Interviews with Scholars of Islam about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium membe
The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. Medieval I
In Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857 (Cambridge UP,
The world is reeling from the savage terror attack that brutalized, raped, murdered and kidnapped Is
Judith Surkis's Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Cornell UP, 2019) traces the
A centuries-old story with remarkable contemporary resonance, Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim
When Algerians of the 1920s and 30s imagined the future of their country, women’s liberation was fou
In his extensive body of work, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim challenges both historical interpre
Sir Noel Malcolm’s captivating new book, Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Pol
Delighting in Khurram Hussain’s consistently sparkling prose is reason enough to read his new book I
How was the Soviet Union able to avoid issues of religious and national conflict with its large and
In his monumental new book, Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the
Uncovering the hidden history of Islamophobia and its surprising connections to the long-standing ha
The essays in Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Cornell UP, 2023) address the ways in whi
Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives (Académie Ro
Despite theories to the contrary, religious nationalism, and the use of religion to determine member
The story Afsar Mohammad's book Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad (C
Scholarly discussions on Islam in print have focused predominantly on the role of Urdu in the develo
Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when
In A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century
It was common during the years of the U.S. invasion of Iraq to talk about the Sunni-Shia split—and h
