New Books in Islamic Studies
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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...
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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?
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Martin Nguyen, "Modern Muslim Theology: Engagin...
What precisely is “Muslim theology?”
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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...
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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?
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Maziyar Ghiabi, "Drug Politics: Managing Disord...
Iran has one of the planet's highest rates of addiction...
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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...
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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...
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
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Christine D. Baker, "Medieval Islamic Sectarian...
How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation?
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Sebastian Prange, "Monsoon Islam: Trade and Fai...
Prange provides a fascinating window into the Muslim world of the medieval (12-16th century) Malabar Coast and the development of Islam that was defined by significant trade networks.
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Nosheen Ali, "Delusional States: Feeling Rule a...
Ali presents a lyrical and at many times haunting account of the aspirations, anxieties, and tragedies enfolding everyday life in the rarely studied Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan...
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, "In a Pure Muslim Land: S...
Fuchs interrogates this framework with a novel intervention by examining the case of Shi’i Islamic intellectual thought in Pakistan as it relates to the Middle East....
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Alt Right, Kekistan, White Shariah: An Intervie...
An interview with Dr. Hizer Mir on the Alt Right and Islam
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Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indones...
Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...
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Najam Haider, "The Rebel and the Imam in Early ...
In the absence of any real certainty about the nature and intention of the early sources that tell us the story of the early Islamic period, how can we use them?
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
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Dan Jones, "Crusaders: The Epic History of the ...
Jones shows how the Crusades was a different event depending upon one’s perspective, be that of a Norman ruler, a Byzantine princess, or a Muslim chronicler....
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
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Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, "Teaching Empathy and R...
Daoudi took a group of Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz – a courageous assertion against the Holocaust denial rampant in Palestinian society,..
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Farhat Haq, "Shariʿa and the State in Pakistan:...
Few doctrinal and political issues are more controversial in Pakistan today than that of blasphemy...
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Ussama Makdisi, "Age of Coexistence: The Ecumen...
Makdisi dispels the myth that the Middle East is inherently or inescapably sectarian and complicates the often overstated binary of “secular” and religious...
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