New Books in Islamic Studies
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Oludamini Ogunnaike, "Poetry in Praise of Proph...
Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...
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Sara Smith, "Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territ...
Smith’s book centers intimacy in the consideration of geopolitics which is otherwise only seen as a game between nation states...
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Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the M...
Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries...
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Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early ...
Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...
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Hafsa Lodi, "Modesty: A Fashion Paradox" (Neem ...
Modest fashion is a growing, global multi-billion-dollar market...
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Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Cla...
The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...
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Kevin W. Fogg, "Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution"...
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...
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Ayesha Siddiqi, "In the Wake of Disaster: Islam...
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...
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Johanna Pink, “Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation T...
Qurʾanic interpretation in contemporary societies is shaped in a multitude of ways...
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Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experienc...
Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...
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Garrett Felber, "Those Who Know Don't Say: The ...
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...
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Mauro Nobili, "Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer ...
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....
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Gabriel Said Reynolds, "Allah: God in the Qur’a...
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...
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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In Conversation: Palestine and Decoloniality
An interview with Hatem Bazian
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M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Tra...
Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...
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Yassir Morsi, “Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De...
Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms...
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Caleb Simmons, "Devotional Sovereignty: Kingshi...
Simmons examines the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868) in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore...
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Jacqueline H. Fewkes, "Locating Maldivian Women...
What is a mosque? What are women's mosques specifically?
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Maria Rashid, "Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affe...
Rashid conducts an intimate and layered ethnography of militarism and death in Pakistan, with a focus on the lives, aspirations, and tragedies of soldiers and their families in rural Punjab...
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Julia Stephens, “Governing Islam: Law, Empire, ...
Stephens examines how Islam and Muslims were regulated within legal domains that managed various spheres of life...
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Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming...
Fraihat builds a framework that initially could help Saudi Arabia and Iran prevent their conflict from spinning out of control, create mechanisms for communication and travel down a road of confidence building that could create building blocks for a resolution...
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Mallika Kaur, "Faith, Gender, and Activism in t...
Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement...
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Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectur...
Rüstem takes a stab of a slice of that history, arguing that we should see the eighteenth-century Baroque period in Ottoman mosque architecture as innovative and not derivative...
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
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