Premodern Islam: Between Non-Religion, Irreligion and the Secular Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Abdul Rahman Mustafa
Premodern Muslim juristic discussions on religious innovation (bidʿa) frequently invoke a distinction between religion and its other: the irreligious and/or non-religious secular. This demarcation disrupts accounts of the unavailability of the secular beyond the precincts of the modern West, even as the imperfect translation of premodern Islamic non-religion as secular discloses the ethnocentric provincialism
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‘Faith in God and the last day’ in Ghazālī: What Faith for What People? Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Adrien Leites
Abstract This article considers the use of the traditional phrase ‘faith in God and the last day’ in five shorter works of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī. It looks into Ghazālī’s understanding of the ‘minimal faith’ specified by this phrase, and makes three main points. Ghazālī regards minimal faith as having a synthetic object, which may be called ‘a retributory God’ or simply ‘otherworldly retribution’. Minimal
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Ashʿarism Encounters Avicennism: Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on Creation By Laura Hassan Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Edward Moad
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Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims By Mirjam Lücking Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Chris Chaplin
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Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy By Usaama al- Azami Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Nathan J Brown
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Spiritual Training across the Sahara: Debating the Need for the Living Sufi Master in the Tijāniyya Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Zachary Wright
The Tijaniyya has witnessed a lively debate concerning the classic Sufi requirement of a living guide to give spiritual training (tarbiya) to aspirants. Prominent Tijani scholars across the Sahara—modern-day Morocco, Mauritania, and Senegal—have apparently staked different positions on this issue from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The discourse has acquired added significance since the
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A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries By Ulrike Freitag Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Sebastian R Prange
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Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making By Rachel M. Scott Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Oliver Scharbrodt
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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present By Adeeb Khalid Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Allen J Frank
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What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia By Ismail Fajrie Alatas Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Robert W Hefner
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Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts Edited by Ousmane Oumar Kane Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Mauro Nobili
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The Maghrib in the Mashriq: Knowledge, Travel and Identity Edited by Maribel Fierro and Mayte Penelas Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Javier Albarrán
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Ummah: A New Paradigm for a Global World. By Katrin A. Jomaa Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Paul L Heck
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American and Muslim Worlds before 1900. Edited by John Ghazvinian and Arthur Mitchell Fraas Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Nabil Matar
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Light upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering. By Jamal J. Elias and Bilal Orfali Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Amin W.
Light upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering By EliasJamal J and OrfaliBilal (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2020. Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts, 164), xxvii + 459 pp. Price HB $144. EAN 978–9004409941.
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Defending Muḥammad in Modernity By SherAli Tareen Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Ingram B.
Defending Muḥammad in ModernityBy TareenSherAli (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), xxiv + 482 pp. Price PB $35.00. EAN 978–0268106706.
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Sufism and the Scriptures: Metaphysics and Sacred History in the Thought of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī. By Fitzroy Morrissey Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Todd R.
Sufism and the Scriptures: Metaphysics and Sacred History in the Thought of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī By MorrisseyFitzroy (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic [I.B. Tauris], 2021), xi + 244 pp. Price HB $115.00. EAN 978–0755618316.
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Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith: Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa. By Mauro Nobili Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Coates O.
Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith: Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa By NobiliMauro (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. African Studies Series, 148), xix + 262 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1108804295.
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Salafism Goes Global: From the Gulf to the French Banlieues. By Mohamed-Ali Adraoui Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Anzalone C.
Salafism Goes Global: From the Gulf to the French BanlieuesBy AdraouiMohamed-Ali (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), xliv + 204 pp. Price HB $41.95. EAN 978-0190062460.
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Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years. By Garrett A. Davidson Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Eido I.
Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand YearsBy DavidsonGarrett A. (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2020. Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts, 160), xii + 333 pp. Price HB €121.00. EAN 978–9004386914.
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Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900 By Kevin L. Schwartz Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Hodgkin S.
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900 By SchwartzKevin L. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World), xii + 233 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1474450843.
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Islam and Muslims in Australia: Settlement, Integration, Shariah, Education and Terrorism. By Jan A. Ali Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Kfir I.
Islam and Muslims in Australia: Settlement, Integration, Shariah, Education and Terrorism By AliJan A. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2020), xii + 240 pp. Price PB $44.99. EAN 978–0522877076.
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Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History of Architecture By R. D. McChesney Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-01-29 McClary R.
Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History of Architecture By McChesneyR. D. (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2021. Studies in Persian Cultural History, 18), xix + 454 pp. Price HB €63.00. EAN 978–9004459588.
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Persian Historiography across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals By Sholeh A. Quinn Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-01-29 Daniel E.
Persian Historiography across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals By QuinnSholeh A. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), x + 252 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1108842211.
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A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa. By M’hamed Oualdi Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Hathaway J.
A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa By OualdiM’hamed (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020), xiii + 230 pp. Price HB £54.00. EAN 978–0231191869.
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Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge. By Usha Sanyal Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Vatuk S.
Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge By SanyalUsha (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020), xiv + 394 pp. Price HB $65.00. EAN 978–0190120801.
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Muslim–Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran. By Alberto Tiburcio Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Grehan J.
Muslim–Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran By TiburcioAlberto (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World), vii + 223 pp. Price HB £80.00. EAN 978–1474440462.
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Books Received Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Jones E.
Some of the books listed here may be reviewed in a subsequent issue.
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Arabic Historical Literature from Ghadāmis and Mali: Documents from the 18th to 20th Century. By Harry T. Norris with Abdaljabbar A. Assaghir Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Sanni A.
Arabic Historical Literature from Ghadāmis and Mali: Documents from the 18th to 20th Century By NorrisHarry T with AssaghirAbdaljabbar A (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2020. Islam in Africa, 22), viii + 283 pp. Price HB €110.00. EAN 978–9004306448.
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Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East: A Historical Perspective By Daniella Talmon-Heller Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Held P.
Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East: A Historical PerspectiveBy Talmon-HellerDaniella (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 288 pp. Price HB £80.00. EAN 978–1474460965.
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The Ṣiffīn Arbitration Agreement and Statecraft in Early Islamic Political Documents Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Ibrahim Zein, Ahmed El-Wakil
In this article we study the different recensions of the Ṣiffīn Arbitration Agreement and classify them into six different versions. Despite the differences in length and language among them, we note that these can be traced to a source document. We then highlight the key features and terminology found in the different versions of the Ṣiffīn Arbitration Agreement and observe the striking parallels
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The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. By Joas Wagemakers Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Amjed Rasheed
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The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi. By Abhishek Kaicker Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Margrit Pernau
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Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence. By Samy A. Ayoub Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 James E Baldwin
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England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857. By Humberto Garcia Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Michael H Fisher
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A ‘Sufi’ epistle on spiritual poverty, and its authors: authenticity, authority, and genre in textual reproduction Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Aydogan Kars
A range of widely copied Arabic works on asceticism and spiritual poverty attributed to prominent Muslim scholars, Najm al-Dīn al-Kubrā, ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī, Yaḥyā al-Suhrawardī, Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, and Aḥmad Zarrūq, are either identical, or contain significant overlaps. This paper analyses the content and reception of this work, and the 36 manuscripts of it available, in order to clarify the issues
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Islam and Asia: A History, By Chiara Formichi Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Robinson F.
Islam and Asia: A History By FormichiChiara (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. New Approaches to Asian History), xxvi + 322 pp. Price PB £22.99. EAN 978–1107513976.
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Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj By Michael Christopher Low Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Freitag U.
Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj By LowMichael Christopher (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Columbia Studies in International and Global History), xx + 392 pp. Price PB £30.00. EAN 978–0231190770.
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Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition By Kevin Reinhart Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Talib M.
Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan TraditionBy ReinhartKevin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), xv + 189 pp. Price PB £21.99. EAN 978–1108704007.
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Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550–1917 Edited by Paolo Sartori and Danielle Ross Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Weller R.
Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550–1917Edited by SartoriPaolo and RossDanielle (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), ix + 373 pp. Price HB £90.00. EAN 978–1474444293.
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Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution By Ian Coller Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-10-04 Matar N.
Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French RevolutionBy CollerIan (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2020), viii + 349 pp. Price HB $50.00. EAN 978–0300243369.
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Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Haroon S.
Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and BeyondEdited by EwingKatherine Pratt and CorbettRosemary R (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Religion, Culture and Public Life), xii + 344 pp. Price PB £30.00. EAN 978–0231195751.
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From kolkHoz to pulpit: Rashida abïstay and female religious authority in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-20 Rozaliya Garipova
This article focuses on the life and activities of Rashida Iskhaki, an ordinary Soviet woman from a kolkhoz near Kazan who became one of the most authoritative religious figures in Soviet and post-Soviet Tatarstan. Her path-breaking career demonstrates the development of the institution of female religious authority, abïstay, in post-WWII Russia and under the anti-religious Soviet regime. While the
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Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire, By Lâle Can Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Tuna M.
Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire By CanLâle (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020), xiv + 257 pp. Price PB £20.99. EAN 978–1503611160.
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The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History, Edited by Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Jackson C.
The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History Edited by CanbySheila R, BeyazitDeniz, RugiadiMartina (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art), xvii + 309 pp. Price HB £95.00. EAN 978–1474450348.
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Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals Edited by Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack and Francesca Fiaschetti Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Lane G.
Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and IntellectualsEdited by BiranMichal, BrackJonathan, FiaschettiFrancesca ( Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020), xv + 335 pp. Price PB £25.00. EAN 978–0520298750.
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Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World By Zachary Valentine Wright Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Vikør K.
Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim WorldBy Valentine WrightZachary (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks), xiv + 310 pp. Price PB $29.95. EAN 978–1469660820.
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The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad By Thomas Hegghammer Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Joffé E.
The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global JihadBy HegghammerThomas (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), xxiv + 695 pp. Price HB £24.99. EAN 978–0521765954.
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Translating Wisdom: Hindu–Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia By Shankar Nair Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Venkatkrishnan A.
Translating Wisdom: Hindu–Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South AsiaBy NairShankar (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020), xiv + 259 pp. Price PB £29.00. EAN 978–0520345683.
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Frontiers into Borders: Defining South Asian States, 1757–1857, By Ainslie T. Embree and edited by Mark Juergensmeyer Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Lawrence B.
Frontiers into Borders: Defining South Asian States, 1757–1857By EmbreeAinslie T. and edited by JuergensmeyerMark (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020), xii + 198 pp. Price HB £33.99. EAN 978–0190121068.
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Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda, By Peter Hill Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Kilpatrick H.
Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda By HillPeter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), x +308 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1108491662.
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Collective Liability in Islam: The ʿĀqila and Blood Money Payments By Nurit Tsafrir Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-08-30 Rapoport Y.
Collective Liability in Islam: The ʿĀqila and Blood Money PaymentsBy TsafrirNurit (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization), xviii + 167 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1108498647.
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BOOKS RECEIVEDSome of the books listed here may be reviewed in a subsequent issue.* Journal of Islamic Studies (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-08-14
The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam beyond Borders. By Bruce B. Lawrence, edited by Ali Altaf Mian (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). xiv + 465 pp. Price PB £24.99. EAN 978–1478011293.