Interviews with Scholars of Islam about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium membe
Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central
An interview with Prof. Salman Sayyid on one of the theoretical constructs that underpins Critical M
In Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2019), Seyed Ali Alavi (SOAS University
Lahore's Hall Road is the largest electronics market in Pakistan. Once the center of film and media
Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds (Routledge, 2024) investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and
Sari Nusseibeh's book Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy (Routledge, 2018) deals with the phi
In Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke UP, 2023), Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of th
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)? How are Islam
Capitalism is not only an economic system but also a system of production and allocation of hope. In
Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia (Pan Macmillan India, 2023) is a collec
In their landmark new translation of the Qur’an, The Qur’an: A Verse Translation (LIveright, 2024),
Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ot
The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan (Cornell University Press, 2
State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya (Cambridge University P
Despite expectations that the deeply held political and religious organizing principles at the heart
During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al-An
Annika Schmeding’s new book Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan
Recent decades have seen an unprecedented number of comics by and about Muslim people enter the glob
Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in
Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought—an esteemed
