2022 Wafi A. Momin Texts, Scribes and Transmission The past few decades have seen a burgeoning interest in the manuscript cultures of the Muslim world. The study of…
2022 Dagikhudo Dagiev Central Asian Ismailis Ismaili Heritage Series The Ismaili Shi‘i Muslims of Central Asia have had a long and eventful history. This book presents a brief survey…
2021 Janis Esots Patterns of Wisdom in Safavid Iran Shi‘i Heritage Series The exceptional intellectual richness of 17th-century Safavid Iran is epitomised by the philosophical school of Isfahan, and in particular by…
2021 Shiraz Kabani Ismaili Festivals Living Ismaili Traditions The Muslim calendar is enriched by festivals observed by the umma as a whole, such as Eid al-Adha and Eid…
2021 Karen Bauer An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Vol. 2 Qur’anic Studies Series Building on the success of Anthology, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine, this second volume in the series…
2021 Raficq S. Abdulla al-sharīʿa al-Islāmiyya fī ʿālam mutaghayyir This is an Arabic translation of Understanding Sharia: Islamic Law in a Globalised World. Description from Understanding Sharia Sharia has…
2021 Eric Ormsby On Life, Death, and Languages Epistles of the Brethren of Purity The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Brethren of Purity), the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad, hold…
2021 Daryoush Mohammad Poor Command and Creation Ismaili Texts and Translations Series The eminent Muslim scholar al-Shahrastānī, who may have been a crypto-Ismaili, wrote the Majlis-i maktūb in the final years of…
