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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...

Buddhism - The Religion of No-Religion

"Although Alan Watts' famous voice and happy laughter are missing now, his penetrating vision of Buddhism remains, and his lectures becom...

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...

The Analects of Confucius

This handsome gift edition presents the profound teachings of Confucius in his famous collection The Analects, featuring a luxurious, gol...

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...

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...

Agents of Violence - Non-Governmental Armed Forces in Southwest Asia, North Africa and beyond

In this volume, non-state armed groups are considered as independent actors instead of only on state level. Given the increasingly import...

The Dao De Jing - Laozi's Book of Life: A New Translation from the Ancient Chinese

A groundbreaking and superlatively accurate new translation of Laozi's DAO DE JING, from the bestselling translator of The Art of War

Ramadan Mubarak - A Little Inspiration for the Blessed Month

With thoughts and advice on staying positive throughout this sacred time, this little book will be a source of strength - offering spirit...

A Year with A'Ishah (Ra) - The Mother of the Believers

A Handbook of Accepted Prayers

Are your duas not being accepted? Unhealthy addictions and depression are widespread: some of us find the uncertainty and emotional darkn...

Budding Lotus in the West - Buddhism from an Immigrant's Feminist Perspective

With her unique Vietnamese American feminist perspective, debut author Nhi Yen Do Tran critically addresses gender equality, ethical dile...

The Power of Du'a

'Empowering....of great benefit to those who want their doors flung open by Allah' - Mufti Menk What seems impossible can become possible...

Buddhist Meditation - Classic Teachings from Tibet

A Tibetan Buddhist anthology of accessible and authentic contemplative exercises to help cultivate innate yet undeveloped powers of mind,...

Alchemical Hermeticism - The Secret Teachings of Marco Daffi on Initiation

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

The Beginner's Guide to Karma - How to Live with Less Negativity and More Peace

Two practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism unravel the complexities of karma, an idea widely known but little understood in the modern West We...

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...

Great Bharata (Volume I) - The Invasion Begins

In this thrilling retelling of the ancient Sanskrit epic, the Maha-bharata, Harvard scholar Howard Resnick brings to life the grand and m...

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...

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...

The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism - Advice for Life, Death, and Enlightenment

"Authentic and practical teachings on what lies at the heart of Tibetan Buddhism, including karma, renunciation, bodhichitta, kindness, p...

Sahih Muslim (Volume 10) - With the Full Commentary by Imam Nawawi

Since its compilation over a thousand years ago, Sahih Muslim has been recognised by scholars as an authentic collection of Prophetic tea...

From Punk to Monk - A Memoir

“Ragunath’s transformation shows how one person’s choice to evolve can change the lives of so many. This book is real, funny, and inspira...

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 ...

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...

The Way Through the Woods - The Green Witch's Guide to Navigating Life's Ups and Downs

Discover your path through life's twists and turns with The Way Through Woods and 'green witch' Rebecca Beattie.

Tao Te Ching

This luxurious hardback edition featured stenciled edges and full-colour illustrations. Arcturus has sold over 170,000 copies of Tao Te C...

The Eternal Buddha - Now, Here, Is the Imperishable Light

Awaken your soul through direct messages of Truth from the consciousness of Eternal Buddha.

Sufism in Europe - Islam, Esotericism and the New Age

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

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

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...

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

Dear Moon

Reflect and be inspired by this beautiful collection of illustrations, accompanied by prompts and quotes from the Qur'an Life is full of ...

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...

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...

Ahimsa in the Indic Traditions - Explorations and Reflections

Ahi¿s¿ in the Indic Traditions: Explorations and Reflections, edited by Jeffery D. Long and Steven J. Rosen, examines the diversity of no...

St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers

This book interprets the life and teachings of Saint Antoninus, an important Catholic saint and fifteenth-century writer, and offers a cr...

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.

Muslim Prayer in American Public Life

Drawing on a variety of literature, poetry, films, TV shows, and social media posts, and an original survey of 350 US Muslims, Muslim Pra...

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?uv¿r, active between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E. in the modern Sout...

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...

Sacred Sound and the Transcultural Practice of Kirtan

This book investigates how ideas on sacred sound and the practice of kirtan are transforming the American religious soundscape. The autho...

Finding a Life of Harmony and Balance - A Taoist Master's Path to Wisdom

"...an amazing tale, told in a fast-paced and entertaining style." --Publishers Weekly This is the latest edition of Opening the Dragon G...

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

Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

Karma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but this is the first comprehensive study of its various meanings and phil...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

This is a beautifully illustrated collector''s edition which will look good on anybody''s book shelves as well as making an ideal gift.

Gender and Salvation - Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women

Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining spiritual liberation? In Gender and Salvation, Padmanabh S. Jaini brings ...

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...

The Wisdom of Order - An Exploration of Lonergan's Method in Theology

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Bernard Lonergan’s Method in Theology, this book presents a concise summary and co...

Good Night: Prayers for Bedtime

An illustrated bedtime prayer for talking to God at the end of the day.

Arab Philosophical Trends - Responses to Modernity

Illuminates the core beliefs of twentieth-century Arab philosophers in response to Western ideas of modernisation

Nyingma: Mahayoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga, Part Two - Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet, Volume 2 (the Treas Ury of Precious Instructions)

"The second volume in the series, containing primary texts for the Heart of Essence Teachings, ritual texts from The Innermost Essence of...

Buddhism and the Senses - A Guide to the Good and Bad

"Following the exhibition Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia at the National Museum of Asian art, ten eminent scholars...

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 ethi...