In 1995, the People’s Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist…
In the twenty-first century, no one can ignore the complex paradigms connected with the precarious relationship between Christians and Muslims all over the globe. Since the seventh century, Christians and…
The 2011 Arab uprisings precipitated the relatively quick collapse of a number of Middle Eastern states once perceived as invincible. The Tunisian and Egyptian states succumbed to revolutionary upheavals early…
In the 1920s and 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature…
In this synthesis of his whole message, Frithjof Schuon invites us to explore our relationship with the Divine. Covering topics as diverse as our sense of the sacred, the conditions…
The Persian Gulf region has become home to some of the world’s fastest growing, most impressive cities, many of them with global aspirations. Gateways to the World presents an in-depth,…
God at the Grassroots 2016 (Rowman & Littlefield 2017), edited by Mark Rozell and Clyde Wilcox gathers a distinguished group of political scientists, many of whom have been studying the…
This collection of essays, by leading scholars from Arab and international universities, provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world. Featuring research never published…
Over the last half-century, the GCC states have invested on a huge scale in higher education, but the stated commitment to internationally recognized excellence has also had to come to…
Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income argues that philosophers have focused too much on scalar freedom and proposes a theory of status freedom as effective control self-ownership: the power to have…
Why has the West developed and modernized, while the Muslim world has lagged behind? Why has democracy not found a hospitable home in much of the Muslim world? Why have…
The 2011 Arab uprisings and their aftermath have thrown into question some of the long-held assumptions about the foundational aspects of the Arab state. While the regional and international consequences…
