A comprehensive overview of Hajj, one of the central pillars of Islam, in honour of Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili.
They All Made Peace- What is Peace? is the first publication to consider the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 and its legacy a century on. A stellar group of historians present a contrapuntal, multi-perspective analysis of the events.
A new translation of Muhammad 'Abduh's Al-Islam wa-l-Nasraniyya ma'a al-'Ilm wa-l-Madaniyya (Science and Civilization between Islam and Christianity).
Engaging with a national historical narrative, The Age of Aryamehr writes Iran into the global history of the 1960s and 1970s, so as to understand the transnational connections that in many ways formed modern Iran.
The book explores the notion of what it is to be Persian and the idea of Persia as a means of investigating the soul of this fascinating nation.
In this ground-breaking study, Muna Tatari and Klaus von Stosch painstakingly reconstruct the picture of Mary that is presented in the Qur’an and show how veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church intersects and interacts with the testimony of the Qur’an.
The Other Prophet is an unprecedented attempt to investigate the Qur’anic Jesus from both Muslim and Christian perspectives, and allows us to extend our understanding of Jesus and his message.
Over one hundred years after the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, The Lausanne Moment revisits a diplomatic, legal, economic and financial juncture that helped reshape the world and defined new norms of sovereignty, displacement, and identity.
Essays of the Sadat Era is the second of four volumes that will see Mahfouz's non-fiction work translated into English for the first time.
This collection of his early writing, from his time as a student of philosophy, reveals the intellectual ferment of the young author, grappling with two millennia of philosophers and writers and establishing his own voice among them.
Melanie Gibson tracks Leighton’s travels through Algeria, Syria, and beyond to investigate how the impressions and acquisitions he brought home... Læs mere
Essays of His Later Years is the last of four volumes in which Mahfouz’s non-fiction is translated into English for the first time.