.... The introduction then discusses the rise of medical mission work, highlighting how the issue of obtaining trust undepinned the growth of medical mission work in the “Muslim World”. Subsequently, it outlines the importance of emotions to the history of Christian missions, before explaining the book’s methodology...

... ideology. While Kemalism is still the most successful modernisation project in the Muslim world, the current disenchantment with Islamism has reinvigorated trust in Atatürk’s legacy. Ankara Atatürk Democrat Party Justice and Development Party First World War Kemalism Muslim Ottoman Empire...

... delegations Yugoslavia reformism Sufism meanings contestations Palestine Muslim World Many Hajjis describe the summon at Mount Arafat, the crucial mount and place of a major Hajj rite, as a foretaste of Judgement Day. The heat and the vast mass of people in one place often provoke feelings...

...The issue of public violence and its function is integral in defining the rules which govern politics and which describe a political regime because it is linked to tyranny and the definition of the common good. In contrast to the essentialist concepts which would lead to seeing the Muslim world...

...This book aims to bring together all available biographical data on Jewish medical practitioners (physicians and pharmacists) across all the socio-economic strata, living in urban as well as in rural locations in the Muslim world during the 9^th-16^th centuries. The biographies...

...The Introduction briefly examines contemporary Muslim environmentalist debates and the state of environmentalism in the Muslim world. It describes the contributions of Seyyed Hosein Nasr, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Iqtidar Zaidi, Mawil Izzi Dien, Mustafa Abu-Sway, Osman Bakar, and Tariq Ramadan...

...The information that was gathered for the research of the current book has made it possible to discuss various issues regarding the lives of Jewish practitioners in the medieval Muslim world. This chapter presents several conclusions, some of which support (with historical evidence) previous...