The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world’s mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapidly modernizing, increasingly affluent, and…
Iran dominates the media headlines once again, taking center stage in U.S. and European Union strategy toward the Middle East. A more nuanced understanding of Iranian society is now urgently…
Since its revolution in 1979, Iran has been viewed as the bastion of radical Islam and a sponsor of terrorism. The focus on its volatile internal politics and its foreign…
Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal’s pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
