What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean
peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of …

While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is
acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding …

A comprehensive account of two of the most important empires in medieval North AfricaThis
is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the …

Redactar un prólogo es una tarea de gran responsabilidad, tanto mayor cuanto más
apreciable es el valor del libro prologado, y ciertamente este es el caso. La obra de Javier …

In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-
Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of …

Offering a new reading of Islamic ethical and political thought in the Būyid period (334-
440/946-1048), this book focuses particularly on the philosopher Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī …

Modern scholars disagree about the extent to which the historical Ibn Rushd actually
defended the ideas commonly associated with Averroism and whether his philosophical …

Abū l-Qāsim Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Qasī (6th/12th century) is a unique figure in the
landscape of medieval Islamic mysticism. Both an author of an original theosophical treatise …

In the late sixteenth century a Muslim silk weaver named Kamāl al-Dīn regularly recorded
anecdotes and observations about his life and work in Ottoman Aleppo. A lengthy fragment …

On examine ici une série de thèmes sur lesquels s' appuient les croyances millénaristes
communes aux deux rives de la Méditerranée durant les XVIe et XVIIe siècles, tels ceux du …