This book focuses on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries.

A revisionist reading of Ottoman history during the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent (1520-66), examining the life of a bureaucrat, Celalzade Mustafa.

Challenging the prevalent view, this book illustrates the importance of animals in the Islamic tradition, in which they are viewed as equal beings to humans.

By focusing on the works and intellectual network of the Timurid historian Sharaf al Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (d.1454), this book presents a holistic view of intellectual life in fifteenth century Iran. İlker Evrim Binbaş argues that the intellectuals in this period formed informal networks which transcended political and linguistic boundaries, and spanned an area from the western fringes of the Ottoman State to bustling late medieval metropolises such as Cairo, Shiraz, and Samarkand. The network included an Ottoman revolutionary, a Mamluk prophet, and a Timurid occultist, as...

Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narratives? And what can these more literary histories tell us about the people who wrote them and the times in which they lived? In this book, Mimi Hanaoka offers an innovative, interdisciplinary method of approaching these sorts of local histories from the Persianate world. By paying attention to the...

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

This book explores the development of interpretations of Qur'anic verses on gender roles in testimony, human creation and marriage.

Centered on legal discourses of Islam's first six centuries, this book analyzes juristic writings on the topic of rape.

This intimate portrayal of the devotional life in early medieval Islamic society demonstrates how Islamic law defined holy behavior.

A study of the writings of Ibn Barrajan, an influential pioneer of intellectual mysticism in the Muslim West.