Routledge Islamic Studies Series
About the Book Series
This broad ranging series includes books on Islamic issues from all parts of the globe and is not simply confined to the Middle East.
Hadith Commentary as Discourse and Genre
1st Edition
By Nurullah Ardıç, Mustafa Macit Karagözoğlu
May 03, 2027
Hadith Commentary as Discourse and Genre offers a systematic and interdisciplinary framework for analysing ḥadīth commentary, presenting two comprehensive models that approach the commentary tradition through discourse and genre analysis. Drawing on twenty-five ḥadīth commentaries spanning the ...
Freedom of Expression in Islam and Liberal Democracies
1st Edition
By Razi H. Quadir
March 30, 2027
This book offers a systematic comparative study of freedom of expression in Islamic legal thought and Western liberal democratic traditions. It investigates how both systems conceptualise freedom of expression within broader moral frameworks that also include concerns about social order, dignity, ...
Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World: British Scholars, Sojourners and Sleuths
1st Edition
By Iftikhar H. Malik
January 09, 2023
Beginning with the medieval period, this book collates and reviews first-hand scholarship on Muslims in the Middle East and South Asia, as noted down by eminent British travellers, sleuths and observers of lived Islam. The book foregrounds the pre-colonial and pre-Orientalist phase and locates the ...
Islamic Conversation: Sohbet and Ethics in Contemporary Turkey
1st Edition
By Smita Tewari Jassal
June 30, 2021
The book evaluates on-going ethical conversations to learn how emotional communication is received, teachings are internalized, and a religious world-view is brought to life. Exploring how religious values saturate people’s consciousness to induce subtle shifts in moral and ethical ...
Muslim Women and Gender Justice: Concepts, Sources, and Histories
1st Edition
Edited
By Dina El Omari, Juliane Hammer, Mouhanad Khorchide
April 01, 2021
This volume brings together the work of a group of Islamic studies scholars from across the globe. They discuss how past and present Muslim women have participated in the struggle for gender justice in Muslim communities and around the world. The essays demonstrate a diversity of methodological ...
Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance: Alternatives to Litigation?
1st Edition
Edited
By Adnan Trakic, John Benson, Pervaiz K Ahmed
September 30, 2020
Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance addresses how best to handle disputes within Islamic finance. It examines how they can be resolved in a less confrontational manner and ensure such disagreements are settled in a just and fair way. There has been little focus on how disputes within Islamic ...
A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism: Pattern and Change in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Etin Anwar
August 14, 2020
A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism offers a new insight on the changing relationship between Islam and feminism from the colonial era in the 1900s to the early 1990s in Indonesia.The book juxtaposes both colonial and postcolonial sites to show the changes and the patterns of the encounters between ...
The Idea of European Islam: Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity
1st Edition
By Mohammed Hashas
March 04, 2020
Suspicions about the integration of Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the rise, and dramatically so since 9/11. One reason lies in the visibility of anti-Western Islamic discourses of salafi origin, which have monopolized the debate on the "true" Islam, not only among Muslims but ...
The Teaching and Study of Islam in Western Universities
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Morris, William Shepard, Paul Trebilco, Toni Tidswell
December 12, 2019
Public interest in the religion of Islam and in Muslim communities in recent years has generated an impetus for Western Universities to establish an array of Institutes and programs dedicated to the study of Islam. Despite the growth in number of programs dedicated to this study, very little ...
Young Muslim Change-Makers: Grassroots Charities Rethinking Modern Societies
1st Edition
By William Barylo
December 12, 2019
The Muslim charity sector is stronger than ever, attracting thousands of volunteers and millions of pounds in donations. In times of mobile internet and social media, young people have set up small scale charities in urban areas, providing general social services to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. ...
Da'wa and Other Religions: Indian Muslims and the Modern Resurgence of Global Islamic Activism
1st Edition
By Matthew J. Kuiper
March 21, 2019
Da‘wa, a concept rooted in the scriptural and classical tradition of Islam, has been dramatically re-appropriated in modern times across the Muslim world. Championed by a variety of actors in diverse contexts, da‘wa –"inviting" to Islam, or Islamic missionary activity – has become central to the ...
Postcolonialism and Islam: Theory, Literature, Culture, Society and Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Nash, Kathleen Kerr-Koch, Sarah Hackett
August 23, 2018
With a focus on the areas of theory, literature, culture, society and film, this collection of essays examines, questions and broadens the applicability of Postcolonialism and Islam from a multifaceted and cross-disciplinary perspective. Topics covered include the relationship between ...