Routledge Islamic Studies Series
About the Book Series
This broad ranging series includes books on Islamic issues from all parts of the globe and is not simply confined to the Middle East.
Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Göran Larsson
February 27, 2013
Although Muslims are now an important presence in Europe, little is known about the Muslim communities that exist in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe. This is the first comprehensive and detailed study of the history, context and development of Islamic institutions and Muslim groups in ...
Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and dissemination in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Martin van Bruinessen, Stefano Allievi
September 10, 2012
How do Muslims in Europe acquire discursive and practical knowledge of Islam? How are conceptions of Islamic beliefs, values and practices transmitted and how do they change? Who are the authorities on these issues that Muslims listen to? How do new Muslim discourses emerge in response to the ...
Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt: Contesting the Nation
1st Edition
By Anthony Gorman
August 10, 2010
This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the academic historian, the university system, the state and non-academic scholarship and the tension between them in contesting the modern history of...
Interest in Islamic Economics: Understanding Riba
1st Edition
By Abdulkader Thomas
July 06, 2010
With Islamic banking gradually becoming a more influential factor in the West, an analysis of the concept of riba – a definition of which is not given in the Qur’an – is long overdue. This text presents readers with various interpretations of this Islamic economic concept – generally perceived as ‘...
Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations: Modern Egyptian Thinkers on al-damir
1st Edition
By Oddbjørn Leirvik
June 07, 2010
Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations puts forward a discussion of how the notion of conscience may unite Muslim and Christians across religious divides, as well as examining the relation between selfhood and otherness in interfaith dialogue. The author explores how the notion ...
The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814: Army and Government of a North-African Eyâlet at the End of the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Asma Moalla
June 01, 2010
This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the pasha-bey Hammûda the Husaynid (1777--1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these institutions and the political and administrative impact of the jurisdictional authority of the Ottoman Porte on the province in general. This...
Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence
1st Edition
By Mohammed Ghaly
February 05, 2010
This book explores the position of Islamic theology and jurisprudence towards people with disabilities. It investigates how early and modern Muslim scholars tried to reconcile their existence with the concept of a merciful God, and also looks at how people with disabilities might live a dignified ...
Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Haideh Moghissi
June 09, 2009
Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country. The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is ...
The Alevis in Turkey: The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition
1st Edition
By David Shankland
August 12, 2007
This is the only volume dedicated to the Alevis available in English and based on sustained fieldwork in Turkey. The Alevis now have an increasingly high profile for those interested in the diverse cultures of contemporary Turkey, and in the role of Islam in the modern world. As a heterodox Islamic...
Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics
1st Edition
By S.M. Ghazanfar
July 30, 2007
This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who include St. Thomas Aquinas. This period of time was labelled by Joseph Schumpeter as representing the '...
The New Politics of Islam: Pan-Islamic Foreign Policy in a World of States
1st Edition
By Naveed S. Sheikh
May 16, 2007
This is a timely study of the international relations of Islamic states, dealing both with the evolving theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times and the foreign-policy practice of contemporary states, especially Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, from the colonial period to the ...
The Small Players of the Great Game: The Settlement of Iran's Eastern Borderlands and the Creation of Afghanistan
1st Edition
By Dr Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh
May 16, 2007
This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian empire. The Great Game itself has been written about extensively, but never from a Persian angle and from the point of view of the local ...