Religion : Islam

This volume comprises a translation of Kasravi's text Sufigari (Sufism), and chapters which analyse this text. Furthermore, it illustrates Kasravi's views and discusses Sufism in the modern period more generally. more...

Price: $140.00

This sourcebook presents more than fifty new translations of key Islamic texts. Edited and translated by three leading specialists it illustrates the growth of Islamic thought from its seventh-century origins to the end of the medieval period. more...

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With different voices representing different social groups, this study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (3rd/9th and 4th/10th centuries). more...

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This volume offers a new approach to the subject of conversion to Islam in the Balkans. It reconstructs the stages of the Islamization process from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries and examines the factors and stimuli behind it. The practice of accepting Islam in the front of the sultan, characteristic of the last period of Islamization, and granting to new Muslims an amount of money known as kisve bahasi, is shown in the context of Ottoman social development. An innovative structural analysis of the petitions requesting kisve bahasi leads to examining the origins of the practice and constructing a collective portrait of the new Muslims who submitted them. Facsimiles and translations of the most interesting petitions are appended. more...

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Thomas Allsen's latest book breaks new scholarly boundaries in its exploration of cultural and scientific exchanges across Mongol Eurasia. Contrary to popular belief, Mongol rulers were intensely interested in the culture of their sedentary subjects and, under their auspices, commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated from East to West. more...

Price: $28.00