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The Kurds and the Politics of Turkey: Agency, Territory and Religion

By Deniz Cifci

Spear to the West: Thought and Recruitment in Violent Jihadism

By Stephen Chan

Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qur'anic Exegesis (2nd/8th-9th/15th Centuries)

By Karen Bauer (Research Associate, Qur'anic Studies, The Institute of Ismaili Studies)

Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World

By Fatima Mernissi, Mary Jo Lakeland

Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict

By Thomas Johnson

Islam and World History: The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson

By Edmund Burke, Robert J. Mankin

The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran

By Roy Mottahedeh

The Political Aesthetics of Global Protest: The Arab Spring and Beyond

By Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb, Kathryn Spellman-Poots

The Shari'a: History, Ethics and Law

By Amyn Sajoo

Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen

By Mark S. Wagner

Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World

By Prof. William Granara

The Arabs from Alexander the Great until the Islamic Conquests: Orientalist Perceptions and Contemporary Conflicts

By Ayad Al-Ani

The Fatimids 2: The Rule from Egypt

By Shainool Jiwa (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK)

Twilight Nationalism: Politics of Existence at Life's End

By Daniel Monterescu, Haim Hazan

Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire

By Seema Alavi

Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement

By Roel Meijer

Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha'i Faith

By Mehrdad Amanat

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

By Dwight Reynolds

Ahmad ibn Tulun: Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868-884

By Matthew S. Gordon

Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity

By Khurram Hussain

The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Arab Press: The First Three Decades

By William W. Haddad (California State University, USA)

A Code of Conduct: A Treatise on the Etiquette of the Fatimid Ismaili Mission

By Verena Klemm, Paul E. Walker (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK)

Yemen and the World: Beyond Insecurity

By Laurent Bonnefoy

Iraq: People, History, Politics

By Gareth Stansfield (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

Depicting the Veil: Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror

By Robin L. Riley

Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East

By Jorg Matthias Determann

Russia and Its Islamic World: From the Mongol Conquest to The Syrian Military Intervention

By Robert Service

Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

By Attiya Ahmad

Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance

By Shabnam J. Holliday

Ibn Taymiyya and his Times

By Yossef Rapoport (Fellow in Arabic, Fellow in Arabic, Oriental Institute, Oxford), Shahab Ahmed (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard University)