New Books in Islamic Studies
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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...
63 min
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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...
49 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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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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Jacqueline H. Fewkes, "Locating Maldivian Women...
What is a mosque? What are women's mosques specifically?
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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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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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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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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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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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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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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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Danielle Ross, "Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims a...
Danielle Ross looks at how the Tatars of Kazan participated in the formation of the Russian empire through their various activities in trade, settlement, clerical work, intellectual culture, and trade...
68 min
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Courtney M. Dorroll, “Teaching Islamic Studies ...
Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...
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Eric Dursteler, "In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Ven...
Dursteler describes the early modern Mediterranean world, its arrangement and political issues, and its changes in the wake of the Battle of Lepanto (1571)...
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Shadaab Rahemtullah, "Qur'an of the Oppressed: ...
Rahemtullah offers a compelling comparative analysis of the works of four Muslim scholars of Islam – Asghar Ali Engineer, Farid Esack, Amina Wadud, and Asma Barlas...
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Christine Fair, "In Their Own Words: Understand...
Fair reveals a little-known aspect of how LeT functions in Pakistan and beyond, by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT..
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Kate Imy, "Faithful Fighters: Identity and Powe...
"Faithful Fighters" is a powerful and brilliant meditation on the impossibility of modern colonial power to canonize religion and religious identity...
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