Scottish Muslims’ lives are dressed up in tartan and play the music of Islam. The Scottish ‘Muslim community’ is made…
Tag: Islamic Studies
When we first thought about translating The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide by Hussein Ahmad Amin, it was not just because the book…
The temptation to look longingly to idealised visions of Islamic cosmopolitanism as the antithesis to the militant communal solidarity associated…
An account of how bureaucratic procedures created the space for political conflict and slander in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bulgaria and what…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world
By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to…
By Tahir Abbas Turkey is a beguiling country. It straddles one of the most important geopolitical fault lines in the…
By J.N.C Hill The start of the Arab Spring has raised numerous searching questions about the study of the Maghreb….
“There are Muslims in China? I didn’t know that.” Yes, indeed, there are—possibly as many as 25-30 million souls—and they…
2015 was a great year for Edinburgh University Press Journals. We published over 750 articles across 39 journals, several of…