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A Prolegomena to the Study of the History of Religions

M.A. Draz Edited by Yahya Haidar, Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai, UAE Originally published in 1952, al-Din by prominent Egyptian scholar and thinker Muhammad Abdullah Draz (1894 – 1958) has been critically acclaimed as one of the most significant Arab Muslim studies of universal ‘religion’ and forms of religiosity in modern times. In it, Draz presents a critical review of classical approaches to the scholarly study of religion. Translated for the first time in English by Yahya Haidar.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 224 pages HB 9780755643226 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755643240 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755643233 • £76�50 / $105�78 I�B� Tauris World English

Library of Islamic South Asia

Ruby Lal, Emory University, USA

Shi’ism in Kashmir

A History of Sunni-Shia Rivalry and Reconciliation

Hakim Sameer Hamdani, Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage, Kashmir, India The first study dedicated to Shia Islam in Kashmir, this book traces the impact of Sunni dominance and Hindu Rule on Shii society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book identifies a distinctive Kashmiri Shii Islam established during this period. Hakim Sameer Hamdani argues that the Shii community’s religious and cultural identity was fostered through practices associated with the martyrdom of Imam Hussain and his family in Karbala, as well as other rituals of Islam. The book also sheds light on the emergence of the more ecumenical Muslim outlook we see in Kashmir today.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 224 pages • 25 bw images HB 9780755643936 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755643967 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755643950 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Library of Islamic South Asia • I�B� Tauris

Early and Medieval Islamic World

Roy Mottahedeh, Harvard University, USA

The School of Hillah and the Emergence of Twelver Shi'i Islam

Social Networks and the Concept of Tradition

Aun Hasan Ali, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Aun Hasan Ali here reveals the School of Hillah as a formative period in the history of Twelver or Imami Shi’ism, where outstanding and landmark works were written in practically every field of classical Islamic scholarship. He uses stateof-the-art electronic databases and social network analysis to study the transmission of knowledge and networks of kinship, learning, and patronage to show the social, political and historical context of the school, covering over 200 individuals and their writings.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 288 pages HB 9780755639083 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755639106 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755639090 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World • I�B� Tauris Visibly Muslim Women and Global Coloniality

Ali Kassem, Sussex University, UK Islamic dress in Lebanon is the object of numerous forms of overt and covert discrimination and aggression. This book is the first contribution to document the daily experiences of women wearing Islamic dress in the country. Based on interviews with over 100 Sunni and Shia participants, the book argues that they are a form of antiMuslim racism within the Arab-majority and Muslim-majority so-called Middle East. The book consequently explores the workings of this anti-Muslim racism and its manifestation within the larger structure of Eurocentric modernity/coloniality. It addresses the biases in the study of anti-Muslim racism.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 224 pages HB 9780755647989 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755648009 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755647996 • £76�50 / $105�78 I�B� Tauris

The Mosques of Colonial South Asia

A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship

Sana Haroon, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places of worship. This book looks at the legal history of Muslim endowments and the intellectual and social history of sectarian identities, demonstrating how these topics are interconnected in ways that affected the everyday lives of mosque congregants across North India.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 248 pages PB 9780755643004 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9780755634446 ePub 9780755634460 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755634453 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Library of Islamic South Asia • I�B� Tauris

Roma in the Medieval Islamic World

Literacy, Culture, and Migration

Kristina Richardson, City of New York University, USA

This book uses mostly Ghuraba’-authored works to understand their tribal organization, professional niches, and their tribal language Sin. It also examines the urban homes, neighborhoods, and cemeteries that they constructed. Within these isolated communities they developed and nurtured a deep literary culture and astrological tradition. Remarkably, the Ghuraba’ began blockprinting textual amulets by the 10th century, centuries before printing on paper arrived in central Europe. When Roma tribes migrated from Ottoman territories into Bavaria and Bohemia in the 1410s, they may have carried this printing technology into the Holy Roman Empire.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 256 pages PB 9780755635818 • £19�99 / $26�95 Previously published in HB 9781784537319 ePub 9780755635795 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755635788 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World • I�B� Tauris