Check out our Journal Roundups for the latest articles in Islamic studies. This is the fortieth iteration to be published and the Winter 2021 edition is now online. The Winter 2021 edition currently has issues from...
“Traditional Islam is not the replication of the positions of the ancients; it is to seek what they sought”.[1] Introduction During my doctoral research, an ethnography of a Dār al-‘Ulūm (madrasa) in Britain, the notion...
The following list of books includes 29 English-language titles published in September 2021 which span a range of disciplines in the broad field of Islamic Studies. Meant to showcase current research by both established and...
The Maydan Podcast · On The Square EP8 – Muslims in the Caribbean In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with Dr. Aliyah Khan, author of Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim...
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University will convene an international conference on Race and Islam to be held from March 23rd through 25th, 2022 on its campus in Fairfax, Virginia. The...
The Saudi reforms launched by Mohammed bin Salman (often referred to in media as MBS) have been underpinned by a fundamental ideological claim: that Saudi Arabia has turned the page on Wahhabi Islam, which having...
Winter 2021 Journal Roundup
Putting a Rope on Tradition
Book Display | September 2021
[Maydan Podcast] On The Square EP8 – Muslims in the Caribbean
Call for Papers | Race and Islam: Global Histories, Contemporary Legacies (March 23-25, 2022, George Mason University)
Reordering Saudi Religion: MBS is Defanging Wahhabism, not Dethroning it
The history of relations between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East -particularly in Bilād al-Shām– is older than that in almost any other part of the Islamic World.[1] So it should come as no…
Omar Farahat’s The Foundation of Norms in Islamic Theology and Jurisprudence is a great new addition to the field of Islamic legal studies and ethics. The book poses two broad questions: how can Divine revelation…
The Maydan Podcast · Knowledge and Its Producers EP5 – Contingent Magazine w/Erin Bartram & Marc Reyes This interview has us moving out of our wheelhouse a bit. We’ve been listening to people who inhabit…
Sally Howell | Scholarship on Arab-American Studies and Islamic Studies in the Post 9/11 Era Maydan: What has been the most consequential impact of 9/11 for your field of study? I remember attending the American…
The Maydan Podcast · On The Square EP7 – Race, Sex and the Ummah In this episode of On The Square, we talk about sex! Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with The…
Edward E. Curtis | The Study of African American Islam/ Blackness and Islam Maydan: What has been the most consequential impact of 9/11 for your field of study? Edward Curtis: The number of job,…
The Maydan Podcast · Sahar Aziz on Race, Security, and the Racial Muslim – Special Guest Episode As the 20th anniversary of September 11 reminds us of personal tragedy as well as structural violence of…
Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim’s Child Custody in Islamic Law is an important and well-researched contribution to Islamic family law in general and to changes on the concept of child custody (hidâna) from the early modern to…
[Book Review] Tauseef Ahmad Parray, Recent Trends in Qur’anic Scholarship (New Delhi: Viva Books, 2020), xxxv + 304 pages. | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar The Qur’anic studies is a rich academic sub-field of Islamic…
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and The Maydan, the Center’s public-facing scholarship platform, present the fifth annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern…
Proxy warfare is a currently growing military strategy by which states fight other states or non-state groups via unofficial armies. In Iran, Revolution and Proxy Wars, Ofira Seliktar and Farhad Rezaei offer an important study…
Introducing Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021) In Islam, belief is a simple affair: at its heart is a commitment to the truth of the oneness of God and…
