New Books in Islamic Studies

Islam #57

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Omneya Ayad, "Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn ‘Ajiba’s Understanding of the Divine Word" (Routledge, 2023)
Jun 20, 2025 – 39:33
Sarah Nagaty, "The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing For A Better Life" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jun 4, 2025 – 36:56
Simon Stjernholm, "Sensing Islam: Engaging and Contesting the Senses in Muslim Religiosity" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025)
Jun 3, 2025 – 45:23
Basma Al Dajani, "The Arab Andalusian Love Poetry: A Study of the Interaction Between Place and Man Through Time" (AU Cairo Press, 1994)
Jun 1, 2025 – 34:12
Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
May 23, 2025 – 01:03:20
Abdul Wohab, "Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence" (Routledge, 2025)
May 22, 2025 – 38:42
Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 3, 2025 – 01:11:54
"I have not Finished...": Rokahya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)
May 2, 2025 – 48:39
Mehrdad Alipour, "Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse" (Brill, 2024)
Apr 25, 2025 – 01:43:47
Samuel Ross, "Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn: A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:26:58
Radio ReOrient Season 12: A Wrap Up and Round Up
Apr 18, 2025 – 33:33
Ðermana Kuric on Muslimness in Bosnia
Apr 11, 2025 – 55:23
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
Apr 6, 2025 – 48:42
"Queer Jews, Queer Muslims" with Adi Saleem and Shanon Shah
Apr 5, 2025 – 01:08:43
Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025)
Apr 4, 2025 – 01:09:08
Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2025 – 01:11:28
Wafik W. Wahba, "Global Christianity and Islam: Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs" (InterVarsity Press, 2025)
Mar 30, 2025 – 01:03:54
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
Mar 29, 2025 – 51:55
Syaifudin Zuhri, "Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition" (Leiden UP, 2022)
Mar 28, 2025 – 01:10:48
David D. Grafton, "Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (NYU Press, 2024)
Mar 22, 2025 – 01:21:43
Cars, Race and Class with Yunis Alam
Mar 21, 2025 – 01:01:00
Lauren E. Osborne, "Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 15, 2025 – 01:41:18
Exploring Muslim Sicily with Nuha Alshaar and Shainool Jiwa
Mar 7, 2025 – 55:00
Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 7, 2025 – 46:26
Alcohol
Mar 3, 2025 – 20:00
Asim Qureshi and Walaa Quisay, "When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners" (Pluto Press, 2024)
Mar 2, 2025 – 01:00:59
Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean
Feb 28, 2025 – 52:59
Adnan Husain on Reorienting History
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:19:05
Kecia Ali, "The Woman Question in Islamic Studies" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:25:43
Samar Al-Bulushi, "War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Feb 17, 2025 – 01:08:44
Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 16, 2025 – 01:15:48
Professor Priyamvada Gopal on Anticolonial Resistance
Feb 14, 2025 – 58:52
In Conversation: Decolonial Activism and Islamophobia in France
Feb 12, 2025 – 45:37
William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Feb 7, 2025 – 44:51
In Conversation: PREVENT (Preventing Violent Extremism), Academia and Representation
Feb 5, 2025 – 34:07
Ayesha Jalal, "Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia" (Routledge, 2025)
Feb 4, 2025 – 46:15
Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 3, 2025 – 01:04:24
In Conversation: Islamic Architecture and Europe
Jan 29, 2025 – 41:12
In Conversation: The Far Right and Muslims
Jan 15, 2025 – 43:38
In Conversation: Epistemology, Critical Race Theory and Critical Muslim Studies
Jan 8, 2025 – 39:56
Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 29, 2024 – 01:36:01
Pakistan, Populism and the Left
Dec 27, 2024 – 01:08:38
In Conversation: Enslaved Muslims in the Americas
Dec 25, 2024 – 54:36
Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 20, 2024 – 54:55
In Conversation: Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter
Dec 18, 2024 – 43:25
Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 18, 2024 – 01:06:10
Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, "Qur'ānic Stories: God, Revelation, and the Audience" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Dec 16, 2024 – 51:03
Shehnaz Haqqani, "Feminism, Tradition and Change in Contemporary Islam: Negotiating Islamic Law and Gender" (Oneworld, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024 – 01:24:54
In Conversation: Palestine and Decoloniality
Dec 11, 2024 – 42:36
In Conversation: Epistemology, Islamic Studies and Critical Muslim Studies
Dec 4, 2024 – 47:30