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JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM –TENSION, TRANSMISSION, TRANSFORMATION Edited by Patrice Brodeur, Assaad Elias Kattan, and Georges Tamer ISSN Founded2196-405Xin2015, our interdisciplinary series Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation (JCIT) brings together volumes exploring the reception and mediation of ideas and practices in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. All volumes of the series are also available as paperback editions.
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WELTEN DES ISLAM – WORLDS OF ISLAM –MONDES DE L’ISLAM Edited by Bettina Dennerlein, Anke von Kügelgen, Silvia Naef, Maurus Reinkowski, and Ulrich Rudolph
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Thee-ISSN1661-62782235-5758peer-reviewed series Worlds of Islam (WI) of the Swiss Asia Society publishes high-quality research on present-day and historical Islamic cultures and societies covering fields such as history, literature, philosophy, politics and arts, as well as interpretations and translations of primary sources.
Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East (SME) is published as a supplement to the journal Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich Becker. The mission of the series is the study of past societies of the Middle East, their belief systems, and their underlying social and economic relations. The series aims to cover the entire spectrum of the historically oriented humanities and social sciences.
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST
The book series Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context takes an interdisciplinary approach, with each volume considering the interaction between philosophy and one other important aspect of Islamic culture. Both directions of influence are considered, as the volumes explore the philosophical relevance of writings not usually thought to fall within the genre of philosophy, and also the impact of these other strands of Islamic culture on philosophical writing.
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Edited by Peter Adamson, Nadja Germann, Reza Hajatpour, Ulrich Rudolph, and Georges Tamer
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ANTHROPOLOGY OF ISLAM
PHILOSOPHY IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD IN CONTEXT
Edited by Florentina Badalanova Geller, Beatrice Gründler and David Shankland ISSN 2629-4966
QUR’AN IN VERNACULAR FOLK ISLAM IN THE BALKANS Series: Anthropology Of Islam
series offers an innovative approach for studying the development of the three interconnected monotheist religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. With this aim in mind, KCID analyzes the history of ideas in each of these three religions, always taking into account the relationship of those ideas to one-another.
Anthropology of Islam is the first book series devoted to the significant topic of the anthropology of Islam and Islamic cultures. This series invites studies which explore in empirical fashion the plurality and diversity within Islamic cultures and their relations and reception in the west. Projects may be contemporary, but they could also be historical or archival, provided that they emphasise clearly argued discussions of Islamic life.
Florentina Badalanova Geller
KEY CONCEPTS IN INTERRELIGIOUS DISCOURSES
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Edited by Turan Kayaoglu, Mashood Baderin, Mahmood Monshipouri, and Lynn Welchman ISSN 2194-6558 / e-ISSN 1554-4419
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Thee-ISSN2567-25332567-2568growthand evolution of Islamic business and finance has continued to be very much part of the changing configuration of the global economy. Given the huge potential in both Islamic business and the Islamic economy, there is a wide array of research opportunities to cater to the growing need of products and solutions for the Islamic business domain; therefore, Islamic business and finance as a scientific academic discipline is becoming increasingly widespread.
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SCIENTIA GRAECO-ARABICA
Edited by Hans Neumann ISSN 0030-5383 / e-ISSN 2196-6877
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The series Scientia Graeco-Arabica is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs it provides access to the topics of inquiry in which ancient science presented itself and devel oped over time in a continuous tradition between Antiquity and the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes.
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Thee-ISSN2628-42862628-4294newseriesIslam – Thought, Culture, and Society brings together innovative research dealing with any aspect of Islamic religion, civilization, and thought. It also takes into consideration non-Muslim majority societies as well as non-Muslim groups within Islamic contexts. The series is intentionally interdisciplinary with a broad regional scope, covering all eras from early Islam to the 21st century.
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05/2019. IX, 388 pp., 3 fig., 1 tab. HC € 109.95 / US$ 126.99 / GBP 100.00 ISBN 978-3-11-062322-2
11/2018. XI, 183 pp., 1 fig. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN 978-3-11-059764-6
RATIONALITÄT IN DER ISLAMISCHEN THEOLOGIE Band I: Die klassische Periode Edited by Maha El Kaisy-Friemuth, Reza Hajatpour and Mohammed Abdel Rahem 06/2019. XVII, 492 pp. HC € 99.95 / US$ 114.99 / GBP 91.00 ISBN Since978-3-11-049671-0thebeginnings of Islam, the relationship between reason and revelation has been a focus of intellectual debate. This volume presents the understanding of rationality native to different theological traditions and shows that one can find the historical roots of a contemporary, reformed Islam in so-called Rationalistic Islam. Manfred Hutter IRANISCHE RELIGIONEN Zoroastrismus, Yezidentum, Bahā’ītum 06/2019. X, 234 pp. HC € 24.95 / US$ 28.99 / GBP 22.50 ISBN 978-3-11-064971-0
A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law BRAIS prize winner 10/2019. X, 248 pp HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN 978-3-11-060405-4
Martin Whittingham
Farid Suleiman
Iranian religions are not restricted to the territory of today’s Islamic Republic of Iran, but in historical perspective, are more extensive. This book focuses on the religious history, doctrines, and religious institutions of the Zoroastrians, Yazidi, and Baha’i. Its description of the typical characteristics of each religion reveals both their differences and commonalities.
THE QURANIC JESUS A New Interpretation
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Elias G. Saba HARMONIZING SIMILARITIES
Harmonizing Similarities presents the history of a fundamental genre of Islamic law: books that discuss the distinctions be tween apparently contradictory laws. Elias G. Saba traces the history of this genre and reveals how the dynamism of Islamic law shifted from doctrinal to literary elaboration. Carlos Segovia
This is the first scholarly overview of Muslim responses to the Bible. It explores how Muslims have both criticized and used the Biblical text, drawing on the Qur’an, classical texts and more recent works from around the Muslim world.
This study reassesses the too-often oversimplified, in fact, multilayered and polyvalent, Christology of the Qur’ān against the intersecting of competing peripheral Christianities, antiJewish Christian polemics and the formation of a new Arab state in the 7th-century Near East.
A HISTORY OF MUSLIM VIEWS OF THE BIBLE
The Bible and Muslim Identity Formation 09/2020. 270 pp., 16 fig. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN 978-3-11-033494-4
This study systematically examines the methodological foundations of the doctrine of attributes espoused by the influential Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiyya (died 728 AH/1328 CE). It integrates the perspective he developed in multiple single tractates into an overall view and examines its connections in intellectual history. Thus, the volume makes an important contribution to research on the history of Islamic theology.
IBN TAYMIYYA UND DIE ATTRIBUTE GOTTES
Hannah C. Erlwein ARGUMENTS FOR GOD’S EXISTENCE IN CLASSICAL ISLAMIC THOUGHT
ISLAMIC & MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
The main journals of the Muslim Brotherhood during the presidency of Anwar Sadat and the early years of Hosni Mubarak were al-Da‘wa and Liwā’ al-’Islām. In these journals the Brotherhood presented itself as a reactive movement that responded to modern events and positioned itself as a moral, religious and political opposition to the regime. Emmanuelle Stefanides DU TEXTE À L’HISTOIRE La question de la chronologie coranique 10/2020. 380 pp. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN 978-3-11-067933-5 Ce livre offre un traitement systématique, historique et pluridisciplinaire du problème de la chronologie du Coran, à la fois dans l’exégèse musulmane et dans la recherche historico-philologique. L’auteure offre, d’une part, un examen des listes chronologiques des sourates dans l’exégèse et les «sciences coraniques» et, d’autre part, les plus récents travaux sur le sujet dans la recherche critique.
A Reappraisal of the Discourse 07/2019. X, 250 pp. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN 978-3-11-061764-1 In this monograph, Hannah C. Erlwein proffers a reappraisal of an important aspect of classical Islamic intellectual history, that is, the discourse which, in the academic literature, has commonly been regarded as concerned with arguments for God’s existence. Kiki M. Santing IMAGINING THE PERFECT SOCIETY IN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD JOURNALS An Analysis of al-Da’wa and Liwa’ al-Islam 07/2020. 420 pp. HC € 99.95 / US$ 114.99 / GBP 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-063295-8
Hannah C. Erlwein ARGUMENTS FOR GOD’S EXISTENCE IN CLASSICAL ISLAMIC THOUGHT
PHILOSOPHY AND JURISPRUDENCE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
ARISTOTLE, PHYSICS VIII – TRANSLATED INTO ARABIC BY ISHAQ IBN HUNAYN (9TH C.) 09/2020. 350 pp. HC € 119.95 / US$ 137.99 / GBP 109.00 ISBN Aristotle’s978-3-11-057699-3theoryofeternal continuous motion, provided in book VIII of his Physics, is one of the most influential doctrines of ancient Greek philosophy. This critical edition of Ishaq ibn Hunayn’s Arabic translation (9th c.) aims at contributing to the clarification of textual difficulties by means of a detailed collation of the Arabic text with the most important Greek manuscripts, supported by comprehensive glossaries.
The volume analyses the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South and Central Asia during the medieval period. The articles provoke a fresh look at relevant sources, focusing on Buddhist/Muslim interactions, cultural and religious exchanges, perceptions of the other, transmission of knowledge, trade and economics.
Avicennan Psychology and Occult Science in Twelfth Century Islamic Thought 09/2020. 300 pp. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN Fakhr978-3-11-064457-9al-Dīnal-Rāzī(d.1210) was one of the most influential Islamic theologians of the twelfth century. His magisterial work on astral magic, The Hidden Secret (‘al-Sirr al-Maktūm’), adapted Avicennan philosophy to explain how the human soul could connect with the heavenly spheres, to work terrestrial wonders. The international prize – a cooperation between the British Association for Islamic studies and De Gruyter – is awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis in the field of academic study of Islam and the Muslim world. The award includes publication of the winning manuscript in the series Islam: Thought, Culture, and Society and a prize of £1,000.
Edited by Blain Auer and Ingo Strauch 08/2019. V, 228 pp. HC € 99.95 / US$ 114.99 / GBP 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-062916-3
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Edited by David Ganz and Barbara Schellewald 12/2018. VIII, 313 pp., 63 fig. HC € 129.95 / US$ 149.99 / GBP 118.00 ISBN 978-3-11-055767-1
This volume explores the aesthetic dimension of medieval book religions. Around the Mediterranean and in Europe, Christian, Islamic and Jewish communities shared a common interest in embellishing sacred texts: artistic devices such as calligraphy, illumination, diagrams and precious bindings were believed to transform sacred scripture into holy objects.
Rüdiger Arnzen
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This book combines the study of two great disciplines of the Islamic world: law and philosophy. In both Sunni and Shiite Islam, it became the norm for scholars to acquire a high level of expertise in the legal tradition. The contributions provide an unprecedented demonstration of the close connections between philosophy and law in Islamic society.
Edited by Peter Adamson 09/2019. VIII, 313 pp., 63 fig. HC € 99.95 / US$ 114.99 / GBP 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-055197-6
Book Art and Book Religion in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Cultures
Michael-Sebastian Noble “THE HIDDEN SECRET” OF FAKHR AL-DĪN AL-RĀZĪ
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CLOTHING SACRED SCRIPTURES
ENCOUNTERING BUDDHISM AND ISLAM IN PREMODERN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA
Tom Woerner-Powell
The Concept of ‘Society’ in the Journal al-Manar 06/2018. XIII, 519 pp., 1 fig., 19 tab. HC € 99.95 / US$ 114.99 / GBP 91.00 ISBN What978-3-11-054399-5doesitmeanto be modern? This study regards the idea of society as most fundamental to the modern self-under standing. Identifying Arabic conceptualizations of the idea of society in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic Modernism, the author shows how modernity was articulated from within an Islamic discursive tradition. Martina L. Weisz
Majied Robinson MARRIAGE IN THE TRIBE OF MUHAMMAD
To integrate the regions of the early Islamic Empire from Central Asia to North Africa, transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential. The papers analyze elite groups, their structures and networks, within selected regions across geographical, religious and social boundaries.
Now available in paperback Varying from endeavor for ethical improvement to holy war, the concept of Jihad has been subject to different interpreta tions since the 18th century. This study focuses on these changing readings among religious scholars, Islamic revivalists, reformers, and radical Islamists in South Asia.
An integrative approach to ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri BRAIS prize winner 11/2018. XX, 316 pp. PB € 19.95 / US$ 22.99 / GBP 18.50 ISBN 978-3-11-050055-4 This text challenges Orientalist portrayals of Sufi and ji had-leader ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jazā’irī hinging on conversion from opposition to embrace of European values. Applying an in terdisciplinary approach to Arabic and European sources, this study advances a coherent, contextual, and continuous reading of his thought and actions.
Florian Zemmin MODERNITY IN ISLAMIC TRADITION
JEWS AND MUSLIMS IN CONTEMPORARY SPAIN Redefining National Boundaries 05/2019. X, 189 pp., 17 fig. HC € 55.95 / US$ 64.99 / GBP 51.00 ISBN 978-3-11-063790-8
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ANOTHER ROAD TO DAMASCUS
TRANSREGIONAL AND REGIONAL ELITES
This study examines the marital data preserved within the Arabic genealogical works of the early ninth century CE in order to better understand the tribal relationships of the pre-Islamic Quraysh (the Arabic tribe to which Muhammad belonged).
The book analyzes the place of religious difference in late modernity through a study of the role played by Jews and Muslims in the construction of contemporary Spanish national identity. The focus is on the transition from an exclusive, homogeneous sense of collective Self toward a more pluralis tic, open and tolerant one in a European context. Tariq Rahman INTERPRETATIONS OF JIHAD IN SOUTH ASIA
An Intellectual History 04/2020. XX, 316 pp. PB € 20.95 / US$ 24.99 / GBP 19.00 ISBN 978-3-11-055039-9
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A Statistical Study of Early Arabic Genealogical 11/2019.Literature215pp., 5 fig., 30 tab. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN 978-3-11-062416-8
Connecting the Early Islamic Empire Edited by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann 01/2020. 300 pp., 1 fig., 37 tab. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN 978-3-11-066648-9
This volume of essays highlights literary, historical, social, political, and nationalistic themes in the larger Kurdish folkloric tradition. The authors examine the devices and paths through which Kurdish culture has sought to achieve identity and nationhood.
Edward John Still REPRESENTING ALGERIAN WOMEN Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar 01/2019. IX, 222 pp., 4 fig. HC € 79.95 / US$ 91.99 / GBP 72.50 ISBN 978-3-11-058370-0
This volume examines Edirne’s history from Ottoman times to recent periods of the Turkish Republic. Against the background of the wider historical ruptures the city experienced in the twentieth century, it analyses how Edirne was shaped by its connectivity and relationality to other places, above all to Istanbul. Sara Verskin BARREN WOMEN Biology, Medicine and Religion in the Medieval Middle East BRAIS prize winner 04/2020. 250 pp. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN Drawing978-3-11-059567-3onlegal,medical and theological texts, Barren Women explores the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. It highlights areas of women’s agency within the Islamic legal system and also explores the diverse marketplace of medical ideas in the medieval world.
THE RENAISSANCE OF THE LEVANT Arabic and Greek Discourses of Reform in the Age of HC03/2019.NationalismVII,186pp.€86.95/US$99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN
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THE HERITAGE OF EDIRNE IN OTTOMAN AND TURKISH TIMES Continuities, Disruptions and Reconnections Edited by Birgit Krawietz and Florian Riedler 12/2019. 500 pp., 20 fig., 4 tab. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN 978-3-11-063413-6
Edited by Alireza Korangy and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari 10/2019. 340 pp. HC € 99.95 / US$ 114.99 / GBP 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-060174-9
This book explores the subversive potential of canonical francophone Algerian literature in its representation of women and femininity. It deploys analyses of literary perspective, psychoanalytical frameworks, and an original notion of “pessimistic” narrative to argue that late-colonial Algerian literature discreetly evoked the importance of women’s self-representation.
Selected Titles Language & Literature
This volume advances and supplements the scarce work in the field of Iranian typology. The major concern of this book is the typology of the new (west) Iranian Languages. The book does not only provide a typological description of the Iranian Languages, but is also devoted to studies concerning the distribution and the functions of different grammatical issues in a set of Iranian Languages. ESSAYS ON KURDISH NARRATOLOGY AND FOLKLORE Oral Tradition, History, and Nationalism Edited by Alireza Korangy 06/2021. 300 pp. HC € 68.95 / US$ 79.99 / GBP 62.50 ISBN 978-3-11-059689-2
Michael Kreutz
Throughout978-3-11-063122-7themodern era, the Ottoman Empire has had a lasting impact on the cultures and societies of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. Investigating both Greek and Arabic sources, this book will shed some light on the signifi cance of ideas in the political transitions of their time.
ESSAYS ON TYPOLOGY OF IRANIAN LANGUAGES
Tarik Akin and Abbas Mirakhor WEALTH INEQUALITY, ASSET REDISTRIBUTION AND RISK-SHARING ISLAMIC FINANCE 03/2019. XIX, 195 pp., 29 fig., 12 tab. HC € 86.95 / US$ 99.99 / GBP 79.00 ISBN 978-3-11-058373-1
The economics of wealth inequality is a nascent area of research. Although evidence shows that debt, interest, and leverage are drivers of increasing wealth inequalities, the literature is reluctant to focus on the debt-based system as a main culprit for wealth inequality. The authors show that risk-sharing, one of the pillars of Islamic finance, is a form of asset-based redistribution and an effective way to cope with the inequality problem.
Selected Titles Business & Economics
ISLAMIC & MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
In April 2019, De Gruyter acquired the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. This very renowned Berlin-based publishing house focuses on Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies, Iranian Studies, Turkology, Ottoman Studies, and Central Asian Studies. The book series will enrich our portfolio in Islamic Studies. We are looking forward to continue and develop the program under the new label “EDITION KLAUS SCHWARZ”.
As Islamic finance experiences a high growth rate, advocates of Islamic finance are making a case for Islamic finance as an ethical finance alternative. The Handbook provides the theoretical foundation and perspective of the ethics embed ded in Islamic economics and finance to demonstrate how this ethical framework would achieve economic and social justice leading to a just society.
HANDBOOK OF ANALYTICAL STUDIES IN ISLAMIC FINANCE AND ECONOMICS
Edited by Abbas Mirakhor, Zamir Iqbal and Kazem Sadr 07/2020. 400 pp. HC € 129.95 / US$ 149.99 / GBP 118.00 ISBN 978-3-11-059042-5
Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Studies on Modern Orient Studies on Modern Yemen Studien zur Sprache und Geschichte der PhilosophieTurkvölkerin der Nahöstlichen Moderne Bibliotheca Islamica – Orient Institut Beirut ANORDiskussionspapiere–CentralAsian Studies ZMO Studien EDITION KLAUS SCHWARZ AT DE GRUYTER
Edited by Zamir Iqbal, Tarik Akin, Nabil Maghrebi and Abbas Mirakhor 04/2020. 600 pp., 85 fig., 115 tab. HC € 129.95 / US$ 149.99 / GBP 118.00 ISBN Islamic978-3-11-058508-7Economicsand Finance is regarded as a discipline at the work-in-progress stage, it is important that progress is set to continue on solid platforms. The principal objective of this Handbook is to probe and bring some clarity to the debate on certain questions that are essentially analytical and empirical in nature. HANDBOOK OF ETHICS OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
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