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.
Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God
1st Edition
By Richard Gauvain
May 24, 2017
Since 9/11, Salafism has attracted a great deal of attention from the world’s media, which predominantly focuses on its potential for revolutionary violence. Salafism remains poorly understood both in Western media, where it is now the focus of considerable debate, and in Western academia, where ...
Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy: Classical and Modern Interpretations
1st Edition
By Yaser Ellethy
March 29, 2017
Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy aspires to clarify the tensions and congruences between the revelational and the rational, the text and the context, the limits and the horizons of contextualization in Islam, as these emanate from the Islamic interpretative tradition. This book examines ...
Muslim Active Citizenship in the West
1st Edition
By Mario Peucker, Shahram Akbarzadeh
December 14, 2016
Muslim Active Citizenship in the West investigates the emergence and nature of Muslims’ struggle for recognition as full members of society in Australia, Great Britain and Germany. What actions have been taken by Muslims to achieve equal civic standing? How do socio-political and socio-economic ...
Refashioning Secularisms in France and Turkey: The Case of the Headscarf Ban
1st Edition
By Amelie Barras
December 14, 2016
Over the past few years, secularism has become an intrinsic component of discussions on religious freedom and religious governance. The question of whether states should restrict the wearing of headscarves and other religious symbols has been particularly critical in guiding this thought ...
Muslim Women in Britain: De-Mystifying the Muslimah
1st Edition
By Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
May 30, 2014
Perceptions of Muslim women in Western society have been shaped by historical and sociological conditions such as colonialism, patriarchy and Orientalism. In Muslim Women in Britain, Sariya Contractor seeks to reinstate the Muslimah as a storyteller who tells her own story. An exploration of the ...
Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power
1st Edition
By Ivan Kalmar
March 19, 2014
The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under ...
Muslim Women Online: Faith and Identity in Virtual Space
1st Edition
By Anna Piela
March 07, 2014
While issues surrounding Muslim women are common in the international media, the voices of Muslim women themselves are largely absent from media coverage and despite the rapidly increasing presence of Muslim women in online groups and discussions, it is still a relatively unexplored topic.This book...
Political Liberalism in Muslim Societies
1st Edition
By Fevzi Bilgin
March 07, 2014
Having survived the process of modernization and reasserted themselves in public life, religious traditions play an increasingly important public role in shaping and defining social institutions and interactions. This book examines Rawls’s theory of political liberalism in the context of ...
Shari'a Compliant Microfinance
1st Edition
Edited
By S. Nazim Ali
March 07, 2014
In the recent past, Islamic finance has made an impressive case on the banking scene by becoming an alternative to the popular conventional financial systems, spurring a lively academic debate on how the Islamic finance industry can expand its services to cover the poor. Several propositions have ...
Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Göran Larsson
February 27, 2013
Although Muslims are now an important presence in Europe, little is known about the Muslim communities that exist in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe. This is the first comprehensive and detailed study of the history, context and development of Islamic institutions and Muslim groups in ...
Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and dissemination in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Martin van Bruinessen, Stefano Allievi
September 10, 2012
How do Muslims in Europe acquire discursive and practical knowledge of Islam? How are conceptions of Islamic beliefs, values and practices transmitted and how do they change? Who are the authorities on these issues that Muslims listen to? How do new Muslim discourses emerge in response to the ...
Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt: Contesting the Nation
1st Edition
By Anthony Gorman
August 10, 2010
This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the academic historian, the university system, the state and non-academic scholarship and the tension between them in contesting the modern history of...