[Book Review] Edwy Plenel. For the Muslims: Islamophobia in France. (Verso, 2016). 112 pp, £7.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781784784867. Edwy Plenel. This name may not ring a bell to you, yet in France he is a...
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In the twenty-first century academic world, a surge of literature is being produced on Islam, especially on its primary sources —the noble Qur’an and Hadith/ Seerah. Globally reputed publishers—such as Ashgate, Brill, Cambridge, Edinburg, Harvard,...
Introduction There is a color line in the Muslim world. How and why? While there are multiple forms of racism based on notions of color and ethnicity that exist within the Muslim world – such...
Fourth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at GMU | Program | Virtual Event | Friday, November 20, 2020 | 9:30am- 5:30pm Click here to register The Ali Vural...
The following list of books includes English-language titles published in October 2020 which span a range of disciplines in the broad field of Islamic Studies. Meant to showcase current research by both established and emerging...
[Book Review] "For the Muslims: Islamophobia in France" by Edwy Plenel | Reviewed by Fatima Khemilat
Islam in Media | Oct 19 - Oct 25
(Recent) Bibliographical Works on the ‘Qur’anic Studies’ (from India)
Anti-Blackness in the Muslim World: Beyond Apologetics and Orientalism
Fourth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at GMU | November 20, 2020 | Virtual Event
Book Display | October 2020
18th Annual Duke-UNC Middle East and Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference | Call for Papers | February 20-21, 2021 [Submissions Due | November 15, 2020] What Does Race Have to Do with Religion? Racialization and…
Rumee Ahmed is a brilliant Islamic legal expert at the University of British Columbia. He is both traditionally and academically trained. His book “Sharia Compliant: A User’s Guide to Hacking Islamic Law” was published in…
Graduate Colloquium in Ottoman Studies September 26, 2020 organized by The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies George Mason University & The Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries Studies Marmara University Online…
My recent research has led to an encounter with a critical question for Muslims who live in and must now engage with an increasingly diverse religious landscape: what is da’wa (the Muslim mission to share…
Though we conceptualize the political and the religious as distinct, in practice, they remain very intertwined, especially in many Muslim-majority countries. Understanding one is crucial in understanding the other. In the case of Muslim-majority countries,…
Avatar: the Last Airbender (ATLA) is an artfully woven story in which victims of genocide and imperialism unite to fight against a global empire. But in the sequel series, The Legend of Korra (TLOK), which…
Introduction In a recent article titled “Atheism and Radical Skepticism: Ibn Taymiyyah’s Epistemic Critique,” Dr. Nazir Khan argues that rational inquiry is unnecessary for justifying our belief in God; that, in fact, syllogistic reasoning is…
Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah’s justification for Islamic autocracy is far from a throwback to an imagined premodern world of Muslim scholars united with pious sultans, but rather, deeply indebted to the reformist idioms of Islamic…
John O’Brien. Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys. Princeton University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780691168821. 216 pages. $29.95. Recent scholarship on Muslims in Western societies faces two shortcomings: first, the existing research…
Islam, as a historical tradition, began in early seventh century Arabia. The formative canons of Islamic thought – the Qur’an as well as the voluminous literature describing the early community of Muslims – contain a…
Sarah Stroumsa, Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019), 219 pp. $35.00. ISBN: 9780691176437. | Reviewed by Yolanda Antin. In Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy…
In Charles Taylor’s magnum opus, A Secular Age, he makes a series of wonderful distinctions about the pre-modern and modern worlds. Among these is the idea that modernity entails a loss of enchantment, a move…
