New Books in Islamic Studies
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Wilson Chacko Jacob, "For God or Empire: Sayyid...
Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life—one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire...
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Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious...
Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...
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Earle H. Waugh, “Al Rashid Mosque: Building Can...
In the early 20th-century Muslims, primarily with roots in Lebanon, began to settle in Canada’s interior plains...
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Abla Hasan, "Decoding the Egalitarianism of the...
Is it possible to interpret the Qur’an using the Qur’an alone? Is a feminist interpretation of controversial verses such as 4:34, the notorious “wife-beating” verse, possible?
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Nicholas H. A. Evans, "Far from the Caliph’s Ga...
Evans offers a sustained and compelling critique of the doubt/belief binary in the anthropology of religion and Islam,..
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Rachel M. Gillum, "Muslims in a Post-9/11 Ameri...
Gillum examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims’ attitudes on a range of relevant issues...
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E. Bazzano and M. Hermansen, "Varieties of Amer...
This book captures these complex varieties of Sufism in America...
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Majid Daneshgar, "Studying the Qur’an in the Mu...
Daneshgar invites his readers on a journey exploring how the Muslim academy—that is, academic institutions in the Muslim-majority world—teaches Islamic Studies, with an emphasis on the Qur’an...
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Sean Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China’s ...
Who are the Uyghurs? Sean Roberts explains...
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Muhammed Fraser-Rahim, "America’s Other Muslims...
Fraser-Rahim explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context...
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Audrey Truschke, “Aurangzeb: The Life and Legac...
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 emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707)...
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Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim...
Nair offers intellectually daring and dazzlingly imaginative study of scholarly interactions, made visible through translation, between Sanskrit and Arabo-Persian philosophical traditions in premodern South Asia...
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A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, "Incitement: Anwar al-Aw...
Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, “the main man who translated jihad into English.”
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Zachary Valentine Wright, "Realizing Islam: The...
Wright maps the intellectual history of the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa, the Tijaniyya...
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Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why...
Why did the modern economy emerge in northwestern Europe at some point in the 17th or 18th century but not in the Middle East?
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David G. Atwill, "Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asi...
Atwill questions the popular portrayals of Tibet as isolated, ethnically homogenous, and monolithically Buddhist...
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S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our H...
The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...
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Ulrike Freitag, "A History of Jeddah: The Gate ...
Freitag offers a rich urban and biographical history of Jeddah...
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Alyssa Gabbay, "Gender and Succession in Mediev...
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...
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Nathan Spannaus, "Preserving Islamic Tradition:...
Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?
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Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Afri...
Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...
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Asma Barlas, "Believing Women in Islam: Unreadi...
Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...
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Iraj Bashiri, "The History of the Civil War in ...
Iraj Bashiri provides an overview of the Civil War in Tajikistan that emerged amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union...
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Shahla Haeri, "The Unforgettable Queens of Isla...
Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...
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Assan Sarr, "Islam, Power, and Dependency in th...
An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa...
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