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

Keller provides an excellent introduction and overview of the history of Central Asia, from roughly the 14th century to the present...

Dew treats his readers to a riveting and often counterintuitive account of the interaction of law, race, and citizenship in the discourses of the Moorish Science Temple and other movements inspired by Noble Drew Ali...

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

An interview with Adeyemi Balogun

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

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...

Tareen takes us into the fascinating world of the ‘ulama (theologians) of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century South Asian Islam...

How does the world of book reviews work?

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...

How do Muslim Americans respond to domestic violence?

Seggerman analyzes Egypt’s modernist art movement from the late-nineteenth century up until the 1960s, demonstrating the interconnectedness of this movement with a constellation of artistic production outside of Egypt...

In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies...

Balint and Mack offer a fascinating journey through Jerusalem’s libraries which tells the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words...

Bet-Shlimon explores the vibrant and often troubled history of one of Iraq’s most diverse and oil-rich cities...

Bajoghli presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40 years later...

An interview with Jun Akiba

What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?

How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?

Spackman’s riveting study identifies a strand of what it calls “Accidental Orientalism” in narratives by Italians who found themselves in Ottoman Egypt and Anatolia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Alavi surveys the history of the relationship between Iran – and especially the Islamic Republic of Iran - with Palestinian organisations and leadership...

What is the “medieval”? How can we understand historical movements across the Sahara? How does religion –specifically, Islam– play a role in this project?