Books written by John L. Esposito

  • Islam, Gender, & Social Change
    Islam, Gender, & Social Change

    For the Shiis, the malam is an important venue where formal and informal gatherings often take place, and where these issues are debated as current problems and concerns. Furthermore, the month of Muharam is a period of continuous ...

  • The Contemporary Islamic Revival: A Critical Survey and Bibliography
    The Contemporary Islamic Revival: A Critical Survey and Bibliography

    Tehran : The Shariati Foundation , n.d. , 226 p . Fatima , the daughter of the Prophet Mohammad ... Houston , TX , Free Islamic Literatures , Inc. , 1980 ... Houston , TX : The Institute for Research and Islamic Studies , 1986 , 181 p .

  • Makers of Contemporary Islam
    Makers of Contemporary Islam

    This book examines the biographies of nine major activist intellectuals whose work provides the core of what the Islamic resurgence became in the 1990s adn is an important foundation for what it can become in the 21st century.

  • Islam and Democracy
    Islam and Democracy

    Are Islam and democracy on a collision course? Do Islamic movements seek to "hijack democracy?" How have governments in the Muslim world responded to the many challenges of Islam and democracy today?

  • Islam and Democracy After the Arab Spring
    Islam and Democracy After the Arab Spring

    This book analyzes the nature of the relationship between religion and politics by using democracy in the Muslim world and the phenomenon of the Arab Spring as a case study.

  • The Islamic World: Hizbullah-Ottoman empire
    The Islamic World: Hizbullah-Ottoman empire

    Presents a comprehensive three-volume series on the Islamic world including over three hundred articles that answer questions concerning Islamic religious beliefs, definitions of unfamiliar terms used in the articles, sidebars that focus on ...

  • Islam and Democracy After the Arab Spring

    The text applies a 21st-century perspective to the question of whether or not Islam is 'compatible' with democracy by redirecting the conversation toward a new politics of democracy that transcends both secular authoritarianism and ...

  • Islam and Democracy
    Islam and Democracy

    A relatively comprehensive bibliography of Islamic movements through the world is provided by Yvonne Y. Haddad, John L. Esposito, and John O.Voll, The Contemporary Islamic Revival: A Critical Survey and Bibliography (Westport, Conn.

  • Islam and Politics: Fourth Edition
    Islam and Politics: Fourth Edition

    John Obert Voll Islam in Revolution : Fundamentalism in the Arab World . Second Edition . R. Hrair Dekmejian Khul - Khaal : Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories . Nayra Atiya Law of Desire : Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran .

  • Women in Muslim Family Law: Second Edition
    Women in Muslim Family Law: Second Edition

    John Obert Voll Islam and Politics . Fourth Edition . John L. Esposito The Islamic Impact . Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad , Byron Haines , & Ellison Findly , eds . The Middle East from the Iran - Contra Affair to the Intifada .

  • The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?
    The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?

    For a comprehensive bibliography on the role of Islam in contemporary history and politics, see Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, John Obert Voll, and John L. Esposito, eds., The Contemporary Islamic Revival: A Critical Survey and Bibliography ...

  • Islamiyet ve demokrasi

    Islam en democratie. - Behandeling van verschillende onderwerpen rond de verhouding tussen de Islam en democratie.

  • Demokrasi di negara-negara Muslim: problem dan prospek

    Demokrasi di negara-negara Muslim: problem dan prospek

  • The Future of Islam
    The Future of Islam

    Bill, James A., and John Alden Williams. Roman Catholics and Shi'i Muslims. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Bulliet, Richard W. The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization. New York: Columbia University Press, ...

  • What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam
    What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam

    Uses a question and answer format to present information on topics including faith and practice, Islam and other religions, customs and culture, and Muslims in the West.

  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
    The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World

    This unique reference is a comprehensive encyclopedia dedicated to the institutions, religion, politics, and culture in Muslim societies throughout the world. Placing particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,...

  • Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
    Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath

    But it is the intense, detailed narrative of the fire-harrowing yet compulsively readable-and the trials that followed that will stay with readers well after they finish this remarkable book.

  • Religions of the West Today
    Religions of the West Today

    This unique volume accomplishes two goals: it connects today's religions to their classical beliefs and practices and focuses on how these religions have both radically changed the modern world and been changed by it.

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
    The Oxford Dictionary of Islam

    The dictionary focuses primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries, stressing topics of most interest to Westerners. What emerges is a highly informative look at the religious, political, and social spheres of the modern Islamic world.

  • Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century
    Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century

    In Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870–1930, ed. Holly Edwards, 11–57. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Edwards, Holly, ed. Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870–1930.