Forthcoming Islam Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Al-Ghazali, Averroes and the Interpretation of the Qur'an

   Common Sense and Philosophy in Islam

   By Avital Wohlman

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   This book examines the contrasting interpretations of Islam and the Qur’an by Averroes and Al-Ghazali, as a way of helping us untangle current impasses affecting each Abrahamic faith. This has traditionally been portrayed as a battle between philosophy and theology, but the book shows that Averroes...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions

   By Emran El-Badawi

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Qur'an

   This book is a literary and historical analysis of the Arabic Qur’an and Aramaic Gospels, i.e. the four canonical Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA) dialects....

   To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Islam in the Modern World

   Edited by Jeffrey T. Kenney, Ebrahim Moosa

   Series: Religions in the Modern World

   This comprehensive introduction explores the landscape of contemporary Islam. Written by a distinguished team of scholars, it: provides broad overviews of the developments, events, people and movements that have defined Islam in the three majority-Muslim regions traces the connections between...

   To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Qur'an in Christian-Muslim Dialogue

   Historical and Modern Interpretations

   By Corrie Block

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Offering an analysis of Christian-Muslim dialogue across four centuries, this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur’an for drawing the two faiths together rather than pushing them apart, and amplifies the voice of the Qur’an itself. Finding that there...

   To Be Published September 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Life of Muhammad

   Al-Waqidi's Kitab al-Maghazi

   Edited by Rizwi Faizer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Classical Islam

   Muhammad b. ‘Umar al-Waqidi was a Muslim scholar, born in Medina in the 1st Century. Of his several writings the most significant is the Kitab al-Maghazi, one of the earliest standard histories of the life of the Prophet. Translated into English for the first time, Rizwi Faizer makes available...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. Religious Scholars and the Umayyads

   Piety-Minded Supporters of the Marwanid Caliphate

   By Steven Judd

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwanid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious scholars who supported the Umayyads. Their scholarly network extended across several generations and significantly influenced the development of the...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
7. Ethics in Islam

   Friendship in the Political Thought of Al-Tawhidi and his Contemporaries

   By Nuha Al-Shaar

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   This book offers a critical study of ethical and socio-political thought in the Buyid period....

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
8. Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus

   By Shari Lowin

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in al-Andalus investigates a largely overlooked subset of Muslim and Jewish love poetry in medieval Spain: hetero- and home-erotic love poems written by Muslim and Jewish religious scholars, in which the lover and his sensual experience of the beloved are compared to...

   To Be Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge
9. Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century

   A Contextualist Approach

   By Abdullah Saeed

   Reading the Qur’an in the Twenty-First Century considers the development of Qur’anic interpretation and highlights modern debates around new approaches to interpretation. It explores how Muslims from various theological, legal, socio-political and philosophical backgrounds think about the meaning...

   To Be Published November 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. Skepticism in Classical Islam

    Moments of Confusion

    By Paul Heck

    Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

    The first major treatment of skepticism in Islam, this book explores the critical role of skeptical thinking in the development of theology in Islam. It examines the way key thinkers in classical Islam faced perplexing questions about the nature of God and his relation to the world, all the while...

    To Be Published November 25th 2013 by Routledge