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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

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Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd, “A Sliver of Light” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

2014/11/10

In the summer of 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan w

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

Carlotta Gall, “The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

2014/10/23

Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan

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

Joel Migdal, “Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2014)

2014/10/10

Any person who turns on CNN or Fox News today will see that the United States faces a number of crit

Mariam al-Attar, “Islamic Ethics: Divine Command Theory in Arabo-Islamic Thought” (Routledge, 2010)

2014/10/2

Mariam al-Attar, Islamic Ethics: Divine Command Theory in Arabo-Islamic Thought (Routledge, 2010) e

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

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

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

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

Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, “Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (Yale UP, 2014)

2014/5/11

This book tells a remarkable and–to me at least–little known but very important story. In Nazis, Isl

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

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