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Islamic Studies
Interviews with scholars of Islam about their new books.
November 23, 2024
The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
In The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West (Cambridge UP, 2022), Phillip Lieberman revisi…
November 22, 2024
Homegrown Radicals
Youcef Soufi’s Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World (NYU Press, 2025) tells the story of thre…
November 16, 2024
Beyond the Binary
Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U of California Press 2024), makes a compelling arg…
November 13, 2024
A Normative Sociological Approach to Secularism and Multiculturalism
In this episode, Dr. Uzma Jamil introduces Tariq Modood on his new book Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism. This episode was originally publis…
November 12, 2024
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World
During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expres…
November 10, 2024
Disrupted City
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947…
November 8, 2024
Islamophobia, France and Muslim Political Subjectivity
In this interview, recorded for Islamophobia Awareness Month, Hizer Mir and Chella Ward talk to Kawtar Najib and Rayan Freschi about Islamophobia in F…
November 8, 2024
Tak Bai and Beyond, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency
In the wake of the twentieth anniversary of the dreadful Tak Bai massacre, what are the prospects for a resolution of the long-standing insurgency in …
November 2, 2024
Dream
It’s now the norm for NBA and collegiate teams to have international players dotting their rosters. The Olympics are no longer a gimme for Team USA. B…
October 30, 2024
The Alt Right, Kekistan, White Shariah
An interview with Dr. Hizer Mir on the Alt Right and Islam This episode was originally published on November 16, 2019.…
October 26, 2024
Beekeeping in the End Times
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ange…
October 23, 2024
Possessed by the Right Hand
In this episode, we interview Prof. Bernard Freamon on his new book Possessed by the Right Hand:The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultu…
October 23, 2024
What Iranians Want
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out…
October 22, 2024
Zainab's Traffic
Emrah Yildiz's new book Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders (University of California Press, 2024) is a masterful ethno…
October 17, 2024
Shared Paths: Exploring Jewish and Muslim Experiences in America
This week on International Horizons, John Torpey, Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute, speaks with sociologists Mucahit Bilici and Samuel Heilman a…
October 16, 2024
Slavery and Islam
In this episode, we talk to Professor Jonathan Brown about his book, Slavery and Islam. This episode was originally published on September 27, 2019.…
October 16, 2024
Beyond Orientalism
The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism: Ah…
October 14, 2024
Muslim Chinese: The Hui in Rural Ningxia
As the predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabic-speaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East, the Hui people in…
October 13, 2024
In Conversation: CCIF, France and Islamophobia
In this episode, Amina Easat-Daas is in conversation with Marwan Muhammad on CCIF and Islamophobia in France. This episode was originally published o…
October 6, 2024
Half of My Heart
Today I talked to Christopher Paul Clohessy about Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî (Gorgias Press, 2020). As Abû ʿAbd Allâ…