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New Books in Islamic Studies

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Emran El-Badawi, “The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions” (Routledge, 2013)

2015/7/17

The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions (Routledge, 2013) written by Emran El-Badawi, professor

Ebrahim Moosa, “What is a Madrasa?” (U of North Carolina Press, 2015)

2015/7/3

Recent years have witnessed a spate of journalistic and popular writings on the looming threat to ci

James Laine, “Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History” (U of California Press, 2015)

2015/6/23

Most world religions textbooks follow a structure and conceptual framework that mirrors the modern d

Denis Dragovic, “Religion and Post-Conflict Statebuilding: Roman Catholic and Sunni Islamic Perspectives” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

2015/6/20

The subject of statebuilding has only become a more visible issue since the end of the Cold War and

Mark S. Wagner, “Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen” (Indiana UP, 2015)

2015/6/20

During the early twentieth century, Yemeni Jews operated within a legal structure that defined them

Marion Holmes Katz, “Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice” Columbia University Press, 2014

2015/6/2

Recently, there have been various debates within the Muslim community over women’s mosque attendance

Asma Sayeed, “Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

2015/5/22

Studies on the subject of women’s participation in religious and intellectual life in Islam have bee

Asaad al-Saleh, “Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions” (Columbia UP, 2015)

2015/5/16

Asaad al-Saleh is assistant professor of Arabic, comparative literature, and cultural studies in the

F. M. Gocek, “Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2015/5/11

Adolf Hitler famously (and probably) said in a speech to his military leaders “Who, after all, speak

Michael Birkel, “Qur’an in Conversation” (Baylor UP, 2014)

2015/5/6

Michael Birkel‘s Qur’an in Conversation (Baylor University Press, 2014) challenges its readers to th

Jamal Elias, “Aisha’s Cushion” (Harvard UP, 2012)

2015/4/23

In his remarkable new book Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Practice, and Perception in Islam (Harvar

Peter Gottschalk, “Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India” (Oxford UP, 2012)

2015/4/13

When did religion begin in South Asia? Many would argue that it was not until the colonial encounter

M. Brett Wilson, “Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey” Oxford University Press, 2014

2015/4/6

Muslim debates regarding the translation of the Qur’an are very old. However, during the modern peri

Raymond Farrin, “Structure and Qur’anic Interpretation” (White Cloud Press, 2014)

2015/3/23

Interest in the structure of the Qur’an has its beginnings in the ninthcentury CE with Muslim schola

Sophia Rose Arjana, “Muslims in the Western Imagination” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2015/3/10

In Muslims in the Western Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2015), Sophia Rose Arjana explores a

Cabeiri Robinson, “Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists” (University of California Press, 2013)

2015/2/19

The idea of jihad is among the most keenly discussed yet one of the least understood concepts in Isl