I B Tauris imprint: 1139 books
Loving The L Word
The Complete Series in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Loving The L Word explores the groundbreaking series in its entirety through all six seasons, picking up where I.B. Tauris' Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television (2006) left off. With new, updated chapters by many of the same television writers and scholars who contributed to the first...
Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran
Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation
Forugh Farrokhzad was a pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker, whose reputation as a path-breaking female rebel made her an iconic figure from her own time. Both her unconventional personal life and her captivating creative trajectory...
The Church in the Nineteenth Century
The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
The nineteenth century was one of the most fascinating and volatile periods in Christian history. It was during this time that Christianity evolved into a truly global religion, which led to an ever greater variety of ways for Christians to express and profess their faith. Frances Knight addresses...
Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors
Superwomen in Modern Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
In 'Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors', author Jennifer Stuller looks at the role of superwomen in modern mythology, tracing their development in comics, in films and on television over the course of the past seven decades.
From Wonder Woman to Buffy Summers, Emma Peel to Sydney Bristow,...
by David Commins
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
The history of the Wahhabis' close, loyal alliance with the ancestors of the present Saudi royal family has been recounted in fascinating, and persuasive detail by David Commins. His conclusion is no less startling as it is important, that Wahhabi hegemony over regional religious culture is in jeopardy;...
The I.B.Tauris History of Monasticism
The Western Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
From the earliest centuries of the church, asceticism and the contemplative life have been profoundly important aspects not just of western Christianity but of western civilization as a whole. For even as monasteries withdrew from the main currents of their societies they provided fertile soil and...
The Church in the Early Middle Ages
The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it needed more than in re-describing the Church's development - its life and its thinking - in the period that followed the end of the 'early Church' in antiquity....
The Church in the Modern Age
The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Given the diversity and complexity of developments in the twentieth century, a history of the Christian Church in the modern period is in some ways the most challenging volume of all to write. But Jeremy Morris succeeds in presenting a coherent account of the Church. He emphasises the changing relationship...
The Power of Tantra
Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalise and shock. For European colonisers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved...
Family law in contemporary Iran
Women's Rights Activism and Shari'a
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Passed into law over a decade before the Iranian Revolution, the Family Protection Law drew the ire of the conservative clergy and the Ayatollah Khomeini, and was one of the first laws to be rescinded following the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The law was hardly a surprising target, however,...
The Study of Shi'i Islam
History, Theology and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Shi'i Islam, with its rich and extensive history, has played a crucial role in the evolution of Islam as both a major world religion and civilization. The prolific achievements of Shi'i theologians, philosophers and others are testament to the spiritual and intellectual wealth of this community. Yet...
Justice and Remembrance
Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2006
Ali b. Abi Talib, son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, first Shi'i imam and fourth caliph, is a monumental figure within the Islamic tradition. But despite the immense importance of Imam Ali, there is a dearth of literature in Western languages about his life and thought. This book - the...
by Mike Farquharson-Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
For many years the naval warfare of World War I has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that war, the British Government had expected and intended its military contribution to the conflict to be largely naval. Britain was not simply defending an island; it was defending a far flung empire....
Air and Sea Power in World War I
Combat and Experience in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
The Great War tore the fabric of Europe apart, killing over 35 million men and challenging the notion of heroism in war. Air and Sea Power in World War I focuses on the experience of World War I from the perspective of British pilots and sailors themselves, to demonstrate that the army-centric view...