Islam, Arabs, and Intelligent World of the Jinn
According to the Qur’an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into…
Books
Kalaam Gamiil: An Intensive Course in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
Kalaam Gamiil Volume 2 further develops learners’ skills in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, along parallel tracks of vocabulary and grammar. It is designed to enable students to communicate effectively with native…
La Question du mal – Éthique, politique, religion comparée
This work is the result of a symposium held at the Georgetown University concerning “The Question of Evil: Literature, Ethics, Politics, and Comparative Religion.” It includes an interview with Francois…
Labials in Amharic and Arabic: An Acoustic Study
Mohamed presents an empirical comparative study of two close languages – Amharic and Arabic – that belong to the South Semitic languages according to the majority of linguistic classifications. Acoustic…
Law and Politics under the Abbasids
Abu Ma’ali al-Juwayni (d.478/1085) lived in a politically tumultuous period. The rise of powerful dynastic families forced the Abbasid Caliph into a position of titular power, and created instability. He…
Le Testament D'Allan Berg
The world in which Allan Berg, a professor at an American university, lives is both close to and different from ours: his country is on the verge of becoming a…
Locating the Shari'a
The study of the sharīʿa has enjoyed a renaissance in the last two decades and it will continue to attract interdisciplinary attention given the ongoing social, political and religious developments…
Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf
In some Persian Gulf countries, expatriate workers make up as much as eighty-five to ninety percent of the population. Unsurprisingly, these states spend vast amounts of political energy managing their…
Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary
The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life…
Networked Publics and Digital Contention : the Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia
How is the adoption of digital media in the Arab world affecting the relationship between the state and its subjects? What new forms of online engagement and strategies of resistance…
Pathways to an Inner Islam : Massignon, Corbin, Guénon, and Schuon
Pathways to an Inner Islam provides an introduction to the esoteric or spiritual “inner Islam” presented by Western thinkers Louis Massignon, Henry Corbin, René Guénon, and Frithjof Schuon. Particularly interested…
Peace and Dialogue in a Plural Society
In a world that is too often seen as a clash of civilizations, some believe there is another way, a path that involves engagement, dialogue, and respect. In Thomas Michel’s…
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