Major Works: Religion

New and Published Books

1. Tafsir

   Interpreting the Qur'an

   Edited by Mustafa Shah

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   Within the classical Islamic tradition, the field of Qur'anic exegesis, more commonly referred to as tafsir, occupies a revered place among the traditional Muslim sciences. Although tafsir encompasses various approaches to the explication of the Qur’an and these include legal, theological,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Religious Strife in Egypt (RLE Egypt)

   Crisis and Ideological Conflict in the Seventies

   By Nadia Farah

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   This critical analysis investigates the causes that brought about one of the most tumultuous periods in modern Egyptian history – the clashes between the Muslims and Copts during the 1970s. A unique retrospective, it features probing interviews with Egyptian intellectuals, writers, political and...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. The Copts in Egyptian Politics (RLE Egypt)

   By B.L. Carter

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   This book explores the political relationship between the Muslim majority and Coptic minority in Egypt between 1918 and 1952. Many Egyptians hoped to see the collaboration of the 1919 revolution spur the creation of both a new collective Egyptian identity and a state without religious bias....

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Mrs Annie Besant

   A Modern Prophet

   By Theodore Besterman

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Having already published a bibliography on Annie Besant, Theodore Besterman in this book continued with the story of her life. She was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator who lived between 1847 and 1933.Originally published in 1934, this work is fascinating...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Buddhism and Religious Diversity

   Edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   In today’s globalized world, religious diversity has become one of the strongest challenges to the self-understanding of any major religious tradition, provoking two interdependent questions. How does it see itself in the light of others? And, how does it see others in the light of its own...

   Published September 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions. Some texts examine alchemy itself while some offer insight into the motives for alchemical research and others...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. John Dee's Natural Philosophy

   Between Science and Religion

   By Nicholas Clulee

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   This is the definitive study of John Dee and his intellectual career. Originally published in 1988, this interpretation is far more detailed than any that came before and is an authoritative account for anyone interested in the history, literature and scientific developments of the Renaissance, or...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge

   Giordano Bruno in England

   By Hilary Gatti

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   Giordano Bruno’s visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama. This book explores Bruno's...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Secret Tradition in Alchemy

   Its Development and Records

   By Arthur Edward Waite

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, this book goes about intimating the mystical experience underlying hermetic symbolism. It outlines some of the ‘secret’ inner meanings to alchemy -...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. Giordano Bruno

    His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom

    By William Boulting

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

    This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century. This book follows Bruno’s life and the development of his thought in the order in which he declared it. Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and...

    Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge