Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In "Public Freedoms in the Islamic State", he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – in its broad outlines – meets with wide acceptance among Muslims...

For sale in CIS only! "Political Islam in Tunisia" uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Al-Nahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Banned until the popular uprisings of 2010-2011 and the overthrow of Ben Ali'...

In "The Politics of Islamic Law", Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of "Islamic law". She demonstrates that not only is Islamic...

Why has religion persisted across the course of human history? Secularists have predicted the end of faith for a long time, but religions continue to attract followers. Meanwhile, scholars of religion have expanded their field to such an extent that...

This highly regarded volume was the first to explore the doctrine of prophetic revelation, a critical and definitive area of Islamic religious and political thought. In it, the esteemed Islamic scholar Fazlur Rahman traces the inception of this doctr...

For sale in CIS only! Islamism is often portrayed as a reaction against, or at best a belated accommodation to, modernization. Refuting this dismissive opinion, Bj?rn Utvik explores the movement through the lens of its engagement with social and eco...