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In Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab (Oxford UP, 2022), Falguni Sheth explores the m
When meeting an expatriate friend on my first trip to Dubai, the host at the restaurant where we wer
Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the pos
In Turkey, circumcision is viewed as both a religious obligation and a rite of passage for young boy
Mental health is positioned as the cure-all for society’s discontents, from pandemics to terrorism.
In Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change (Cambridge UP
Amir Artaban Sedaghat’s Translating Rumi into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond (Routledge
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice (Brill, 2020) brings together the latest research
Building on the success of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés, this follow up volume dismantl
Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from
“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their fi
In recent years the niqab has emerged as one of the most ubiquitous symbols of everything that is pe
After the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), the poetics of incitement— foun
This conversation is with Brett Wilson, who has composed the first English translation of the classi
The Women’s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first o
In Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity a
In Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022), Evelyn Alsultany, Professor at
In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. Th
In We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World (Univ
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (U Californi
