Book Display | December 2021

The following list of books includes 38 English-language titles published in December 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]

Naẓar:Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures

Author: Samer AkkachPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism: Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī’s (d. 1101/1690) Theology of Sufism

Author: Naser DumairiehPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Hejaz

The Sound Traditions: Studies in Ismaili Texts and Thought

Author: Ismail K. PoonawalaEditor: Kumail RajaniPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Textual StudiesRegion: Middle East

Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus: The ʿĀmirid Regency c. 970-1010 AD

Author: Mariam Rosser-OwenPublisher: Brill (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Cultural StudiesRegion: al-Andalus

Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society

Author: Melis HafezPublisher: Cambridge University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Cultural StudiesRegion: Middle East

The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China

Author: Guangtian HaPublisher: Columbia University PressYear: 2021Discipline: SufismRegion: China

Religious Pluralism in Indonesia: Threats and Opportunities for Democracy

Editor: Chiara FormichiPublisher: Cornell University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Indonesia

Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future

Author: Gil Z. HochbergPublisher: Duke University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Cultural StudiesRegion: Palestine

Authoritarianism and Kurdish Alternative Politics: Governmentality, Gender and Justice

Author: Latif TasPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Kurdistan

The Persian Prison Poem

Author: Rebecca Ruth GouldPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Literary StudiesRegion: Persia

Freedom: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

Editor: Lucinda MosherPublisher: Georgetown University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Middle East

Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey

Author: Leyla JagiellaPublisher: Hurst (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Gender StudiesRegion: South Asia

The Islamic State in America: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront

Author: Jason Warner, Ryan O'Farrell, Heni Nsaibia, Ryan CummingsPublisher: Hurst (UK)Year: 2021Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Africa

Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective

Author: Erik Bleich and A. Maurits van der VeenPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Media StudiesRegion: United States

Islam, Justice, and Democracy

Author: Sabri CiftciPublisher: Temple University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion:

Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict

Author: Sumantra BosePublisher: Yale University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Conflict StudiesRegion: Kashmir

Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean

Author: Scott KuglePublisher: The University of North Carolina PressYear: 2021Discipline: SufismRegion: Indian Ocean

All the World is Awry: Al-Ma'arri and the Luzumiyyat, Revisited

Author: R. Kevin LaceyPublisher: SUNY PressYear: 2021Discipline: Middle Eastern StudiesRegion: Middle East

Islamic Management Practices in Financial Institutions: Case Studies from Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance

Author: Khaliq AhmadPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: FinanceRegion: Global

Labor Economics in an Islamic Framework: Theory and Practice

Author: Toseef Azid, Umar Burki, Muhammad Junaid Khawaja, Nasim Shah Shirazi, Muhammad TahirPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: EconomicsRegion:

The Crisis of Muslim Religious Discourse: The Necessary Shift from Plato to Kant

Author: Lahouari AddiPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion:

Family and Jihadism: A Socio-Anthropological Approach to the French Experience

Editor: Jérôme Ferret, Farhad KhosrokhavarPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: AnthropologyRegion: France

Law, State and Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author: Nedim Begović, Emir KovačevićPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Political Science Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa

Editor: Terje ØstebøPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Africa

A History of Islamic Schooling in North America: Mapping Growth and Evolution

Author: Nadeem A. MemonPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: EducationRegion: North America

Muslim Women in the Economy: Development, Faith and Globalisation

Editor: Shamim Samani, Dora MarinovaPublisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupYear: 2021Discipline: EconomicsRegion: Global

A Short History of Islamic Thought

Author: Fitzroy MorrisseyPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Middle East

The Space of the Transnational: Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian Writing

Author: Shirin E. EdwinPublisher: SUNY PressYear: 2021Discipline: Gender StudiesRegion: Africa/Southeast Asia

Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: 'Abdisho' of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition

Author: Salam RassiPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Religious StudiesRegion: Middle East

Pulpit, Mosque and Nation: Turkish Friday Sermons as Text and Ritual

Author: Elisabeth ÖzdalgaPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Islamic StudiesRegion: Turkey

Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers

Author: Elizabeth UrbanPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2021Discipline: HistoryRegion: Middle East

Palestinian Citizens in Israel: A History Through Fiction, 1948-2010

Author: Manar H. MakhoulPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2021Discipline: Culture StudiesRegion: Palestine

The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt: From the 7th to the 12th Century

Author: Yaacov LevPublisher: Edinburgh University PressYear: 2021Discipline: LawRegion: Egypt

The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy

Author: Birol Başkan & Ömer TaşpınarPublisher: SUNY PressYear: 2021Discipline: Political ScienceRegion: Turkey

The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran: Modernity, Modernization and Social Schange 1921-1979

Author: Marouf CabiPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingYear: 2021Discipline: SociologyRegion: Iran

Should a Liberal State Ban the Burqa? Reconciling Liberalism, Multiculturalism and European Politics

Author: Brandon RobshawPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingYear: 2021Discipline: Political ScienceRegion:

Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biogrpahy

Author: Giedre ŠabaseviciutePublisher: Syracuse University PressYear: 2021Discipline: BiographyRegion: Egypt

Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus

Author: Waleed ZiadPublisher: Harvard University PressYear: 2021Discipline: SufismRegion: Central/South Asia

ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī

Author: Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar al-SuhrawardīEditor: Aydogan Kars and Ashkan BahraniPublisher: BrillYear: 2021Discipline: Studies, Editions, TranslationsRegion: Iran

Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests

Author: Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde, and Johan WeststeijnEditor: Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde, and Johan WeststeijnPublisher: BrillYear: 2021Discipline: Conquest, Arab, AntiquityRegion: Middle East