New Books in Islamic Studies
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James Pickett, "Polymaths of Islam: Power and N...
An interview with James Pickett
58 min
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Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Bruce B. Lawrence Reade...
An interview with Bruce B. Lawrence and Ali Altaf Mian
66 min
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Niloofar Haeri, "Say What Your Longing Heart De...
An interview with Niloofar Haeri
60 min
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Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a C...
An interview with Marina Rustow
74 min
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Adina Hoffman, "Till We Have Built Jerusalem: A...
An interview with Adina Hoffman
51 min
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Sean Anthony, "Muhammad and the Empires of Fait...
Interview with Sean Anthony
66 min
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Kelly A. Hammond, "China's Muslims and Japan's ...
An interview with Kelly A. Hammond
56 min
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Justine Howe, "The Routledge Handbook of Islam ...
An interview with Justine Howe
37 min
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David Henig, "Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday I...
An interview with David Henig
55 min
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Saiba Varma, "The Occupied Clinic: Militarism a...
An interview with Saiba Varma
57 min
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Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism an...
An interview with Tony K. Stewart
67 min
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Anne K. Bang, "Islamic Sufi Networks in the Wes...
In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices, and religious leaders...
94 min
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Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How I...
Darke investigates the Islamic origins of Gothic architecture, tracing its history through pre-Islamic Syria through the Islamic empires to the tall European cathedrals between the 12th and 17th centuries...
34 min
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Tabassum Fahim Ruby, "Muslim Women's Rights: Co...
Ruby follows the legal debates and public discussions that surrounded the proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada from 2003 to 2006...
69 min
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David Rundell, "Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia ...
Rundell offers a granular analysis and insider’s understanding of the inner workings of the kingdom garnered as a US foreign service officer who served a total of 15 years in the country...
71 min
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Antonia Bosanquet, "Minding their Place: Space ...
How was the relationship between Muslim and non-Muslim communities theologically and spatially imagined in the premodern world?
56 min
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A. Kanna et al., "Beyond Exception: New Interpr...
The authors explore how the exceptionalizing discourses that permeate Arabian Peninsula studies spring from colonialist discourses still operative in anthropology and sociology more generally...
49 min
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Michel Boivin, "The Sufi Paradigm and the Makin...
Boivin maps the construction of a vernacular knowledge (as opposed to colonial knowledge) of a complex Sufi paradigm in Sindh by both British Orientalists, such as Richard Burton, but also Sindhi intelligentsia, like Mirza Qalich Beg...
69 min
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Michael M. Knight, "Muhammad's Body: Baraka Net...
Knight joins the emerging subfield of literature in Islamic Studies exploring embodiment and materiality as concepts for making sense of the spatial and temporal developments of Muslim subjectivities....
45 min
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Jon Hoover, "Ibn Taymiyya" (Oneworld, 2020)
Ibn Taymiyya is one of the most prolific and influential Islamic thinkers to date, and was even the only pre-modern Muslim author cited in the 9/11 Report...
54 min
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John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Percept...
Tolan offers a fascinating and rich survey of the complex perceptions of Muhammad as understood by Christian Europeans..,
54 min
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Danielle Haque, “Interrogating Secularism: Race...
Haque deconstructs liberal accounts of secularism through an examination of the work of authors and artists from ethnic and religious minorities...
56 min
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Margrit Pernau, "Emotions and Modernity in Colo...
Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought...
67 min
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Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ot...
Malcolm tells the story of Western European fascination with the Ottoman empire and Islam between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the latter half of the 18th century...
60 min
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Tahseen Shams, "Here, There, and Elsewhere: The...
Drawing from the experiences of diasporic South Asian Muslim community in America, namely Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and Indians, Shams introduces an innovative conceptual notion of “elsewhere” which informs her new multicentered approach to the study of globalized immigrant identities...
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