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Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies- October 2017
October 12, 2017
October 12, 2017
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University is pleased to announce the program of the 2017 Book Review Colloquium on
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. The Colloquium, held in cooperation with the Fall for the Book festival, features book reviews of recent noteworthy publications in the broader field of Islamic Studies by graduate students across a diverse set of institutions. The program is organized around three themes this year and seeks to foster a dedicated effort toward establishing a lasting conversation between academic and lay readership. Select reviews will be published on Maydan (www.themaydan.com), the online publication of the Center.
Please join us at GMU’s Fairfax Campus, at the Johnson Center.
10:00am-12:00pm Panel 1: Islam in North America
Chair: Heba El-Shazli | Discussant: Peter Mandaville
Hale Inanoglu (George Mason Univ.)
Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States
by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
Muhammad Gada (Aligarh Muslim Univ., India)
Islamophobia and Racism in the United States
by Erik Love
Sumeyra Aydemir (UC-San Diego)
Muslims and the Making of America
by Amir Hussain
Rasmieyh Abdelnabi (George Mason Univ.)
Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity
by Shabana Mir
1:00pm-3:00pm Panel 2: Islamic Law
Chair: Huseyin Yilmaz | Discussant: Himmet Taskomur
Johannes Makar (Harvard Univ.)
The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Modern State
by Iza R. Hussin
Wasim Shiliwala (Princeton Univ.)
Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari’ah in the Modern Age
by Khaled Abou El Fadl
David Owen (Harvard Univ.)
The Zahiri Madhhab (3rd/9th-10th/16th Century): A Textualist Theory of Islamic Law
by Amr Osman
Sebastian Bernburg (George Washington Univ.)
Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism Across the Arabian Sea
by Johan Matthew
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A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950
by Fahad Ahmed Bishara
3:30pm-5:30pm Panel 3: Islam, Globalization and Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Cemil Aydin | Discussant: Sumaiya Hamdani
Micah Hughes (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey
by Jeremy Walton
Nagham El Karhili (Georgia State Univ.)
For Humanity or For the Umma?: Aid and Islam in Transnational NGOs
by Marie Juul Petersen
Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra (Georgetown Univ.)
Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order
by Salman Sayyid
Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande (Princeton Univ.)
What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic
by Shahab Ahmed