In Shur?t Legends, Ib??? Identities, Adam Gaiser explores the origins and early development of Islamic notions of martyrdom and of martyrdom literature. He examines the catalogs or lists of martyrs (m
Sufi Aesthetics argues that the interpretive keys to erotic Sufi poems and their medieval commentaries lie in understanding a unique perceptual experience. Using careful analysis of primary texts, Cyr
Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L. Beck’s earlier work, which described the theoretical role of sound in Hindu thought. Sonic Liturgy continues the d
"'Education systems are failing their societies' is the message often conveyed by families and young people to governments and media today. The dismal state of a country's education system is said to
This study examines the religion and practices of African Initiated Churches in Paynesville, Liberia (a suburb of the capital, Monrovia) in the wake of the 1980 coup that brought Samuel Kanyon Doe to
The biography of Sayyid Jalal al-din Bukhari (1308-1384), a shaykh of the Suhrawardi order of Sufi Islam in South Asia, as reconstructed from the primary source records of his teachings that were comp
This multifaceted and interesting work on the cultural, visual, and religious symbolism of Mount Fuji provides a detailed analysis of the deep influence of this iconic peak in the history and psyche o
The Jewish communities of Arabia had a great influence on the attitudes that Muslims hold toward Jews, and yet relatively little has been written about their history. Through techniques borrowed from
Rethinking Islamic Studies upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Orientalist discourse within contemporary Islamic studies and carves fresh inroads toward a robust new understanding of the discipline, o
"Offering a fresh approach to the sophisticated state of contemporary studies on Islam, this collection from some of the best scholars writing today undermines entrenched and outdated views that have
Nathan Crick has crafted a new critical rhetorical history of American Transcendentalists that interprets a selection of their major works between the years 1821 and 1852 as political and ethical resp
In Speaking Qur’an: An American Scripture, Timur R. Yuskaev examines how Muslim Americans have been participating in their country’s cultural, social, religious, and political life. Essential to this
Though the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt is among the oldest Christian communities in the world, it remained relatively unknown outside of Egypt for most of its existence. In the wake of the Arab Sp
“Mysticism” in Iran is an in-depth analysis of significant transformations in the religious landscape of Safavid Iran that led to the marginalization of Sufism and the eventual emergence of ‘irfan as
Brockopp (religious studies, Pennsylvania State U.) presents nine studies that examine Muslim responses to the ethics of taking and saving life as embodied in discussions of abortion, war, and euthana
Modern psychology is at an impasse as it searches anxiously for new therapies to address the increasing occurrence of mental illness in contemporary society. In this groundbreaking anthology, leading
Scholars in the early Karaite Jewish sect relied on scripturalism in their descriptions of the past, rather than on the rabbinic tradition of describing history as a moralistic transmission of divine
Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion’s power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it? Terr
