Book Display | September 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 29 English-language titles published in September 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 Wali Siddiq with the Maydan team]

The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire

Author: Mitri RahebPublisher: Baylor University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Middle Eastern StudiesRegion: Middle East

A Constructive Critique of Religion: Encounters between Christianity, Islam, and Non-religion in Secular Societies

Editor: Mia Lövheim, Mikael StenmarkPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingYear: 2021Discipline: ReligionRegion: Europe/North America

Islamism and Revolution Across the Middle East: Transformation of Ideology and Strategy After the Arab Spring

Editor: Khalil al-AnaniPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingYear: 2021Discipline: Political IslamRegion: Middle East

God's Word, Spoken or Otherwise: Sayyid Ahmad Khan's (1817-1898) Muslim Exegesis of the Bible

Author: Charles M. RamseyPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: ReligionRegion: India

Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule: Political, Social and Cultural Aspects

Editor: Amalia LevanoniPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: HistoryRegion: Egypt/Syria

Best of Delectable Foods and Dishes from al-Andalus and al-Maghrib: A Cookbook by Thirteenth-Century Andalusi Scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (1227–1293): English Translation with Introduction and Glossary

Author: Nawal NasrallahPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Anthology Region: Andalusia/North Africa

Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in Nineteenth-Century North India

Author: S. Akbar ZaidiPublisher: Cambridge University Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: HistoryRegion: India

Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman

Author: Amal SachedinaPublisher: Cornell University PressYear: 2021Discipline: HistoryRegion: Oman

Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam: Past and Present

Editor: Mirjam Künkler, Devin J. StewartPublisher: Edinburgh University Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Exploring Islam: Theology and Spiritual Practice in America

Author: Salih SayilganPublisher: Fortress PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: North America

The Perfect Being: Selection from the Classic Islamic Text

Author: Aziz O-Din Nasafi, Amir SabzevaryPublisher: Fortress PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey

Author: Feyzi Baba, Suzan Ilcan, Kim RygielPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press (Canada)Year: 2021Discipline: SociologyRegion: Turkey

Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History

Author: Jytte KlausenPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: North America/Europe

'We are Lovers of the Qalandar': Piety, Pilgrimage, and Ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam

Author: Jürgen Wasim FrembgenPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: SufismRegion: Pakistan

Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821-1940

Author: Stefanos KatsikasPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Greece

Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh: A Pyramid Root Cause Model

Author: Shafi MostofaPublisher: Palgrave-Macmillan (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Bangladesh

Islam, Constitutional Law and Human Rights: Sexual Minorities and Freethinkers in Egypt and Tunisia

Author: Tommaso VirgiliPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Egypt/Tunisia

Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty

Author: Sophia VasalouPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

The Qur'an in South Asia: Hermeneutics, Qur'an Projects, and Imaginings of Islamic Tradition in British India

Author: Kamran BashirPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: India

Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism

Author: Sk Sagir Ali, Goutam Karmakar, Nasima IslamPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: ReligionRegion: South Asia

Nonviolence in the World's Religions: A Concise Introduction

Author: Jeffery D. Long, Michael G. LongPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: ReligionRegion: Global

Islam Law in the Indian Ocean World: Texts, Ideas and Practices

Editor: Mahmood Kooria, Sanne RavensbergenPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Indian Ocean

Non-Shia Practices of Muḥarram in South Asia and the Diaspora: Beyond Mourning

Editor: Pushkar Sohoni, Torsten TschacherPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: South Asia

Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics

Author: Nazia KaziPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersYear: 2021Discipline: PoliticsRegion: United States

Hijab: Three Modern Iranian Seminarian Perspectives

Author: Lloyd RidgeonPublisher: The University of Chicago PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Iran

Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe

Author: Elisabeth BeckerPublisher: The University of Chicago PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Europe

Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit

Author: Bruce B. LawrencePublisher: WileyYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: Twenty Years after 9/11

Author: Deepa KumarPublisher: VersoYear: 2021Discipline: PoliticsRegion: United States

The Anonymity of a Commentator: Zakariyya al-Ansari and the Rhetoric of Muslim Commentaries

Author: Matthew B. IngallsPublisher: State University of New York PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East