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New Books in Islamic Studies

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Michael Hawkins, “Making Moros: Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines’ Muslim South” (NIU Press, 2012)

2014/12/12

For many Muslim communities particular religious identities were formulated or hardened within colon

Sahar Amer, “What is Veiling?” (UNC Press, 2014)

2014/11/18

There are few concepts commonly associated with Islam and Muslims today that evoke more anxiety, pho

Vahid Brown and Don Rassler, “Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012” (Oxford UP, 2013)

2014/11/14

Vahid Brown and Don Rassler‘s Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012 (Oxford University

Michael Cook, “Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective” (Princeton UP, 2014)

2014/11/5

Michael Cook, a widely-respected historian and scholar of Islam begins his book with a question that

Amy Evrard, “The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement” (Syracuse University Press, 2014)

2014/10/30

Amy Evrard‘s first book, The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), exa

Jonathan A. C. Brown, “Misquoting Muhammad” (Oneworld Publications, 2014)

2014/10/30

Many people have described Muslims modernities as being fundamentally disrupted by individual and ci

Amanullah De Sondy, “The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities” (Bloomsbury, 2014)

2014/10/27

What gets to count as Islam? In the current political climate this question is being repeated in a v

Sarah Bowen Savant, “The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion” (Cambridge UP, 2014)

2014/10/16

Sarah Bowen Savant, Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations at th

Donald Holbrook, “The Al-Qaeda Doctrine: The Framing and Evolution of the Leadership’s Public Discourse” (Bloomsbury, 2014)

2014/10/3

Donald Holbrook‘sThe Al-Qaeda Doctrine: The Framing and Evolution of the Leadership’s Public Discour

Iqbal Sevea, “The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

2014/10/2

The towering Indian Muslim poet and intellectual Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) is among the most conteste

Nabil Matar, “Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall and Progress of Mahometanism” (Columbia UP, 2013)

2014/9/18

In Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall and Progress of Mahometanism (Columbia Un

William Chittick, “Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God” (Yale UP, 2013)

2014/9/2

Where does love come from and where will it lead us? Throughout the years various answers have been

Ovamir Anjum, “Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

2014/8/22

In Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge University Press

Shabana Mir, “Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity” (UNC, 2014)

2014/8/4

In the post 9/11 era in which Muslims in America have increasingly felt under the surveillance of th

Ronen Shamir, “Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine” (Stanford UP, 2013)

2014/7/23

Ronen Shamir‘s new book is a timely and thoughtful study of the electrification of Palestine in the

John P. Turner, “Inquisition in Early Islam” (I.B. Tauris, 2013)

2014/7/23

Scholars of Islam and historians have frequently pointed to the Miá¸¥na, translated as ‘trial’ or ‘t

Brian A. Catlos, “Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050-1614” (Cambridge UP, 2014)

2014/7/8

In the current political climate it might be easy to assume that Muslims in the ‘West’ have always b

Rachel Rinaldo, “Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia” (Oxford UP, 2013)

2014/6/23

Are Islam and feminism inherently at odds? Is there a contradiction between piety and gender justice

J. Matthias Determann, “Historiography in Saudi Arabia: Globalization and the State in the Middle East” (Tauris, 2014)

2014/6/20

Saudi Arabia is, for most Westerners, a mysterious place. It’s home to one of the most conservative

Hugh Talat Halman, “Where The Two Seas Meet” (Fons Vitae, 2013)

2014/6/10

In Where The Two Seas Meet (Fons Vitae, 2013), Hugh Talat Halman unpacks one of the most provocative