Islam

VOLUME 1: QUR'AN AND PROPHECY Qur'an Understanding the Qur'an in Text and Context - Richard C. Martin Qur'an as Spoken Word - William Graham The Tasks and Tradition of Interpretation - Jane Dammen McAuliffe The Dilemma of the Literary Approach to the Qur'an - Nasr Abu-Zayd Structure and the Emergence of Community - Angelika Neuwirth Sound, Spirit, and Gender in Surat al-Qadr - Michael Sells The Light Verse: Qur'anic Text and Sufi Interpretation - Gerhard Boewering Some Key Ethical Concepts of the Qur'an - Fazlur Rahman The Will in the Qur'an - Frederick M. Denny Themes and Topics - Dan Madigan Readings of the Qur'an in London and Najaf: John Wansbrough and Muhammad Ba-qir al-Sadr - Chibli Mallat History and Nostalgia: Reflections on John Wansbrough's The Sectarian Milieu - Norman Calder Prophecy Images of Muhammed in the Work of Iqbal: Tradition and Alterations - Earle H. Waugh The Signs of Prophecy: The Emergence and Early Development of a Theme in Arabic Theological Literature - Sarah Stroumsa Pre-Existence and Light: Aspects of the Concept of Nu-r Muhammad - Uri Rubin The Story of the Portraits of the Prophet Muhammad - Oleg Grabar Devotion to the Prophet and His Family in Egyptian Sufism - Valerie J. Hoffman-Ladd Metaphors and Sacred History: The Genealogy of Muhammad and the Arab "Tribe" - Daniel Martin Varisco The Quest of the Historical Muhammad - Francis E. Peters VOLUME 2: ISLAMIC THOUGHT, LAW AND ETHICS Necessary Knowledge in Islamic Theology - Binyamin Abrahamov Aspects of the Creed of Imam Hanbal: A Study of Anthropomorphism in Early Islamic Discourse - Wesley Williams The Unknowability of God in al-Ghazali - David B. Burrell Observations on the Muslim Concept of Evil - Gustave E. von Grunebaum Divine Preordination and Human Hope a Study of the Concept of Bada' in Imam - Mahmoud Ayoub Conditions for Meaningful Comparative Philosophy - Seyyed Hussein Nasr Two Muslim-Christian Debates from the Early Shi'ite Tradition - David Thomas Traditionist-Jurisprudents and the Framing of Islamic Law - Christopher Melchert Dead Tradition: Joseph Schacht - Ze'ev Maghen Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? - Wael B. Hallaq Signs as Evidence: The Doctrine of Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (D. 1351) on Proof - Baber Johansen Islamic Law and Muslim Minorities - Khaled Abou el-Fadl The Islamization of Criminal Law - Rudolph Peters Why You Should Poison Your Husband: Note on Liability in Hanaf - Colin Imber Mahr: Legal Obligation or Rightful Demand? - Mona Siddiqui Ethical Presuppositions of the Qu'ran - George F. Hourani Ethics in Medieval Islamic Philosophy - Charles E. Butterworth The Answers of Applied Islamology - Mohammed Arkoun VOLUME 3: WORSHIP AND RITUAL The Essence of Religious Experience in Islam - Isma'il R. al-Faruqiq The Aesthetic Reception of the Qur'an as Reflected in Early Muslim History - Navi'd Kermani Islam and Art - Isma'il R. al-Faruqiq Impurity/No Danger - Kevin Reinhart The Hajj and the Study of Islamic Ritual - Marrion Katz Financial Worship: The Qur'anic Injunction to Almsgiving - Jonathan Benthall Eating and Fasting for God in Sufi Tradition - Valerie Hoffman Miracles in Si'i Thought: A Case-Study of the Miracles Attributed to Imam Ga'far al-Sadiq - Judith Loebenstein Some Aspects of Mystical Prayer in Islam - Annemarie Schimmel Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of "Salat" - Saba Mahmoud On Scriptural Essentialism and Ritual Variation: Muslim sacrifice in Sumatra and Morocco - John R. Bowen The Birth of the Prophet: Ritual and Gender in Turkish Islam - Nancy Tapper and Richard Tapper Women, Saints and Sanctuaries - Fatima Mernissi Mazar Festivals of the Uyghurs: Music, Islam and the Chinese State - Rachel Harris and Rahilae Dawut Death, Funeral Processions, and the Articulation of Religious Authority in Early Islam - Muhammad Qasim Zaman VOLUME 4: GENDER AND POLITICS Women and Hadith Transmission: Two Case Studies - Asma Sayeed Disciplining Wives: A Historical Reading of Qur'an 4:34 - Manuela Marin Muftis and Matrimony: Islamic Law and Gender in Ottoman Syria - Judith E. Tucker Women in the Afterlife: The Islamic View as Seen from Qur'an and Tradition - Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Y. Haddad Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the Debate - Valentine M. Moghadem Gendered Transformations: Beauty, Love, and Sexuality in Qajar Iran - Afsaneh Najmabadi Internationalising the Conversation on Women's Rights: Arab Countries Face CEDAW Committees - Ann Elizabeth Mayer Exploited by Whom? An Alternative Perspective on Humanitarian Assistance to Afghan Women - Sultan Barakat and Gareth Wardell The Saudi Public Speaks: Religion, Gender and Politics - Monsoor Moaddel The Political Concepts of Islam - Ira M. Lapidus The Origins and Objectives of Islamic Revivalist Thought, 1750 - 1850 - Ahmad Dallal Rhetoric, Discourse and the Future of Hope - Richard W. Bulliet Public Islam and the Problem of Democratisation - Robert W. Hefner Three Islamic Strands in the South African Struggle for Justice - Farid Esack Contentious Public Religion: Two Concepts of Islam in Revolutionary Iran - Ali Shariati and Abdolkarim Soroush - Behroz Ghamani Tabrizi Globalization and the Politics of Religious Knowledge: Pluralizing Authority in the Muslim World - Peter Mandaville