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Who Is Muhammad?

Who Is Muhammad?

Michael Muhammad Knight

I Cannot Write My Life

I Cannot Write My Life

Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America

Mbaye Lo, Carl W. Ernst

The Other Side of Silence

The Other Side of Silence

A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement

Mahnaz Afkhami

Hajj to the Heart

Hajj to the Heart

Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean

Scott Kugle

China's Muslims and Japan's Empire

China's Muslims and Japan's Empire

Centering Islam in World War II

Kelly A. Hammond

Realizing Islam

Realizing Islam

The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World

Zachary Valentine Wright

Muhammad's Body

Muhammad's Body

Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage

Michael Muhammad Knight

Modernism on the Nile

Modernism on the Nile

Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary

Alex Dika Seggerman

Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World

Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World

Babak Rahimi, Peyman Eshaghi

In a Pure Muslim Land

In a Pure Muslim Land

Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Hashtag Islam

Hashtag Islam

How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority

Gary R. Bunt

Sacred Interests

Sacred Interests

The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921

Karine V. Walther

Islam without Europe

Islam without Europe

Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought

Ahmad S. Dallal

Religion as Critique

Religion as Critique

Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace

Irfan Ahmad

The Promise of Patriarchy

The Promise of Patriarchy

Women and the Nation of Islam

Ula Yvette Taylor

What Is Veiling?

What Is Veiling?

Sahar Amer

Muslim American Women on Campus

Muslim American Women on Campus

Undergraduate Social Life and Identity

Shabana Mir

When Sun Meets Moon

When Sun Meets Moon

Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry

Scott Kugle

Who Is Allah?

Who Is Allah?

Bruce B. Lawrence

What Is a Madrasa?

What Is a Madrasa?

Ebrahim Moosa

The Call of Bilal

The Call of Bilal

Islam in the African Diaspora

Edward E. Curtis IV

The Walking Qur'an

The Walking Qur'an

Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

Rudolph T. Ware III

How to Read the Qur'an

How to Read the Qur'an

A New Guide, with Select Translations

Carl W. Ernst