“Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations
and hopes of Egyptian youth... Recommended.”—Choice Against the backdrop of the …

Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest." I can't imagine a
more important book for our time."—Sebastian Junger The world is blowing up. Every day a …

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes political ideologies to help readers
understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology, from a political science …

Misquoting Muhammad is a compelling read. It is an ambitious and well-conceived effort by
Jonathan AC Brown to explore the rich intellectual and legal tradition of Sunni Islam. The …

I wrote this book in order to explain why Islamic terrorism threatens to continue to be a major
global problem, and even grow in strength, well into the twenty-first century. For some …

The first comprehensive analysis of Muslim movements of reform in modern sub-Saharan
AfricaBased on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia …

In this study of everyday religious culture in early modern Syria and Palestine, James
Grehan offers a social history that looks beyond conventional ways of thinking about religion …

Cosmopolitan Political Thought asks the question of what it might mean for the very
practices of political theorizing to be cosmopolitan. It suggests that such a vision of political …

" Fundamentalism" and" authoritarian secularism" are commonly perceived as the two
mutually exclusive paradigms available to Muslim majority countries. Recent political …

Suspicions about the integration of Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the
rise, and dramatically so since 9/11. One reason lies in the visibility of anti-Western Islamic …