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The volume provides fresh insights into some of the classical, academic issues which should attract the attention of students of Islamic thought and culture. --Anis Ahmad, Riphah International University (Pakistan), The Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 37:2, Winter 2017

The volume provides fresh insights into some of the classical, academic issues which should attract the attention of students of Islamic thought and culture. Anis Ahmad, Riphah International University (Pakistan), The Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 37:2, Winter 2017

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Christopher Melchert is professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford. His main interests are Islamic movements and institutions, Sufism and renunciant and other pietistic movements, and the life and works of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, on all of which he has published more than fifty major articles, as well as a biography in the Makers of the Muslim World series - Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Oneworld, 2006). Melchert has held a Social Science Research Council Fellowship (Syria), a Fulbright Fellowship (Turkey) and a Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and most recently at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina.

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