In the year 1256, the first Mamluk sultan Aybak endowed a Sunni law college in old Cairo named al-Mu‘izziyya, an institution built using high-quality masonry acquired from the dilapidated Rawḍa Citadel on the Nile. A...
As a historian I’ve worked with all kinds of archives: the chilly repositories of colonial bureaucracies, cozy campus libraries that preserve the curricula of women’s colleges, dusty bound notebooks with handwritten estate records of people...
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[Updated: 28 October] Check out our Journal Roundups for the latest articles in Islamic studies. Fifteen iterations have been published and the Fall 2019 edition is now online. The Fall 2019 edition currently has issues...
Ahmet Köroğlu: Thank you very much Professor Muhammed Haron for having accepted our request. In this interview, we want to talk about Imam Abdullah Haron since you are the son of Abdullah Haron. First of...
[Book Review Essay] Brannon D. Ingram, Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018). 315 pages. Paperback $26.03. Hardcover $61.81. | Reviewed by Andrew Booso Barbara Metcalf’s...
Archives and Archival Sensibilities in Medieval Arabic Historiography
Bastila and the Archives of Unwritten Things
Islam in Media Roundup | 18 November – 24 November
Fall 2019 Journal Roundup
Remembering Imam "Mfundisi" Abdullah Haron and Apartheid South Africa | An Interview with his son, Muhammed Haron
[Book Review Essay] Brannon D. Ingram, Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam | Reviewed by Andrew Booso
Context Academics with expertise in Islamic Studies have much to offer a public arena saturated with prejudiced media coverage, self-styled experts and growing anti-Muslim sentiment. However, making interventions in the mainstream can come at a…
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 in San Diego, California 22-26 November, 2019….
The following list of books includes English-language titles published in October 2019 which span a range of disciplines in the broad field of Islamic and Middle East Studies. Meant to showcase current research by both…
As a resource for our readers, the Maydan presents panel, session and paper information related to Islamic Studies and/or Ottoman Studies at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana on 14-17…
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University cordially invites you to the launch panel and reception for the Turks in America Public History Initiative on November 16, 2019, 2:00…
ISLAM AND HUMANITARIANISM: INTERDISCIPLINARY INQUIRIES ON ISLAMIC FORMS OF AID The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia November 1-2, 2019 CONFERENCE PROGRAM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 |…
It’s been over a year since the cold winter morning when I picked up my phone to the buzz of a WhatsApp call from an unfamiliar number. It was Brother Ismail Hachim, originally from the…
“But they denied the truth when it came to them, so they are in a confused condition.” (50:5) Introduction Mubasher Hussain published a book review of The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians…
THIRD ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT BOOK REVIEW COLLOQUIUM ON ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES at GMU OCTOBER 11, 2019 | Merten Hall, Room 1203 Organized by Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at GMU…
