The Near West Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age Allen James Fromherz ISLAMIC AND 2016 MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH ISLAMIC & MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES History 4 Literature 35 Contemporary Islam 15 Language & Linguistics 44 Islam & the West 19 Religion & Theology 48 Global Islam 22 Journals 49 Politics 27 Index 50 Art, Architecture & Archaeology 32 Inspection Copy Request 51 Placing your order To place your order, or for ordering enquiries, please email our sales department: [email protected] Orders are fulfilled by MDL in the UK and OUP USA in the Americas. You can find contact details for the sales representatives, distributors or agents in your area on our website: www.euppublishing.com All prices advertised are correct at the time of printing but are subject to change without notice. Mailing list Join our mailing list to receive our catalogues, email bulletins and journal ToC alerts. 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Contacts Commissioning Editor Marketing Manager Nicola Ramsey Emma Rees [email protected] [email protected] Cover image: Photograph taken by Allen James Fromherz, used on the cover of The Near West 2 www.euppublishing.com INTRODUCTION Welcome to our 2016 Islamic and Being Palestinian Middle Eastern Studies catalogue We are very excited to be publishing Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity Being Palestinian – a collection of in the Diaspora W personal reflections on what it means NE to be a Palestinian when you do not live in Palestine. Funny, poignant and surprising in turn, these accounts will fascinate all readers. EDITED BY Our longest-running series, New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys, YASIR SULEIMAN sees the launch of two new titles (Contemporary Issues in Islam and Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World) and a new, fourth edition of the best-selling textbook Muslims in Western Europe. K The new Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and OO Culture series is expanding with the publication of intriguing new books from Konrad Hirschler (Medieval Damascus: Plurality TEX and Diversity in an Arabic Library) and Zohar Amer and Efraim Lev W (Arabian Drugs in Medieval Mediterranean Medicine) – both books NE TB are beautifully illustrated in colour and will grace any bookshelf. We are adding three new titles to our Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires series in 2016: Amira K. Bennison’s The Almoravid and Almohad Empires, Michael Brett’s The Fatimid Empire and Timothy May’s The Mongol Empire. In the contemporary Middle Eastern Studies area of our list we are publishing new books on The Egyptian Dream, Democratisation in the Maghreb and The Legacy of Iraq, amongst others. A personal favourite is the wonderful Anthology of Arabic Literature, compiled and translated by Tarif Khalidi. This collection of poetry and prose gives a brilliant taste of this incredibly rich literary W tradition. NE I hope you will find lots in here to enjoy. And if you have a book you would like to publish on our list, I would be delighted to hear from you. Nicola Ramsey Commissioning Editor for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies 3 HISTORY The Near West Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age Allen James Fromherz, Georgia State University W A comprehensive historical account of North – South NE contacts across the Western Mediterranean in the Medieval period This book documents the neglected history of the important cultural bridges being crossed between North Africa and Europe. A chronological overview of the political history of the Medieval Western Mediterranean gives the context for an exploration of the important trends in this history (Europeans in North Africa; March 2016 288 pages 3 b&w illustrations, 2 maps North Africans in Europe; Traders and Merchants; Mercenaries Hb 978 0 7486 4294 6 £70.00 and Slaves; and Conversion). Primarily based upon the personal biographies of remarkable Mediterranean travellers, scholars, ebook rulers and historians, their stories bring this history to life. An Apocalyptic History of the Early Fatimid Empire Jamel Velji, Haverford College Explores the role of apocalyptic symbolism in the formation and maintenance of a medieval Islamic empire W How can religion transform a society? This book investigates NE how a medieval Islamic movement harnessed Qur’anic visions of utopia to construct one of the most brilliant and long-lasting empires in Islamic history. The Fatimids’ apocalyptic vision of their central place in an imminent utopia played a critical role in transfiguring the intellectual and political terrains of North Africa in the early 10th century. Yet the realities that they faced on the ground often challenged their status as the custodians of a June 2016 192 pages pristine Islam at the end of time. Hb 978 0 7486 9088 6 £70.00 ebook This is the first volume in our new series, Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Apocalypticism and Eschatology, edited by David Cook and Christian Lange. 4 www.euppublishing.com NEW SERIES HISTORY Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture Series Editor: Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh Focusing on a range of subjects, books in this series explore the intellectual openness of Medieval Islamic civilisation, which was marked by its wide horizons. www.euppublishing.com/series/escihc The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173–1325 Nathan Hofer, University of Missouri A social, political and religious history of Sufism in W Medieval Egypt NE After the fall of the Shi’ite Fatimid Empire in 1171 and the emergence of a new Sunni polity under Saladin and the Ayyubids, Sufism came to extraordinary prominence in Egypt. This study re-examines the data from 12th–14th century Egypt to construct a comprehensive account of the institutionalisation, organisation and popularisation of Sufism in Egypt, a historical development that had a profound impact July 2015 320 pages on the Egyptian religious landscape and the history of Islam Hb 978 0 7486 9421 1 £70.00 more broadly. ebook Arabian Drugs in Medieval Mediterranean Medicine Zohar Amar, Bar-Ilan University & Efraim Lev, University of Haifa Explores the impact of drugs introduced by the Arabs on medieval Mediterranean medicine W For more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway NE in the ancient world, from the shores of Spain in the West to China, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the East. This book explores the impact of Greek (as well as Indian and Persian) medical heritage on the evolution of Arab medicine and pharmacology, investigating it from the perspective of materia medica – a reliable indication of the contribution of this medical legacy. April 2016 256 pages 35 colour, 7 b&w illustrations Hb 978 0 7486 9781 6 £80.00 ebook Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies 5 HISTORY NEW SERIES Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue Konrad Hirschler, SOAS, University of London The first documented insight into the content and structure W of a large-scale medieval Arabic library NE This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation – the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus – and edits its catalogue. With over 2,000 entries, an annotated translation of the Ashrafiya catalogue and full-colour facsimile reproduction of the catalogue’s unique manuscript, this book is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual February 2016 448 pages 54 colour illustrations, history of Arabic societies. Setting the Ashrafiya catalogue into a 8 b&w tables and comparative perspective with contemporaneous libraries in the 2 b&w illustrations British Isles, this book opens new perspectives for the study of Hb 978 1 4744 0877 6 £85.00 medieval libraries. ebook The Jalayirids Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East Patrick Wing, University of Redlands The story of how one tribal family claimed the legacy of W Chinggis Qan in Persia NE The period of Middle Eastern history between the collapse of the Mongol Ilkhanate in 1335 and the rise of Timur (Tamerlane) at the end of the 14th century is commonly seen as a tumultuous period of political breakdown and disorder. This book helps to make sense of this confusing period by tracing continuities through the history of the Jalayirid tribe, whose members founded a dynasty and claimed to be the rightful January 2016 240 pages heirs of the Chinggisid Mongols. The story of how the Jalayirids 4 b&w images, 9 tables, 3 maps came to power is illustrative of the political dynamics that Hb 978 1 4744 0225 5 £75.00 shaped much of the Mongol and post-Mongol period in the ebook Middle East. Published in association with The Royal Asiatic Society. 6 www.euppublishing.com NEW SERIES HISTORY Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought Series Editors: Robert Gleave & Istvan Kristo-Nagy, both University of Exeter This series explores how violence has been legitimised, normalised or censured by Muslim writers, tracing the history of the argumentation across time and between regions and traditions. www.euppublishing.com/series/livit Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur’an to the Mongols Edited by Robert Gleave & István Kristó-Nagy, both University of Exeter Examines how violence was described and evaluated in the foundational texts of Islam W NE Violence is understood widely to include jihād, state repressions, rebellions and also more personally directed violence against victims (women, animals, children, slaves) and criminals.