New Books in Islamic Studies
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Ariel I. Ahram, "Break all the Borders: Separat...
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Dilip Hiro, "Cold War in the Islamic World: Sau...
In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...
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Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, “Muslim Cool: Race, Religi...
Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...
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Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, “Stereotyping R...
Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative...
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Linda K. Wertheimer, "Faith Ed: Teaching About ...
Teaching about religion in a public school in the United States is rewarding, but very difficult...
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
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Claire Pamment, "Comic Performance in Pakistan:...
Claire Pamment’s book is a fantastic new book centered on the Punjabi folk art of the Bhānd, or comic performance...
52 min
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Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of...
Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...
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Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
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.
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Justine Howe, “Suburban Islam” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Howe examines the social and spiritual contexts of Muslims living outside of Chicago...
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Ahmad Atif Ahmad, "Pitfalls of Scholarship: Les...
Ahmad Atif Ahmad’s new book is a unique reflection on the field of Islamic studies...
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Brannon D. Ingram, "Revival from Below: The Deo...
Through careful analysis of historical textual discourses, Ingram carefully guides his readers through important polemics that manifested amongst the Deoband ‘ulama...
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Aimée Israel-Pelletier, "On the Mediterranean a...
Aimée Israel-Pelletier looks at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers...
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Daromir Rudnyckyj, "Beyond Debt: Islamic Experi...
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.
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Jamal Elias, "Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emo...
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...
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Ben Gatling, "Expressions of Sufi Culture in Ta...
Ben Gatling’s debut book is a beautifully written ethnography exploring the lives, religious practice, and narratives of Sufi believers near Dushanbe, Tajikistan
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Sarah Thomsen Vierra, "Turkish Germans in the F...
After years of being overlooked, there has been a growing interest among academic historians in the history of Turkish Guest Workers in West Germany.
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Patrick Eisenlohr, "Sounding Islam: Voice, Medi...
Through the exploration of na‘t, or devotional poetic recitations that honor the prophet Muhammad, Eisenlohr captures the sensory dimension of Islam...
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James R. Rush, "Hamka's Great Story: A Master W...
From Indonesia’s declaration of independence in 1945 up until today, the relationship between Indonesian nationalism, Islam, and modernity has been a key subject of debate...
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Hüseyin Yılmaz, "Caliphate Redefined: The Mysti...
In Islamic intellectual history, it is generally assumed that the Ottomans did not contribute much to Islamic thought...
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
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Alireza Doostdar, "The Iranian Metaphysicals: E...
Thoroughly disrupting the common association of the Occult with popular religion and mystical enchantment, this book explores the complex and conflicting rationalities that inform varied metaphysical experimentations occupying a range of Iranian actors.
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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, "The Politics of Common Se...
asim Sajjad Akhtar’s The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is an incisive study of continuity as well as change in Pakistan that has moved the country towards religious conservatism and increased authoritarianism
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Sumantra Bose, "Secular States, Religious Polit...
Sumantra Bose's new book Secular States, Religious Politics, India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is a fascinating comparison of the rise of religious parties...
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Shenila Khoja-Moolji, “Forging an Ideal Educate...
Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s Forging an Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (University of California Press, 2018) is a pathbreaking and incredibly timely monograph that combines tools of education studies,
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