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1. Theological Approaches to Qur'anic Exegesis

   A Practical Comparative-Contrastive Analysis

   By Hussein Abdul-Raof

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the various schools of Qur'anic exegesis, from the earliest periods through to the present day. Employing a comparative-contrastive methodology, the author examines traditional and rational schools of thought – such as the Mu’tazili, Shi...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt

   Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection

   By Nahyan Fancy

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   This book helps situate a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the lifesciences: the discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood, a prerequisite for WilliamHarvey’s fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. By revealingthe social, religious, philosophical and medical...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Muslim Conquest of Iberia

   Medieval Arabic Narratives

   By Nicola Clarke

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Medieval Islamic society set great store by the transmission of history: to edify, argue legal points, explain present conditions, offer political and religious legitimacy, and entertain. Modern scholars, too, have had much to say about the usefulness of early Islamic history-writing, although this...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. Angels in Islam

   Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's al-Haba'ik fi akhbar al-mala'ik

   By Stephen Burge

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Angels are a basic tenet of belief in Islam, appearing in various types and genres of text, from eschatology to law and theology to devotional material. This book presents the first comprehensive study of angels in Islam, through an analysis of a collection of traditions (hadith) compiled by the...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
5. Islam and Science

   The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi

   By Robert Morrison

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not consider himself a scientist alone,...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics

   A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 1

   By Roshdi Rashed

   Edited by Nader El-Bizri

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   In this unique insight into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the mediaeval Arab world, the eminent scholar Roshdi Rashed illuminates the various historical, textual and epistemic threads that underpinned the history of Arabic mathematical and scientific knowledge up to the...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Christians in Al-Andalus 711-1000

   By Ann Rosemary Christys

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Our current image of the Christian population of al-Andalus after AD711 reflects the way history has been written. The Christians almost disappeared from the historical record as the historians of the conquering Muslims concentrated on the glories of the Ummayads.This book reconsiders, through...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
8. Shi'i Theology in Iran

   The Challenge of Religious Experience

   By Ori Goldberg

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Taking a theologically oriented method for engaging with historical and cultural phenomena, this book explores the challenge, offered by revolutionary Shi’i theology in Iran, to Western conventions on theology, revolution and religion’s role in the creation of identity. Offering a stringent...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
9. Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism

   Selected Eastern Writings

   Edited by Geoffrey Nash, Daniel O'Donoghue

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Though known to specialists, Comte de Gobineau’s vital if idiosyncratic contribution to Orientalism has only been accessible to the English reader through secondary sources. Especially important for its portrayal of an esoteric Sufi sect like the Ahl-i Haqq, and its vivid narrative of the Babi...

   Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge
10. Inspired Knowledge in Islamic Thought

    Al-Ghazali's Theory of Mystical Cognition and Its Avicennian Foundation

    By Alexander Treiger

    Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

    It has been customary to see the Muslim theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) as a vehement critic of philosophy, who rejected it in favour of Islamic mysticism (Sufism), a view which has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. This book argues that al-Ghazali was, instead, one of the...

    Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge