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Islamic Studies
February 26, 2021
Terror Epidemics
Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies …
Islamic Studies
January 29, 2021
Muslim American City
Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit
Alisa Perkins
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
The call to prayer breaks the hustle and bustle of an urban sonic landscape in unique ways. For Muslims living in Hamtramck, Michigan broadcasting the adhān was one way of …
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) …
Islamic Studies
October 30, 2020
Interrogating Secularism
Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature
Danielle Haque
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
In many popular accounts of contemporary “Western” society there is an inherent contradiction between the principles underlying liberal secularism and Islam. This type of binary discourse about “religion” and “secular” …
African American Studies
October 19, 2020
Jezebel Unhinged
Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
Tamura Lomax
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel.” This trope deems Black women and girls as dishonorable and sexually deviant …
History
October 9, 2020
Al Rashid Mosque
Building Canadian Muslim Communities
Earle H. Waugh
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
In the early 20th-century Muslims, primarily with roots in Lebanon, began to settle in Canada’s interior plains. In 1938, the small community in Edmonton opened the first mosque in the …
South Asian Studies
September 4, 2020
Aurangzeb
The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King
Audrey Truschke
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
For many, the history of the Mughal empire looms heavy over contemporary South Asian social imaginaries. The lightning rod figure within modern day myths about the past is the Mughal …
American Studies
August 14, 2020
With Stones in Our Hands
Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire
Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana
Hosted by 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 …
African American Studies
August 5, 2020
Reimagining Hagar
Blackness and Bible
Nyasha Junior
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Popular culture helps shape how audiences imagine Biblical personalities in our contemporary moment. For many, Warner Sallman’s portrait of Jesus fixes him as white, others envision Moses as Charlton Heston …
Literary Studies
July 17, 2020
Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection
A Study of West African Arabic Madih Poetry and its Precedents
Oludamini Ogunnaike
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry. In West Africa, Arabic praise poetry has a rich history informed by local literary, spiritual, and …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 26, 2020
Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation Today
Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities
Johanna Pink
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Qurʾanic interpretation in contemporary societies is shaped in a multitude of ways. There are educational institutions that inform how one understands the text, linguistic hurdles for readers and commentators, publicly …
Critical Theory
May 22, 2020
Radical Skin, Moderate Masks
De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
Yassir Morsi
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms and are forced to grapple with those conventions on a daily …
Anthropology
May 21, 2020
Method as Identity
Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion
Christopher M. Driscoll and Monica R. Miller
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
In the study of religion there are various camps that each approach their subjects in unique ways. Each method is shaped by particular interpretive choices, such as to be objectively …
British Studies
May 1, 2020
Governing Islam
Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia
Julia Stephens
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
As British colonial rulers expanded their control in South Asia legal resolutions were increasingly shaped by the English classification of social life. The definitional divide that structured the role of …
American Studies
April 24, 2020
Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia and the Internet
Courtney M. Dorroll
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Islamic Studies classrooms have grown significantly over several generations. While once we could only find courses on the tradition in the most prestigious of institutions now Islam classes are taught …
Art
April 17, 2020
The Praiseworthy One
The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images
Christiane Gruber
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
In our most recent public memory, images of the Prophet Muhammad have caused a great deal of controversy, such as satirical cartoons of Muhammad in French magazine Charlie Hebdo, or …
Literary Studies
March 13, 2020
Hallaj
Poems of a Sufi Martyr
Carl W. Ernst
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
“I am the Real,” is the ecstatic statement often associated with the early Sufi poet Mansur al-Hallaj. In popular narratives about Hallaj this declaration of absolute unity with God is …
African American Studies
January 31, 2020
American Prisons
A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam
SpearIt
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
America has the largest incarcerated population in the world. This staggering and troubling fact has driven a great deal of scholarship. Much of this research has shown that mass incarceration …
Southeast Asian Studies
January 24, 2020
Muslim Environmentalisms
Religious and Social Foundations
Anna M. Gade
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies. Anna M. Gade, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, outlines several strains where …
Literary Studies
December 6, 2019
Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels
Claire Chambers
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
After the Rushdie affair in 1989 there was an important shift in the public life of British Muslims. Their image came under closer scrutiny which led to new social policies …
Film
November 12, 2019
Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema
Alicia Izharuddin
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Since the fall of the Indonesian New Order regime in 1998 there has been a steady rise of Islamic popular culture in the nation. Muslim consumers and producers have cultivated …
Historical Fiction
August 5, 2019
The Lover
A Sufi Mystery
Laury Silvers
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Zaytuna just wants to be left alone to her ascetic practices and nurse her dark view of the world. But when an impoverished servant girl she barely knows comes and …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 28, 2019
Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey
Jeremy F. Walton
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
The social history of Turkey across the twentieth century has produced a tension between state governance and religion. This history informs and shapes modern subjects as they try to live …
Chinese Studies
June 10, 2019
The Chinese Deathscape
Grave Reform in Modern China
Thomas S. Mullaney
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
The Chinese landscape is dramatically changing. Modernization has drastically altered Chinese infrastructure, urban zones, waterways, and even rural spaces. These changes have also affected Chinese burial practices and the resting …
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