Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...

Kassab shows her readers that the demands for human dignity, freedom, and political participation had been robustly discussed by intellectuals in Syria and Egypt during the 1990s and 2000s...

The book functions in some ways like an invitation—an invitation to learn something about peoples and suffering about which we know little,..

Why was a Crusade that was initially meant for Syria end up in Tunis?

Haug offers an in-depth look at the frontier zone of the Sassanian, Umayyad, and Abbasid Empires...

Laury Silvers discusses her transition from writing scholarship to historical fiction...

The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East...

Foltz provides a comprehensive cultural, political, and linguistic history of the Tajik people...

Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...

Walton explores how members of three contemporary Muslim groups, the Nur community, the Gülen movement, and Alevis, articulate religiosity within the Turkish public sphere...

Kassymbekova explores technologies of governance used in early Soviet Tajikistan in order to implement Soviet plans for industrialization and collectivization...

Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas (or Sufi leaders) in Dakar and explores how they navigate the complexity of their gendered authority in religious, familial, and public domains...

Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...

Aaron Rock-Singer focuses on three principal characters to tell us the story of the Islamic revival: Salafis, the Muslim Brothers, and state institutions...

How do peripheral places assert the centrality of their identity?

Reese, explores the social effects of the British empire, and its attending conditions, on Muslims in the port city of Aden...

Zaman's book is is a landmark publication in the fields of Religious Studies, modern Islam, South Asian Islam...

In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...

Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...

Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative...

Teaching about religion in a public school in the United States is rewarding, but very difficult...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Claire Pamment’s book is a fantastic new book centered on the Punjabi folk art of the Bhānd, or comic performance...

Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...