Abbas Aghdassi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Civilisation of Muslim Societies at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran. He is the author of Persian Academic Reading (2019, Routledge) and editor of Perspectives on Academic Persian (forthcoming, Springer Nature). Aaron W. Hughes is Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester. Hughes specialises in three fields: Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies and Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, and has written numerous books in all three. He is co-editor of the book series Advances in the Study of Islam at Edinburgh University Press and of the Journal of Religious Minorities Under Muslim Rule.

• 1. Introduction: Why New Methods in the Study of Islam? - Abbas Aghdassi and Aaron W. HughesI Methods: Old and New2. New Methods, Old Methods in the Study of Islam: On the Importance of Translation - Aaron W. Hughes3. The Reception of al-Andalus (1821-2021): Two Hundred Years of Study and Debate - Maribel Fierro and Alejandro García-SanjuánII Textual Studies4. Subversive Philology? Prosopography as a Relational and Corpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History - Georg Leube5. Juxtaposition, Tension, Play: The Development of Islamic Law and Legal Theory - Ateeb Gul6. New Theoretical Approaches to the Qur’an and Qur’anic Studies: An Analysis of the Qur’anic (Disabled) Body in Light of Conceptual Metaphor and Conceptual Blending Theory - Johanne Louise Christiansen III Islam and/as Critique7. On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics: A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam - Housamedden DarwishIV New Comparisons8. Can Comparative Theology Help Muslims to a Better Understanding of Religious Diversity? - Esra Akay DağV Local Islams9. Eastern or Western Paradigm: The Struggle for Methodological Dominance in the Study of Islam in Universities in Northern Nigeria - Dauda Abubakar10. Narratives from the Peripheries: An Indian Ocean Perspective for the Study of Islam - Abdul Jaleel P.K.M. 11. Including Localized Islamic Concepts in the Study of Islam - Claudia Seise12. Bodies, Things, Doings: A Practice Theory Approach to the Study of Islam - Ayşe Almıla Akca, Eyad Abuali, and Aydın SüerIndex