Interviews with Scholars of Islam about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium membe
A wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded ac
Youcef Soufi's book The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate (Oxford University Pr
In her sparkling and splendid new book The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia H
In Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy (Palgrave Macmillan,
In Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (Duke UP, 2023), Zeyne
Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers’ stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, no
In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, profes
The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not st
For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destin
In her formidable and fiercely well-argued new book Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouc
Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an in
Dženita Karić's new book Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy (Edinburgh University P
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Today I talked to Divya Cherian about her article "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Soci
In her scintillating and brilliant new book, Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupat
In this interview, I speak with Marion Holmes Katz about her latest book Wives and Work: Islamic Law
Carl Ernst’s and Mbaye Lo’s new book I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn
Jamila Rodrigues's new book Sufi Women, Embodiment and the “Self”: Gender in Islamic Ritual (Routled
The call to prayer breaks the hustle and bustle of an urban sonic landscape in unique ways. For Musl
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become cent
