Winner of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History. Through close study of Russian, Eurasian, and Central Asian ethnographic, administrative, literary, and missionary sources, this book shows how traditional Islamic education among the people of Tsarist Russia's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) helped to Islamize the area's Tu…
Articles collected in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450–c. 1750 engage with the idea that “Sunnism” itself has a history and trace how particular Islamic genres – ranging from prayer manuals, heresiographies, creeds, hadith and fatwa collections, legal and theological treatises, and historiography to mosques and Sufi convents – developed and were reinterpreted …
This volume offers a collection of new concepts and approaches to the study of the professional mobility of the literati and scholars (ʿulamāʾ) in pre-modern Islamic societies between the eighth and the eighteenth centuries.
Buku ini mengisahkan perjalanan hidup Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi, panglima besar Islam yang berhasil merebut kembali Yerusalem pada masa Perang Salib. Melalui narasi yang historis dan mudah dipahami, penulis menggambarkan strategi, kepemimpinan, dan nilai-nilai kemanusiaan yang membuat Shalahuddin dihormati kawan maupun lawan. Buku ini memberikan wawasan mendalam tentang konteks politik, konflik, da…
Buku ini mengulas perjalanan hidup Sultan Muhammad Al-Fatih, pemimpin muda Kesultanan Utsmani yang berhasil menaklukkan Konstantinopel pada usia 21 tahun—sebuah pencapaian bersejarah yang mengubah peta peradaban dunia. Melalui narasi yang lugas, penulis menggambarkan kecerdasan strategi, keteguhan iman, dan visi kepemimpinan Al-Fatih yang menjadikannya salah satu tokoh terbesar dalam sejarah …
First Nationalism Then Identity focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a new nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the process of national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for over two decades, Mirsad Kriještorac is the first to explain the significance of the whole process and how the adoption of their new Bosniak id…
The Javanese — one of the largest ethnic groups in the Islamic world — were once mostly ‘nominal Muslims’, with a minority of pious believers and the majority seemingly resistant to Islam’s call for greater piety. Over the tumultuous period analyzed here — from colonial rule through Japanese occupation and Revolution to the chaotic democracy of the Sukarno period, the Soeharto regim…
Seven new scholarly essays present original research that includes rare historical and photographic materials highlighting the significance of Islamic civilization and its vexed legacy in a variety of contemporary European countries and challenging the perception of European identity as exclusively Christian. This volume unearths a rich, complex history of relationships between Muslims and Chri…
This book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the khizanat al-kutub, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant South Asian Shi’i Muslim community, the Bohras. It looks at how books that were once part of one of the biggest imperial book repositories of the medieval Muslim world, the…