Gruber demonstrates that there is long rich history of images of Muhammad from within the Islamic tradition...

Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...

Rahemtullah offers a compelling comparative analysis of the works of four Muslim scholars of Islam – Asghar Ali Engineer, Farid Esack, Amina Wadud, and Asma Barlas...

Houston explores social movements and the broader practices of civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal reengineering of the city...

Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...

Dua describes a tale that is not often told: how piracy works in the everyday lives of those involved in its grip...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Fischbach examines the way that a host of groups on the American found themselves divided over which country they ought to support and how to fit that support into campaigns against imperialism or U.S. foreign policy...

Kuru offers a ground-breaking history and analysis of the evolution of the state in Muslim countries...

"The Crusader World" is a multidisciplinary survey of the current state of research in the field of crusader studies, an area of study which has become increasingly popular in recent years...

“I am the Real,” is the ecstatic statement often associated with the early Sufi poet Mansur al-Hallaj...

Waste offers Stamatopoulou-Robbins a unique vantage point for understanding everyday life under occupation, the role of environmental discourse in the production and destruction of sovereignty,..

Sayyid offers a breathtakingly brilliant meditation on the problem of decolonization through Muslim thought and politics...

Byrne places Algeria at the center of many of the twentieth-century’s international dynamics: decolonization, the Cold War, détente,..

Li begins with the assertion that transnational jihadists are in fact engaged in their own form of universalism: armed transnational solidarity under conditions of American empire...

An interview with Siniša Vuković and Diane Bernabei

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Siddiqui conducts a masterful analysis of how conditions of political change and fragmentation generate intellectual debates and fermentation on the often-conflictual interaction of certainty, continuity, and community in Muslim thought and practice....

Idris traces the concept of peace, and the way it is often insinuated with other words and concepts, over more than 2000 years of political thought...

On September 6, 2007, shortly after midnight, Israeli fighters advanced on Deir ez-Zour in Syria. Although Israel often flew into Syria as a warning to President Bashar al-Assad, this time there was no warning and no explanation...

Blincoe offers a beautifully narrated and written history of a century of conflict between pre-state Jews and Palestinians and Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians after the establishment of the state...

Shepard offers a complex analysis of the lasting impact of the Algerian Revolution through the cultural politics of sex, gender, and power in France....

Bolleter explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy...

Libson examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE.

An interview with Judit Kuschnitzki