We're sunsetting PodQuest on 2025-07-28. Thank you for your support!

New Books in Islamic Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Islam about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium membe

Episodes

Total: 845

Najam Haider, “The Origins of the Shia: Identity, Ritual, and Sacred Space in Eighth-Century Kufa” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

2014/5/23

When did groups in Kufa begin forming unique identities leading to the development of Shiism? Najam

Marwa Elshakry, “Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

2014/5/23

The work of Charles Darwin, together with the writing of associated scholars of society and its orga

Sean Anthony, “Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle” (American Oriental Society, 2014)

2014/5/12

Crucifixion is one of the most widely envisioned symbols in history. So much so, that for a contempo

Sa’diyya Shaikh, “Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender and Sexuality” (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)

2014/4/29

Many Muslim debates regarding women are solely situated in legal or political frameworks. For exampl

Zareena Grewal, “Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority” (NYU Press, 2013)

2014/4/15

Zareena Grewal‘s monograph Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Aut

Nathan Schneider. “God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet” (University of California Press, 2013)

2014/4/7

Nathan Schneider‘s monograph, God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet

Ayesha Chaudhry, “Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition” (Oxford University Press, 2013)

2014/3/29

How do people make sense of their scriptures when they do not align with the way they envision these

Joshua Dubler, “Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013)

2014/3/19

In almost every prison movie you see, there is a group of fanatically religious inmates. They are al

Ellen J. Amster, “Medicine and the Saints” (University of Texas Press, 2013)

2014/3/16

What is the interplay between the physical human body and the body politic? This question is at the

Karen Pechilis, “South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today” (Routledge, 2012)

2014/3/6

If you’re going to teach a broadly themed survey course, you’ll probably need to assign some reading

Ahmad Atif Ahmad, “The Fatigue of the SharÄ«’a” (Palgrave, 2012)

2014/3/1

In the book, The Fatigue of the SharÄ«’a (Palgrave, 2012), Ahmad Atif Ahmad explores a centuries-old

Afsar Mohammad, “The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India” (Oxford University Press, 2013

2014/2/18

Several studies about Islam in Asian contexts highlight the pluralistic environment that Muslims inh

Rebecca Williams, “Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views” (Routledge, 2013)

2014/2/3

Rebecca Williams‘ book Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views (Routledge, 2013) is one o

Ahmed El Shamsy, “The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

2014/1/10

In his brilliant new book, The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History (Cambr

Carla Bellamy, “The Powerful Ephemeral: Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place” (University of California Press, 2011)

2013/12/27

In The Powerful Ephemeral: Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place (University of Californi