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Tag: Islam

Cultural Studies

Palestinian lives matter

posted by Teri Williams December 7, 20205 min read76 Views

By Ronit Lentin When the announcement of the candidacy of Israeli lawmaker and retired general Efraim ‘Effi’ Eitam as director…

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Five Essentials of Muslim Preaching

posted by Helena Heald August 10, 20205 min read117 Views

To celebrate the release of Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies, editors Simon…

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Introducing Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology

posted by Helena Heald July 23, 20205 min read123 Views

Series Editor Ramon Harvey introduces our latest Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies series, Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology….

cover image of 'Muslim-Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran'
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Interreligious Polemics as a Window into Early Modern Iran

posted by Zuzana IHNATOVA May 28, 20205 min read331 Views

If anyone decided to do a quick search for scholarship on interreligious polemics, especially of the Muslim-Christian kind, he or…

Cultural Studies

Scottish Muslims: Unity and Belonging

posted by Naomi Farmer January 21, 20204 min read432 Views

Scottish Muslims’ lives are dressed up in tartan and play the music of Islam. The Scottish ‘Muslim community’ is made…

Making Mongol History
Cultural History

Tracing the life and work of Rashid al-Din

posted by Emma at EUP September 2, 20198 min read847 Views

By Stefan Kamola, author of Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh Early in 1839, Professor of Linguistics…

Queen Arwa’s mosque (Dhu Jibla, Yemen)
Gender Studies

An interview with Taef El-Azhari, author of ‘Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257’

posted by Emma at EUP August 13, 201911 min read913 Views

Tell us a bit about your book Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257 is the first comprehensive study…

Muslims in Central Asia
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

7 things you may not know about the history of Muslims in Central Asia

posted by Emma at EUP February 4, 20198 min read1802 Views

By Galina M. Yemelianova 1) There are both narrow and broad notions of Central Asia. The narrow one relates to…

Challenging Cosmopolitanism
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Challenging Cosmopolitanism

posted by Emma at EUP October 4, 20185 min read1429 Views

The temptation to look longingly to idealised visions of Islamic cosmopolitanism as the antithesis to the militant communal solidarity associated…

The Qur'an and the Just Society
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

The Qur’an and the Just Society

posted by Emma at EUP November 27, 20174 min read2851 Views

I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to…

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