Book Display | January 2021

The following list of books includes English-language titles published in January 2021 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. [ Curated by Muataz Al-Ali with the Maydan team].

Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- and Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets

Author: Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb Editor: Geert Jan van GelderPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Encyclopaedia of Islam - Three 2021-1

Editor: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett RowsonPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond

Editor: Kevin IngramPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies

Editor: Allen James Fromherz and Nadav SaminPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia

Author: Asiya AlamPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Islam in a Zongo

Author: Benedikt PontzenPublisher: Cambridge Univ. Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

In Remembrance of the Saints

Author: Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari. Translated by David BrophyPublisher: Cambridge Univ. Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

The Language of History

Author: Audrey TruschkePublisher: Cambridge Univ. Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader

Author: Bruce B. LawrencePublisher: Duke University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought

Author: Ziad ElmarsafyPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East