Anand Taneja’s Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi (Stanford University Press, 2017) is a landmark publication that …
In the last few decades, questions relating to Islam’s compatibility with liberal secular democracy, or the question of why Islam remains incompatible …
What do the social worlds of teenage Muslim American boys look like? What issues do they grapple with and how do they …
Zoltan Pall‘s Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a just published ethnographic investigation of the rise of …
Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India (Oxford University Press, 2017) by Fareen Parvez is a rich ethnographic analysis of …
The relationship between class and religious piety represents a theme less explored in the study of modern Islam in general, and in …
Muslim women are often the focus of debate when it comes to public conversations about Islam. Much of this centers on feelings …
The relationship between religion and economic activity has attracted generations of scholars working in myriad settings. In recent years, many have turned …
In her inspiring new book, Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mengia Hong …
The term ‘sectarianism’ has dominated much of the discourse on the Middle East and dictates that much of the unrest in the …
In mid-March, Europeans observed the Dutch national elections with intense interest. Onlookers believed that a victory of the Party for Freedom led …
Michael Muhammed Knight writes this book from a first-person perspective, as a piece of creative non-fiction. The book includes a liberal amount …
Jeanette Jouili‘s fascinating new book Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe (Stanford University Press, 2015) navigates …
In recent years, several scholars of religion have moved away from the examination of discursive textual domains or the meaning of ritual …
Much of the existing literature on Mandatory Palestine adheres to a dual society model which assumes that the Palestinian Arab community and …
In popular discourse today, few concepts are more sensationalized and maliciously caricatured than that of the Islamic State. In his fascinating new …
Rory Dickson’s Living Sufism in North America: Between Tradition and Transformation (SUNY Press, 2015) is the first monograph in English to focus …
Marcia C. Inhorn, The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2012)… Visit New Books …
The idea of jihad is among the most keenly discussed yet one of the least understood concepts in Islam. In her brilliant …
Amy Evrard‘s first book, The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), examines women’s attempts to change their patriarchal society via their …
In the post 9/11 era in which Muslims in America have increasingly felt under the surveillance of the state, media, and the …
Zareena Grewal‘s monograph Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (NYU Press, 2013), seamlessly interweaves ethnographic research with …
Several studies about Islam in Asian contexts highlight the pluralistic environment that Muslims inhabit and interplay of various religious traditions that color …
What does a wedding in Karbala in the year 680 have to do with South Asian Muslims today? As it turns out, …