New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

middle eastern studies
Piran und Zeyaratgah
Schreine und Wallfahrtsstätten
der Zarathustrier im neuzeitlichen Iran
by R Langer
This study analyzes Zoroastrian shrines and sites of pilgrimage
in Iran. During research in the field in 2001, the author
documented 106 historic and contemporary shrines, which
are presented here in individual chapters supplemented by
copious historic and ethnographic sources. German text.
708p, DVD, hardback, 9789042921931, $141.00,
Peeters Publishers, December 2008, Acta Iranica 48.
Islamisation de l’Asie centrale
Processus locaux d’acculturation
du VIIe au XIe siècle
by É de la Vaissière
This book dwells on the cultural change that took place in
Central Asia from the middle of the 7th to the 11th century.
Its articles come from a wide range of fields (history, philology,
archaeology, and others) and are written by specialists
of Pre-Islamic and Islamic Central Asia, in its Iranian and
Turkic components, in a demonstration of interdisciplinarity.
Islamization is not to be understood in a mainly religious
meaning, but as a convenient way to name the regional
process of acculturation towards the Central Asian Medieval
Islamic culture. French text.
360p, paperback, 9782910640255, $58.00, Peeters Publishers,
December 2008, Cahiers de Studia Iranica 39.
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Sufi Mysticism into the West
Life and Leadership of Hazrat Inayat Khan’s Brothers 1927–1967
by K Jironet
Hazrat Inayat Khan was an Indian Sufi mystic who came to the West in 1910. His teachings, The Sufi Message, emphasize
the divinity of the soul and the experience of unity of being and unity of religious ideals. The teachings show how Sufism
can harmonize eastern and western culture. The process of such harmonization is fairly complex and raises very fundamental
questions about eastern values in western society, of Sufism in the West. The book examines the forty-year period after
the passing away of Hazrat Inayat Khan in 1927, during which his brothers Maheboob Khan (1887-1948), Mohammed
Ali Khan (1881-1958) and Musharaff Kahn (1895-1967) followed Hazrat Inayat Khan as leaders of his organization, the
Sufi Movement. It studies how they maintained and spread the teachings and how each one of them influenced the organization
and its adherents in their own way according to their own personality, education and mystical realization. At the
same time, the book offers perspectives on leadership succession and issues pertaining to tensions between eastern and
western culture and history, and social discontinuity.
240p, paperback, 9789042921146, $65.00, Peeters Publishers, June 2009, New Religious Identities in the Western World 6.
Merchants in the Ottoman Empire
edited by Suraiya Faroqhi and Gilles Veinstein
To a large extent, this volume deals with merchants long-established on Ottoman territory. Whether they
were subjects of the sultans or not will be considered of secondary importance, but many if not most of
them likely fell into that category. ‘Hard to pin down’ traders also occur; in particular the editors have included
a number of studies discussing people who started their lives as Ottoman subjects but whose business
activities took them to Venice or the Habsburg territories, where some of them settled. Such situations,
after all, form part of the life stories of merchants anywhere, and given the broad expanses of sea and land
that many Mediterranean traders traversed, it makes sense to adopt as broad a perspective as possible.
397p, paperback, 9789042920255, $95.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008, Collection Turcica 15.
Neo-Muslim Intellectuals in the West and their Contributions
to Islamic Thought and the Formation of Western Islam
An Exploratory Investigation of the Religious and Literary Activities
of Western Neo-Muslim Intellectuals
by S S Abdel Razaq
This study is an exploration of the contributions made by neo-Muslim intellectuals to Islamic thought
and the development of Islam in the West. It focuses on the works of contemporary neo-Muslim intellectuals
that enjoy a wide circulation, especially among Muslim migrants in the West and throughout
the Muslim world. Through their intellectual vision, they impart a certain understanding of Islam, which
is acceptable in the Western context and culture. They produce a new Islamic literature which can be
classified as a Western Islamic literature. The author presents an overview of the estimated numbers
of converts in different European countries and presents detailed profiles of the main protagonists of
the study. He reviews the contributions of neo-Muslim intellectuals to Western Islamic literature. He
discusses their contributions to Islamic political thought and to Islamic politics. He studies the attitudes
of these converts towards Western civilization. In conclusion, he analyses their views on non-Islamic
religions, particularly their polemical views on Christianity.
338p, paperback, 9789042921122, $65.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
New Religious Identities in the Western World 5.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009