Free eBooks from U of California Press through the Luminos Project

Luminos is a University of California Press project to publish scholarly monographs and provide Open Access to their electronic versions.

Here's a few which might interest readers of this blog:

• Christianity, Islam, and Orisa Religion: Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction by J.D.Y. Peel
• Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France by Jean Beaman
• The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca by Nile Green (ed.)
• The Clarion of SyriaA Patriot’s Call against the Civil War of 1860 by Butrus Al-Bustani, introduced and translated by Jens Hanssen and Hicham Safieddine, foreword by Ussama Makdisi
• Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination by Tony K. Stewart
• Language between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century by Alexander Key
• Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World by Patrick Eisenlohr
• Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban by Nile Green (ed.)

Of course, there are many other books available. Use the search form on the site to find what you seek.

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