In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes...

For sale in CIS only! There are roughly eight million Muslims in south-east Europe, among them Albanians, Bosniaks, Turks and Roma – descendants of converts or settlers in the Ottoman period. This new history of the social, political and religious t...

Islam's tense relationship with modernity is one of the most crucial issues of our time. Within Islamic legal systems, with their traditional preference for eyewitness testimony, this struggle has played a significant role in attitudes toward expert...

Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have traveled far from their origins at Karbala – a windswept desert plain that is now a town in present-day Iraq – where, according to tradition, Hussein, the belo...