Studies in Islamic Intellectual History

PUBLISHER PRIZE 2025 FOR GERLACH PRESS

2025-10

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 decision were an innovative publishing programme, the quality of publishing work, and a particularly appealing design of the books. We would like to thank all our authors who are the very foundation of our success, and hope that this recognition will further strengthen the press. Ad multos annos!...
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Mushegh Asatryan

Early Islamic Sectarianism in Context

The Ghulat and Nusayris Between Late Antiquity and Modernity

2026

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 proper Late Antique and later contexts. On the other, they engage a number of texts written by the Ghulat themselves, which have only recently become available. In the early 700s, several men rebelled in Iraq, claiming to be acting on behalf of a God who had become incarnate in human shape. They were defeated...
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Kazuo Morimoto, Sajjad Rizvi

Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies

Approaches in Intellectual History

2023

The study of Islam and of Islamic history is enjoying something of a revival with an emphasis on intellectual history and a greater concern with the ’subaltern’ within that. Why does religion continue to hold significance in our times? Are humans better off, adaptable, less violent, consistently unpredictable? How can we understand the course of our political history and the seeming dominance of democracy and its discontents, not least the legacies of coloniality and empire? While nationalist historiographies prevail in man...
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