New Books in Islamic Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Islam about their New Books

Religion & Spirituality
Islam
551
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a V...
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...
63 min
552
Sohaira Siddiqui, "Law and Politics Under the A...
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....
44 min
553
Juliane Hammer, "Peaceful Families: American Mu...
How do Muslim Americans respond to domestic violence?
47 min
554
Alex Dika Seggerman, "Modernism on the Nile: Ar...
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...
39 min
555
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min
556
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
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...
36 min
557
Anna M. Gade, “Muslim Environmentalisms: Religi...
The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies...
52 min
558
Benjamin Balint, "Jerusalem: City of the Book" ...
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...
42 min
559
Arbella Bet-Shlimon, "City of Black Gold: Oil, ...
Bet-Shlimon explores the vibrant and often troubled history of one of Iraq’s most diverse and oil-rich cities...
52 min
560
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of P...
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...
46 min
561
Girls Are Also People of the Holy Qur’an
An interview with Jun Akiba
10 min
562
Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressi...
What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?
60 min
563
Leor Halevi, "Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s G...
How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?
50 min
564
Barbara Spackman, "Accidental Orientalists: Mod...
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...
45 min
565
Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Pre...
Alavi surveys the history of the relationship between Iran – and especially the Islamic Republic of Iran - with Palestinian organisations and leadership...
21 min
566
K. B. Berzock, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in ...
What is the “medieval”? How can we understand historical movements across the Sahara? How does religion –specifically, Islam– play a role in this project?
69 min
567
Martin Nguyen, "Modern Muslim Theology: Engagin...
What precisely is “Muslim theology?”
34 min
568
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of P...
Bajoghli takes an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic...
51 min
569
Zahra Ali, "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between N...
Ali presents a detailed and fascinating account of Muslim feminist discourses and politics in modern Iraq...
69 min
570
Asma T. Uddin, "When Islam Is Not a Religion: I...
What happens when a religion is demonized to such an extent that it is no longer deemed a religion – but an ideology?
33 min
571
Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World...
Adamson takes readers on a vivid – and accessible – journey through the intricate landscape of the philosophical world of Islam...
53 min
572
Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington, "The Med...
Krona and Pennington explore the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the ISIS's use of media and propaganda...
33 min
573
Afshin Matin-Asgari, "Both Eastern and Western:...
Matin-Asgari uncovers the intellectual “missing links” both within and without Iran concerning the formation of Iranian national identity...
39 min
574
Maziyar Ghiabi, "Drug Politics: Managing Disord...
Iran has one of the planet's highest rates of addiction...
42 min
575
Claire Chambers, “Making Sense of Contemporary ...
Chambers outlines Muslim cultural production during this period through a literary analysis of the senses, especially those beyond the visual...
44 min