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New Books in Islamic Studies

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Ahmed Ragab, “The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, Charity” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
2016/9/21

In his shining new book The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity (Cambridge Un

Matthew Pierce, “Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiism” (Harvard UP, 2016)
2016/9/7

The story of the martyrdom of Husayn, the prophet Muhammad’s grandson, is recounted annually around

Todd Green, “The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West” (Fortress Press, 2015)
2016/8/17

Islamophobia, both as a term and concept, has a storied and complicated history, and understanding i

Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)
2016/7/25

The Crusades loom large in contemporary popular consciousness. However, our public understanding has

David Brophy, “Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier” (Harvard UP, 2016)
2016/7/13

Bringing together secondary and primary sources in a wide range of languages, David Brophy’s new boo

Aisha Geissinger, “Gender and the Construction of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur’an Commentary (Brill, 2015)
2016/7/12

Aisha Geissinger’s monograph, Gender and the Construction of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of th

Ethan Katz, “The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France” (Harvard UP, 2015)
2016/6/28

In The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard University Pres

Elizabeth Hurd, “Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion” (Princeton UP, 2015)
2016/6/27

Among the most frequent demands made of Islam and Muslims today is to become more moderate. But what

Sandow Birk, “American Qur’an” (Liveright, 2015)
2016/6/15

Could the Qur’an–understood, according to Muslims, as the verbatim word of God in Arabic–acquire a n

Eid Mohamed, “Arab Occidentalism: Images of America in the Middle East” (I.B. Tauris, 2015)
2016/6/2

Edward Said’s 1978 book, Orientalism, dramatically shifted how people think about the production of

Dana Sajdi, “The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant” (Stanford UP, 2012)
2016/5/16

In her stunning new book The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman

Asma Afsaruddin, “Contemporary Issues in Islam” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)
2016/5/4

As the title of the monograph suggests, Contemporary Issues in Islam (Edinburgh University Press, 20

Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, “Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X” (Basic Books, 2016)
2016/4/30

Is there a figure in sports more admired and beloved than Muhammad Ali? Widely revered not only as o

Adeeb Khalid, “Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR” (Cornell UP, 2015)
2016/4/27

In what promises to become a classic, Adeeb Khalid’s (Professor of History, Carleton College), Makin

Seth Kimmel, “Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
2016/4/8

In his path clearing new book, Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic

Kenneth Garden, “The First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the Religious Sciences” (Oxford UP, 2014)
2016/3/21

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) is one of the most famous Muslim thinkers in history. His autobiograp

Eileen M. Kane, “Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
2016/3/4

In her gripping new book Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Cornell University Press,

Kishwar Rizvi, “The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East” (UNC Press, 2015)
2016/2/8

In her excellent new book The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contem

Anita Weiss, “Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
2016/1/26

Pakistan is often caricatured and stereotyped as a volatile nuclear country on the precipice of disa

Ron Grigor Suny, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide” (Princeton UP, 2015)
2016/1/19

Anniversaries are funny things. Sometimes, as with the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the