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Muhammad in the Seminary - Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century

Uncovers what Christian seminaries taught about Islam in their formative years Throughout the nineteenth century, Islam appeared regularl...

Alchemical Hermeticism - The Secret Teachings of Marco Daffi on Initiation

An in-depth investigation into the Alchemical-Hermetic practices of Marco Daffi

Islamically Modified Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

This book outlines the methods and practice of Isl¿mically Modified Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (IMCBT), a modified version of CBT adap...

On Generosity - Hilyat al-kurama' of Ibn Abi al-'Id

The Hilyat al-kurama', literally "The Ornament of the Magnanimous", was compiled in Cairo and Medina in the ninth/fifteenth century. On G...

Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World

"This rich collection focuses on the nexus between Buddhism and healing in the modern and contemporary world, highlighting the many ways ...

Embodied Reception - South Asian Spiritualities in Contemporary Contexts

This volume investigates contemporary bodily practices as a mode of transmitting and receiving South Asian religious and spiritual tradit...

Confucian Feminism - A Practical Ethic for Life

In Confucian Feminism Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee expands the theoretical horizons of feminism by using characteristic Confucian terms, metho...

Goddess Beyond Boundaries - Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple

Tracy Pintchman sheds light on the spiritual creativity and religious life of the Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan. Drawing on fif...

Affective Betrayal - Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China

Seeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process.

Between the Ideal and the Real - Shiite Purism and the Dilemma of Modernity in Iraq

This book deals with the Islamic Shia version of purism as the cornerstone of its faith, showing how this purism manifested itself in the...

Nund Rishi - Poetry and Politics in Medieval Kashmir

This book is a critical study of the mystical poetry of one of Kashmi's greatest Sufis - Nund Rishi. It analyses his poetry as a form of ...

The Islamic Welfare State - Muslim Charity, Human Security, and Government Legitimacy in Pakistan

"The Islamic Welfare State explains the relationship between government legitimacy, everyday security, and lived Islam in Pakistan-a majo...

Eastern Christians' Engagement with Islam and the Qur'¿n - Texts, Contexts and Knowledge Regimes

This volume explores how Eastern Christians of various religious traditions engaged with Islam and its Holy Book. By employing a long dur...

Shattered Grief - How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America

Shattered Grief is an intimate portrait of how COVID-19 changed the ways Americans approach, understand, and mourn death.

Christian-Muslim Relations in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring - Beyond the Polemics Over 'The Innocence of Muslims'

Uses The Innocence of Muslims controversy as a starting point for exploring Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan.

Far Right and Islamist Populism - How They Disrupt the Hegemonic Order

Struggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands - Affect and Absence

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religi...

Ritual Performance in Early Chinese Thought - A Dramaturgical Perspective

Examining early Chinese ritual discourse during the Warring States and early Western Han Periods, this book reveals how performance becam...

Freedom Revisited - A Comparative Theological Approach to the Question of Free Will in Islam

Is the Qur'anic notion of faith reconcilable with a modern notion of freedom? The present work is an attempt to examine the possibility o...

The Paradox of Islamic Finance - How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism

How the booming Islamic finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of religion and marketsIn just fifty years, Islamic finance has gro...

Sufism in Europe - Islam, Esotericism and the New Age

Examines the development in Sufism in Western Europe in the 21st Century

Mecca in Morocco - Articulations of Muslim Pilgrimage in Moroccan Everyday Life

An ethnographic study that examines the socio-cultural embeddedness of the Hajj in present day Moroccan society

Minor Majesties - The Pa?uvēṭṭaraiyars and Their South Indian Kingdom of Pa?uvūr, 9th-11th Centuries A.D

Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Pa?uvūr, active between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E. in the modern Sout...

Piety and Politics in Qajar Iran - The Takkiyya Mu'avin Al-Mulk in Kermanshah

The Takkiyya Mu'avin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of th...

Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam - The Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd

Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam is an intellectual history and critical analysis of the work of prominent Muslim scholar Nasr...

Of Ancestors and Ghosts - How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics

Of Ancestors and Ghosts analyzes a type of Buddhist literature in which immoral, stingy people are reincarnated as hungry, suffering ghos...

Ritual and Liturgy in Esoteric Chinese Buddhism - Tantric Subjects

This book reconceptualizes the historiography of East Asian Buddhism by shifting the focus of analysis from philosophical texts and doctr...

Towards a Semiotics of Pilgrimage - Ritual Space, Memory and Narration in Japan and Elsewhere

Pilgrimage can be better understood as a particular kind of semiotic activity, that is, as a process of production, transmission, and rec...

Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gau?iya Vai Ava Metaethics

"This work explores an understanding of bhakti, "devotional love to the divine," whereby emotions are sensory perceptions of the real eth...

Ibn Al-ʿarabī's Kitāb Fuṣūṣ Al-Ḥikam Wa-Khuṣūṣ Al-Kalim - Edition Based on the Earliest Extant Manuscript

The influential Fuṣūṣ has often been considered a digest of Ibn al-ʿArabī's doctrine. This edition is based on the earliest extant copy s...

Protestant Relics in Early America

In this book, Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States by recovering...

Sharia as Informal Law - Lived Experiences of Young Muslims in Western Societies

This book investigates how Sharia influences and manifests in the everyday lives of Muslims, unraveling the meaning and relevance of Shar...

An Academic History of China's Han Dynasty - Communicational Factors in Academic Development

This book offers an innovative take on the study of Chinese academic history, approaching the subject from the perspective of broader soc...

Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia - 8th to 11th Centuries

Provides the first in-depth examination of palace gardens in the Abbasid caliphate's Lower Mesopotamian heartland

Islamic Sensory History - Volume 2: 600-1500

Islamic Sensory History, Volume2: 600-1500 is composed of selected texts translated into English from their original languages. The selec...

Philosophy in the Islamic World - Volume 4/1: 19th-20th Centuries: The Arabic-Speaking Region

Philosophy in the Islamic World is a comprehensive and unprecedented four-volume reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in t...

The Buddha Companion

Contents include one "Meditative Buddha" statue and a 176-page book about the true meaning of Buddhism and why it has such a profound imp...

Sayings of Buddha

The tao of physics

The spirit of zen (a way of life, work, and art in the far east)

Islam

A lasting peace volume two

The Koran (angol)