Islam

The Sound of Salvation

Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China Guangtian Ha

The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order in northwest China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The first ethnography of this order in any language, The Sound of Salvation draws on nearly a decade of fieldwork to reveal the intricacies and importance of Jahriyya vocal recitation.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19806-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19806-6 February 2022 312 pages 32 illus.

STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

A Culture of Ambiguity

An Alternative History of Islam Thomas Bauer

Translated by Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall

In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and a competing tendency that looks for ways to live with complexity.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17064-2 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-17064-2 2021 336 pages

The Language of History

Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule Audrey Truschke

For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. Audrey Truschke offers a groundbreaking analysis of these texts.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19705-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19704-5 2021 376 pages Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context

A Bibliographical History Zofia A. Brzozowska, Mirosław J. Leszka, and Teresa Wolińska

This bibliographic dictionary features an overview of medieval texts from the Eastern Orthodox world that discuss Muhammad, the Arabs, and the birth of Islam. These texts shed new light on interreligious polemics in the Middle Ages, previous studies of which have typically focused on texts written in Greek, Latin, or Middle Eastern languages.

$50.00 paper 978-83-2334-943-3 February 2022 384 pages 2 illus.

JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Imperial Mecca

Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj Michael Christopher Low

Michael Christopher Low analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Imperial Mecca recasts Ottoman Arabia as a distant, unstable semiautonomous frontier that Istanbul struggled to modernize and defend against the onslaught of colonial steamship mobility.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19077-0 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19076-3 2020 416 pages

Muslim Environmentalisms

Religious and Social Foundations Anna M. Gade

Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the legal, ethical, social, and political principles underlying Muslim commitments to the earth.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19105-0 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19104-3 2019 336 pages Gendered Morality

Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society Zahra Ayubi

In Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. She calls for a philosophical turn in the study of gender in Islam based on resources for gender equality that are unlocked by feminist engagement with the Islamic ethical tradition.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19133-3 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19132-6 2019 368 pages

GOD

and MAN

in TEHRAN

CONTENDING VISIONS of the DIVINE from the QAJARS to the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC

HOSSEIN KAMALY God and Man in Tehran

Contending Visions of the Divine from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic Hossein Kamaly

God and Man in Tehran explores the historical processes that have made and unmade contending visions of God in Iran’s capital throughout the past two hundred years. Hossein Kamaly examines how notions of the divine have been mobilized, contested, and transformed, emphasizing the role played by divergent conceptualizations of nature, reason, law, morality, and authority.

$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-17682-8 2018 256 pages

In Remembrance of the Saints

The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari Translated by David Brophy

In the late eighteenth century, Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari wrote an account of religious and political conflicts in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang, on the eve of the Qing conquest. This volume presents the complete, long recension of In Remembrance of the Saints, translated for the first time into any language.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19819-6 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19818-9 2020 304 pages 3 illus.

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS

German, Jew, Muslim,Gay

The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus Marc David Baer

Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to investigate a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19671-0 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19670-3 2020 320 pages

RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE

Reforming Modernity

Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha Wael B. Hallaq

Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the philosopher Abdurrahman Taha. Wael B. Hallaq explores how Taha’s philosophical project sheds light on recent intellectual currents in the Islamic world and puts forth a formidable critique of Western and Islamic modernities.

$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-193887 2019 376 pages

New in paper

Women in the Mosque

A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice Marion Holmes Katz

WINNER, AMEWS BOOK AWARD, ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE EAST WOMEN'S STUDIES

Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Marion Holmes Katz connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to changing constructions of gender. She also explores both the concrete social and political implications of Islamic legal discourse and the autonomy of women's mosque-based activities.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-16267-8 November 2021 432 pages