Book Display – Summer 2016

The following list of books includes titles published in English between June and September 2016 which span a range of disciplines in the broad field of Islamic Studies. Meant to showcase current research by both established and emerging scholars, the Maydan Book Displays will surely be of interest to graduate students and advanced undergraduates who are searching for compelling sources to enrich their studies, as well as university professors and course instructors looking to add fresh material to their syllabi. Check back monthly for updates.

Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa

Author: Roman LoimeierPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2016Discipline: AnthropologyRegion: Africa

The 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror

Author: Sunaina Marr MairaPublisher: NYU PressYear: 2016Discipline: AnthropologyRegion: North America

A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia

Author: Manan Ahmed AsifPublisher: Harvard University PressYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: South Asia

A History of the 'Alawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic

Author: Stefan WinterPublisher: Princeton University PressYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East

Public Urban Space, Gender and Segregation: Women-Only Urban Parks in Iran

Author: Reza ArjmandPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: SociologyRegion: Middle East

Absolute Reality in the Qur'an

Author: Masudul Alam ChoudhuryPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanYear: 2016Discipline: Qur'anic StudiesRegion: Global

Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics

Author: Alexander ThurstonPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2016Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Africa

Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam

Author: Lamin SannehPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2016Discipline: PhilosophyRegion: Africa

The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture

Author: Jeffrey EinbodenPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2016Discipline: LiteratureRegion: North America

Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat To Democracy

Author: Cherian GeorgePublisher: The MIT PressYear: 2016Discipline: Communication, Political ScienceRegion: Global

Religions and Constitutional Transitions in the Muslim Mediterranean: The Pluralistic Moment

Editor: Alessandro Ferrari, James TorontoPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Middle East and North Africa

Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia

Editor: Deepra Dandekar, Torsten TschacherPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, PoliticsRegion: South Asia

Shari'a and the Islamic State in 19th-Century Sudan: The Mahdi's Legal Methodology and Doctrine

Author: Aharon LayishPublisher: BrillYear: 2016Discipline: Law, HistoryRegion: North Africa

Al-Sahib Ibn 'Abbad: Promoter of Rational Theology

Editor: Wilferd Madelung, Sabine SchmidtkePublisher: BrillYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, HistoryRegion: North Africa

Foundations of Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Imami Shi'i Legal Theory

Author: al-'Allamah al-HilliEditor: Sayyid Amjad Shah NaqaviPublisher: BrillYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, LawRegion: Middle East

The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future (Updated Edition)

Author: Vali NasrPublisher: W.W. Norton and Co.Year: 2016Discipline: Political Science, HistoryRegion: Middle East

The Politics of Shari'a Law: Islamist Activists and the State in Democratizing Indonesia

Author: Michael BuehlerPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2016Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Southeast Asia

Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography

Author: Mimi HanaokaPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East

Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety

Author: Faegheh ShiraziPublisher: University of Texas PressYear: 2016Discipline: Communication, EconomicsRegion: Global

The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World

Author: Shihab al-Din al-NuwayriEditor: Elias MuhannaPublisher: Penguin Random HouseYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: North Africa

Iran Without Borders: Toward a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation

Author: Hamid DabashiPublisher: Penguin Random HouseYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East

Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts (2nd Edition)

Author: Toshihiko IzutsuPublisher: University of California PressYear: 2016Discipline: Philosophy, Religious StudiesRegion: Global

The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon

Author: Larry WolffPublisher: Stanford University PressYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Europe

The Almoravid and Almohad Empires

Author: Amira K. BennisonPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: North Africa, Europe

The Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and the Men Who Follow Him

Author: Dawn-Marie GibsonPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, HistoryRegion: North America

Islam and Cultural Change in Papua New Guinea

Author: Scott FlowerPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, AnthropologyRegion: Southeast Asia

Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: Collected Essays

Author: Said Amir ArjomandPublisher: BrillYear: 2106Discipline: Sociology, HistoryRegion: Middle East

Hui Muslims in China

Editor: Gui Rong, Hacer Zekiye Gonul, Zhang XiaoyanPublisher: Leuven University PressYear: 2016Discipline: AnthropologyRegion: Asia

Hizb ut-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation Party

Author: Reza PankhurstPublisher: HurstYear: 2016Discipline: PoliticsRegion: Global

Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam after the Arab Spring

Editor: Rainer Grote, Tilmann J. RoderPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2016Discipline: Law, PoliticsRegion: Middle East, North Africa

Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics

Editor: Robert HefnerPublisher: Indiana University PressYear: 2016Discipline: Law, PoliticsRegion: Global

Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926

Author: Kamal SoleimaniPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanYear: 2016Discipline: History, PoliticsRegion: Middle East

Islamic Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief

Author: Anthony BoothPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanYear: 2016Discipline: Philosophy, Religious StudiesRegion: Global

An Apocalyptic History of the Early Fatimid Empire

Author: Jamel VeljiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2016Discipline: History, Religious StudiesRegion: North Africa

Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage

Editor: Elisabeth Kendall, Ahmad KhanPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2016Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Global

China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law

Author: Matthew EriePublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2016Discipline: Law, PoliticsRegion: Asia

Encountering Islam on the First Crusade

Author: Nicholas MortonPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East

Muslims Beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya

Author: Fallou NgomPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, HistoryRegion: Africa

Sacred Scents in Early Christianity and Islam

Author: Mary ThurlkillPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, HistoryRegion: Global

Islam and International Relations: Exploring Community and the Limits of Universalism

Author: Faiz SheikhPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldYear: 2016Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Global

Muslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, 1850-1920

Author: Tamba M'bayoPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Africa

Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa

Editor: Abdelmajid HannoumPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, PoltiicsRegion: Africa

Accommodating Muslims Under Common Law: A Comparative Analysis

Author: Salim Farrar, Ghena KrayemPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: LawRegion: Australia, Europe, North Ameriac

A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia

Author: Sejad MekiPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: History, Religious StudiesRegion: Europe

Islamic Financial Economy and Islamic Banking

Author: Masudul Alam ChoudhuryPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: Economics, Religious StudiesRegion: Global

Doubt, Scholarship and Society in 17th-Century Central Sudanic Africa

Author: Dorrit van DalenPublisher: BrillYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Africa

Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

Author: Ousmane Oumar KanePublisher: Harvard University PressYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Africa

Chinese Muslims and the Global Ummah

Author: Alexander StewartPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: Anthropology, Religious StudiesRegion: Asia

For the Muslims: Islamophobia in France

Author: Edwy PlenelPublisher: Penguin Random HouseYear: 2016Discipline: Politics, PhilosophyRegion: Europe

Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia

Author: James RushPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressYear: 2016Discipline: History, Religious StudiesRegion: Southeast Asia

Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran: Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi and the Islamicate Republic of Letters

Author: Ilker Evrim BinbasPublisher: Cambridge University PresseYear: 2016Discipline: History, Religious StudiesRegion: Middle East

Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries

Editor: Mordechai Cohen and Adele BerlinPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2016Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Global

The Qur'anic Pagans and Related Matters

Author: Patricia CroneEditor: Hanna SiuruaPublisher: BrillYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East

The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands

Author: Patricia CroneEditor: Hanna SiuruaPublisher: BrillYear: 2016Discipline: History, Religious StudiesRegion: Middle East

Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness

Author: Patricia CroneEditor: Hanna SiuruaPublisher: BrillYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East

Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World

Author: Shadi HamidPublisher: St. Martin's PressYear: 2016Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Middle East

Islamic Thought in China: Sino-Muslim Intellectual Evolution from the 17th to the 21st Century

Editor: Jonathan LipmanPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Asia

Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran: An Intellectual History

Author: Yadullah ShahibzadehPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanYear: 2016Discipline: Politics, HistoryRegion: Middle East

Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria

Author: Brandon KendhammerPublisher: University of Chicago PressYear: 2016Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Africa

Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia

Author: Vladimir and Maria NalivkinEditor: Marianne KampPublisher: Indiana University PressYear: 2016Discipline: AnthropologyRegion: Central Asia

The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunni Scholasticism

Author: Feryal SalemPublisher: BrillYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, HistoryRegion: Middle East

Muslims, Migration and Citizenship: Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion

Editor: Martin Bulmer and John SolomosPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: SociologyRegion: Europe, North America

The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation

Editor: Majid Daneshgar, Peter Riddell and Andrew RippinPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Southeast Asia

The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations

Editor: Josef MeriPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Global

Shari'a in the Secular State: Evoloving Meanings of Islamic Jurisprudence in Turkey

Author: Russell PowellPublisher: RoutledgeYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, LawRegion: Middle East

The Qur'an: A Philosophical Guide

Author: Oliver LeamanPublisher: BloomsburyYear: 2016Discipline: Philosophy, Religious StudiesRegion: Global

Ethical Dimensions of Muslim Education

Author: Nuraan Davids and Yusef WaghidPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanYear: 2016Discipline: Philosophy, EducationRegion: Global

When Sun Meets Moon: Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry

Author: Scott KuglePublisher: University of North Carolina PressYear: 2016Discipline: LiteratureRegion: South Asia

Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea

Author: Shiraz MaherPublisher: HurstYear: 2016Discipline: Politics, HistoryRegion: Global

The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran

Editor: Bruno De Nicola and Charles MelvillePublisher: BrillYear: 2016Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East

Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi'ism

Author: Matthew PiercePublisher: Harvard University PressYear: 2016Discipline: Religious Studies, HistoryRegion: Middle East

Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution After the Enlightenment

Author: Behrooz Ghamari-TabriziPublisher: University of Minnesota PressYear: 2016Discipline: Political Science, PhilosophyRegion: Middle East

Modern Challenges to Islamic Law

Author: Shaheen Sardar AliPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2016Discipline: LawRegion: Global