Advances in the Study of Islam will publish cutting-edge research that reflects the long history and geographic breadth of Islam. It seeks to rethink traditional literary canons while simultaneously offering innovative and alternative approaches to push beyond traditional understandings of Islam. The series provides a platform for creative studies spanning: (1) Disciplines including religious studies, legal studies, archaeology and anthropology; (2) Theoretical questions including historical, philological, ethnographic, comparative and redescriptive; (3) Time periods from late antiquity to the present; and (4) Geographical regions including the so-called Arab World, South Asia, Africa, Iran and the Persian World, Europe and North America.