Why do two people read the same text and arrive at different conclusions? What does it mean to follow scripture? What roles and limitations do scholars face when interpreting a text? What happens when scholarly...
Post-colonial and decolonial theory produced in the Western and Westernized academy tends to be soft on the Left and hard on the Right. Although some scholars, such as Ramon Grosfoguel,[i] state that they wish to...
The Egyptian Uprising through the Lens of the Muslim Brotherhood: A New History of the Movement Assesses Its Failure in Government and the Fallout under Sisi In his introduction to the 1993 edition of Richard...
The following list of books includes English-language titles published in November 2020 which span a range of disciplines in the broad field of Islamic Studies. Meant to showcase current research by both established and emerging...
[Maydan Book Forum] Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence by Juliane Hammer (Princeton University Press, 2019) | Contributions by Micah Hughes, Traci West, Anne Joh, Ali Mian, Zareena Grewal and Juliane Hammer
France India International Libya New Zealand Saudi Arabia South Africa UK USA
Traditional Ulama, Salafism, and Religious Authority
Decolonizing the Left and the Right: Muslim Mistrust of Foxes and Wolves
The Egyptian Uprising through the Lens of the Muslim Brotherhood
Book Display | November 2020
[Maydan Book Forum] Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence by Juliane Hammer | Micah Hughes, Traci West, Anne Joh, Ali Mian, Zareena Grewal and Juliane Hammer
Islam in Media | Jan 18 - Jan 24
Zahra Institute Launches Online Kurdish Studies Certificate Program, First of Its Kind in the United States Zahra Institute announced the launch of its Online Kurdish Studies Certificate Program. An interdisciplinary initiative, the eight-week certificate program…
Penny Sinanoglou’s Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire is a richly-researched book interrogating the legal and political mechanics of the British empire’s management of mandatory Palestine. The book dissects the British Empire’s…
In Gendered Morality (2019) Zahra Ayubi asks what it is to be a (good) human. To answer this question, the author delves into the classical texts of three foundational thinkers in this “unified” tradition: Kimiya-…
Johanna Pink’s Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation Today examines the context in which modern Qurʾānic interpretations takes place and how these contexts shape the style and contents of Qur’anic exegesis. With the goal of presenting a transregional…
Alexander Hayes speaks with Prof. Martin Nguyen from Fairfield University on his scholarship and his recent book, Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018). The…
2021 Annual Meeting Program THURSDAY JANUARY 7 12:30-1:45PM Ritual and Materiality in Muslim Ethics Abstract: In this panel, Verena Meyer conceptualizes visiting and praying at graves (ziarah) among traditionalist Muslims in Java as a ritualized…
[Maydan Book Forum] Andrew March, The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought (Harvard University Press, 2019) Andrew March | Ovamir Anjum | M. Owais Khan | Sohaira Siddiqui | Andrew March- Response…
The pandemic has given rise to a new wave of interest in niqab wearing, a practice at the center of a string of public controversies. While it has previously been dissected from various cultural and…
As a resource for our readers, the Maydan presents panel, session, paper, and other events/reception information related to Islamic Studies at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting 2020, taking place virtually between Sunday November…
Dr. Davood Feirahi, Iranian professor of political science and reform-minded Muslim clergyman, died on November 11, 2020 at age 56 due to a coronavirus infection. He was a leading figure in Islamic political thought, writing…
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…
We are living amid crises. The deterioration of the metaphysical universe under modernity and the current denigration of biological life at a planetary scale forces us to rethink who we are as human beings. The…
