Interviews with Scholars of Islam about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium membe
Over the last thirty years, humanity has discovered thousands of planets outside of our solar system
Globally, 1.4 billion people are considered to be “financially excluded,” meaning they cannot safely
In their edited volume Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media (Syracuse Univer
Friendship—particularly interreligious friendship—offers both promise and peril. After the end of Mu
Law. How does the state form and use it? How do people use and shape it? How does law shape culture?
Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers (Oxford
In Digital Islamophobia: Tracking a Far-Right Crisis (De Gruyter, 2023), Emily Lynell Edwards explor
Razak Khan's Minority Pasts: Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur (Oxford UP, 2022)
Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ot
In his splendid new book, Teaching Humanity: An Alternative Introduction to Islam (Palgrave MacMilla
In his majestic and encyclopedic new book Slavery and Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2019), Jonathan A. C
In our most recent public memory, images of the Prophet Muhammad have caused a great deal of controv
Ever since the Taliban victory in 2021 there has been very little prospect of significant change in
Adam Bursi’s Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam (Edinburg University Pr
In her stunning new book, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times (University of Calif
The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–1273) is a popular spiritual i
From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by
Pious Labour: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India (University of California Press,
Concerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in
Nicholas Morton’s The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 (Oxford UP
