Abraham
The First Jew
ISBN: HB: 9780300266801,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history.
In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism's foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of...
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Exclusionary West
Medieval Minorities and the Making of Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781787383159,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A timely study of the intrinsic connections between Western European nations and their non-Christian minorities in the age of state formation.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but these notions of the...
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Sea of Ink, Forest of Pens
The Art of the Quran in the Hossein Afshar Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300278828,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
208 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 125 colour illus.
208 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 125 colour illus.
A spectacular study of calligraphy, the most esteemed form of visual and textual expression in the Islamic world, through a storied collection of Qur'an manuscripts.
Spanning more than a millennium, from the seventh through the nineteenth century,...
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Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 2.1
Early Middle Meccan Suras: The New Elect
ISBN: HB: 9780300232349,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
480 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
480 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The second volume of a world-renowned scholar's long-awaited Qur'an commentary, now available in English.
Angelika Neuwirth's six-volume commentary, published originally in Germany, offers a historical and philological analysis of the form, structu...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 52
Genocide
ISBN: PB: 9781911723851,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Today, genocide has almost entirely lost its meaning. Either its occurrence is denied into oblivion, or its frequency allows it to fall on stone-deaf ears in a world on fire. As our newsfeeds inundate us with the agony of the Palestinians, the Rohi...
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Hezbollah
The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781911723431,
ISBN: HB: 9781849043335,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2024
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Hezbollah – Lebanon's 'Party of God' – is a multifaceted organisation: it is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia religious and social movement, Lebanon's largest militia, a close ally of Iran, and a terrorist organisation. Drawing on a wi...
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Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey
The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan
ISBN: HB: 9781911723837,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 illus.
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 illus.
A new history of modern Turkey, focussing on its fifty-year retreat from Kemalist secularism.
This is the first account in English of how Islamic religious orders dating back to Ottoman times have risen to dominate and define the future of Turkey,...
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Zanzibari Muslim Moderns
Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period
ISBN: HB: 9781911723820,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Reveals how a generation of Muslim scholars, intellectuals and civil servants adapted and adopted ideas of modernity in colonial interwar Zanzibar.
"Zanzibari Muslim Moderns" is a historical study of Zanzibar during the interwar years. This was a...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 51
Desire
ISBN: PB: 9781911723844,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
To be human is to desire. But often desire finds itself in opposition to values and virtues. Giving in to one's desires denies one moral righteousness; in the Islamic tradition, humanity, tested by selfish wants, must temper and tame our earthly de...
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Devotional Qur'an
Beloved Surahs and Verses
ISBN: HB: 9780300271942,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
208 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
208 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A beautifully curated and translated collection of the Qur'anic surahs and verses that are most cherished and memorized by Muslims the world over.
Muslim devotional practices vary greatly over time and across regions, communities, and denominations...
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