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Tag: Islamic Studies

Hussein Ahmad Amin
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Translating ‘The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide’ – a labour of love

posted by Emma at EUP November 26, 20186 min read1001 Views

When we first thought about translating The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide by Hussein Ahmad Amin, it was not just because the book…

Challenging Cosmopolitanism
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Challenging Cosmopolitanism

posted by Emma at EUP October 4, 20185 min read1022 Views

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

Nineteenth-Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Ninteenth-Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria

posted by Emma at EUP July 9, 20185 min read832 Views

An account of how bureaucratic procedures created the space for political conflict and slander in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bulgaria and what…

The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world

posted by Emma at EUP January 23, 20189 min read2012 Views

By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…

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 read2303 Views

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

Contemporary Turkey in Conflict
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Contemporary Turkey in Conflict

posted by Emma at EUP January 16, 20175 min read1802 Views

By Tahir Abbas Turkey is a beguiling country. It straddles one of the most important geopolitical fault lines in the…

Cultural Studies

Understanding the Maghreb Before and After the Arab Spring

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals July 27, 20166 min read2052 Views

By J.N.C Hill The start of the Arab Spring has raised numerous searching questions about the study of the Maghreb….

Cultural Studies

Islamic Thought in China

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals July 6, 20164 min read2313 Views

“There are Muslims in China?  I didn’t know that.”  Yes, indeed, there are—possibly as many as 25-30 million souls—and they…

Publishing

2015 round-up: Most read in Edinburgh Journals

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals January 12, 20162 min read1825 Views

2015 was a great year for Edinburgh University Press Journals. We published over 750 articles across 39 journals, several of…

Cultural Studies

The New Islamic Presence in Europe: Perspectives from Ireland

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals July 28, 201510 min read2294 Views

Western Europe experienced the immigration of people from a Muslim background after World War II who settled in countries like…

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