PUBLISHER PRIZE 2025 FOR GERLACH PRESS

Gerlach Press are delighted and proud to be one of the recipients of this year's Publisher Prize awarded by the Secretary of Culture of the German Federal Government. The main criteria for the jury's decisio...
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Colin Turner (ed.)

Divine Revelation and Communication

Contemporary Muslim Theological Approaches

This book is a fascinating exploration of how God speaks to humanity and how Muslims engage with Divine discourse. Produced by the International Foundation for Muslim Theology (IFMT), this multi-disciplinary volume bring...
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Michael Lecker

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

- Revised Edition -

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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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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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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PUBLISHER PRIZE 2025 FOR GERLACH PRESS

Gerlach Press are delighted and proud to be one of the recipients of this year's Publisher Prize awarded by the Secretary of Culture of the German Federal Government. The main criteria for the jury's decisio...
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Mai Yamani

From Mosul to Mecca: Laila Sulaiman Faidhi

Her Life with Ahmed Zaki Yamani in Letters and Documents

This book about Laila Sulaiman Faidhi is more than a biography about a proud and mesmerising Arab woman, the Iraqi wife of one of the most powerful men in Saudi History. The book also gives a unique insight into Arab lif...
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N. Janardhan

GLOBAL GULF

Geo-Economic, Geo-Political, and Geo-Technological Transformation in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar

It is common knowledge that ‘great powers’, especially the United States and China, exert economic, political and military dominance over the world. But several middle powers, including those in the Gulf region, especial...
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Amier Saidula

Legal Pluralism and the Tajik Experience of Xinjiang: Between Custom and the Chinese State

An Ethnographic Perspective

At the remote crossroads of Central Asia, the Tajiks of Tashkurgan navigate life as a small minority at the cultural and political margins of China. Legal Pluralism and the Tajik experience of Xinjiang explores how this ...
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Cihat Battaloğlu

Qatar’s Societal Security: Towards the Inclusive National Concept of ‘Baladna’

Identity, Migration and External Threats Since 2017

Since the 1990s, Qatar has been expanding its concept of societal security to address migration as a presumed threat to national identity. Local citizens regarded communities of migrants increasingly as a threat to exist...
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Wael Hegazy

Islamic Rituals Beyond the Mosque

Historical Evolution of Prayer and Devotion in Physical Space and Cyberspace

Prevailing assumptions posit that Islamic rituals are inextricably bound to corporeal enactments and spatial constraints. This study, however, critically interrogates such presuppositions, challenging the notion that rit...
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Mushegh Asatryan (ed.)

Early Islamic Sectarianism in Context

The Ghulat and Nusayris Between Late Antiquity and Modernity

The essays in this volume open new horizons for studying the Ghulat and early Islamic sectarianism more generally. On the one hand, they eschew the polemical approaches used hitherto, by situating the Ghulat in their pro...
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Walid Ghali (ed.)

Muhammad ‘Abduh and the Ongoing Project of Islamic Reform

Muhammad ’Abduh as one of the most influential figures in the modern history of Muslim societies and the reform movement. Although his demise was at an early age (53 years) over a century ago, his thoughts and ideas are ...
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Mohammed Al Oudat

Al-Ğābirīs Genese und Kritik der Arabischen Vernunft – On Genesis and Critique of Arab Reason by Muḥammed ʿĀbid al-Ğābirī

– Text in German with English Summary –

The Moroccan philosopher and literary scholar Muḥammed ʿĀbid al-Ğābirī (1935–2010) is a pioneering example of how Arab intellectuals can create new spaces for critical thinking and the use of reason. His work has been wi...
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