The biography of an influential scholar and lawyer who shaped Western knowledge of Islamic law and of reform within Islam.

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This authoritative volume offers the fullest account to date of Christian fundamentalism, its origins in the nineteenth century, and its development up to the p

This volume explores the important legacy of Scottish missions to China, with a focus on the missionary-scholar and Protestant sinologist par excellence James L