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The Internet makes access to staggering amounts of information easy – but it also raises important questions: What are the major issues and key developments in the field? Which sources are up-to-date and which are obsolete? Which works are pivotal in defining the discourse at various stages in its development? Which sources are considered accurate and balanced, and which represent simply a given individual or group’s position? These questions are important to keep in mind when undertaking any new study, but they are particularly critical in a dynamic and contested field such as Islamic Studies. Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies combats this overload by providing expert guidance to the field in all its diversity and throughout its developmental stages. Top scholars in the field have contributed on their areas of expertise, so that users will understand how the field is organized and why it developed in the way it did. The articles present a guided tour through the key literature on each topic, providing context for its development, and a balanced overview of the major issues within a given topic.
A Bibliographical Introduction to Islam in the Modern World
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Editor in Chief
Natana J. DeLong-Bas is the author of Shariah: What Everyone Needs to Know (2018), Islam: A Living Faith (2018), Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad (rev. ed., 2008, translated into Arabic, Russian and French), Notable Muslims: Muslim Builders of World Civilization and Culture (2006), and Women in Muslim Family Law (2001), editor of Islam, Revival and Reform: Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-First Century (2022), Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women (2 vols., 2013), and Deputy Editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World and Oxford Islamic Studies Online (2008). Past President of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), she is an expert on Islam and Christianity, women and gender, Islamic law, the environment, terrorism and extremism, and the Arabian Gulf countries. She is Professor of the Practice of Theology and Islamic Civilization and Societies at Boston College.
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