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
in partnership with the Fall for the Book Festival
9:30-11:00
Panel 1: Government and Theology
Discussant: Huseyin Yilmaz, George Mason University
Book Under Review:
Alexander Bevilacqua, The Republic of Arabic Letters (Harvard U Press, 2018)
Nimet Ipek | Sehir University
Book Under Review:
Yossef Rapaport and Emilie Savage-Smith, Lost Maps of the Caliphs (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Theresa Ford | George Mason University
Book Under Review:
Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History (Princeton U Press, 2017)
Arif Erbil | Bogazici University
11:15- 1:00
Panel 2: States, Borders, Policies
Discussant: Sumaiya Hamdani, George Mason University
Book Under Review:
Adam Hanieh, Money, Markets and Monarchies (Cambridge U Press, 2018)
Javier Guirado | Georgia State University
Book Under Review:
Jonathan Alexander Hoffman | George Mason University
Book Under Review:
Lorenzo Kamel, The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities (Edinburgh U Press, 2019)
Fikriye Karaman | Sehir University
2:00- 3:45
Panel 3: Theology and Everyday Religion
Discussant: Cengiz Sisman, University of Houston, Clear Lake
Book Under Review:
Aydogan Kars, Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Mehmet Emin Gulecyuz | University of Chicago
Book Under Review:
Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion (Oxford U Press, 2019)
Ehsan Sheikholharam Mashhadi| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Book Under Review:
Yusuf Enes Sezgin | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
4:00- 5:30
Panel 4- Muslim Life in the “West”
Discussant: Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu, George Mason University
Book Under Review:
Zubair Ahmed | Berlin Graduate School/ Frei Universitat
Book Under Review:
Shakira Hussein, From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11 (Yale U Press, 2019)
Hina Muneeruddin | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Book Under Review:
Ashraf Hoque, Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton (UCL Press, 2019)
Jeta Luboteni | George Mason University
Unable to attend
Book Under Review:
Muqtedar Khan, Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Islam (Palgrave, 2019)
Thomas Simpkins | Ibn Haldun University
Book Under Review:
Meryem Yetkin | Bogazici University