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Mónika Schönléber

Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī and his Kitāb al-futūḥ

Author, Textual Tradition, and Ridda Narrative. With a New Edition of the Text on the Ridda (2 Volumes)

2025-03

This two-volume study explores the life of the Muslim scholar Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī and his historical work, the Kitāb al-futūḥ (Book of Conquests). This study re-contextualises Ibn Aʿtham within the early fourth/tenth cent...
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Mahshid Turner (ed.)

Muslim Chaplaincy: Handbook and Voices of Muslim Women Chaplains in Higher Education

With a Foreword by Sophie Gilliat-Ray

2025-01

Across North America and Europe, Muslim chaplains are increasingly taking up institutional chaplaincy appointments, especially in the health and education sectors. Slowly but surely, Muslim chaplaincy work is beginning t...
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Mahjoob Zweiri, Farah Al Qawasmi (eds.)

Contemporary Oman

The Sultan, the People and the Legacy of Peace

2025-01

At a time of rapid international change and marked regional dynamism, the Sultanate of Oman is emerging as a nation of surprising significance. Oman is a unique case of a Gulf state strategically and culturally located ...
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David Heard

History of the Oil Industry in the Gulf and the People Who Made it Happen, 1934-1966

Based on Original Documents of Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company. With a Summarized Index for all Volumes (Set of 5 Parts in 6 Volumes)

2025-01

These volumes are a testament of the challenges contended by extraordinary men who initiated the search for oil in the United Arab Emirates in the years between the two World Wars. This set of a total of five books i...
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David Heard

The Trucial Coast Political Reports 1963-1966. From Pearls to Oil - at Last.

With a Summarized Index for all Volumes (History of the Oil Industry in the Gulf, Part 5)

2025-01

The Trucial Coast Political Reports are a unique record of events, commented on by a small group of British men living in Sharjah and Dubai. This was in the years leading up to the commencement of oil exports from the de...
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David Heard

From Pearls to Oil. How the Oil Industry Came to the United Arab Emirates

(History of the Oil Industry in the Gulf, Part 1)

2025-01

From Pearls to Oil is a testament of the challenges contended by extraordinary men who initiated the search for oil in the United Arab Emirates in the years between the two World Wars. This book features never-befor...
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Forthcoming Publications

Mónika Schönléber

Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī and his Kitāb al-futūḥ

Author, Textual Tradition, and Ridda Narrative. With a New Edition of the Text on the Ridda (2 Volumes)

2025-03

This two-volume study explores the life of the Muslim scholar Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī and his historical work, the Kitāb al-futūḥ (Book of Conquests). This study re-contextualises Ibn Aʿtham within the early fourth/tenth cent...
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Michael Lecker

The Banū Sulaym: A Contribution to the Study of Early Islam

Revised Edition

2025-04

The study focuses on Sulaym in the crucial transition period from Jāhiliyya to Islam, and hence it contributes to the study of the Prophet and his time. Most of the study concentrates on the Arabian Peninsula, although a...
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Colin Turner (ed.)

Divine Revelation and Communication

Contemporary Muslim Theological Approaches

2025-05

This book comprises three broadly thematic Sections: - the first on the notion of communication and revelation; - the second on angels as vehicles for revelation; - and the third on the revelatory nature of prophethoo...
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