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An original inquiry into the meanings of concealment and revelation in early Arabo-Islamic texts

In this comparative analysis of the significance of keeping and revealing secrets in ear…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494510/Mount-Fuji
Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji wit…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494508/Sufi-Aesthetics
Sufi Aesthetics argues that the interpretive keys to erotic Sufi poems and their medieval commentaries lie in understanding a unique perceptual experience. Using careful analysis of primary te…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494473/Women-Mystics-and-Sufi-Shrines-in-India
Insightful field research into the complexity of women's roles in a subset of Islamic culture.

Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographi…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494419/Messianic-Beliefs-and-Imperial-Politics-in-Medieval-Islam
An analysis of the dynamic relationship between apocalyptic prophesies and medieval Muslim politics

Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam analyzes the role of Muslim…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494398/Muslim-Medical-Ethics
A timely exploration of balancing Islamic heritage with contemporary medical and health concerns

Muslim Medical Ethics draws on the work of historians, health-care professionals, theolo…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494313/Recite-in-the-Name-of-the-Red-Rose
An unprecedented exploration of the themes and modes of modern Persian poetry

Recite the Name of the Red Rose introduces Western readers to constructions of the sacred in twentieth-cent…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494273/Karaite-Judaism-and-Historical-Understanding
Examines the changing relationship of this Jewish sect to rabbinic Judaism and the influence of Muslim and Christian environments

Notions of history and the past contained in literature…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494288/Memory-Music-and-Religion
Brings new insights to the study of the religious function of memory

Why do religious communities remember some events and not others? Why do some kinds of music find a continuing place…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494517/Sonic-Liturgy
Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L. Beck's earlier work, which described the theoretical role of sound in Hindu thought. Sonic Liturgy continu…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800