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Travis Bruce, "Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 23, 2026
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Younus Y. Mirza, "The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through the Centuries" (Fortress Press, 2025)
Aug 12, 2026
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Daniel Majchrowicz, "A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909–1910" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Aug 10, 2026
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Muslims and the Minority Question across the Indian Ocean: A Conversation With Roy Bar Sadeh
Aug 5, 2026
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Paulina Banas, "Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)
Aug 2, 2026
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Rahim Thawer and Maryam Khan eds., "Queer and Muslim: On Faith, Family, and Healing" (U Regina Press, 2026)
Jul 29, 2026
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Xian Aubin Wang, "Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and Resistance, 1949–2024" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Jul 3, 2026
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Aditi Chandra, "Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jul 1, 2026
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Chiara Formichi, "Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Jun 30, 2026
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Marta Dominguez Diaz, "Tunisia's Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Jun 25, 2026
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Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, "Boundaries of Belonging: Sectarianism and Statecraft in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Jun 23, 2026
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Youssef J. Carter, "The Vast Oceans: Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path" (UNC Press, 2026)
Jun 19, 2026
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Marielle Risse, "Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman" (Anthem Press, 2026)
Jun 15, 2026
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Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 14, 2026
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Radio ReOrient Season 14 Round Up, hosted by Saeed Khan, Amina Easat-Daas, Marchella Ward and Claudia Radiven
Jun 12, 2026
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Islam in English
Jun 10, 2026
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Radio ReOrient S14:10: Muslims in the Neoliberal Era, with William Barylo, hosted by Salman Sayyid and Amina Easat-Daas
Jun 5, 2026
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Radio ReOrient 14:9: Racializing the Ummah, with Rhea Rahman, hosted by Saeed Khan and Claudia Radiven
May 29, 2026
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Radio ReOrient 14:8: Dutch Islamophobia and Muslim Exceptionalism, with Martijn de Koning, hosted by Marchella Ward and Amina Easat-Daas
May 22, 2026
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George Baylon Radics, "Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the 'Lazy Native' and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines" (U Georgia Press, 2026)
May 20, 2026
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Utku Balaban, "Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers" (U California Press, 2025)
May 20, 2026
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Radio ReOrient S14:7: Surveilling Muslimness in Denmark, with Amani Hassani, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas
May 15, 2026
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Samiha Rahman, "Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care" (NYU Press, 2026)
May 11, 2026
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Radio ReOrient S14:6: The Road to Sarajevo, with Haris Tagari, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan
May 8, 2026
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Edith Szanto, "Twelver Shi'i Self-flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria: Mourning Sayyida Zaynab" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
May 7, 2026
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Rhea Rahman, "Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Apr 29, 2026
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Radio ReOrient 14:4: The Coconut Trial with Marieha Hussain, hosted by Fatima Rajina and Stephen Lawrence Research Centre
Apr 24, 2026
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Radio ReOrient 14:3: Islamophobia in the Academy and the ‘Everyday’, with Izram Chaudry, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan
Apr 17, 2026
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Jason Welle, "Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of al-Sulami" (I.B. Tauris, 2024)
Apr 16, 2026
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Radio ReOrient 14.1: State of the Ummah: “A War Against the Islamic Republic?”, hosted by Shehla Khan, with Mona Makinejadbanadaki and S. Sayyid.
Apr 10, 2026
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Nurhaizatul Jamil, "Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Apr 10, 2026
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Amir Saemi, "Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 4, 2026
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Hans A. Harmakaputra, "Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia: Resistance, Identity and Belonging" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
Mar 31, 2026
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James McDougall, "Worlds of Islam: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2026)
Mar 27, 2026
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Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Mar 25, 2026
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Ken Chitwood, "Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Mar 23, 2026
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Manuela Ceballos, "Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 13, 2026
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Rian Thum, "Islamic China: An Asian History" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Mar 5, 2026
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Margaret S. Graves, "Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Feb 27, 2026
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Todd H. Weir and Lieke Wijnia, eds., "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Feb 23, 2026
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David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, "Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Feb 22, 2026
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Bin Chen, "Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern China: Education, Frontier Politics, and Nation-State" (Routledge, 2025)
Feb 16, 2026
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Zaid Adhami, "Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith" (UNC Press, 2025)
Feb 11, 2026
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Olivier Esteves et al., "France, You Love It but Leave It: The Silent Flight of French Muslims" (Polity, 2025)
Feb 6, 2026
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P. C. Saidalavi, "Seeking Allah's Hierarchy: Caste, Labor, and Islam in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Feb 4, 2026
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Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)
Jan 27, 2026
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Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Jan 26, 2026
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Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)
Jan 19, 2026
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Khaled A. Beydoun, "The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims" (U California Press, 2023)
Jan 17, 2026
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Imran Mulla, "The Indian Caliphate, Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince" (Hurst, 2025)
Jan 15, 2026
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Nile Green, "Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean" (U Texas Press, 2026)
Jan 7, 2026
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Youshaa Patel, "The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 4, 2026
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Lin Hongxuan, "Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 25, 2025
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Deanna Ferree Womack, "Re-Inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Dec 21, 2025
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Radio ReOrient 13.10: Countering Islamophobia with the Runnymede Trust, with Shabna Begum, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat Daas
Dec 19, 2025
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John Tolan, "Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Dec 15, 2025
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Radio ReOrient 13.9: “Everyday Islamophobia,” with Peter Hopkins, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat Daas
Dec 12, 2025
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Shawkat M. Toorawa, "The Devotional Qur'an: Beloved Surahs and Verses" (Yale UP, 2025)
Dec 5, 2025
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Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)
Dec 4, 2025
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Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward
Nov 28, 2025
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Radio ReOrient 13.6: “Islamophobia and the ‘Great Replacement’ Conspiracy,” with Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilaran, hosted by Marchella Ward and Hizer Mir
Nov 26, 2025
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Faisal Devji, "Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam" (Yale UP, 2025)
Nov 22, 2025
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Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath, "TEDified Islam: Postsecular Storytelling in New Media" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Nov 21, 2025
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Basit Kareem Iqbal, "The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution" (Fordham UP, 2025)
Nov 14, 2025
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Justin Marozzi, "Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World" (Pegasus Books, 2025)
Nov 13, 2025
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Nerina Rustomji, "The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins and Feminine Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 9, 2025
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Radio ReOrient 13.4: “The Repression of the Uyghurs,” with Zumretay Arkin, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward
Nov 7, 2025
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Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)
Nov 6, 2025
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Radio ReOrient 13.3: “Why Palestine Activism & Resistance Matter,” with Hatem Bazian and Ismail Patel, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward
Oct 31, 2025
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Radio ReOrient 13.2: “Understanding the Islamic Secular,” with Sherman Jackson, hosted by S.Sayyid and Hizer Mir, part 2
Oct 24, 2025
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James Grehan, "Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Oct 17, 2025
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Radio ReOrient 13.1: “Understanding the Islamic Secular,” with Sherman Jackson, hosted by S. Sayyid and Hizer Mir, part 1
Oct 17, 2025
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Kathryn Hurlock, "Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World" (Profile, 2025)
Oct 14, 2025
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Ashis Roy, "Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-muslim Relationships" (Yoda Press, 2024)
Oct 12, 2025
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Jamal J. Elias, "After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Oct 3, 2025
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Gina Vale, "The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 29, 2025
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Wendell Marsh, "Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Sep 22, 2025
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Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)
Sep 9, 2025
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Localisation of Islamic Arts in Malaysia
Sep 8, 2025
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Mutaz al-Khatib, "Key Classical Works on Islamic Ethics" (Brill, 2024)
Sep 2, 2025
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Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Aug 31, 2025
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Islam, Society, and Politics in Indonesia: An Interview with Robert Hefner
Aug 29, 2025
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Russell T. McCutcheon, "Religion and the Domestication of Dissent: Or, How to Live in a Less Than Perfect Nation" (Routledge, 2025)
Aug 28, 2025
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Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition” (Yale UP, 2018)
Aug 24, 2025
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David Commins, "Saudi Arabia: A Modern History" (Yale UP, 2025)
Aug 20, 2025
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Adriana Carranca, "Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Aug 16, 2025
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Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: A Critical Study of Doubt and Certainty" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 15, 2025
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Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions" (Brill, 2024)
Aug 3, 2025
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Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 31, 2025
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Ankur Barua, "The Hindu Self and Its Muslim Neighbors: Contested Borderlines on Bengali Landscapes" (Lexington, 2022)
Jul 30, 2025
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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 27, 2025
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Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao" (Pantheon, 2017)
Jul 26, 2025
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Amir Hussain, "One God and Two Religions: Christians and Muslims as Neighbors" (Fortress Press, 2025)
Jul 24, 2025
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Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Jul 21, 2025
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M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jul 20, 2025
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Charles Glass, "Syria: Civil War to Holy War?" (OR Books, 2024)
Jul 14, 2025
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Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 2, 2025
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Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 23, 2025
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Omneya Ayad, "Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn ‘Ajiba’s Understanding of the Divine Word" (Routledge, 2023)
Jun 20, 2025
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Sarah Nagaty, "The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing For A Better Life" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jun 4, 2025
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Simon Stjernholm, "Sensing Islam: Engaging and Contesting the Senses in Muslim Religiosity" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025)
Jun 3, 2025
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Basma Al Dajani, "The Arab Andalusian Love Poetry: A Study of the Interaction Between Place and Man Through Time" (AU Cairo Press, 1994)
Jun 1, 2025
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Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
May 23, 2025
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Abdul Wohab, "Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence" (Routledge, 2025)
May 22, 2025
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Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 3, 2025
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"I have not Finished...": Rokahya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)
May 2, 2025
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Mehrdad Alipour, "Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse" (Brill, 2024)
Apr 25, 2025
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Samuel Ross, "Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn: A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Apr 19, 2025
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Radio ReOrient Season 12: A Wrap Up and Round Up
Apr 18, 2025
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Ðermana Kuric on Muslimness in Bosnia
Apr 11, 2025
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Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
Apr 6, 2025
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"Queer Jews, Queer Muslims" with Adi Saleem and Shanon Shah
Apr 5, 2025
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Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025)
Apr 4, 2025
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Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2025
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Wafik W. Wahba, "Global Christianity and Islam: Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs" (InterVarsity Press, 2025)
Mar 30, 2025
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Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
Mar 29, 2025
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Syaifudin Zuhri, "Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition" (Leiden UP, 2022)
Mar 28, 2025
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David D. Grafton, "Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (NYU Press, 2024)
Mar 22, 2025
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Cars, Race and Class with Yunis Alam
Mar 21, 2025
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Lauren E. Osborne, "Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 15, 2025
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Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 7, 2025
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Exploring Muslim Sicily with Nuha Alshaar and Shainool Jiwa
Mar 7, 2025
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Alcohol
Mar 3, 2025
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Asim Qureshi and Walaa Quisay, "When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners" (Pluto Press, 2024)
Mar 2, 2025
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Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean
Feb 28, 2025
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Kecia Ali, "The Woman Question in Islamic Studies" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 21, 2025
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Adnan Husain on Reorienting History
Feb 21, 2025
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Samar Al-Bulushi, "War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Feb 17, 2025
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Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 16, 2025
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Professor Priyamvada Gopal on Anticolonial Resistance
Feb 14, 2025
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In Conversation: Decolonial Activism and Islamophobia in France
Feb 12, 2025
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William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Feb 7, 2025
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In Conversation: PREVENT (Preventing Violent Extremism), Academia and Representation
Feb 5, 2025
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Ayesha Jalal, "Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia" (Routledge, 2025)
Feb 4, 2025
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Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 3, 2025
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In Conversation: Islamic Architecture and Europe
Jan 29, 2025
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In Conversation: The Far Right and Muslims
Jan 15, 2025
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In Conversation: Epistemology, Critical Race Theory and Critical Muslim Studies
Jan 8, 2025
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Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 29, 2024
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Pakistan, Populism and the Left
Dec 27, 2024
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In Conversation: Enslaved Muslims in the Americas
Dec 25, 2024
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Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 20, 2024
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In Conversation: Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter
Dec 18, 2024
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Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 18, 2024
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Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, "Qur'ānic Stories: God, Revelation, and the Audience" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Dec 16, 2024
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Shehnaz Haqqani, "Feminism, Tradition and Change in Contemporary Islam: Negotiating Islamic Law and Gender" (Oneworld, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024
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In Conversation: Epistemology, Islamic Studies and Critical Muslim Studies
Dec 4, 2024
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Fatima Rajina, "British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024
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In Conversation: Islamophobia, Race and Global Politics
Nov 27, 2024
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Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 23, 2024
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Youcef Soufi, "Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World" (NYU Press, 2025)
Nov 22, 2024
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An Interview with Dr. Ismail Patel: Social Mobility, Britishness and Islamophobia
Nov 20, 2024
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Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
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A Normative Sociological Approach to Secularism and Multiculturalism
Nov 13, 2024
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Lisa Nielson, "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Nov 12, 2024
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Manan Ahmed Asif, "Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore" (New Press, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024
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Talking Thai Politics: Tak Bai and Beyond, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency
Nov 8, 2024
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Islamophobia, France and Muslim Political Subjectivity
Nov 8, 2024
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Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024)
Nov 2, 2024
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Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Oct 26, 2024
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Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
Oct 23, 2024
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Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
Oct 23, 2024
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Emrah Yildiz, "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 22, 2024
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Shared Paths: Exploring Jewish and Muslim Experiences in America
Oct 17, 2024
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Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, "Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa" (U California Press, 2023)
Oct 16, 2024
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Slavery and Islam
Oct 16, 2024
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Xiaoming Wang, "Muslim Chinese: The Hui in Rural Ningxia" (de Gruyter, 2019)
Oct 14, 2024
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Christopher Paul Clohessy, "Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
Oct 6, 2024
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Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
Oct 4, 2024
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Francesco Piraino, "Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Oct 4, 2024
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Search for Identity in a Post-2013 Context
Oct 2, 2024
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Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety" (Oxford UP/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2023)
Sep 26, 2024
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Re-examining Hassan Al-Banna’s Model of Dawah after the Arab Spring
Sep 25, 2024
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Just War and the Seal of Prophethood
Sep 18, 2024
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Decolonial Muslim Political Activism and Thought in Britain
Sep 11, 2024
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Dr. Alexandre Caeiro on the Politics of Islamic Law and Institutions in Qatar
Sep 4, 2024
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Radio Reorient Season 11: A Wrap Up and Round Up
Aug 29, 2024
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Granada Dialogues, Part 2: On Ghosts, Nationalism, and Liberation
Aug 28, 2024
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Cyrus Ali Zargar, "Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Aug 21, 2024
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Granada Dialogues, Part 1: On 1492, Orientalism and Race
Aug 21, 2024
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Carole Ammann, "Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
Aug 18, 2024
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Farshid Emami, "Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Aug 17, 2024
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Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Aug 16, 2024
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Decoloniality
Aug 15, 2024
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Is Islamophobia Racism?
Aug 14, 2024
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Muslimness in China
Aug 9, 2024
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Samuel C. Heilman and Mucahit Bilici, "Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another" (U California Press, 2024)
Aug 9, 2024
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Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024
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Muslimness in Books for Young Readers: A Chat with A. M. Dassu
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Orientalism in Representations of Muslims: A Discussion with Laury Silvers
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Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Walaa Quisay, "Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Post-Orientalism Revisited: A Conversation with Salman Sayyid
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Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
May 17, 2024
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Salar Mameni, "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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May 2, 2024
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Apr 28, 2024
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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Apr 23, 2024
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M. A. R. Habib and Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Qur'an: A Verse Translation" (Liveright, 2024)
Apr 23, 2024
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Arsalan Khan, "The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Apr 19, 2024
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Egor Lazarev, "State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Sumita Pahwa, "Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Esra Mirze Santesso, "Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Apr 7, 2024
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Annika Schmeding, "Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Apr 7, 2024
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Loren D. Lybarger, "Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile" (U California Press, 2020)
Apr 3, 2024
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Mar 17, 2024
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SherAli Tareen, "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
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Mar 13, 2024
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Sofia Rehman, "Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Emily Lynell Edwards, "Digital Islamophobia: Tracking a Far-Right Crisis" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Mar 7, 2024
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Mar 6, 2024
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Razak Khan, "Minority Pasts: Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 6, 2024
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Vernon James Schubel, "Teaching Humanity: An Alternative Introduction to Islam" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Feb 27, 2024
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Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2019)
Feb 21, 2024
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Christiane Gruber, “The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Feb 18, 2024
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The Future of Afghanistan: A Discussion with Kate Clark
Feb 17, 2024
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Amira Mittermaier, "Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times" (U California Press, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
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Merin Shobhana Xavier, "The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Feb 2, 2024
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Maryam Kashani, "Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024
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Amanda Lanzillo, "Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India" (U California Press, 2024)
Jan 27, 2024
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Amar Sohal, "The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024
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Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 22, 2024
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Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008)
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Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 14, 2024
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Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jan 12, 2024
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Matthew Carr, "Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614" (Hurst, 2017)
Jan 8, 2024
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Sara Rahnama, "The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 7, 2024
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Jan 3, 2024
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Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 3, 2024
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Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Jan 1, 2024
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Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 28, 2023
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David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023
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David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, "Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Dec 16, 2023
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Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020)
Dec 9, 2023
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Gregory J. Goalwin, "Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Dec 7, 2023
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Afsar Mohammad, "Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 6, 2023
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Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023)
Dec 4, 2023
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Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023
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Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Nov 17, 2023
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Toby Matthiesen, "The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 2, 2023
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James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023
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Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023
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Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023
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Andrea Celli, "Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Oct 11, 2023
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Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)
Oct 5, 2023
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Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 30, 2023
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Shezan Muhammedi, "Gifts from Amin: Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada" (U of Manitoba Press, 2022)
Sep 28, 2023
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Timur Warner Hammond, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023
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Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023
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Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023
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Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 17, 2023
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Dženita Karić, "Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Sep 15, 2023
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Sep 12, 2023
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Divya Cherian, "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia" (2023)
Sep 9, 2023
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Hafsa Kanjwal, "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Sep 8, 2023
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Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 1, 2023
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Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, "I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 25, 2023
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Jamila Rodrigues, "Sufi Women, Embodiment and the 'Self': Gender in Islamic Ritual" (Routledge, 2023)
Aug 18, 2023
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Alisa Perkins, "Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit" (NYU Press, 2020)
Aug 17, 2023
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Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Aug 10, 2023
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Falguni A. Sheth, "Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 4, 2023
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Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 3, 2023
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Rahil Roodsaz, "Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Jul 26, 2023
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Erin Pettigrew, "Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 23, 2023
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Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Jul 23, 2023
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Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)
Jul 23, 2023
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Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023
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Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)
Jul 10, 2023
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Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 1, 2023
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Yael Rice, "The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023
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Michael Muhammad Knight, "Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023
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Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 16, 2023
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Masood Ashraf Raja, "Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred" (Lever Press, 2023)
Jun 14, 2023
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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, "Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul" (Routledge, 2023)
Jun 6, 2023
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Tazeen M. Ali, "The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam" (NYU Press, 2022)
May 28, 2023
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Reyhan Durmaz, "Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond" (U California Press, 2022)
May 27, 2023
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Evelyn Alsultany, "Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion" (NYU Press, 2022)
May 26, 2023
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Moyukh Chatterjee, "Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 20, 2023
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Mark LeVine, "We'll Play Till We Die: Journeys Across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World" (U California Press, 2022)
May 19, 2023
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Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
May 18, 2023
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Claudia Liebelt, "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
May 14, 2023
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Leyla Jagiella, "Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey" (Hurst, 2022)
May 12, 2023
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Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely and Emad El-Din Aysha, "Arab and Muslim Science Fiction" (McFarland, 2022)
May 10, 2023
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Laetitia Nanquette, "Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
May 6, 2023
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Shenila Khoja-Moolji, "Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 5, 2023
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May 4, 2023
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Teena U. Purohit, "Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 28, 2023
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Kaamil Ahmed, "I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers" (Hurst, 2023)
Apr 27, 2023
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Saadia Sumbal, "Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan: Sufis and Ulema in 20th-Century South Asia" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 24, 2023
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Awad Halabi, "Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Apr 23, 2023
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Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023
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Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Islam and Blackness" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
Apr 7, 2023
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Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination" (U California Press, 2019)
Apr 6, 2023
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Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 24, 2023
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Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
Mar 18, 2023
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Aaron Rock-Singer, "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 17, 2023
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Joseph W. Peterson, "Sacred Rivals: Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 14, 2023
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Audrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 10, 2023
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Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran" (Duke UP, 2022)
Mar 3, 2023
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Sabri Ciftci et al., "Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023
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Ron Hirschbein and Amin Asfari, "Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination" (Routledge, 2023)
Feb 26, 2023
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Elizabeth Lhost, "Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia" (UNC Press, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
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Hadia Mubarak, "Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023
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John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)
Feb 16, 2023
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Piro Rexhepi, "White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route" (Duke UP, 2022)
Feb 12, 2023
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Shahzad Bashir, "A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures" (MIT Press, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023
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Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Feb 1, 2023
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Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Feb 1, 2023
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Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture
Jan 29, 2023
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Stephen C. Finley, "In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jan 27, 2023
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Catholic in Karachi: Living as a Christian in an Islamic Country
Jan 23, 2023
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Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Jan 8, 2023
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Afsar Mohammad, "An Evening with a Sufi" (Red River, 2022)
Jan 6, 2023
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Sebastian Elischer, "Salafism and Political Order in Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 4, 2023
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The Future of Iranian Resistance: A Discussion with Azadeh Moaveni
Jan 4, 2023
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Eren Duzgun, "Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022
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Ron Kronish, "Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (2022)
Dec 27, 2022
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Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest" (NYU Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
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Pamela Karimi, "Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022
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Geoff Harkness, "Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization" (NYU Press, 2020)
Dec 21, 2022
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Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 20, 2022
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David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, "People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Dec 9, 2022
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Protests in Iran: Maybe not the Tocqueville Paradox
Dec 5, 2022
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Gabriel Polley, "Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
Dec 5, 2022
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Cristina Civantos, "Jamón and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía" (Amherst College Press, 2022)
Dec 5, 2022
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Shaul Bartal and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, "Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel" (Routledge, 2017)
Dec 4, 2022
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The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
Nov 28, 2022
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Amina Wadud, "Once in a Lifetime" (Kantara Press, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
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Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Nov 24, 2022
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Beatrice Forbes Manz, "Nomads in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 21, 2022
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Nile Green, "The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London" (Princeton UP, 2015)
Nov 14, 2022
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Ken Chitwood, "The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean" (Lynn Rienner, 2021)
Nov 11, 2022
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Abiodun Alao, "Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria" (Duke UP, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
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Nov 8, 2022
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Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 7, 2022
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Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
Nov 4, 2022
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John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 27, 2022
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Saskia Warren, "British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
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Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
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Yohanan Friedmann, "Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
Oct 22, 2022
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Siobhan Lambert-Hurley et al., "Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
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The Future of the Taliban: A Discussion with Ahmed Rashid
Oct 11, 2022
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Sarah Fatima Waheed, "Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 7, 2022
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Emily Jane O'Dell, "The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2022)
Oct 5, 2022
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Waleed Ziad, "Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints Beyond the Oxus and Indus" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Sep 30, 2022
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Nazia Kazi, "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
Sep 27, 2022
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Mohamed Abdou, "Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
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L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster, "Sex in the Middle East and North Africa" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Sep 8, 2022
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Tilde Rosmer, "The Islamic Movement in Israel" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Sep 7, 2022
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Aniket De, "The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 1, 2022
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Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)
Sep 1, 2022
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Aug 30, 2022
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Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
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Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries (vol. 2): On Women" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 19, 2022
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Aug 18, 2022
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Paul Naylor, "From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State" (James Currey, 2021)
Aug 17, 2022
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Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Aug 13, 2022
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Aug 12, 2022
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Jordan Denari Duffner, "Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination" (Orbis, 2021)
Aug 11, 2022
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David R. Stroup, "Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Aug 9, 2022
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Culturally Competent Health Care, Equality in Health Care: The Case of Muslims and Jews in the UK
Jul 27, 2022
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Kecia Ali, ed., "Tying the Knot: A Feminist/Womanist Guide to Muslim Marriage in America" (Open BU, 2021)
Jul 26, 2022
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The Future of Al Qaeda: A Discussion with Nelly Lahoud
Jul 26, 2022
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On Pious Fashion and Muslim Women
Jul 25, 2022
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Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2022
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Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Jul 14, 2022
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John F. Sears, "Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel" (Purdue UP, 2021)
Jul 12, 2022
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Jul 8, 2022
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Jul 7, 2022
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Yussef El Guindi, "In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
Jul 6, 2022
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Nilanjana Paul, "Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947: A Study of Curriculum, Educational Institutions, and Communal Politics" (Routledge, 2022)
Jul 5, 2022
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Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 4, 2022
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Annie Tracy Samuel, "The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jul 1, 2022
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Carla Power, "Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism" (One World, 2021)
Jun 30, 2022
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Omar Kasmani, "Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jun 29, 2022
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Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2022
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Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press/Profile Books, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022
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Peter Oborne, "The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022
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Joseph A. Boone, "The Homoerotics of Orientalism" (Columbia UP, 2014)
Jun 22, 2022
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Jun 21, 2022
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Rizwaan Sabir, "Shadows of Suspicion: Counterterrorism, Muslims and the British Security State" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022
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The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
Jun 14, 2022
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Matt King, "Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jun 10, 2022
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Ziba Mir-Hosseini, "Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam" (Oneworld, 2022)
Jun 10, 2022
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Caleb Elfenbein, "Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Teaches Us About America" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jun 3, 2022
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Mohammed Ayoob and Danielle N. Lussier, "The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies," Second Edition (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Jun 2, 2022
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Ariela Marcus-Sells, "Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
May 27, 2022
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Peter Mandaville, "Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 25, 2022
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On Women of Color in American Islam
May 16, 2022
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Maha Hilal, "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
May 13, 2022
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Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 12, 2022
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Guangtian Ha, "The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
May 9, 2022
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Jasmin Zine, "Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Apr 29, 2022
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Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen, "Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 18, 2022
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George Warner, "The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Apr 18, 2022
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Matt Sheedy, "Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility " (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
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Darren Byler, "Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City" (Duke UP, 2022)
Apr 13, 2022
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Richard Brent Turner, "Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 8, 2022
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Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)
Apr 1, 2022
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K. S. Batmanghelichi, "Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 25, 2022
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David H. Warren, "Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022
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Kecia Ali, ed., "Half of Faith: American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century" (Open BU, 2021)
Mar 18, 2022
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M. A. Muqtedar Khan, "Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Mar 14, 2022
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Peter Mandaville, "Islam and Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
Mar 11, 2022
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Jeffery D. Long and Michael G. Long, "Nonviolence in the World's Religions: A Concise Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 10, 2022
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Christopher Clohessy, "Angels Hastening: The Karbalāʾ Dreams" (Gorgias Press, 2021)
Mar 9, 2022
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Amélie Barras et al., "Producing Islams(s) in Canada: On Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Mar 4, 2022
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Nebil Husayn, "Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 28, 2022
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Usaama Al-Azami, "Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 23, 2022
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Love-Jihad and the Politics of Hindu Nationalist Statecraft
Feb 18, 2022
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Marc David Baer, "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs" (Basic Books, 2021)
Feb 17, 2022
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Nauman Faizi, "God, Science, and Self: Muhammad Iqbal's Reconstruction of Religious Thought" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
Feb 11, 2022
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Afe Adogame, "Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Feb 11, 2022
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Elora Shehabuddin, "Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism" (U California Press, 2021)
Feb 4, 2022
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Omar Ashour, "How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Jan 31, 2022
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Bruce B. Lawrence, "Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021)
Jan 24, 2022
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Michael Muhammad Knight, "Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
Jan 5, 2022
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D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 5, 2022
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Farha Bano Ternikar, "Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Dec 24, 2021
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Anna McSweeney, "From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola" (Kettler Verlag, 2020)
Dec 21, 2021
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Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 17, 2021
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Hassan Abbas, "The Prophet's Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib" (Yale UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
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Pouya Alimagham, "Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 9, 2021
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Nicole Nguyen, "Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Dec 3, 2021
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Jeffrey Guhin, "Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 24, 2021
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Christopher Coker, "The Rise of the Civilizational State" (Polity Press, 2019)
Nov 23, 2021
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Rose Wellman, "Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic" (U California Press, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021
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Sana Haroon, "Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021
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Yair Wallach, "A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Nov 15, 2021
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Simon O'Meara, "The Ka'ba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Nov 5, 2021
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Justin K. Stearns, "Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 5, 2021
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Murray Hogben, "Minarets on the Horizon: Muslim Pioneers in Canada" (Mawenzi House, 2021)
Nov 5, 2021
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Nada Moumtaz, "God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
Nov 2, 2021
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Emily Greble, "Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021
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Jay Rubenstein, “Apocalypse Then: The First Crusade” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021
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Cheikh Anta Babou, "The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making" (Ohio UP, 2021)
Oct 21, 2021
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Susanna Fioratta, "Global Nomads: An Ethnography of Migration, Islam, and Politics" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 19, 2021
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Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, "Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Oct 15, 2021
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Gábor Ágoston, "The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 13, 2021
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Ethnicity and Gender: What It’s Like to be a Gay Muslim
Oct 11, 2021
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Richard J. A. McGregor, "Islam and the Devotional Object" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Oct 8, 2021
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Mirjam Lücking, "Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims" (SAPP, 2021)
Oct 4, 2021
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Pamela J. Prickett, "Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Oct 1, 2021
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Nada Moumtaz, "God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
Sep 27, 2021
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Ousmane Oumar Kane, "Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts" (James Currey, 2021)
Sep 24, 2021
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Muhammad Umar Faruque, "Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Sep 24, 2021
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Ebenezer Obadare, "Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria" (Zed Books, 2018)
Sep 22, 2021
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Jytte Klausen, "Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 22, 2021
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Kristian Petersen, "Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology" (Ilex Foundation, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021
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Chris Chaplin, "Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021
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Charles Tieszen, "The Christian Encounter with Muhammad: How Theologians Have Interpreted the Prophet" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 10, 2021
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Nile Green, “Religious Entrepreneurs?” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 31, 2021
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Simonetta Calderini, "Women as Imams: Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Aug 31, 2021
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Aaron Y. Zelin, "Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Aug 27, 2021
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Islam in America: An Conversation with Amir Hussain
Aug 16, 2021
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Nivi Manchanda, "Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 13, 2021
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Soner Çaǧaptay, "A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Aug 12, 2021
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Mark Farha, "Lebanon: The Rise and Fall of a Secular State under Siege" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 11, 2021
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Heather N. Keaney, "'Uthman ibn 'Affan" (Oneworld Academic, 2020)
Aug 6, 2021
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James E. Lindsay and Suleiman Mourad, "Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology" (Hackett, 2021)
Aug 4, 2021
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Ruth Streicher, "Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Aug 2, 2021
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Bagila Bukharbayeva, "The Vanishing Generation: Revolution, Religion, and Disappearance in Modern Uzbekistan" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Aug 2, 2021
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Supriya Gandhi, "The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2021
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Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
Jul 29, 2021
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Francis Wade, "Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'" (Zed Books, 2017)
Jul 28, 2021
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Ryan J. Lynch, "Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh Al-Buldan of Al-Baladhuri" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Jul 28, 2021
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Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, "Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, C. 1400-1650" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 23, 2021
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