Book Display | June 2021

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Maydan Editors

The Maydan is an online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. The Maydan team is composed of the Center's faculty members and graduate students both within and outside GMU.

The following list of books includes English-language titles published in June 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].

Islam through Objects

Editor: Anna BigelowPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali

Author: Dorothea E. SchulzPublisher: Boydell and Brewer (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100-1500

Editor: Alfred HiattPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Conclusion Divergent Traditions

Author: Alfred Hiatt and Yossef RapoportPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran

Author: Bruce LincolnPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Arabic Medicine in China

Author: Paul David Buell and Eugene N. AndersonPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

A Companion to Islamic Granada

Editor: Bárbara Boloix-GallardoPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond (Set)

Author: Hans DaiberPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Editor: Muhammad Afzal Upal and Carole M. CusackPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

In the Sultan’s Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) (2 vols)

Author: Christian MauderPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Security and Religion: The Discursive Self-legitimation of the Chechen Authorities

Author: Marat Iliyasov1Publisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

The Safavid Machiavelli: Shāh ʿAbbās I and the “Great Man” Theory Revisited

Author: Vasileios Syros1Publisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Sam C. Nolutshungu: Race, Reform, Resistance and the Black Consciousness Movement

Author: Ayesha Omar1Publisher: Brill (UK) Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Sex as a Protected Ground in International and Domestic Law

Author: Christine Forster1 and Vedna Jivan2Publisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

An Analysis of Urban Initiatives in Cairo: Locality, Everyday Politics and Relational Space in Cairo’s Unplanned Neighbourhoods

Author: Azzurra Sarnataro1Publisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Becoming an Ex: Dynamics of Disengagement from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood after 2011

Author: Mustafa Menshawy1 and Khalil Al-Anani2Publisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Connecting Faith through Theatre: Barazan’yee as a Semi-Ritual Performance in Thai Muslim Communities

Author: Khalid Midam1Publisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

From Competition to Cooperation: The Radicalization Effect of Salafists on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in the Aftermath of the 2011 Uprising

Author: Mohammad Yaghi1Publisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Gli autori/The Authors

Author: Graziella AcquavivaPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Crossing Religious Boundaries

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

A Culture of Ambiguity

Author: Thomas BauerPublisher: Columbia Univ. PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition

Author: Hannah-Lena HagemannPublisher: Edinburgh Univ. Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Arab Animation

Author: Omar SayfoPublisher: Edinburgh Univ. Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Transcendent God, Rational World

Author: Ramon HarveyPublisher: Edinburgh Univ. Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan

Author: Geoffrey F. HughesPublisher: Indiana University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Understanding Political Islam

Author: François BurgatPublisher: Manchester Univ. Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Britain’s rural Muslims

Author: Sarah HackettPublisher: Manchester Univ. Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Women Rising

Editor: Rita Stephan and Mounira M. CharradPublisher: New York Univ. PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Islamic Conversation

Author: Smita Tewari JassalPublisher: Routledge Taylor and Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey

Editor: M. Hakan Yavuz, Ahmet Erdi ÖztürkPublisher: Routledge Taylor and Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Islam and Human Rights

Author: Abdullahi An-Na'im, edited by Mashood A. BaderinPublisher: Routledge Taylor and Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Muslims, Identity, and American Politics

Author: Brian CalfanoPublisher: Routledge Taylor and Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East

Islamic Thought in Africa

Author: Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura; Translated by Zakyi IbrahimPublisher: Yale Univ. PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic Studies Region: Middle East