Penny Sinanoglou’s Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire is a richly-researched book interrogating the legal and political mechanics of the British empire’s management of mandatory Palestine. The book dissects the British Empire’s…
In Gendered Morality (2019) Zahra Ayubi asks what it is to be a (good) human. To answer this question, the author delves into the classical texts of three foundational thinkers in this “unified” tradition: Kimiya-…
Johanna Pink’s Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation Today examines the context in which modern Qurʾānic interpretations takes place and how these contexts shape the style and contents of Qur’anic exegesis. With the goal of presenting a transregional…
The Egyptian Uprising through the Lens of the Muslim Brotherhood: A New History of the Movement Assesses Its Failure in Government and the Fallout under Sisi In his introduction to the 1993 edition of Richard…
Fourth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at GMU | Program | Virtual Event | Friday, November 20, 2020 | 9:30am- 5:30pm Click here to register The Ali Vural…
[Maydan Book Forum] Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence by Juliane Hammer (Princeton University Press, 2019) | Contributions by Micah Hughes, Traci West, Anne Joh, Ali Mian, Zareena Grewal and Juliane Hammer
[Book Review] Penny Sinanoglou, Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2020) by Penny Sinanoglou | Reviewed by Kylie Broderick
[Book Review] Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society (Columbia Univ. Press, 2019) by Zahra Ayubi | Reviewed by Hale Inanoglu
[Book Review] Muslim Qur’anic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities (Equinox, 2021) by Johanna Pink | Reviewed by Owais Manzoor Dar
The Egyptian Uprising through the Lens of the Muslim Brotherhood
Fourth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at GMU | November 20, 2020 | Virtual Event
[Maydan Book Forum] Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence by Juliane Hammer | Micah Hughes, Traci West, Anne Joh, Ali Mian, Zareena Grewal and Juliane Hammer
[Maydan Book Forum] Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence by Juliane Hammer (Princeton University Press, 2019) | Contributions by Micah Hughes, Traci West, Anne Joh, Ali Mian, Zareena Grewal and Juliane Hammer
[Book Review] Edwy Plenel. For the Muslims: Islamophobia in France. (Verso, 2016). 112 pp, £7.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781784784867. Edwy Plenel. This name may not ring a bell to you, yet in France he is a…
In the twenty-first century academic world, a surge of literature is being produced on Islam, especially on its primary sources —the noble Qur’an and Hadith/ Seerah. Globally reputed publishers—such as Ashgate, Brill, Cambridge, Edinburg, Harvard,…
John O’Brien. Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys. Princeton University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780691168821. 216 pages. $29.95. Recent scholarship on Muslims in Western societies faces two shortcomings: first, the existing research…
Sarah Stroumsa, Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019), 219 pp. $35.00. ISBN: 9780691176437. | Reviewed by Yolanda Antin. In Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy…
Mbaye Lo, Political Islam, Justice and Governance. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Paperback. 386 pages. ISBN # 978-3-319-96328-0. | Reviewed by Driss Bouyahya. Political Islam, Justice and Governance is a book whose publication commenced as a learning…
[Book Review] Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East, by Adam Hanieh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). 304 pages. $32.99 | Reviewed by Javier Guirado…
[CFA] FOURTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT BOOK REVIEW COLLOQUIUM ON ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES at GMU | OCTOBER 9, 2020 | Online The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University…
Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion (Oxford University Press, 2019). ISBN: 9780190280567. 256 pages. Hardcover: $65.00. | Reviewed by Ehsan Sheikholharam When asked to define their religion, Muslims tend to…
M.A. Muqtedar Khan. Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).pp.279. $29.99 paperback. DOI : 10.1057/978-1-137-54832-0 The outbreak of the Arab Spring clearly demonstrated a need to reformulate…
