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Islamic Studies
Religion
February 26, 2021
Dangerous Religious Ideas
The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Rachel S. Mikva
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Beacon, 2020) reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because …
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Islamic Studies
February 26, 2021
Terror Epidemics
Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies …
Islamic Studies
February 19, 2021
Women and Gender in the Qur'an
Celene Ibrahim
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In Women and Gender in the Qur’an (Oxford University Press in 2020), Celene Ibrahim explores key themes related to gender in the Qur’an, focusing on women, such as female sexuality …
Islamic Studies
February 12, 2021
The Feeling of History
Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia
Charles Hirschkind
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
Charles Hirschkind’s lyrical and majestic new book The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (University of Chicago Press, 2020) represents a profound work of retrieval that launches and executes a …
Indian Ocean World
February 10, 2021
Miracles and Material Life
Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya
Teren Sevea
Hosted by Kelvin Ng
In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2020), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the …
Islamic Studies
February 5, 2021
Ms. Marvel's America
No Normal
Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
In their co-edited volume, Ms. Marvel’s America: No Normal (University Press of Mississippi, 2020), Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid focus on the superhero Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan. The first Muslim …
Islamic Studies
January 29, 2021
Muslim American City
Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit
Alisa Perkins
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
The call to prayer breaks the hustle and bustle of an urban sonic landscape in unique ways. For Muslims living in Hamtramck, Michigan broadcasting the adhān was one way of …
Indian Ocean World
January 28, 2021
Imperial Mecca
Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Michael Christo Low
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases …
Islamic Studies
January 22, 2021
The Golden Calf Between Bible and Qur'an
Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam
Michael E. Pregill
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In his exciting and thorough book, The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam (Oxford, 2020), Michael Pregill explores the biblical and …
Central Asian Studies
January 21, 2021
Polymaths of Islam
Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
James Pickett
Hosted by Nicholas Seay
James Pickett's new book, Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a …
Islamic Studies
January 15, 2021
The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader
Islam Beyond Borders
Bruce B. Lawrence and Ali Altaf Mian
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
For more than four decades, Bruce Lawrence’s multivalent and fulsomely prolific scholarship has influenced and imprinted the Western study of Islam and Religious Studies more broadly in singularly profound ways …
Islamic Studies
January 8, 2021
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran
Niloofar Haeri
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2020) by Niloofar Haeri is a stunning and absorbing ethnography of the lived ritual experiences …
Middle Eastern Studies
January 5, 2021
The Lost Archive
Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
Marina Rustow
Hosted by Nancy Ko
What does it mean that our single greatest source of medieval Islamic government documents comes from the attic of a Jewish synagogue in Cairo? This is the seeming paradox that …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
January 4, 2021
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Architects of a New City
Adina Hoffman
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
A remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City (FSG, 2017) is a gripping …
Islamic Studies
December 31, 2020
Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
The Making of the Prophet of Islam
Sean Anthony
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Contemporary historians have searched for the historical Muhammad along many paths. In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam (University of California Press, 2020) …
East Asian Studies
December 30, 2020
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
Centering Islam in World War II
Kelly A. Hammond
Hosted by Ed Pulford
The 1930s-40s expansion of the Japanese empire was marked by significant interest among Japan-based scholars and policy-makers in China’s Muslim population and how best to write them into a new …
Islamic Studies
December 24, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender
Justine Howe
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender (Routledge, 2020), edited by Justine Howe, includes an excellent introduction to Islam and gender as well as to the volume and 31 content chapters …
Eastern European Studies
December 18, 2020
Remaking Muslim Lives
Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
David Henig
Hosted by Steven Seegel
The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure their religious lives …
Islamic Studies
December 18, 2020
The Occupied Clinic
Militarism and Care in Kashmir
Saiba Varma
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
In her majestic and magisterial new book, The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir (Duke UP, 2020), Saiba Varma disrupts and upsets the care/violence binary by examining and vividly describing …
Islamic Studies
December 11, 2020
Witness to Marvels
Sufism and Literary Imagination
Tony K. Stewart
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
In Tony K. Stewart’s book, Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination (University of California Press, 2019), we are taken into the imaginal realms of ogres, fairies, Sufi pirs and …
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