For sale in CIS only! While much current research on political Islam revolves around militant Islamism, the genesis of this ideology remains little understood. "A System of Life" is a pioneering examination of the earliest attempt at a systematic ou...

For sale in CIS only! Hezbollah – Lebanon's 'Party of God' – is a multifaceted organisation: it is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia religious and social movement, Lebanon's largest militia, a close ally of Iran, and a terrorist organisa...

For sale in CIS only! MEN IN ISLAM Ziauddin Sardar – Introduction: The Shadows of Muslims Men Merryl Wyn Davies – The Problem With Men Abdennur Prado – Muslim Masculinities Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Out of this Dead End Kecia Ali – The Omnipresent M...

For sale in CIS only! Pakistan is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many, a failed state. "Muslim Zion" cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that it has never been a nation...

For sale in CIS only! Merryl Wyn Davies unravels the paradox that is Malaysia and Indonesia, Ziauddin Sardar reads the history of Kuala Lumpur from the window of his apartment, Carool Kersten engages with a string of Indonesian intellectuals, Nazry...

For sale in CIS only! While in the West 'the Caliphate' evokes overwhelmingly negative images, throughout Islamic history it has been regarded as the ideal Islamic polity. In the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and the removal of long-standing dictators i...

For sale in CIS only! When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates". But who are these Isla...

For sale in CIS only! Aamer Hussein takes love to its logical conclusion, Robert Irwin traces the origins of the ghazal (love lyric), Christopher Shackle recites epic Panjabi poems of sacred love and lyrical death, Imranali Panjwani mourns the massa...

For sale in CIS only! Drawing upon a wealth of previously unresearched primary sources in many languages, the authors shed much new light on a group frequently described as the most lethal actor in the current Afghan insurgency, and shown here to ha...

For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi philosophers tamed the secular, Gema Ma...