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S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our Hands: Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana
With Stones in Our Hands
Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire
University of Minnesota Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network August 14, 2020 Kristian Petersen

In this current moment it has become increasingly clear that US society is deeply entangled in racist policies and logics of white supremacy. While this affects numerous communities, anti-Muslim racism has continued to grow over the years. In With Stones in Our Hands: Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire (University of... Read More
Ulrike Freitag, “A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Ulrike Freitag
A History of Jeddah
The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Cambridge University Press, 2020

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in the Indian Ocean World August 10, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Ulrike Freitag’s A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge University Press), offers a rich urban and biographical history of Jeddah. Known as the ‘Gate to Mecca’ or ‘Bride of the Red Sea’, Jeddah has been a gateway for pilgrims travelling to Mecca... Read More
Alyssa Gabbay, “Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam” (I.B. Tauris, 2020)
Alyssa Gabbay
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam
Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima
I. B. Tauris, 2020

New Books in Gender StudiesNew 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 Network August 7, 2020 Shehnaz Haqqani

In this episode, we speak with Alyssa Gabbay about her recent new book Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima (I.B. Tauris, 2020). The book shows that contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history... Read More
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, “The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace” (All Point Books, 2020)
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf
The War of Return
How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
All Points Books, 2020

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books NetworkVan Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel August 6, 2020 Renee Garfinkel

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no “right of return.” In 1948, seven hundred thousand Palestinians were forced out of their homes by the first Arab-Israeli... Read More
Nathan Spannaus, “Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nathan Spannaus
Preserving Islamic Tradition
Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in Intellectual 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 Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network August 5, 2020 Asad Dandia

What were some of the major transformations taking place for Muslim communities in the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century? How did the introduction of a state-backed structure for Muslim religious institutions alter Islamic religious authority in the empire? And who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his... Read More
Gaurav Desai, “Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination” (Columbia UP, 2013)
Gaurav Desai
Commerce with the Universe
Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination
Columbia University Press, 2013

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books Network August 3, 2020 Micheal Rumore and Ahmed AlMaazmi

Gaurav Desai’s Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination (Columbia University Press, 2013), offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world. Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in and about East Africa, Gaurav Desai highlights many complexities in... Read More
Asma Barlas, “Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an” (U Texas Press, 2019)
Asma Barlas
Believing Women in Islam
Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an
University of Texas Press, 2019

New Books in Gender StudiesNew 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 Network August 3, 2020 Asad Dandia

In this revised edition of her classic and groundbreaking work, Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an (University of Texas Press, 2019), Asma Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence. The... Read More
Paula Fredriksen, “When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation” (Yale UP, 2018)
Paula Fredriksen
When Christians Were Jews
The First Generation
Yale University Press, 2018

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew 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 NetworkVan Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel July 31, 2020 Renee Garfinkel

How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God’s promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”—they were, in their own eyes,... Read More
Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek, “Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek
Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East

Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in SportsNew Books Network July 29, 2020 James M. Dorsey

Sports scholars Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek’s edited volume, Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2019), makes a significant contribution to what remains a largely understudied, yet critically important segment of Middle Eastern political and social life. It does so by discussing in eleven chapters multiple... Read More

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