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Advances in the Study of Islam will publish cutting-edge research that reflects the long history and geographic breadth of Islam. It seeks to rethink traditional literary canons while simultaneously offering innovative and alternative approaches to push beyond traditional understandings of Islam. The series provides a platform for creative studies spanning: (1) Disciplines including religious studies, legal studies, archaeology and anthropology; (2) Theoretical questions including historical, philological, ethnographic, comparative and redescriptive; (3) Time periods from late antiquity to the present; and (4) Geographical regions including the so-called Arab World, South Asia, Africa, Iran and the Persian World, Europe and North America.

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2 results in Advances in the Study of Islam

Traces of the Prophets
  • Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam
  • Adam Bursi
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2024
  • Contributing to scholarship studying Islam alongside other late antique religions, Traces of the Prophets highlights how early Muslims deployed sacred objects and spaces to inscribe and dispute Islam's continuities with, and differences from, Judaism and Christianity. The book argues that prophets' relics ritually and rhetorically shaped Muslim identities in the first centuries of Islam.

    Traces of the Prophets rewrites the history of holy bodies and sacred spaces in the emergence of Islam. Rather than focusing on theological controversies among early Muslims, this book is grounded in the material objects and places that Muslims touched and 'thought with' in defining Islamic practice and belief. While often marginalized in modern scholarship, sacred relics and spaces stood at the disputed boundaries of emergent Islamic identities. Objects and spaces like Abraham's footprints in Mecca and Muhammad's tomb in Medina provided sites of shared Islamic ritual, as well as tools for differentiating Muslims from non-Muslims.

New Methods in the Study of Islam
  • Edited by Abbas Aghdassi, Aaron W. Hughes
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    14 July 2023
    Print publication:
    31 August 2022
  • Methods play a key role in how we access and subsequently organise data. There is a tendency, however, for scholars to focus primarily on their data at the expense of the methodological acts that bring such data into existence in the first place. The academic study of Islam is certainly no different in this regard. Indeed, many continue to employ established or classic methods that often echo (neo-)orientalist and other political inclinations. This collection, in contrast, offers an alternative, providing a set of multi-disciplinary approaches that focus on how we create, study and disseminate 'Islamic data'.