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Benjamin Balint, “Jerusalem: City of the Book” (Yale UP, 2019)
Benjamin Balint
Jerusalem
City of the Book
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network January 15, 2020 Renee Garfinkel

“The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.” ― Susan Orlean, The Library Book. Benjamin Balint and Merav Mack‘s Jerusalem: City of the Book (Yale University Press,... Read More
Arbella Bet-Shlimon, “City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Arbella Bet-Shlimon
City of Black Gold
Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network January 14, 2020 Joshua Donovan

In her debut book, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford University Press, 2019), Arbella Bet-Shlimon explores the vibrant and often troubled history of one of Iraq’s most diverse and oil-rich cities. Bet-Shlimon begins at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, illustrating the fluidity of identities... Read More
Narges Bajoghli, “Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Narges Bajoghli
Iran Reframed
Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith January 13, 2020 SherAli Tareen

Narges Bajoghli’s gripping new book Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanford UP, 2019) presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40... Read More
Leor Halevi, “Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935” (Columbia UP, 2019)
Leor Halevi
Modern Things on Trial
Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935
Columbia University Press, 2015, 2019

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network January 7, 2020 Asad Dandia

How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion? What sort of legal reasoning did scholars apply in order to appropriate – or reject – items like the synthetic toothbrush, toilet paper, gramophones, photographs, railway lines, banknotes, hats, and other commodities?... Read More
Joyce Dalsheim, “Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Joyce Dalsheim
Israel Has a Jewish Problem
Self Determination as Self Elimination
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network January 2, 2020 Yaacov Yadgar

In Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination (Oxford University Press, 2019), Joyce Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experiment of re-imagining and reconstructing Judaism, Jewishness and the Jewish people as an ethno-national project focused on the state. Examining the production and assimilation of... Read More
Seyed Ali Alavi, “Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, and Future” (Routledge, 2019)
Seyed Ali Alavi
Iran and Palestine
Past, Present, and Future
Routledge, 2019

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 24, 2019 Yaacov Yadgar

In Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2019), Seyed Ali Alavi (SOAS University of London) surveys the history of the relationship between Iran – and especially the Islamic Republic of Iran – with Palestinian organisations and leadership. It also, quite obviously, deals with Iranian views of Israel and... Read More
Peter Adamson, “Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Peter Adamson
Philosophy in the Islamic World
A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 24, 2019 Asad Dandia

It is no easy task to survey and present a comprehensive history of philosophy of an entire intellectual tradition to a broad public audience without compromising on the scholarly rigor demanded by that history’s nuances. In an ambitious endeavor to do precisely that with the Islamic tradition, Peter Adamson masterfully... Read More
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