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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

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

By Jack Tannous

Esoteric Traditions in Islamic Thought: An Anthology of Texts on Esoteric Knowledge and Gnosis in Islam

By Leonard Lewisohn

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)

Iraq: People, History, Politics

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

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

By Hakan OEzoglu, Ph.D.

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

By Matthew S. Gordon

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

By Robert Service

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

By Jorg Matthias Determann

Depicting the Veil: Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror

By Robin L. Riley

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)

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)

Muhammad, Prophet of God

By Daniel Peterson