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Authored Books

Ismail, Salwa (2003) Rethinking Islamist Politics. Culture, the State and Islamism. London: I.B. Tauris.

Ismail, Salwa (2006) Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism. London: I.B. Tauris. (Paperback edition, with new preface)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2000) The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Nota Bene)

Tripp, Charles (2006) Islam and the Moral Economy: the challenge of capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zebiri, Kate (2008) British Muslim Converts: Choosing Alternative Lives. Oxford: Oneworld.

Zebiri, Kate (1997) Muslims and Christians face to face. Oxford: Oneworld.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Hamzić, Vanja, ed. (2007) Base-line Study on Faith-based Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges of Non-patriarchal Communities and Approach / Osnovna studija o vjerskom razvoju u Bosni i Hercegovini: Izazov vanpatrijarhalnih zajednica i pristupa. Sarajevo: Logos.

Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian and Jaschok, Maria, eds. (2020) Ethnographies of Islam in China. Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press.

Shah, Mustafa, ed. (2009) The Hadith: Articulating the Beliefs and Constructs of Classical Islam. London: Routledge. (Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies)

Shihadeh, Ayman, ed. (2005) Najm al-Din al-Tufi: Dar’ al-qawl al-qabih bi-l-tahsin wa-l-taqbih (Critical edition and study). Riyadh: King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies.

Zene, Cosimo, ed. (2013) Religion and Dialogue. Special issue of Culture and Dialogue, Vol.3, No. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars. (Culture and Dialogue)

Shihadeh, Ayman, ed. (2007) Sufism and Theology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Book Chapters

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections.' In: Klar, Marianna, (ed.), Structural Dividers in the Qur'an. UK: Routledge.

Bondarev, Dmitry (2010) 'Multiglossia in West African manuscripts: The case of Borno, Nigeria.' In: Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich, Quenzer, Jörg B. and Bondarev, Dmitry, (eds.), Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Studies in Manuscript Cultures)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) 'A Renaissance Interrupted? Debating Personhood through a Sexual Act in the Twelfth-Century Christianate and Islamicate Worlds.' In: Schmidtke, Sabine, (ed.), Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 308-321.

Harris, Rachel and Dawut, Rahile (2020) 'Listening in on Uyghur Wedding Videos: Piety, Tradition, and Self-fashioning.' In: Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian and Jaschok, Maria, (eds.), Ethnographies of Islam in China. Hawai'i: University of Hawai'i Press.

Hartung, Jan-Peter (2009) 'Philosophie: III. Islam.' In: Jäger, Friedrich et al., (ed.), Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. Stuttgart: Metzler, pp. 1121-1125.

Hartung, Jan-Peter (2008) 'Wahhābīs and Anti-Wahhābīs: The Learned Discourse on Sufism in Contemporary South Asia.' In: Lassen, Søren Christian and van Skyhawk, Hugh, (eds.), Sufi Traditions and New Departures. Recent Scholarship on Continuity and Change in South Asian Sufism. Islamabad: Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations, pp. 82-110. (Taxila studies in Asian civilizations, 1.)

Ismail, Salwa (2004) 'The Politics of Historical Revisionism: New Re-readings of the Founding Period of Islam.' In: Browers, Michaelle and Kurzman, Charles, (eds.), An Islamic Reformation? Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, pp. 101-124.

Osella, Filippo and Osella, Caroline (2007) ''I am Gulf': the production of cosmopolitanism in Kozhikode, Kerala, India.' In: Simpson, Edward and Kresse, Kai, (eds.), Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean. London: Hurst.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2008) 'The Existence of God.' In: Winter, Tim, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 197-217.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2016) 'Theories of Ethical Value in Kalam: A New Interpretation.' In: Schmidtke, Sabine, (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 384-407.

Shindler, Colin (2003) 'Reading The Guardian: Jews, Israel-Palestine and the Origins of Irritation.' In: Parfitt, Tudor and Egorova, Yulia, (eds.), Jews, Muslims and Mass Media. London: Routledge Curzon, pp. 157-177.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2014) 'Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium.' In: La Porta, Sergio and Bardakjian, Kevork, (eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition. A Comparative Perspective. Leiden: Brill, pp. 379-433. (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, Volume: 25)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2016) 'Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research.' In: Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali, De Cillis, Maria, De Smet, Daniel and Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan, (eds.), L'Ésotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements Shi'i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments. Turnhout, Belgium: Belgium, pp. 723-742. (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, vol. 177)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.' In: Sosnowska, Danuta and Drzewiecka, Ewelina, (eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought. Warsaw: The University of Warsaw Press, pp. 129-144.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2013) 'Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance.' In: Pries, Andreas H., Martzolff, Laetitia, Ambos, Claus and Langer, Robert, (eds.), Rituale als Ausdruck von Kulturkontakt: ‚Synkretismus‘ zwischen Negation und Neudefinition. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 131-151. (Studies in Oriental Religions (67))

Stoyanov, Yuri (2015) 'Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions.' In: Silverstein, Adam J. and Stroumsa, Guy G., (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 405-425. (Oxford Handbooks)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2020) 'The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates.' In: Ferrari, Silvio and Benzo, Andrea, (eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 25-36. (Cultural Diversity and Law)

Tripp, Charles (2007) 'Islam and the Contingency of Politics.' In: Almquist, Kurt, (ed.), The Secular State and Islam in Europe. Stockholm, Sweden: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, pp. 81-96.

Waghmar, Burzine (2013) 'Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton [Nancy] (1912-2008).' In: Goldman, Lawrence, (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 674-675. (Supplementary Volume)

Waghmar, Burzine (2018) 'Annemarie Schimmel iv: Works on Iqbal and Indo-Muslim Studies.' In: Yarshater, Ehsan, (ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica. New York: Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation.

Waghmar, Burzine (2016) 'An Annotated Micro-history and Bibliography of the Houghton Shahnama.' In: Sharma, Sunil and Waghmar, Burzine, (eds.), Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011. Mumbai: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, pp. 144-180.

Waghmar, Burzine (2014) 'Beleaguered Balochs: Muslim Republics Murdering Muslim Minorities.' In: Human Rights, Regional Security and Perspectives for Balochistan and Pakistan Post-2014. The Hague, The Netherlands: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), pp. 18-22.

Waghmar, Burzine (2015) 'Burning Balochistan: Bombay Blowback and Pakistani Perfidy.' In: Petkovic, Iva, (ed.), Buried Human Rights, Global Geopolitics and Regional Repercussions; Balochistan in the Shadows. The Hague, The Netherlands: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), pp. 28-44.

Waghmar, Burzine (2016) 'Iridescent Iran: Persian palimpsest, Mazdean mosaic.' In: Cama, Shernaz, (ed.), Threads of Continuity: Zoroastrian Life and Culture. New Delhi: Parzor Foundation, pp. 215-224.

Waghmar, Burzine (2016) 'Repressing Pakistan: Oppressed Balochistan, Suppressed Sovereignty.' In: Faces of Oppression: Human Rights Violations in Balochistan. The Hague: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), pp. 13-22.

Waghmar, Burzine (2013) 'Yet another Stan? Talibanisation and Islamic Radicalism in Balochistan and Southwest Asia.' In: Conference Report: What Future for Balochistan? Global and Regional Challenges. The Hague, The Netherlands: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), pp. 25-27.

Waghmar, Burzine and Sharma, Sunil (2016) 'Firdawsi: a Scholium.' In: Sharma, Sunil and Waghmar, Burzine, (eds.), Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011. Mumbai: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, pp. 7-18.

Zebiri, Kate (2006) 'Argumentation.' In: Rippin, Andrew, (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 266-281.

Journal Article

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 22 (2). pp. 60-85.

Abdelnour, Mohammed Gamal (2017) 'If one faith is true, does this mean all others are false?' Interreligious Insight, 15 (2). pp. 6-13.

Blatherwick, Helen (2019) 'Textual Silences and Literary Choices in al-Kisāʾī’s Account of the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus.' Arabica, 66 (1). pp. 1-42.

Bondarev, Dmitry (2006) 'An archaic form of Kanuri/Kanembu: a translation tool for Qur'anic Studies.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 8 (1). pp. 142-153.

Errichiello, Mariano (2024) 'What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach.' Religiographies, 3 (1). pp. 56-74.

Errichiello, Mariano, Piraino, Francesco and Vevaina, Yuhan S.-D. (2024) 'New Perspectives on the Study of Esotericism and Zoroastrianism.' Religiographies, 3 (1). pp. 2-7.

Ha, Guangtian (2017) 'The Silent Hat: Islam, Female Labour, and the Political Economy of the "Headscarf Debate".' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 42 (3). pp. 743-769.

Harris, Rachel (2014) 'The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 23 (3). pp. 331-359.

Khan, Abeera (2021) 'The Violence of Essentialism.' Religion and Gender, 11 (1). pp. 99-104.

Mustafa, Shah (2018) 'Tanzih and Tashbih in Classical Islamic Thought.' Oxford Bibliographies on line, 1 (1). pp. 1-30.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2019) 'Avicenna’s Theodicy and al-Rāzī’s Anti-Theodicy.' Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 7 (1). pp. 61-84.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2021) 'Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence.' Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 11. pp. 443-461.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2010) 'Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism.' British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (3). pp. 261-272.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2001) 'Islamic and Christian heterodox water cosmogonies from the Ottoman period-parallels and contrasts.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 64 (1). pp. 19-33.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.' The Silk Road, Fourth Conference on Chinese Studies, 4. pp. 291-300.

Waghmar, Burzine (2013) 'Complaisant Pakistanis, Condescending Persians: Orientalist Observations on Iran-Pakistan Relations.' Studies on Iran: Responses, Articles, 1. pp. 186-194.

Waghmar, Burzine (2015) 'Jinnah's Jews: a Jeremiad.' Studies on Israel, 5. pp. 213-235.

Waghmar, Burzine and Frye, Richard N. (1999) ''Zoroastrians in the Early Islamic Period,’ trans. of Richard Frye, ‘Zoroastrier in der frühislamischer Zeit,’ Der Islam, 40 (1965): 198-99.' Journal of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 63. pp. 94-97.

Yaqin, Amina (2013) 'Autobiography and Muslim Women's Lives.' Journal of Women's History, 25 (2). pp. 171-184.

Conference or Workshop Items

Hamzić, Vanja (2006) Ijtihad – Before and Beyond: An Overview of Historic and Contemporary Forms of Ijtihad. In: 3rd Inner Circle Annual Retreat, June 2006, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2007) Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Main Challenges. In: Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights in Muslim Communities, March 2007, Muslim Advocacy Initiative, Jakarta, Indonesia. (Unpublished)

Waghmar, Burzine (2013) Yet Another Stan? Talibanisation and Islamic Radicalism in Balochistan and Southwest Asia. In: Global and Regional Security Challenges in South Asia: What Future for Balochistan, 24 February 2013, The Royal Society, London.

Monographs and Working Papers

Abdelnour, Mohammed Gamal (2020) The Islamic Theology of Interfaith Marriages between Theology, Law and Individual Ijtihad. Singapore: The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies: Interreligious Relations: Occasional Papers of The Studies in Inter-Religious Relations in Plural Societies Programme, no.17.

Abdelnour, Mohammed Gamal (2022) Prophet Abraham: A Figure of Exclusivism or Ecumenism? Singapore: Interreligious Relations: Occasional Papers of The Studies in Inter-Religious Relations in Plural Societies Programme, no.28.

Book Reviews

Al-Ali, Nadje (1999) 'Review of "The Pure and Powerful: Studies in Contemporary Muslim Society" by Nādya Abū-Zahra.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 5 (4). p. 633.

Osman, Rana (2021) 'Review of: Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison, by Ahmet T. Kuru (Cambridge University Press, 2019).' Maydan: An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University .

Stoyanov, Yuri (2016) 'Review of: Gideon Avni, 'The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79 (1). pp. 179-181.

Other

Hamzić, Vanja (2003) 'Putovi sufijske gnoze (In Bosnian: ‘The Paths of Sufi Gnosis’).' Lica, 47 . pp. 41-66.

Hamzić, Vanja (2004) 'Sufizam između Istoka i Zapada (In Bosnian: ‘Sufism between East and West’).' Lica, 55 . pp. 98-124.

Waghmar, Burzine (2017) 'Bombay chai: cheerless cuppa for Kashmiris.' Amsterdam: The European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS).