Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Reveals how Milton's poetry deploys the reciprocal forces of 'first matter' in order to access the experience of co-existent being

Uncovers the nonhuman turn's unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France.

Traces the remnants of Ancient Greek democratic thought in American Republicanism.

Explores the effects of illusionism within media representation and contemporary aesthetics with a focus on the uncanny.

Uses a comparative perspective to demonstrate how informal institutions and relations shape the composition and performance of courts globally.

What can intelligence producers and users learn from contemporary intelligence warning cases to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate and prevent future security challenges?

Examines the use of ironic language among political leaders in international politics.

The most sustained analysis of Kant's thinking on obligations and desires, connecting his readings of ancient philosophy with pressing questions in contemporary environmental philosophy.

Studies rebellion as historical phenomenon and literary construct in early Islamicate contexts.

Studies the reconfiguration of the Syrian regime through the revival of charities under al-Asad (2000-2010).

Identifies philosophical scepticism as a major theme across Wallace's oeuvre, in both fiction and non-fiction.

The first volume to connect legal institutions and court arguments in a series of close readings of selected speeches from the Attic Orators

A comparative analysis of far-right politics across Europe and the Middle East with a focus on gender and sexuality.

Analyses the resurgence of the radical Right and the psychodynamic basis of authoritarian politics.

First scholarly edition of Conan Doyle's semi-autobiographical, epistolary novel originally published at the height of his initial fame, 1894-9.

Traces the development of tawātur theories and explores their role in defining Islamic orthodoxy.

Continental philosophers and contemporary artists transform the classics into living practices.

Argues that Shakespeare's plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate them or make them 'feminist'.

Offers a comparative study of the effects of monotheism on ethnicity and state-formation in Western Eurasia The stories of medieval conversions have been told many times and frequently focus on the story of the individual ruler's conversion; the process is usually set in Europe and couched in terms of Christianisation. Yet similar processes occurred further east, as dynasties such as the Sāmānids or Almusids chose Islam in central Asia, or the Khazar Āsǐnà dynasty chose Judaism. Each dynast had his reasons of political expediency for making his choice which was later mythologised. For all of these dynasties, however, the process of adopting one brand of monotheism or another involved widespread constitutional change, which sealed the security, legitimacy and wealth of the ruling dynasty in perpetuity. Focusing on Pontic-Caspian Eurasia during the eighth to thirteenth centuries, this book explores the growth, development and consequences of monotheism. It compares the bottom-up and top-down conversions of the Khazars, Volga Bulgars, Magyars and Rus' (and the refusal of monotheism by the Pečenegs and Cuman-Qıpčaqs), demonstrating that these were rarely individual affairs, but usually collective, generations-long processes of domination and resistance. Rejecting the arbitrary (and Western-centric) distinctions between the so-called Occidental and Oriental worlds and between the Late Antique and Medieval periods, the book demystifies understandings of ethnogenesis and state-formation across Central-Eastern Europe and Western Eurasia and reveals how what we today call the 'Migration Age' continued up to the Mongolian invasions and perhaps beyond. Alex M. Feldman is a professor at the College of International Studies of Madrid.

Establishes the existence of an important school of Sufi thought developed by Ibn ʿArabī This book is not about Sufism. It is about the nature of the Sharīʿa. In the first three centuries of Islam, many scholars believed that juristic differences were rooted in the Sharīʿa's inherent flexibility. As this pluralistic attitude began to disappear, a number of Sufis defended and developed this idea through the centuries. They aimed to preserve the leniency and simplicity of the Sharīʿa against the complications and restrictions created by many jurists. This book highlights a number of the major Sufi figures whose writings on legal theory were strongly shaped by their Sufism, showing how they belonged to the same tradition and developed each other's ideas. The book focuses in particular on Ibn ʿArabī, giving a detailed analysis of his legal thought and revealing his influence on a number of major Sufi figures all the way up to the 19th century. Other key figures whose influence is explored are al-Tirmidhī, al-Shaʿrānī and Ibn Idrīs. This is the first study to give a full picture of the role that Sufi thought played in the revivalist Islamic movements of the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries. Samer Dajani is an independent researcher in Islamic Studies. He mainly studies the different methodologies of the Sunni schools of jurisprudence, as well as broader theories on legal diversity and the nature of the Sharīʿa. He completed this work as a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Muslim College and was recently a lecturer at the Muslim College, London.

A collection of critical essays on Abel Ferrara, one of America's most unorthodox and distinctive film directors.

Rethinks Taiwan's film history with new insights into its vibrant local-language popular cinema.