Table Of Contents:

• VOLUME 1: QUR'AN AND PROPHECY
• Qur'an
• Understanding the Qur'an in Text and Context
• Qur'an as Spoken Word
• The Tasks and Tradition of Interpretation
• The Dilemma of the Literary Approach to the Qur'an
• Structure and the Emergence of Community
• Sound, Spirit, and Gender in Surat al-Qadr
• The Light Verse: Qur'anic Text and Sufi Interpretation
• Some Key Ethical Concepts of the Qur'an
• The Will in the Qur'an
• Themes and Topics
• Readings of the Qur'an in London and Najaf: John Wansbrough and Muhammad Ba—qir al-Sadr
• History and Nostalgia: Reflections on John Wansbrough's The Sectarian Milieu
• Prophecy
• Images of Muhammed in the Work of Iqbal: Tradition and Alterations
• The Signs of Prophecy: The Emergence and Early Development of a Theme in Arabic Theological Literature
• Pre-Existence and Light: Aspects of the Concept of Nu—r Muhammad
• The Story of the Portraits of the Prophet Muhammad
• Devotion to the Prophet and His Family in Egyptian Sufism
• Metaphors and Sacred History: The Genealogy of Muhammad and the Arab "Tribe"
• The Quest of the Historical Muhammad
• VOLUME 2: ISLAMIC THOUGHT, LAW AND ETHICS
• Necessary Knowledge in Islamic Theology
• Aspects of the Creed of Imam Hanbal: A Study of Anthropomorphism in Early Islamic Discourse
• The Unknowability of God in al-Ghazali
• Observations on the Muslim Concept of Evil
• Divine Preordination and Human Hope a Study of the Concept of Bada' in Imam
• Conditions for Meaningful Comparative Philosophy
• Two Muslim-Christian Debates from the Early Shi'ite Tradition
• Traditionist-Jurisprudents and the Framing of Islamic Law
• Dead Tradition: Joseph Schacht
• Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed?
• Signs as Evidence: The Doctrine of Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (D. 1351) on Proof
• Islamic Law and Muslim Minorities
• The Islamization of Criminal Law
• Why You Should Poison Your Husband: Note on Liability in Hanaf
• Mahr: Legal Obligation or Rightful Demand?
• Ethical Presuppositions of the Qu'ran
• Ethics in Medieval Islamic Philosophy
• The Answers of Applied Islamology
• VOLUME 3: WORSHIP AND RITUAL
• The Essence of Religious Experience in Islam
• The Aesthetic Reception of the Qur'an as Reflected in Early Muslim History
• Islam and Art
• Impurity/No Danger
• The Hajj and the Study of Islamic Ritual
• Financial Worship: The Qur'anic Injunction to Almsgiving
• Eating and Fasting for God in Sufi Tradition
• Miracles in Ši'i Thought: A Case-Study of the Miracles Attributed to Imam Ga'far al-Šadiq
• Some Aspects of Mystical Prayer in Islam
• Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of "Salat"
• On Scriptural Essentialism and Ritual Variation: Muslim sacrifice in Sumatra and Morocco
• The Birth of the Prophet: Ritual and Gender in Turkish Islam
• Women, Saints and Sanctuaries
• Mazar Festivals of the Uyghurs: Music, Islam and the Chinese State
• Death, Funeral Processions, and the Articulation of Religious Authority in Early Islam
• VOLUME 4: GENDER AND POLITICS
• Women and Hadith Transmission: Two Case Studies
• Disciplining Wives: A Historical Reading of Qur'an 4:34
• Muftis and Matrimony: Islamic Law and Gender in Ottoman Syria
• Women in the Afterlife: The Islamic View as Seen from Qur'an and Tradition
• Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the Debate
• Gendered Transformations: Beauty, Love, and Sexuality in Qajar Iran
• Internationalising the Conversation on Women's Rights: Arab Countries Face CEDAW Committees
• Exploited by Whom? An Alternative Perspective on Humanitarian Assistance to Afghan Women
• The Saudi Public Speaks: Religion, Gender and Politics
• The Political Concepts of Islam
• The Origins and Objectives of Islamic Revivalist Thought, 1750 - 1850
• Rhetoric, Discourse and the Future of Hope
• Public Islam and the Problem of Democratisation
• Three Islamic Strands in the South African Struggle for Justice
• Contentious Public Religion: Two Concepts of Islam in Revolutionary Iran - Ali Shariati and Abdolkarim Soroush
• Globalization and the Politics of Religious Knowledge: Pluralizing Authority in the Muslim World