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Explains why militant Islamic fundamentalism is a threat to Muslim countries as well as to the West.

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Here the late Raphael Patai (1910-1996) re-creates the world of Jewish seafaring from Noah's voyage through the Diaspora of late antiquity. Patai weaves together a variety of sources to bring alive the world of these ancient mariners.

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The Conflict Between Secular and Religious Narratives in the United States uses the theory of social construction and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to examine the current divide between religious and secular narratives in the United States.

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A remarkable and rich exploration of what it means to be a Muslim in contemporary Europe.

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First in-depth treatment of calendars, time and time-measurement in the world of Islam from one of one of the world's foremost contemporary scholars of Muslim history and religion.

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Grappling with the dilemmas of contemporary Jewishness, this book sketches the faultlines in the Jewish sense of identity. It offers a different reading of Jewish history, arguing that the narrative of relentless woe and suffering popularised by nineteenth-century writers, such as George Eliot was based on a highly selective reading of the past.

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How should Jews respond to an age of militant Zionism and resurgent anti-Semitism This book offers a fresh reading of Jewish history, arguing that the narrative of relentless woe and suffering popularised by nineteenth-century writers such as George Eliot was based on a highly selective reading of the past.

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Their relations with the Gentile community in which they lived are described, not as is conventionally imagined, but as these relations are disclosed on a dispassionate examination of surviving documents--for example, the close association of Jews and monasteries, of nearly every religious order, in the acquisition of landed estates.

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This book explains Islamic commercial laws, economics, banking, finance, and capital market. It provides educative materials for lawyers, practitioners, regulators, students taking Islamic banking and finance courses and those who are interested in learning more about the Islamic finance industrys doctrine and practice.

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Although American Jews had already embraced the principle of fighting prejudice in all forms, western Jews often did not apply it to specific local issues involving Japanese Americans during World War II. In The First to Cry Down Injustice, Eisenberg analyzes the range of Jew...

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An important new study that assesses comparatively the future of Islamic fundamentalism in three key countries: Egypt, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia. The book focuses on the limits of Islamic fundamentalism as a system of thought, as well as a force for changing the established order.

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Analyzes the effect of the Israel visit/experience upon the ethnic identity of American Jews.

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Most Jews who now live in Germany have lived elsewhere. Forty thousand of them are members of official Jewish communities in today's Germany. As a study in the formation of minority communities within European national matrices, Cohn's work has interest for sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists as well.

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Esther Benbassa tells the tale of the social, economic, and cultural vicissitudes of a people in diaspora. She reveals the diversity of Jewish life throughout France's regions, while showing how Jewish identity has constantly redefined itself in a country known for both the Rights of Man and the Dreyfus affair.

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The subsequent decline of the community in the mid-13th century was also attributable to economic and political factors, as well as a growing church influence.

The Jews of Medieval France: The Community of Champagne also offers an in-depth analysis of women's place in the Jewish and gentile worlds of medieval France.

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Located at the intersection of the sociology of immigration and sociology of religion, this book discusses the history and identity of Eastern European Orthodox immigrants to the United States, their assimilation into American society, and the contradictory role of the Orthodox Church through the lens of the legitimation crisis.

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Al-Huzaimi offers insight into the religious subculture that incubated the Mecca Uprising of 1979