Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
About the Book Series
This series studies the Middle East through the twin foci of its diverse cultures and civilizations. Comprising original monographs as well as scholarly surveys, it covers topics in the fields of Middle Eastern literature, archaeology, law, history, philosophy, science, folklore, art, architecture and language. While there is a plurality of views, the series presents serious scholarship in a lucid and stimulating fashion.
Ibn al-Haytham: The Emergence of Scientific Modernity
1st Edition
By Roshdi Rashed
July 31, 2026
Ibn al-Haytham: The Emergence of Scientific Modernity offers the first comprehensive monograph on one of the most brilliant figures of the medieval intellectual world. Spanning his groundbreaking contributions in mathematics, optics, astronomy, and natural philosophy, this book portrays Ibn ...
Three Empires and Persian Historiography: The Thought of Muṣliḥ al-dīn Lārī
1st Edition
By Nilab Saeedi
December 29, 2025
Three Empires and Persian Historiography: The Thought of Muṣliḥ al-dīn Lārī uncovers the underexplored historical vision of a sixteenth-century scholar whose work spanned the Safavid, Timurid, and Ottoman worlds.Centering on Lārī’s universal chronicle [Mir’atu’l-Advār wa Mirḳātu’l-Aḫbār], The ...
Eighteenth-Century Conservatism in Christianity and Islam: The Reverend and the Shaykh
1st Edition
By Ralph A. Leo
September 29, 2025
This book examines the world of religious conservatism in Christianity and Islam through a comparison of two eighteenth-century traditionalist icons, Jonathan Edwards and Muḥammad Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb. Spanning the globe from America to Arabia, this book explores the major themes in the lives and ...
Abū al-Qāsim al-Shābbī’s Arab Poetic Imagination: A Critical Evaluation and Translation
1st Edition
By Ronak Husni
December 30, 2024
This timely book critically evaluates the life, work and milieu of the Tunisian poet, Abū al-Qāsim al-Shābbī (1909-1934), providing translations and detailed commentaries around his seminal work “al-Khayāl al-ShiꜤrī ʿinda al-ʿArab” (“Arabic Poetic Imagination"). The volume delves into the profound ...
Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya: Translation and Analysis
1st Edition
By Jaan S. Islam, Adem Eryiğit
January 29, 2024
"Proto-Salafist" 14th-century theologian Ibn Taymiyya is recognized as the intellectual forefather of contemporary Salafism and Jihadism. This volume offers a unique approach to the study of Ibn Taymiyya, by offering an English translation of his fundamental political treatise, The Office of ...
Christian–Muslim Relations in Syria: Historic and Contemporary Religious Dynamics in a Changing Context
1st Edition
By Andrew W. H. Ashdown
January 09, 2023
Offering an authoritative study of the plural religious landscape in modern Syria and of the diverse Christian and Muslim communities that have cohabited the country for centuries, this volume considers a wide range of cultural, religious and political issues that have impacted the interreligious ...
Bedouin and ‘Abbāsid Cultural Identities: The Arabic Majnūn Laylā Story
1st Edition
By Ruqayya Yasmine Khan
June 30, 2021
This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of "the ideological work" that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for ‘Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the "Bedouin cosmos." The study focuses upon the processes of ...
The Early Muslim Conquest of Syria: An English Translation of al-Azdī’s Futūḥ al-Shām
1st Edition
Edited
By Hamada Hassanein
June 30, 2021
This book narrates the battles, conquests and diplomatic activities of the early Muslim fighters in Syria and Iraq vis-à-vis their Byzantine and Sasansian counterparts. It is the first English translation of one of the earliest Arabic sources on the early Muslim expansion entitled Futūḥ al-Shām (...
Text Linguistics of Qur'anic Discourse: An Analysis
1st Edition
By Hussein Abdul-Raof
December 18, 2020
Text Linguistics of Qur'anic Discourse is an in-depth investigation of the fabric of Qur'anic Discourse. It unravels the texture of the macro Qur'anic text; its cohesion and coherence systems; the notions of intertextuality, semantic relatedness, and thematic sequentiality; the macro textual ...
Angels in Islam: Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's al-Haba'ik fi akhbar al-mala'ik
1st Edition
By Stephen Burge
December 12, 2019
Angels are a basic tenet of belief in Islam, appearing in various types and genres of text, from eschatology to law and theology to devotional material. This book presents the first comprehensive study of angels in Islam, through an analysis of a collection of traditions (hadīth) compiled by the ...
Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus
1st Edition
By Shari Lowin
December 12, 2019
Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in al-Andalus investigates a largely overlooked subset of Muslim and Jewish love poetry in medieval Spain: hetero- and homo-erotic love poems written by Muslim and Jewish religious scholars, in which the lover and his sensual experience of the beloved are compared to ...
Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative: Memory and Identity Construction in Islamic Historiography, 750�1050
1st Edition
By Scott Savran
December 12, 2019
Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative analyzes how early Muslim historians merged the pre-Islamic histories of the Arab and Iranian peoples into a didactic narrative culminating with the Arab conquest of Iran. This book provides an in-depth examination of Islamic historical accounts...