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May 7, 2021
Between Muslims
Between Muslims Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan (Stanford UP, 2020) by J. Andrew Bush asks what it means to be Muslim, yet not pious, in Iraqi…
May 7, 2021
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue (Syracuse UP, 2019) vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu'man…
May 5, 2021
Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life
The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity, i…
November 12, 2020
Muhammad's Body
Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage by Michael Muhammad Knight (UNC Press, 2020) joins the emerging subfield of literature i…
September 15, 2020
Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy
“Consider the works of the renowned Nobel-prize-winning African American writer, literary and social critic, and activist Toni Morrison (b. 1931),” wr…
August 5, 2020
Preserving Islamic Tradition
What were some of the major transformations taking place for Muslim communities in the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century? How did the introduct…
August 3, 2020
Believing Women in Islam
In this revised edition of her classic and groundbreaking work, Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an (Univers…
February 4, 2020
Modernism on the Nile
With scholarship in the discipline of history witnessing a shift toward global approaches to local historical processes, new questions are being raise…
January 7, 2020
Modern Things on Trial
How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion? What sort of legal reasoning did …
December 24, 2019
Philosophy in the Islamic World
It is no easy task to survey and present a comprehensive history of philosophy of an entire intellectual tradition to a broad public audience without …
December 18, 2019
Modern Muslim Theology
What precisely is “Muslim theology?” What would a “Muslim theology” in the present day look like? And what then is a “Muslim theology of engagement?” …
December 16, 2019
When Islam Is Not a Religion
What happens when a religion is demonized to such an extent that it is no longer deemed a religion – but an ideology? What effect does such a politica…
December 9, 2019
Both Eastern and Western
Following the Iranian Revolution of 1978—79, public and scholarly interest in Iran have skyrocketed, with a plethora of attempts seeking to understand…
December 3, 2019
Between Iran and Zion
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran (Stanford University Press, 2019) by Lior Sternfeld presents the first systematic st…
November 29, 2019
Medieval Islamic Sectarianism
How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation? How can we resist fr…
November 26, 2019
In a Pure Muslim Land
Scholarly and public discourse on Islamic intellectual thought in the modern period tend to frame it narrowly through the concept of “influence” as it…