Islam

The Precious Summary

A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty Sagang Sechen Translated by Johan Elverskog

The Precious Summary is the most important work of Mongolian history on the threehundred-year period before the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty. Written by Sagang Sechen in 1662, shortly after the Mongols’ submission to the Qing, it spans Buddhist cosmology, Chinggis Khan, the post-Yuan Mongols, and the Mongols’ conversion to Buddhism.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20695-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20694-5 March 2023 360 pages

Wives and Work

Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity Marion Holmes Katz

It is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives’ domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20689-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20688-4 2022 320 pages Under Empire

Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945 Michael Francis Laffan

Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and nationstates around the Indian Ocean world. He traces interlinked lives and journeys, examining engagements with Western, Islamic, and panAsian imperial formations to consider the possibilities for Muslims in an imperial age.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20263-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20262-6 2022 480 pages

The Politics of Arab Authenticity

Challenges to Postcolonial Thought Ahmad Agbaria

Ahmad Agbaria tells the story of a generation of postcolonial thinkers and activists who came to question their modernist commitments. He analyzes the heated cultural and intellectual debates that overtook the Arab world in the 1970s, uncovering why major figures turned to tradition in search of solutions to postcolonial predicaments.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20495-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20494-1 2022 288 pages

Sacred Kingship in World History

Between Immanence and Transcendence Edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern

Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective.

$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-20417-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20416-3 2022 392 pages The Sound of Salvation

Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China Guangtian Ha

The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order in northwest China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The first ethnography of this order in any language, The Sound of Salvation draws on nearly a decade of fieldwork to reveal the intricacies and importance of Jahriyya vocal recitation.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19806-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19806-6 2022 312 pages 32 illus.

A Culture of Ambiguity

An Alternative History of Islam Thomas Bauer

Translated by Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall

In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and a competing tendency that looks for ways to live with complexity.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17064-2 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-17064-2 2021 336 pages Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context

A Bibliographical History Zofia A. Brzozowska, Mirosław J. Leszka, and Teresa Wolińska

This bibliographic dictionary features an overview of medieval texts from the Eastern Orthodox world that discuss Muhammad, the Arabs, and the birth of Islam. These texts shed new light on interreligious polemics in the Middle Ages, previous studies of which have typically focused on texts written in Greek, Latin, or Middle Eastern languages.

$50.00 / £40.00 paper 978-83-2334-943-3 2022 384 pages 2 illus.

In Remembrance of the Saints

The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari Translated by David Brophy

In the late eighteenth century, Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari wrote an account of religious and political conflicts in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang, on the eve of the Qing conquest. This volume presents the complete, long recension of In Remembrance of the Saints, translated for the first time into any language.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19819-6 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19818-9 2020 304 pages 3 illus. y

The Language of History

Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule Audrey Truschke

For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. Audrey Truschke offers a groundbreaking analysis of these texts.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19705-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19704-5 2021 376 pages

German, Jew, Muslim,Gay

The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus Marc David Baer

Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to investigate a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19671-0 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19670-3 2020 320 pages

Women in the Mosque

A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice Marion Holmes Katz

WINNER, AMEWS BOOK AWARD, ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE EAST WOMEN'S STUDIES

Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Marion Holmes Katz connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to changing constructions of gender. She also explores both the concrete social and political implications of Islamic legal discourse and the autonomy of women's mosque-based activities.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-16267-8 2021 432 pages