In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington argued that the borders between Western and Islamic civilizations would one day become the loci of cultural con

There is a preponderance of prejudice, bigotry, hate, violence, mayhem and murder committed in the name of a religion called Islam. Even though the history of b

Revealing how the one community of the faith in the Qur'an, the umma, affects competing politics of identity in the Muslim world.

Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more th

The medieval Islamic world comprised a wide variety of religions. While individuals and communities in this world identified themselves with particular faiths,