This probing study of the veil's recent return—from one of the world's foremost authorities on Muslim women—reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam's place in the West today.

Ali A. Allawi—a respected Iraqi statesman and thinker who has served the postwar government in several posts—offers a bold analysis of today’s crisis in the Islamic world. He offers proposals that will surprise some and anger others, but they cannot be ignored by anyone concerned about the future of Islamic civilization.

Closely examining premodern illustrated manuscripts of Islamic cosmographies, this original book sheds new light not only on the historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy but also on the history of book illustration.

This accessible and informative history brings the classical Islamic world alive, illuminating its importance to the cultural history of Europe and America as the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-Roman traditions.

Against the panorama of political, economic, social, and cultural change, religious and secular forces emerge and compete to shape two centuries of late Ottoman and republican Turkish history.

This groundbreaking investigation explores how and why so many rural West Africans "became Muslim" under French colonialism. The author argues that conversions were rarely coerced, but happened peacefully and gradually over several generations.

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