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

By Matthew S. Gordon

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

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

By Deniz Cifci

The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam

By Reza Shah-Kazemi

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

By Attiya Ahmad

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)

Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance

By Shabnam J. Holliday

Diversity and Pluralism in Islam: Historical and Contemporary Discourses Amongst Muslims

By Zulfikar Hirji

Al-Qaeda: From Global Network to Local Franchise - Rebels

By Christina Hellmich

Between Reason and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled

By Eric Ormsby

From Caliphate to Secular State: Power Struggle in the Early Turkish Republic

By Hakan OEzoglu, Ph.D.

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers

By Jack Tannous

Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

By Larry Diamond (Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University), Marc F. Plattner (Editor, National Endowment for Democracy)

Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World: The Ideology and Politics of Non-State Actors

By Peter Sluglett, Victor Kattan

Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam: The Ghulat Muslims and Their Beliefs

By Mushegh Asatryan

Faith and Ethics

By M. Ali Lakhani

Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium

By Joel Blecher

Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Afghan Islamists Who Changed the World

By Chris Sands, Fazelminallah Qazizai

Saudi Arabia under Ibn Saud: Economic and Financial Foundations of the State

By Dr. J. E. Peterson

God in the Courtroom: The Transformation of Courtroom Oath and Perjury between Islamic and Franco-Egyptian Law

By Guy Bechor

Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution

By Josepha Ivanka Wessels (Malmoe University, Sweden)

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

By Jorg Matthias Determann