Against Smoking: An Ottoman Manifesto"Michot provides an introduction into the work (Risaleh Dukhaniyyeh) and an outline of the scholarly debates concerning smoking that occured in Turkey in the 16th and 17th centuries." Islamic Horizons "Against Smoking is a gem of scholarship. This compact book is a major contribution to the study of Islamic pietism in general and Ottoman religious and cultural history in particular." Professor Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Washington University in St. Louis

Law and German Studies at the Ruhr-University in Bochum

Everything that comes from a human being

Without peace and justice between these two religious communities

astronauts

The vivid and elegant verse

including the New York Times bestsellers Reviving Ophelia

and its purpose is to make one s worship valid

and Islam to fill the current void of intellectual discourse on the subject

and rhetoric—remain fundamental to a liberal education

both moral and physical

Based on the sira

which include Rumi’s own inspired comments and explanations