Gabbay shows that contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history of Muslims' recognition of bilateral descent...

Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?

Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...

Iraj Bashiri provides an overview of the Civil War in Tajikistan that emerged amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union...

Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...

An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa...

Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...

Smith’s book centers intimacy in the consideration of geopolitics which is otherwise only seen as a game between nation states...

Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries...

Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...

Modest fashion is a growing, global multi-billion-dollar market...

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

Fogg analyzes the religious aspirations that motivated many Muslim revolutionaries to fight the return of Dutch after the Second World War and envision a new nation-state...

Qurʾanic interpretation in contemporary societies is shaped in a multitude of ways...

Siddiqi offers a forceful meditation on a number of key issues around the social contract, citizenship, and state provisions such as disaster relief and social protection...

Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...

Felber examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalist to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination...

In the early 19th century, on the floodplain of the Niger river’s inland delta in West Africa (present-day Mali), the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi emerged....

Reynolds argues that contrary to many scholarly and popular claims about the God of the Qur’an as either merciful or vengeful, God is in fact both...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...

An interview with Hatem Bazian

Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...

Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms...