This volume, short and rich in primary source material, focuses on the relationshipbetween the Ottoman central government (Istanbul) and the empire’svarious nationalities during the fateful 1908-18 period. Istanbul’s struggle toaddress enormous political and military challenges, European involvement,and the rise of nationalism and ethnic/religious resentments are duly covered.The book is well organized with a dedicated section...Read More

With painstaking effort and much dedication invested in this groundbreakingwork, John Andrew Morrow will surely manage to attract the attention of Islamicstudies students and specialists. Not only is the topic novel, but surelythe approach and method are new as well. Indeed, The Covenants of theProphet Muhammad with the Christians of the World is a genuine...Read More

In this challenging and thought-provoking monograph, Ahmad Atif Ahmaddraws on the issue of futūr al-Sharī‘a (the end of access to divine guidancedue to the absence of qualified jurists) to explore how early Muslim scholarsdebated its possible loss. Basing himself upon the analysis of medieval Sunnilegal and theological texts, the author divides his monograph into four...Read More

Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni is a distinguished human rights advocate with anastounding career and publication record that exceeds seventy books (authoredand edited) and 260 articles. The Sharī‘a and Islamic Criminal Justice is yetanother rigorous contribution that should enrich and broaden the scope of thecriminal law debate in the Islamic legal system and its relevance to internationalhumanitarian...Read More