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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 …
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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 …
Indian Ocean World
December 3, 2020
Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940)
Ripples of Reform
Anne K. Bang
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices, and religious leaders …
Asian Review of Books
December 3, 2020
Stealing from the Saracens
How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe
Diana Darke
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Visitors around the world have travelled to Europe to see the tall spires and stained glass windows of the continent’s Gothic cathedrals: in Cologne, Chartres, Milan, Florence, York and Paris …
Islamic Studies
November 27, 2020
Muslim Women's Rights
Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada
Tabassum Fahim Ruby
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Muslim Women’s Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada (Routledge 2019) By Tabassum Fahim Ruby follows the legal debates and public discussions that surrounded the proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada from …
Middle Eastern Studies
November 25, 2020
Vision or Mirage
Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
David Rundell
Hosted by James M. Dorsey
David Rundell brings to his book, Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads (I. B. Tauris, 2020), a granular analysis and insider’s understanding of the inner workings of the …
Islamic Studies
November 20, 2020
Minding their Place
Space and Religious Hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim’s Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma
Antonia Bosanquet
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
How was the relationship between Muslim and non-Muslim communities theologically and spatially imagined in the premodern world? How did religious hierarchies map onto notions of place and spatial distinction and …
Mobilities and Methods
November 18, 2020
Beyond Exception
New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula
Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist …
Islamic Studies
November 13, 2020
The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India
The Case of Sindh (1851–1929)
Michel Boivin
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India: The Case of Sindh (1851-1929) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) by Michel Boivin maps the construction of a vernacular …
Middle Eastern Studies
November 12, 2020
Muhammad's Body
Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage
Michael Muhammad Knight
Hosted by Asad Dandia
Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage by Michael Muhammad Knight (UNC Press, 2020) joins the emerging subfield of literature in Islamic Studies exploring embodiment and materiality as concepts …
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