Sa’diyya Shaikh’s groundbreaking Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi,Gender, and Sexuality not only makes a significant contribution to the growingbody of scholarship on issues of gender and Islam, but also serves as an eloquentand accessible introduction to the life and work of Muhyi al-Din ibnArabi, unquestionably one of the most important voices in the Islamic...Read More

Roel Meijer’s edited Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, oneof the first collected works to broadly analyze contemporary Salafism as aglobal religious movement for English-speaking audiences, presents thismovement as a string of methods for approaching Islam’s canonical sources.Its many methodological ambiguities and tactical classifications enable it toincorporate a variety of local and international religious groups:...Read More

The significance of the epistles on a range of intellectual disciplines by the group of scholars known as the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa’) has been known for some time, although one might argue that their significance for a proper assessment of Islamic intellectual history has been neglected. Source: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences...Read More

When writing about Islamic sectarian diversity, the vast majority of authors pay attention only to Sunni and Shi‘i Islam. Yet there exists a third group drawn from the earliest conflicts that rent the Muslim ummah apart: the Ibadis. Source: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences DownloadRead More