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...

In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.

Howe examines the social and spiritual contexts of Muslims living outside of Chicago...

Ahmad Atif Ahmad’s new book is a unique reflection on the field of Islamic studies...

Through careful analysis of historical textual discourses, Ingram carefully guides his readers through important polemics that manifested amongst the Deoband ‘ulama...

Aimée Israel-Pelletier looks at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers...

Anthropologist Daromir Rudnyckyj illustrates how the Malaysian state, led by the central bank, is seeking to make the country’s capital Kuala Lumpur the central node of global financial activity conducted in accordance with Islam.

Jamal Elias takes his readers on a riveting intellectual tour thematically centered on the interaction of childhood, visual culture, and affect in contemporary Muslim majority societies, and in Muslim intellectual thought more broadly...

Ben Gatling’s debut book is a beautifully written ethnography exploring the lives, religious practice, and narratives of Sufi believers near Dushanbe, Tajikistan

After years of being overlooked, there has been a growing interest among academic historians in the history of Turkish Guest Workers in West Germany.