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About Matthew Long
NBN Episodes hosted by Matthew:
September 23, 2015
The Second Formation of Islamic Law
The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Cambridge UP, 2015) is a new contribution to the study of I…
July 17, 2015
The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions
The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions (Routledge, 2013) written by Emran El-Badawi, professor and director of the Arab Studies program at the U…
May 22, 2015
Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
Studies on the subject of women's participation in religious and intellectual life in Islam have been few.Women and the Transmission of Religious Know…
March 23, 2015
Structure and Quranic Interpretation
Interest in the structure of the Qur'an has its beginnings in the ninthcentury CE with Muslim scholars. Since that time, Muslim and Western scholars h…
October 16, 2014
The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran
Sarah Bowen Savant, Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations at the Aga Khan University in London, addresses importa…
July 23, 2014
Inquisition in Early Islam
Scholars of Islam and historians have frequently pointed to the Miḥna, translated as 'trial' or 'test,' as a crossroad in the landscape of Islamic h…
May 23, 2014
The Origins of Shia
When did groups in Kufa begin forming unique identities leading to the development of Shiism? Najam Haider, professor of Religion at Barnard College o…
March 16, 2014
Medicine and the Saints
What is the interplay between the physical human body and the body politic? This question is at the heart of Ellen J. Amster's Medicine and the Saints…
February 3, 2014
Muhammad and the Supernatural
Rebecca Williams' book Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views (Routledge, 2013) is one of the newest additions to the Routledge Studies in…
December 2, 2013
The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence
Al-QÄá¸Ä« al-Nu῾mÄn (d. 363/974) was the primary architect of IsmÄ῾īlÄ« jurisprudence which was formed under the Fatamids. The Early History …
September 6, 2013
Damascus after the Muslim Conquest
A top five finalist for the Best First Book in the History of Religion Award, Damascus after the Muslim Conquest (Oxford University Press, 2011) by Na…
July 6, 2013
Ibn Hajar
Robert Kevin Jaques' work, Ibn Hajar: Makers of Islamic Civilization (I. B. Tauris, 2013), focuses on the life of one of the most eminent Muslim schol…