Recently, the term" Abrahamic religions" has been used with exceeding frequency in the
academy. We now regularly encounter academic books, conferences, and even positions (…

… Hughes uniquely traces the development of Islam in relation … Hughes's work challenges the
dominance of traditional terms … contemporary identity theory, Hughes rethinks the teaching of …

The Texture of the Divine explores the central role of the imagination in the shared symbolic
worlds of medieval Islam and Judaism. Aaron W. Hughes looks closely at three interrelated …

The scholarly study of Islam has become ever more insular and apologetic. Academic Islamic
Studies has tried to maintain a focus on truth, authenticity, experience and meaning and …

WITH the exception of two Directories of Sind published by a private individual, one about the
year 1857, and the other in 1862, no work of a kind resembling a Gazetteer of the Province …

Cover--Contents--Acknowledgements--Introduction--Chapter 1--The Jewish" Discovery" of
Islam--Abraham Geiger: The Quest for the Jewish Substrate of Islamic Origins--Islam and …

Preface: Noble lies--Introduction: Setting the problem, laying the ground--1. Islamic religious
studies and the politics of identity--2. Prisoners of Said--3. Insiders, outsiders, and the path …

Numerous papers have searched for empirical linkages between long run economic growth
and a myriad of economic, socio‐political and environmental factors. Most of these studies …

Controversies over how to define the word religion have persisted for decades. It is a term of
art and of academic study, but also one of governance, technologies, and of networks; it is a …

Forced choice (FC) personality questionnaires attempt to constrain job applicants from
presenting idealized responses (or “faking”). FC questionnaires are designed by identifying items …