Anahita
Edited by Lena Larsen, University of Oslo, Norway, Kari Vogt, University of Oslo, Norway, Christian Moe, Independent writer & Muhammad Khalid Masud, Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan
Manya Saadi-nejad, Concordia University, Canada
Challenging Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws
A History and Reception of the Iranian Water Goddess
Blasphemy and apostasy laws can serve powerful groups to silence dissent and stifle critical thought among both Muslims and nonMuslims. This book focuses on the struggles associated with blasphemy and apostasy laws within Muslim societies. The book provides a space for public debate on these laws by Muslim experts with the knowledge, commitment and courage to contest the repressive interpretations of religion that legitimize such laws. The book explores the traditional construction, present-day abuses and possible reforms of the law, developing knowledge of the religious tradition as a resource for reclaiming the human rights to freedom of expression and belief.
Anahita was the most important goddess of preIslamic Iran, unrivalled by any other Iranian goddess throughout the course of three successive Iranian empires over a period of a thousand years. The is the first scholarly book on Anahita and traces her constantly evolving descriptions and functions. It reconstructs Anahita through a comparison of Celtic, Slavic, Armenian and Indo-Iranian myths and rituals, as well as iconographic records of Iranian societies from the Achaemenid period onwards, and new Persian literature and rituals today. In doing so, the author reveals the significant cultural continuities from Iran’s preIslamic period and Islamic present.
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 272 pages PB 9780755638826 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781784538576 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9780755637676 • £58.50 / $72.68 ePdf 9780755637683 • £58.50 / $72.68 I.B. Tauris
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 240 pages PB 9781838601119 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781838601591 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781838601560 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781838601577 • £17.99 / $22.16 I.B. Tauris
Sufism and the Scriptures The Renaissance of Islam
History, Culture and Society in the 10th Century Muslim World Adam Mez Edited by Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, University of London, UK In this important study, Adam Mez draws upon a vast range of sources to produce a detailed account of all aspects of Islamic culture and society in the tenth century - finance, religion, geography, industry and trade, law, morals, navigation, etc. The result is a lucid and engaging work that even today remains a key resource for researchers and students alike. The original edition is now very rare. This new edition, introduced by Hugh Kennedy, one of the leading scholars of the period, makes the work available once again and includes a bibliography and index specially prepared for this edition.
Metaphysics and Sacred History in the Thought of 'Abd al-Karim al-Jili Fitzroy Morrissey, University of Oxford, UK This book provides the first in-depth study of the concept of sacred history in the Sufi thinker ‘Abd al-Karim al-Jili’s masterpiece, al-Insan al-kamil (The Perfect Human). Through a translation and analysis of the key passages on the Qur’an, Torah, Psalms and Gospel, it shows how al-Jili’s view of sacred history is conditioned by his Ibn ‘Arabian Sufi metaphysics, whereby the phenomenal world is viewed as a manifestation of God, and the prophets and scriptures as special places where the divine attributes appear more completely.
M I D D L E E A S T S T U D I E S / I . B . T A U R I S - Islamic Studies
Freedom of Expression in Islam
UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 240 pages HB 9780755618316 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755618323 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9780755618330 • £76.50 / $94.85 I.B. Tauris
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 560 pages HB 9781784538910 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781838603588 • £140.40 / $173.70 ePdf 9781838603571 • £140.40 / $173.70 I.B. Tauris World English
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